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LOOK OUT FOR JANUARY FOLDS!
We hear: “Just a cold!” Blit what will it
lead to? The first signs of influenza, pneumo
nia, and other dangerous diseases are often mis
taken for “just a cold.”
This is the time of year when colds are most
prevalent. Seeds are now being sown for deaths
from pneumonia that will occur in January, Feb
ruary and March. These diseases which blot out
an average of 150.000 lives a year in the United
States and Alaska frequently develop from neg
lected colds. Out of every seven who get pneu
monia one person dies. As many people die each
year from pneumonia as from tuberculosis. Year
after year the same thing happens.
Do not neglect a cold. A cold in the head
is not a simple, trifling annoyance but a real dis
ease with a medical name—coryza. In addition to
the danger that pneumonia may develop, a cold
often leads to chronic catarrh of the nasal pas
sages, to ear trouble ending in deafness, to chonic
bronchitis and inflamation of the bony cavities
of the face. A neglected cold may even prepare
the way for serious heart trouble.
The first noticeable symptoms of diphtheria,
typhoid fever, measles, scarlatina, whooping cough
or smallpox may appear as a cold. A person
suffering from what seems to be an innocent cold
may pass on to someone else a fatal attack of one
of these diseases. If you or your children are
suffering from colds stay away from other people
until you are certain that the “cold” is not in
fectious disease. This decent precaution will
prevent many serious epidemics and save many
lives.
A cold is an inflammation of the mucous
membrane which settles upon the point of least
insistence—the nose, throat, chest, or gastrointes
tinal tract. Sudden changes in temperature,
drafts and exposure to damp and cold, breathing
stale air and street dust—these are direct causes
of colds.
Lack of fresh air and sufficient exercise to
keep the skin and body healthy, lack of sleep and
rest, over-indulgence in rich indigestible food—
these are indirect causes of colds.
To take cold easily is to advertise that your
living habits are wrong. By following simple
health rules you are likely to keep well. But if
in spite of all your care, you do take a cold—do
not treat it lightly. See your doctor. Remember
it is not a sign of weakness but a mark of wisdom
never to neglect a cold.
VICARIOUS BLESSING
“The way I look at it,” said an optimistic
friend of ours the other day—a man who lives
in very modest circumstances on an average sal
ary—“I am better off than the richest man in my
community, and lie’s a fabulous millionaire. I
have less money to spend in a year than he hands
out in a day. I do the chores around the house
and my wife cooks the dinner herself; he has fifty
servants, grooms, gardeners, and caretakers look
ing out for the comfort of himself and his fam
ily. There are six rooms in my house and I made
some of the furniture out of packing cases with
my own hands; and in his house there are so many
rooms that he hasn't had time to inspect them all,
and the furniture in them is costly enough for a
king’s ransom. The yard around my house is
just large enough to give me a light evening’s ex
cercise with a lawn mower; it would take him a
day’s hard walking to make the circuit of his es
tate. But I can’t say I envy him. To tell the
truth, I think I have the best proposition, myself.
“In the first place, I don’t believe he really
lives in that castle of his. Sometimes he eats in
it, sometimes he sleeps in it, sometimes he enter
tains in it; but I don’t see how he can possibly
know the charm of genuine domesticity in that enor
mous warehouse of luxury. However, admit that
he does; I still think I have it on him.
“For, you see, he has to do all the worrying
about his million-dollar place. I can enjoy it all
I want to for nothing—and have the kind of home
I like besides. Perhaps you don’t get the point.
It’s this. I pass Millionbucks’ estates every day.
The house is beautiful. The grounds are beautiful.
It doesn’t cost me a cent to look at them to my
heart’s content. He paid the initial price and
takes care of the maintenance and the ta\*es. He
has to do the hiring and firing and fretting about
the blight on his chestnut tiers. From my stand
point all this is so much velvet for me Million
bucks provides me with a gorgeous piece of s
eiy gratis. ‘ I take more pleasure in it than he
dv * and he -foots the bills for my be 1 fit U.:t
it?”
We get it—and we don’t. Sometimes we think
that if our friend who is satisfied to cheer him
self with contemplation of another man’s suc
cess were less optimistic about his own situation
and more intent on having a few luxuries in his
own right he might work harder, progress fas
ter, and be of more use in the community. But
there is something in his point of view too. It is
not a bad thing to be able to contemplate the good
fortune of other people without coveting it for
yourself before you have deserved it. It is a
good thing to be able to enjoy vicarious blessings
while you are waiting to acquire title to some of
your own.—Popular Magazine.
