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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1938
Page
3
Since 1911 W. Hunefeld wears a red necktie and walks to the White House hoping for a New Year handshake. He gained access until 1933, when Hoover left town, and Roosevelt stopped the yearly greeting. Now barred by gates, he keeps hoping for a return of the ceremony.
The article contrasts American New Year’s Eve with ancient Rome, noting Saturnalia origins and Janus calendar changes. It mentions Roman leaders requiring gifts and the emperor Claudius setting a schedule, with references to reminders of past festivities and evolving customs.
Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey now runs a New York restaurant and urges restraint on New Year's Eve. He says young women should choose nonalcoholic drinks like ginger ale and emphasizes polite behavior rather than boisterous excess, noting midnight kissing is not necessarily affection.
The article notes a New Year milestone in horse racing as twelve thousand thoroughbreds in training turn a year older. Yearlings become eligible to appear under colors for the first time while juveniles move into the three year old ranks for races like the Kentucky Derby Preakness and Belmont.
C Houston Goudiss explains the discovery and importance of vitamin D for all ages. He traces sources including cod liver oil and various fish oils, egg yolk, milk, leafy greens, and emphasizes calcium and phosphorus for bones and teeth.
Vitamin D links to preventing and curing rickets in children. Sunshine and sunlight exposure affect rickets in temperate zones. The disease appeared in England before and during the Seventeenth century and was once called the English disease in early literature.
Cod-liver oil long used as a tonic was found to cure rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. The observation showed bones softening due to loss of calcium and phosphorus despite prior deposition.
Scientists noted a paradox where cod liver oil cured rickets while butter fat did not. Further work revealed butter fat is rich in vitamin A whereas cod liver oil contains two vitamins, one later named vitamin D.
Scientists traced how sunlight converts a skin fat into vitamin D to prevent rickets. This discovery led to fortifying foods, including irradiated milk and margarine enriched with vitamin D and vitamin A, improving affordable nutrition.
The United States Children's Bureau emphasizes giving cod liver oil or another form of vitamin D to infants starting at two to three weeks old to ensure sufficient vitamin intake and healthy development.
The article stresses consulting a physician to determine when to start vitamin D for babies and the proper dosages. It urges mothers to ensure regular vitamin D through eggs, salmon, irradiated and fortified foods, and, if needed, fish liver oils or concentrates.
Practical tips from a past issue cover lint free tea towels using a weak starch wash, repairing triangular tears with a buttonhole stitch, removing odors with lemon peel in washing water, and reviving dry fruit cake by moistening with spiced fruit juice wrapped in cloth.
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