Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-29
TITLE BEAUTY TALKS.
! Ry Harriet Hubbard Aver.
T1as Health of Children.
BY Harriet Hubbard Aver.

After q rear Of experimental work.
carried on in the schools oe Chicago,
by members of the Child Study Depart
ment, it has been given out hat the
average large pupil is mentally bright
60 than the small one
Out Of 1000 children who were ex-
aHained for the purpose of obtaining
statistics pom which to base eomnar-
nSens, h mentally bright child was al
MOS invariably the physically strong,
wdl-developed boy o. girl.
We may especially pride ourselves,
Coo. In the inspiring fact that these
statistics have been taken from schools
where there Is the largest proportion
Of pupils descended from American
horn parents. SO they undoubtedly give
a true estimate of the average Ameri-
Csn middle-class child.
The effect of diet and e-nvfronrnen
WAS also demonstrated in these tests.
and 1t was found that good. simple
FOOD. exercise in the fresh air, ventil-
afed sleeping room and cleanliness
were all important factors in the men
tai as well as the physical ~Well-being
Of the child.
"The old saw, a healthy min in a
healthy body" says DR.. Smedtey, the
medical director, has always beer
Known, but never has 1t been so start
1ngly demonstrated as IN our test. It
works with mathematical accuracy"
Every mother in the land should have
IL Impressed upon her, and I declare I
believe it vastly more important mis-
sfonary work than much labor that is
being done in he name of
ny.
Soap and water, fresh air, q place to
stretch legs and arms and use the
lungs freely should go with the birth
night OF every American child.
To-day in this country I will venture
TO say there is a ~pFofounder meek Of a
society for the endorsement Of clean
children thai Of any other.
Last Summer, when I worked with
h physicians of New York for the re-
lief of sick babies, we were constantly
handicapped In al effort to relieve the
poor little sufferers by the absolute
horror Of the parents and neighbors Of
water for bathing purposes.
One beautiful little child, eleven
mt old, I found wrapped UP la
filthy wool1en and cotton rags on a
Mdeoas July day with the thermorne-
tar above the 100 mark. The baby
was in a raging fever. The little
creature opened his big, dark eyes and
1aoaned, and h mother stood by.
LET me give the little fellow a sooth-
ing. warm BATH" I said, and looked
about FOR some sort OF a washtub OF
basin
The mother seized my outstretched
hand and fairly shrieked.
"Ke, MOI" she cried: ryou will xiii
him. He is too delicate to be washed.
He has never had any water GA him"
The pool babe had brothers and sis
tiers, all ptay little things, with long,
slender necks, little spindle legs and
old-tasl1ioned faces, bearing traces Of
pain and deprivation.
There are thousands Of such child
GEN. Lots Of poor mother showed me
religious tracts which they could not
understand. Some OF them thought
they were tickets for excursions, and
one woman insisted the tract would en-
title her to soup and coffee, if she
anew where to get it, but not one Of
tHefd had ever heard # missionary
Who Preached the gospel of everyday
cleanliness for the. babies.
In b matter OF 1ung<capac1ty tbs
figures are striking, in this conneo-
tion the mother Of the too ambitious
girl should insist u~pon/caution in these
days of new women, who Guido theis
brothers In athletics.