Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-19
WOMAN AND HOME.
TEACHING CHILDREN THE LAWS OF
HEALTH AT HOME.

How Plucky Woman Wins Liyeli-
hood--Cold Weather Hints for the Muir
sery-The Real woman Problem"
Household Servants-Useful Suggestions.
We are creatures of imitation. Example
counts for more than precept. The parent
Knows the law, and the child knows it too.
When the parent keeps it, then the children
will keep it also, 1t does little good for a
child to learn at school that the food should
90 properly masticated, when three times
every day at home he sees hungry group
crowd about the table like pigs around a
trough, &pd bolt their food as nearly whole
as 1t can DO made to go down. The child
whose mother gives it a bite of something to
eat every time it cries for it, will not be in a
condition to profit from an understanding Of
tne law that food should not be taken be-
tween meals, until it is too late for the knowl-
edge to be OF much service
The law OF pure air and proper ventilation
may be taught never so plainly in the text
books, but to the boy who is brought up to
sit and to sleep in close, unventilated room,
foul with the breath of living beings, and to
shur fresh air as he would plague, the
knowledge will be Of little avail. While his
fathers cellar is filed with decaving meat,
vegetables, and all manner of filth, aud the
cesspool smells TO heaven from beneath the
s1tchen window, ali the teachings Of the
schools will not prevent his having typhoid
= fever, or diphtheria, or some form of filth
disease, when the summer sun calls into &C
tivity the germs of disease which are latent
there.
II is the practice of the principles of by
gene in our homes, and this alone, which
-sE''l lessen the rate Of disease and death to.
u ia and develop stronger race tomorrow.
tue child who has learned the laws of health
from his father and mother, by seeing then,
continually and persistently applied, will
come to follow them in his own case, as
naturally as he will conduct himself properly
IN good society, if good society has been hi.
oirthrlght, and gentlemanly conduct has be
come habitual
knew man who feared filth as he feared
the devil A bad odor was his bette noir II
put him o'Fhis mettle at once, and he coult
hottest until he had hunted it down ant
: rooted it out. His water supply must b,
pure teyond all question. Hiscellar must b,
cleaned and kept clean. Nocesspool or vaul
was allowed to generate putrefaction on hi
premises Fhen he bought a house his frs
care was & look after the ventilation ant
drainage, wat supply and disposal of waste
If these were defective, they must be recon
structed at once, at whatever cost, and mad
as nearly perfect as possible, and so OF
through the list, The result was, his chill
dren grew up to be like him in this respect
They did not need to be warned against III
dangers of filth. They knew them already
l know mothers, too, who teach their chill
--dren how to preserve good health and de
velop strong bodies; who instruct thei
daughters in the mysteries of their own b.
ing and the dangers that may beset them
thus preparing them against the day of temp
tation and fitting them to live pure an
wholesome lives.-J. NJ French, NJ. D., i
Good Housekeeping.