The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-31

up the body each day little by little,
| until the boy or girl has grown to full
size. Now you know that children eat
because they must have food to make
their bodies grow.
The lesson proceeded as follows
But your fathers and mothers come
to the table, too, and they are not
growing as children are. Why do they
and other grown people eat? There
must be another reason for eating. Let
us find that, too, If we can. Why does
your coat and vest need to be mended
after you have worn IL awhile? Be
cause II wears out, you say. Yes; and
80 does your body. When you are
thinking or playing or running your
body is wearing away. Even when you
are asleep ii is wearing away, little
every time you breathe. Why then
does your body soon wear out like your
coats and hats? Suppose every time
a tiny little thread breaks in your coat
or dress your mamma takes a needle
and puts a new thread in its place.
That would make the garment last a
long time, would ii not? Careful mend
! ing, but of another kind is going on
all the time i'm our bodies. Your dress
or coat is mended with a piece of cloth
or thread. The wear of your body Is
'mended with your food. If we were
| to go without food for a little while,
the body would begin to wear out. be-
cause there would be no food to mend
IL.
This was about half of the first les
son and was considered to be as much
as could be taught in one day After
the reading there was a multitude of
| questions from the book and others
that suggested themselves. OF course
the children did not understand the
meaning of any of the big words. and
4 the teacher did her best TO explain
| them. Then the regular studies were
resumed, and the children were taught
/ TO spell cat and dog and rat in the
ancient way.
AS stated before, this lesson was
merely preparatory. SO will be the
next two lessons. In them the children
/ who can spell cat and dog and rat and
/ those who can't will be taught that
/ fatty foods are good for warming, that
potatoes contain starch, and grain
contains starch, and that starchy foods
/ help to warm the body; that milk is
good. and that bread is called the staff
/ of life; that graham bread is different
! from wheat bread. and that beef. NUT
| ton. lamb. pork 60, chicken, veal tur-
/ key and game are good things to eat;
/ that in summer we need less meat and
/ fat and sweet food than in the winter
! and that I'm summer we should have
plenty of fruit Finally, that the body
/ needs water salt and lime. The young
minds having mastered a share of this
I learning daily will go back to their A
/ n c books. or to their cat and rat ex-
/ ercises. They may spell cat kat" at
the end OF the week. but they must
learn all about fatty foods and starchy
/ foods and STATS of life and the differ
ence between graham and wheat and
rye breads and obey the law.
Only three lessons are laid out for
the acquiring OF all this knowledge
Then comes the fourth. that for which
the law was framed. It's headed
| Drinks that contain alcohol" and
tells all about that wicked poison: wine
and how IL is made: cider. beer. whis-
key. II the infants don't grow wise
before their time IL won't be the fault
I OF the statesmen responsible for ths
: Ainsworth law. There Is no law com
/ pelling the teachers TO teach reading
writing and arithmetic under a penalty
OF a $3.50. 600 fine. and If these studies
fan behind there is no help for IL. Wine
I and tobacco and how TO manufacture
them are subjects a great deal mor'
] important.