The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

170 THE HEALTH BULLETIN.But the prizes were only the sugarcoating. The feature that reallycounted most of all was the personalservices and sacrifices of those whostood the burden of the work. Prominentamong the workers were thevariousphysicians throughout the Statewho made the examinations, the membersof the Raleigh Nurses' Associationwho assisted the physicians, the Raleighclub women, who served on thereception committee, the young ladiesfrom the Educational Department ofMeredith College, who recorded thephysicians' findings and kept the scorecards, the Raleigh Boy Scouts, whowere ever on the job as pages to runerrands and be generally useful, theband from the Institution for theBlind, which rendered music at thepresentation of the prizes, and a greatmany others whose deeds of kindnesscannot here be enumerated.Many of those who rendered themost assistance with the contest haveremarked to the writer that they feltwill repaid when they saw the goodthat was being accomplished and sawhow gladly many of the mothers receivedsimple suggestions and advicein regard to bringing up "Better Babies."THE PHILOSOPHY OF COLD FEETRev. George W. Lay, Rector of St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N. C."He got cold feet" is a colloquialphrase involving several logical stepsof cause and effect. These few wordssuggest the ideas that a person whosefeet get cold has his vitality lowered,and that this has an effect on hisnerves, and that when his nerves areaffected his courage oozes out.There is no more important point inpersonal hygiene than keeping thefeet warm. There are several waysin which we ward off attacks of disease,but the most important of all isthe very simple method of keeping thewhole body in a very high state ofhealth. We are continually surroundedby the germs of disease, and,in fact, our bodies frequently containthem. We do not succumb tothese diseases, because the body hassufficient resisting power to overcometheir attack. The stronger the body,the more temperate and healthy themode of life, the more sanitary oursurroundings, the less likely are we togive in to attacks of disease. Onequarterof all of us have pneumoniagerms in our mouths all the time. Wedo not have pneumonia because weare able to resist the attack of thesegerms, but if we become thoroughlychilled in any way we have pneumonia,not because we obtain thegerms at that time, but because thegerms we already had in our systemare able to get in their deadly work.The same thing holds true of suchgerm diseases as our common colds,and some of the forms of indigestion.Plenty of exercise in the open air,abundance of fresh air at night, coldbaths in moderation, and the rightamount of simple and nourishingfood, are all of them means to keepour bodies in their best state ofstrength to ward off the attacks of disease.If we are not sufficiently clothed,our circulation may be strong enoughto keep us apparently warm and makeus feel comfortable, but the systemhas had an extra strain put upon -t,and our vitality is thereby lowered.If all the windows and doors of a