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Care Needed
In Exercising
Weak Hearts
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
AANE of'-the points that was
taught us as medical
students was the use of exer
cise in weak or failing hearts.
Today the first
thought in treat
ing an acute
heart ailment —
angina, coro
nary thrombo-
sis, high blood pressure — is
absolute rest in order to
give the heart a chance to re
gain some of its strength or
“reserve.” And because rest is the
proper treatment at this time, pa
tients, and sometimes physicians,
are likely to indulge in or prescribe
rest when what the heart really
needs to gain new strength is exer
cise.
A popular treatment in former
years was what was known as the
Nauheim baths and the Schott
method of “resist
ive” exercise in
which the patient
exorcises his mus
cles against the re
sistance of the phy
sician’s or attend
ant’s hands.
In speaking of ex
ercise in the treat
ment of chronic (not
recent) heart or
blood vessel disease,
Dr. Louis Faugeres
jl
Dr. Barton
Bishop Jr,, New
York, in Archives of Physical Ther
apy, X-ray, Radium, states that
with bed patients, massage, breath
ing exercises, and “resistive” exer
cises are beneficial in that they help
to force the used blood in the veins
back to the heart.
Gradual Exercise Increase.
What is known as the Oertel meth
od of exercise consists of graded
walks carried out until the patient
begins to feel the effects of the exer
cise by very rapid breathing. Be
ginning on the level, the walks are
increased gradually with regard to
distance and incline or steepness.
For less severe cases, where the
patient is up and about most of the
time. Dr. Bishop suggests that as it
is difficult to know exactly how
much exercise the patient can take
safely, he should be allowed to tell
how his everyday manner of life
affects him.
The stair test or exercise has been
much used. Some heart patients
live entirely on the ground floor, but
Dr. Bishop points out that if they
climbed the stairs one step at a
time, it might become a heart
strengthening and safe exercise.
The thought then is that after the
heart has been rested in bed and by
sitting around for some time, some
form of exercise, as directed by the
physician, strengthens the heart
muscle and prevents patient from
becoming an invalid.
• • *
Protection
To the Body
During the flu epidemic a consult
ing physician examinating the chart
of a young medical officer, sick with
pneumonia (following the flu) shook
his head as he pointed to the num
ber of white corpuscles (the disease
fighters) present in the blood. As
the patient was very ill it was to be
expected that the number of these
white corpuscles would greatly in
crease from the normal number of
6,000 to 8,000 per cubic millimeter
to perhaps 20,000 or 30,000, whereas
there was only about 7,000.
The explanation of the consul
tant’s feeling that there was no hope
is that while a rise to 30,000 or
40,000 would show that the illness
was very serious, it would show also
that the resisting ability of the body
was very great in being able to
provide this large number of white
corpuscles.
Similarly, when there is rapid but
strong pulse, increased blood pres
sure, and a rise in temperature, it
is direct evidence that there is in
fection or other trouble in the body,
but just as direct evidence that the
body is putting up a fight against
the infection or other trouble.
How Body Fights Disease.
Thus Dr. F. M. Pottenger in En
docrinology (science of the ductless
glands—thyroid, pituitary, and oth
ers) states: “It would seem to me
that the conception or idea that the
combination of symptoms—pain, in
creased heart rate, increased blood
pressure, increased number of white
blood corpuscles, rise in body tem
perature—which we call disease
represents really the condition
which the body must assume in or
der to protect itself against the
disease elements which are causing
trouble in the body, is most reason
able. With this idea —that the symp
toms really show that the body is
fighting the disease—we can recog
nize inflammation and other re
actions in the body to toxic or
poison products as really a ‘pro
tective’ process.”
You can readily understand then
why your physician is more con
cerned about the strength of the
heart and the general condition of
the body than he is about the tem
perature being high or the blood
pressure increased.
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ONE-PIECE MEALS WITH MACARONI
(See Recipe Below)
TODAY'S
HEALTH
COLUMN
One-Piece Meals
Lucky is the homemaker who has
in her recipe file a series of sugges
tions for “one-piece meals.”
After a long, lazy aft'emoon at
the beach, or perhaps a busy day
with sugar 'nd spice, and the pre
serving kettle, the meal that can be
prepared and served all in one
course is a life-saver.
