Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-11

CThis column is devoted to the interests Of and
is edited by the Ladies of the Women's Chris
tiau Temperance UniOno
EDITED IN Mrs. Il. V. Miles,
Scientific Temperance in the Nursery

temperance IN the Nursery.
DR.. Bessie V. Cushman:-"Temper-
ance is Gods law for the body"
Accepting this broad definition, we
cannot overestimate the value of tenn
perance teaching in the schools. But
this part ofthe child's education should
not be committed entirely to the pub
lie school. The best, though perhaps
not the most immediate result of the
scientific instruction bill, will be the
education of mothers. The agitation
and discussion necessary to place this
law upon the statute books of fourteen
states must prove educat:ve, and in
those states where the movement has
failed, the labor is not lost. The seed
sown shall soon spring up.
If our premises be true, we should
teach first that which is most impor-
tant in the realm of the child's COM
%prehension. Can anything be more i'm
portant than knowledge of the habits
upon which depend health and vigor-
GUS physical life? Fortunately the
young mind can understand the physi-
cal law at a very early age, Peach the
child the true value of the body; that
is not him, but his-the house built of
God, which he is to occupy during his
earthly life. He will see While very
young that a fine house is desirable:
and too that people are Judged some
what by the houses iii which they live,
and by the way they keep their houses.
Don't let him think you setd him to
bed early toget rid of his noise; but
tell him of the tiny cellwofkmen who
are building his house; how they do
most of their work when he is asleep,
and the very best in the. first part of
the night. He a understand that we
need less sleep because our Houses are
finished, and they have only to keep up
repairs for us, while for him they are
really building up flesh and bUne. His
imagination will make these wonder
full little laborers more real t6 him than
the microscope makes them to us. Tell
him how they have to get building ma
terial from the, blood, just as the mason
has to use brick and mortar for a wall.
Each set Of cells, or workmen, select
the material for tEeir special use: The
bone builders use lime and the brain
builders phosphorus and many other
substances, but all MUST get supplies
from the blood. All use agreat deal of
water. Alcohol takes the water sup
ply as d great thirsty beast might drink
the water from the mason's tank, leav-
ing none to mix the mortar with; then
the work stops. Then it saps the wa
ter from tissue already formed; leaving
it tender, and brittle, just as d wall be-
gins to crumple after fire has burned
the water, out of the cement. Doctors
call that :'fatty degeneration" A great
deal Of oxygen is necessary too. There
isn't much oxygen in tobacco smoke!
Before this your little philosopher will
ask, "What is blood made, off" When
he hears it is made from what. we eat,
he will have interest as well as pleas
ure in his food, and you will have pow
er over his appetite. He will begin to
exercise s%elf-control, that dlvinest force
in hIman nature. Explain that the
tooth builders must have lime phos-
phate for the enamel of a tooth, as
surely as a mason must have plaster-of
paris to hard finish a wall. The chief
source Of lime phosphate is the grains,
but only a very little is found in the
white part Of any grain.
Inspire the child with ambition for a
fine body, and he will do what has to be
done to SECURE it. Show him what is
involved in physical. CULTURE. The body
is the instrument; not the music, but
the melody of life largely depends up
on The perfection of,the instrument.
He may make q. noble creature, with
every nerve steadied and eyery,muscle
trained to do his bidding, or he. may
neglect and abuse it till it becomes jad-
ed and. mean-spirited; OF, most. disas-
trous of all, he may allow it to,become
his master. Then both horse and rider
go. down i'll the hot sea- Of sensnalism.
Teach by precept and example that
physiological law is Gods law, and
transgression is sin.
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Statues out Of Cofpses.
Is. 4 ~ --, 40 :
N. JrKergovats, a chemist Of Brest,
has discovered a method .of .disposing
Of the mortal remains ,of humanity
which,he considers :preferabls,in every
WAY both to Illumination and: .crama.