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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16477, 23 February 1918, Page 2

CATCHING A COLD. •« CATCHING " AND CURING. There are hundreds of alleged cures (or a cold and just two ways of preventing it; the first is to avoid chill and the second is to destroy the germ that spreads the complaint, because for one man who catches cold by chill there are a hundred cases in which the cold " catches " the man—by infection. - THE INFECTIOUS COLD. " Don't come near me, I've got a cold." This is a common, friendly warning and it makes one think: If you can catch a cold from another person there must be something to carry the complaint; so there is—a germ which sows itself .and grows a cold. Kill that germ and .you won't catch cold. KILLING THE INFECTION. There is only one way to stop infection and that is' to kill the infecting germ. The thing we use to do this is called a disinfectant, in other words a germ-killer. The very best is Lifebuoy Soap. Use and test have proved the germ-killing power of Lifebuoy Soap in laboratory, hospital and home. BY THE BEST MEANS. Lifebuoy Soap is the best germ-killer and the be3t cold preventer because of its ■ many household uses. Drains are flushed with Lifebuoy Soap, sinks are scoured, walls and tables scrubbed, and clothes and household linen are washed with Lifebuoy Soap. ' Wherever Lifebuoy Soap gets. hold of a germ it kills it and a dead germ cannot "infect." A GERM-TRAP. . When you want.to catch a rat you set the trap in its'' run.When you want to catch disease germs you set a Lifebuoy Soap Trap in the weekly wash-tub, and all the germs gathered in the clothing through the week go into it and there is an end of them. A GERM-CEMETERY. ' You will catch and kill a lot of colds in the weekly wnsli i'f you use Lifebuoy, £>oap. You ,'may kill quite a lot of: other equally infectious germs, for they are all -over the place, invisible and dangerous—typhoid, scarlet fever, consumption, cholera, ,&c. They are all " catching," but they cannot facs Lifebuoy Soap, it is death to germs. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED, SYDNEY. w-'-k t Don't Buy TroubleAsk. your dealer to show you CLINCHER DREADNOUGHT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES Made of first quality rubber. Oversize . 36 x 2J Heavy , 28x3 Be Take Safe. No Other