THE ATTIC TREASURY
If our great-grandmothers—or even our grand
mothers—were to go shopping in an antique store
of today they would be amazed. A hundred dol
lars for one of those old crazy quilts they used
to stitch by the yellow light of a kerosene lamp
for economy’s dour sake! And there’s a lamp
lige the one they used to sew by. Just a simple
piece of blown or pressed glass. Such trash cost
two or three dollars when it was new, fifty or six
ty years ago. IIow much? Land of Goshen!
Fifteen dollars for that piece of secondhand glass!
Here’s a kitchen chair, nothing more than a
squatty stool with a high straight back and a
coarse-woven rush seat. The rungs between the
front legs are worn half through where generations
of boot heels have clung and scraped. The man
who made those chairs wuoldn’t dare ask more
than a dollar or two for them. The antique deal
er will sell them today for anything from ten to
thirty dollars apiece. If the heirs or our great
grandparents had only known this when they
dragged them from the dusty attic and handed
them over to the junkman for a quarter per chair!
Look at that bed in the corner. It will take
a check in three figures to get it home. Its four
tall posts are crudely carved from maple. Its
frame is bored at intervals with holes for the lac
ing in of the rope web that served for springs
in the balmy days of its youth. It is held togeth
er by an obsolete system of countersunk welts,
and to get it apart you must have your black
smith forge a special wrench. Its headboard is
a hand-fashioned slab of cheap white pine or but
ternut wood. Our grandmothers paid twenty
dollars, perhaps, for beds even better than this
one. You may have it, as is, for a hundred and
fifty, and it will cost you another fifty or so to
fit it with modern springs and a good hair mat
tress.
All through the shop are old pieces, the despis
ed and decrepit cast-offs from the homes of our
forbears, dragged from a thousand attic treasures,
sold for a song, and now offered to the cultured
and discriminating consideration of the private
antiquarian who is even more anxious to acquire
them for his home than our grandmothers were to
cast them out of theirs.
Fifty years ago % this stuff was just second
hand furniture. Today it is “a collection of rare
old pieces.’’ It has achieved the dignity and
value of antiquity.
Which suggests a practical moral. Don’t sell
your worn-out furniture. Hide it in the attic,
the woodshed, the cellar, or the garage. It may
be nothing but cheap Giqjnd Rapids stuff today.
But some day, who knows, it will perhaps become
antique. Never mind how ugly it seems to you.
Keep it. Leave it in trust with 3’ou children and
your children’s children, to be delivered in free
title to your descendants of the third or fourth
generation. By then it will probably constitute
a fortune—unless human nature changes and our
passion for historic bric-a-brac dies out.
Much of our present civilization is hardly worth
the trouble necessary to save it.
LIBERTY THEATRE
TONIGHT ONLY
One Show, 8:00 p. m.
By special request the eleven reel feature
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
will be repeated with no advance
in price
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
ALLEN HOLUBAR Presents
DOROTHY PHILLIPS
IN
THE WHITE FRONTIER
With LEWIS DAYTON and an all-star cast
COUGAR THAT KILLED
BOY IS TEN FEET LONG
OKANOGAN, Jan. 6.—Hunters on
the trail of the man-eating cougar
which killed and partially devoured
a 13-year-old boy near Oleava the
other night, report the animal is a
female with two kittens.
Dogs trailing the animal have J
come up with it twice, but it refuses
to tree, the hunters say. Every in
dication of the hunt, trailers report,
is that the cougar is of enormous
size, probably ten feet in length.
The trail circled through the
mountain country to the south and
back within a quarter of a mile of |
the scene of the battle in which the j
boy met his death. Further snow
now indicated will make further
trailing difficult.
FRENCH BILLIARDIST
BREAKS TWO RECORDS
PARIS, Jan. 6.—Roger Conti,
French billiardist, broke two world’s
records for 18.2 balkline champion
ship play last night with a high run
of 472, clicking off 500 points in three
innings for an average of 166 2-3. The
former high run record of 337 was
made by Welker Cochran in 1921 at
Chicago, while Sutton’s high average
of 100, made against Willie Hoppe,
stood for nearly twenty years.
In the two matches he has played
thus far for the European cham
pionship, Conti has scored 1,000 points
in nine innings for an uprecedeted
average of 111, with two unfinished
runs.
Note: Burr Snyder of Seward was
unable to participate on account of
being matched here with local con
testants.
Brunswick Radiolas, the Radiola de
Luxe at The Alaska Shop. tf
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DO NOT GIVE AWAY wash
ing machine or Ford cars,
but we will continue to give
100 cents worth of value
for one dollar. This will give
you a chance on the Bank to
make a deposit of your sav
ings from each purchase.
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Look them over and see what they will do for
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PRICED AT $128.00 CASH
Terms of $30.00 down and the balance in 12
monthly payments will be made to responsible
home owners. The cleanest and most economical
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