And what food can you find that
lends itself as aptly to this type of
some building
foods as well. Yet they’re light and
appetizing—the kind of food that’s
needed to meet the requirements of
summer. Served with a preen sal
ad or a fruit dessert, any of these
“one-piece” macaroni dishes make
highly satisfactory meals.
Macaroni Creole Loaf.
(Serves 4-5)
2 cups cooked macaroni
1 cup soft bread crumbs
2 eggs
% teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons green pepper
(chopped)
% cup cheese (grated)
1% cups tomatoes
¥4 cup melted butter
tablespoons prepared mustard
Dash celery salt, onion salt, and
white pepper
Mix all ingredients in order listed.
Pour into a greased baking casse
role. Bake 35 minutes in a mod
erate oven (350 degrees). Unmold
carefully and serve.
Spaghetti Ring With Asparagus
and Eggs.
(Serves 6)
1 8-ounce package spaghetti
1 cup cooked ham (ground)
% clove garlic (chopped)
2 tablespoons pimiento (chopped)
% teaspoon salt
¥4 teaspoon pepper
2 eggs (beaten)
% cup coffee cream
Filling.
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1% cups milk
% teaspoon salt
¥4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup cooked asparagus (cut)
2 hard cooked eggs (sliced)
Break spaghetti and cook until
tender in 2 quarts boiling wfter to
which 1 table-
spoon salt has
been added. Drain
and add to it the
ground ham, gar
lic, pimiento, salt,
pepper, eggs and
cream. Pour into
buttered rmg
mold, place in
shallow pan of hot water, and bake
at moderate temperature (350 de
grees) for about one hour.
To make the filling, melt the but
ter in a saucepan and add flour.
Blend thoroughly and then add milk.
Cook, stirring constantly, until mix
ture thickens. Add seasonings and
lightly stir in the asparagus. Fill
center of spaghetti mold with the
creamed asparagus and garnish
with slices of hard cooked eggs.
Baked Macaroni—Creole Style.
(Serves 4-5)
% package eltfcw macaroni
2 tablespoons onion (minced)
2 tablespoons butter
1 green pepper (minced)
1 No. 2 can tomatoes
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
¥1 pound country style sausage
¥4 cup soft bread crumbs (but
tered)
Cook macaroni in boiling, salted
water until tender. Drain. Brown
the onion in the butter; add green
pepper and tomatoes. Add sugar
and salt, and cook until the green
pepper is tender. Make the sausage
into small flat cakes. In a buttered
casserole, place a layer of macaro
ni, then a layer of sausage, and an
other layer of macaroni. Pour the
tomato mixture over this. Sprinkle
with buttered crumbs. Bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees) for
about 45 minutes.
Macaroni Supreme.
Cook % pound macaroni (broken
in 3-inch lengths) in boiling salted
water until tender; drain. Cut 2
thin slices smoked ham in two cross
wise. Arrange strips of macaroni
on ham. Put ¥4 teaspoon horse
radish on each portion and sprinkle
with % cup grated cheese. Roll
and tie in position. Place close to
gether in shallow baking dish. Cov
er with % cup milk and bake in a
slow oven (325 degrees) for 25 min
ute. Uncover and continue baking
until ham is lightly browned.
Serves 4.
Scow.
(Serves 6)
% pound bacon (sliced)
2 onions (medium size)
1 pound round steak (ground)
1 No. 2 can tomatoes
1 8-ounce package spaghetti
1 No. 2 can whole kernel corn
% teaspoon salt
¥4 teaspoon pepper
Cut bacon into small pieces and
cook until crisp in a large skillet.
meal as macaro
ni and its closest
of kin? These
foods, including
spaghetti and noo
dles, as well as
macaroni, are
high in food en
ergy and contain
ground meat,
breaking it into small bits as it
cooks. Then pour in the tomatoes,
and allow the mixture to simmer un
til it is fairly thick. Next add the
spaghetti, which has been broken
into 2-inch lengths and cooked until
tender in boiling salted water. Then
add the can of corn, the browned
onions, and crisp bacon bits, and the
seasoning. Allow this mixture to
simmer slowly for another half
hour, covered.
Hasty Noodlefest.
Cook half a pound of noodles in
salted water and drain. While they
are cooking, heat a can of cream of
mushroom soup, adding a cup of
milk to it if it is the condensed
kind. Add also a tablespoon of
chopped onion, % teaspoon salt and
two hard-cooked eggs, sliced. Add
the drained noodles, mix well and
put into a buttered casserole. Cov
er the top with buttered crumbs
and bake 35 minutes in a moderate
ly hot oven (375 degrees).
