WELFARE OF WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1919, Page 6

WELFARE OF WOMEN.

DR. TRUBY KIND'S WORK. ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, Dec. 4, Dr. Truby King, the New Zealander who has become well known as a specialist on the welfare of women and children, landed in Adelaide from the Morea on Thursday, November 27. He is to deliver addresses at Adelaide and Melbourne, and he will arrive in Sydney on December 10, where he will be the guest of the State Government. The work of Dr. Truby King is being commented upon by the newspapers here. A reminder is given that both Britain and the United States have noted the work of the Plunket nursing scheme in New Zealand as something unique and almost ideal. It appears likely that the Dominion's scheme will be adopted throughout the Englishspeaking world. The great and powerful organisation, the Red Cross Society of the United States, has virtually adopted the little doctor's theory and system.

The doctor is accompanied by Mrs and Miss King. Both ladies have been engaged in various departments of war work in England since 1918. Dr. Truby King has been performing notable service among the munition women iji Britain, and the result of his investigations and conclusions forms part of one of his interesting addresses. The Sydney programme already arranged for Dr. and Mrs Truby King include a reception in tfie King's Ha.ll, two lectures, a conference, various visits of inspection to the various local institutions, and several excursions. Dr. King and his party leave for Queensland on December 20.

"KEEP FIT." Just how it is unpatriotic to be "out of sorts"—that is to say, if by any means we can prevent being so. When one is "out of sorts" one is nervous, irritable, and depressed—just the three things one must not be in these difficult days! We' owe it to our country, to ourselves, and, above all, to those we live with, to cultivate cheerful spirits and a frame of mind that will see the best and not the worst side of things going on around us. The "Dismal Jimmy" attitude is a very real curse at the present time, and as a plain matter of fact it ! is chiefly due to some little failuro in health. Lord Byron used to say that the thing which put him into the highest spirits was—a dose of salts! The reason is not far to seek. Low spirits more often than not are the result of laziness on the part of the liver. The salts act as a gentle stimulant — like the flick of a whip to a horse that has fallen into a jog-trot—they clear away the bile that is poisoning our blood and making our outlook on life a jaundiced yellow hue, and our spirits feel the relief at once. An accumulation of bile in the blood entirely prevents a roseate view of life and our surroundings. Dyspepsia does just the same. It makes even philosophers petulant and peevish. No wonder, then, that it makes ordinary folk sour-tempered, Canyie, "The Sago of Chelsea," was a victim of what he called "the ha? dyspepsia," and all his sageness did not free him from her clutches. We read that his wife once, in a fit of exasperation, threw a cup of coffee over him- She, too, was probably ridden by the same hag, lam sure neither of them had tried Byron's | simple remedy for the maintenance of a cheerful spirit. A lazy liver and an active digestion rarely, if ever, go to-

gather, and rarely too, will you find a dyspeptic person a cheerful companion. A good digestion is quite worth trouble to obtain. Many people lose it by neglect, of al! things by the neglect of their teeth. We are all exhorted to practise strict, economy, but let me warn you against practising economy in the care of your teeth. This is, indeed, a "thriftless thrift." It is not thrifty to keep had teeth in the mouth because we begrudge the dentist's fee for taking them out. It is one of the worst forms of extravaganoe, because the retention of bad teeth means the certainty of swallow-

ing constantly minute doses of poison. The decaying matter in bad teeth is poisoning stuff. This is not a pleasant subject to contemplate, but there is no use in shutting our eyes to it. It is a fact that cannot be denied.