The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-04-21

or an alkaline plant alter eacn meal,
then covered censor with burning in
cense was passed around, and each
guest perfumed his hands, face and
clothes.
A scrupulous attention to cleanliness
is necessary to health; so is pure
air and genial sunshine. Air is the
prime necessity of life, therefore should
be as pure as we can possibly make it.
That we may do this, our location must
be the first consideration. We must
then have proper drainage, and great
care be taken to remove all organic
matter at short periods. Sunlight for
full health is as necessary as fresh air,
and it is now so well an established
fact, that in America "sun baths" are
often prescribed by many eminent
thinkers, and even hospitals are having
special "sun BATH rooms attached. In
our civic homes we necessarily need
plenty of pure air, sparkling sunshine
and thorough sanitary laws, strictly
guarded by the Lares of the citadel.
Civic housekeeping becomes thorough
ly practical, only when it is pursued
with high ideals and view of obtain
ing definite results.
Suppose we make the children of our
communities the first deciples of our
civic work and teach them the art of
identifying and love of their civic
homes. We may then be preparing a
way for future generations, at least, for
DR.. Holmes once said, "To become a
good scholar, one must have had good
grandmother" Underlying all our de-
fciencies there is a want of thorough
organization and correlation with the
young people. Our children need to be
taught in the homes and in the schools,
more civic pride. 1t might be well to
emulate the example of our fellow
workers in Philadelphia, and profit by
their experiences. The distinguished
president of civics of that city, Mrs.
Cornelius Stevenson, said "The i'm
portance of the movement in the di-
rection of child's citizenship cannot be
over estimated, for in it seems to lie
the future hopes of a better social Or
der" The League of Good Citizen
ship of Philadelphia, was composed
of all the children, except the very
youngest, and under the management
of the Civic Club, of which it was a
branch. The late Col. Waring, of New
York City, had similar band of chill
dren workers, of whom he was very
proud. IT'S an interesting fact, and
worthy some consideration, that the
success of children's civic leagues has
reached England, and public-spirited
citizens there have sent for liter
allure from Philadelphia league with
a view of adopting their work.
Make every child a co-worker in
which he shall feel the necessity of
looking after and the Importance of at
3teaA e Sss ,dutS; ipza!see III hjz1
any service he may Fender. III. f com
munity, and that he may feel sure, fo1
example, he only does not litter or de.
face his streets in any way, but in case
of DETACHMENT will try to remedy. II
has been suggested to divide the city
into districts and appoint leader Of
each division and to offer prizes for the
best kept neighborhood. Furnish YES
sells for the reception of waste matter
such as paper pieces of glass, china
ETC., and have the children put all &C.
cumated litter therein, and this taken
away by regular street men for that
purpose. This sperhaps the most con-
spicuous, but it may be the most bene'
fetal way of meeting our present de.
mands. BY all means children should
be taught it is no more impolite to ex
pectorate upon the floors of their owr
home than upon the pavements OF
streets of the city. Children are very
watchful creatures and any encroach
ment on the laws will be very quickly
observed by them and will meet just
reprimand. They having been educat
ed along these lines will not make the
mistake the preceding generations have
in neglecting to teach the young proper
civic ideals.
But it must be borne in mind that the
enlistment of the children in the work
of the publication of the streets and
pavements from defilement and litter
is not the end reached but is only rec.
commended as the first lesson of our
generation to the end that ultimately a
proper public sentiment may be built
up in every community, which will de-
mand the enactment and enforcement
by municipal authority of such laws and
ordinances as may be the fruitage Of
such enlightenment. The first feeble
step, the gathering, depositing and as.
portation of the litter from the street
as result of children's cooperation
should be soon followed by the syste-
matte performance of such work by the
street cleaning department with moth.
ing less than which the public would
| then he satisfied Municina1 officers do