This year’s crop of peaches,
pears, plums, and berries is wait
ing to be transformed into rows
of sparkling jellies, spicy relishes
and rich marmalades. In this
column next week Eleanor Howe
will give you some of her favorite
recipes for easy-to-make and de-
Licious-to-eat jams, marmalades
and pickles.
Easy Entertaining.
In this new cook book by Eleanor
Howe you’ll find over 125 practical
suggestions and recipes for parties
of every description. Birthday par
ties, picnics, buffet suppers, and
parties for the bride—for all these
and many more social occasions,
you’ll find unusual menus, new reci
pes and practical hints for the host
ess. Send 10 cents in coin to “Easy
Entertaining,” Eleanor Howe, 919
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
111., and get your copy of “Easy
Entertaining” now.
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TIPS FOR HOUSEWIFE
Wet knife with cold water when
cutting a meringue pie.
Oil of lavender sprinkled spar
ingly through a bookcase will save
a library from mold.
Use the blower attachment of your
vacuum cleaner to remove dust
from your radiators.
A good floor wax rubbed on win
dow sills after they have been re
finished will keep them in perfect
condition.
Sirup left over from spiced fruits
makes an excellent basting for ham,
pork and veal roasts.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
* IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for August 20
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
BEVERAGE ALCOHOL AND
THE COMMUNITY
LESSON TEXT—JoeI 1:5-7; Daniel 5:1-5.
17. 25-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—Woe unto him that giv
eth his neighbor drink.—Habakkuk 2:15.
“None of us liveth to himself”
(Rom. 14:7).
What concerns the individual con
cerns the community, for the com
munity is made up of individuals.
The man who uses alcohol has no
right to claim that it is a personal
matter, for alcohol is a poisonous
drug which not only injures the in
dividual, but makes him a danger
and a liability to his Community.
Before going into our lesson let us
look at only a few of the many facts
available.
In the five years since repeal,
it is estimated that $30,000,000,000
has been spent for intoxicants with
a profit to the industry of $13,250,-
000,000. But what has it cost the
people?
“In 1937, an entire city the size
of Detroit was maimed and injured,
and an entire city the size of Omaha
was permanently injured, by the
automobile. Sixty per cent of auto
fatalities are due to alcohol” (Chief
Justice of Municipal Court, Evans
ton, in.).
“Rape has increased 13 per cent
and the more atrocious forms 40
per cent in the last eight months”
(Police Commissioner, Boston,
Mass.).
“Criminals are for the return of
liquor, wet propaganda to the con
trary notwithstanding, and with the
coming of repeal win come the
greatest era of wholesale crime this
country has ever known. The crim
inal world is tensely expectant .and
is prepared to launch immediate
ly into its millennium of crime. The
return of the saloon inevitably will
bring open prostitution and gam
bling” (Statement by a criminal in
prison before repeal became effec
tive).
“America is on the worst gam
bling spree in its history. A gross
population, not including all rural
districts, of 80,000,000 persons is
dallying with $6,000,000,000 in win
nings and losings, of which all but
about $1,000,000,000 passes through
the hands of the underworld, where
much of it remains” (Courtney R.
Cooper).
The American Business Men’s
foundation, Chicago, reports that
liquor was responsible for the rejec
tion of more than 93,000 applications
for insurance last year, and that
as a result widows and orphans will
ultimately be deprived of over
$200,000,000 of jnsurance, making
some of them public charges.
Three words which are altogether
appropriate for the liquor problem
will serve to summarize our lesson.
I. Devastation (Joel 1:5-7).
Drunkards are called on to awake
from their stupor and weep and the
drinkers of wine (note that!) to wail
over the loss of their drink because
of the devastation wrought by the
locusts. This plague had come be
cause of the sins of the people, and
may well serve to exemplify the
devastation which will follow the
use of alcohol as a beverage. The
nations of our day need not think
that they will escape if they con
tinue on their present road of reck
less indulgence.
11. Debauchery (Dan. 5:1-4).
The familiar story of Belshazzar’s
feast should be made to live again
as we point out that we here “have
vividly manifested three of the
great characteristics of the day in
which we live—a coming together
of great multitudes for a riotous night
of drinking, which must of course
end for many in disgusting drunk
enness; provision for acts of dark
est sensuality in the fact that all
the wives and concubines were
invited to this feast . . . and a con
temptuous, deliberate insulting of
the name of God” (Dr. Wilbur M.
Smith).
111. Death (w. 5, 17, 25-28).
Dramatically swift was God’s
Judgment upon Belshazzar’s pre
sumptuous sin. Magnificently bold
and direct was the condemnation by
Daniel, the prophet of God. Re
lentless was the immediate judg
ment of physical death (see v. 30),
and equally sure is the ultimate
judgment when the drunken king
stands before his Maker to answer
for the deeds done in the flesh.
The fact that God does not write
in our day in flaming letters on the
saloon wall before the bleary eyes
of the drinker does not mean that
His judgment is any less certain,
nor does it make it less dreadful.
Cost of Happiness
God has ordained that happiness,
like every other good thing, should
cost us something; He has willed
that it should be a moral achieve
ment, and not an accident.—Dr.
Gasparin.
Walk in the Light
Walk in the light and thou shalt
see thy path, though thorny, bright;
for God, by grace, shall dwell in
thee, and God himself is light.—
Barton.
Remove bacon
bits, brown the
sliced onion in
the hot fat, and
finally take out
the onion slices
and use the re
maining fat for
bro wn in g the
Alex Finds It Smooth Going!
Barrel jumpers usually play safe with papier rnache dummies,
But Alex Hurd, Olympic record holder and jumping star of the Sun
Valley Ice Show at the New York World’s Fair, shows his self confi
dence by leaping over steel drums full of Quaker State motor oil.—Adv.
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AN IMPORTANT speaker was
• £ *- scheduled, and the club rooms
were looking rather shabby. The
decorating committee reported
that formal draperies would lend
an air of distinction. The funds
wouldn’t stretch and the commit
tee wouldn’t give up. Finally, ev
ery cent was put into material.
Sewing machines hummed and
here is a sketch of the miracle
that was wrought. Here alSo are
the dimensions that were used for
making patterns for the graceful
valance sections which were fas
tened over rods with snaps.
For the looped section, cut pa
per 18 inches deep and half as
wide as the window measured
over the frame. From the upper
right corner to point A is half of
the window width less two inches.
Point B is 6 inches below the up
per left corner. Draw a diagonal
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Mending China.—Excellent for
mending china is plaster of paris
mixed to a paste with the beaten
white of an egg.
» » •
Scorches on Linen.—To remove
light scorches from linens, wet
the stained area with cold water
and expose it to the sun until the
stain disappears.
* • •
When Milk Sours.—ls your rec
ipe calls for sweet milk and you
find your milk has soured, you
can use it by adding one-half tea
spoon of soda to each cup called
for. Follow your recipe otherwise.
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niouß Town-qouß stores
— f J Our community includes the farm homes surrounding the town.
The town stores are there for the accommodation and to serve the
people of our farm homes. The merchants who advertise “specials” are mer
chants who are sure they can meet all competition in both quality and prices.
By
RUTH WYETH
SPEARS
line from A to B, and a curve
from B to the low'er right cor
ner. Place the edge marked Con
a fold of the goods. The diagonal
ends are pleated and stitched into
a band as at D.
For the end pieces, cut paper 15
inches wide and 24 inches deep. E
is 3 inches below the upper left
corner. F is 9 inches in from the
upper right corner. Gis 6 inches
down from the upper right corner.
Finish the top as at H.
The offer of the two 25-cent sew
ing books containing 96 HOW TO
SEW articles that have not ap
peared in the paper will be with
drawn soon. At present you can
get both books for the price of
one; but don’t delay; send 25 cents
with name and address to Mrs.
Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi
cago, 111., and both books will be
sent by return mail, postpaid.
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100° IN THE SHADE.
BUT COMFORT IN YOUR
SHOES WITH FAMOUS
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Education a Refuge
Education is an ornament in
prosperity and a refuge in ad
versity.—Aristotle.
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MALARIA
and COLDS
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LIQUID, TABLETS. SALVE, NOSE DROPS
Men and Causes
Men are not always as good as
the causes they lead. — Glenn
Frank.
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Purity and Truth
Purity is the feminine, truth the
masculine, of honor.—Hare.