New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-14
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The whole trout'c," he sad, "is that these mat
ters are too much in the hands of people who do
NOT Understand When an architect designs a
building he makes floors and walls that will stand
the strain to be put them. Now man was meant
TO be a horizontal animal. We have set him up on
end and the strain on the back is immense These
things should be remembered in the care of chill
dren This subject should be approached in a largo
way. Who is there in New York TO pass upon the
height and breadth of the printed page that is IN
be read by the child for years of its fe2 Vet ,bI
is question affecting the eyesight, and of much
more Importance than the giving of eyeglasses
Let US strike for the fundamentals and this que
rlla warfare over what shall done for the child
will cease"
Miss Ida Williams, principal of Public School 70
said that what New York school children needed
was to be turned out TO grass
i don't know anything that is working more
evil on the New York school children" she said
than the course of study in the New York schools
Any course that looks impressive on paper is too
Hard for children, and unless II looks impressive
On ,t paper err, IL IL no good apparently"
sNer the first of which was Should parents re-
70 the Syscs as TO tne result Of inattenton
they need it?' 0'''''' eN' "i'eh
"0f course. they ought to have instruction" she
edge, but lack OF money IN " N''o"4-
There, there's plenty of money" interposed Mr Bur
scb well wish wish there it around my
school IN west 18th street. retorted Mise VIII
Jams What are you going TO do when parents
@Ie eolu cnlld must nave and and good
1000; and they live In two rooms and ON less fhar
how they?' - ~ ''sit' Dut
Miss Williams did not have much of an onniop
OF me cards issued by physicians on the condition
OF children They are too scientific" she said ~
mao 10 nave the terms explained TO me and ex
pam them In turn to my teachers What does
cardiac disease mean to the tenement parentS
heart disease, now, means something
or course, IT, good plan TO send cards g..
summon parents of neglected children before the
school phgslcian-or would be IL they coi,Id read
10 obey the summons; the father can't come ~ he q
working; the mother is generally working too
It's likely to be dismissed with You tell tnacber
M washing and can't come The only Wv 20
Dflfg those parents TO school is to mt tho SbiiS
back a grade. That means step away from ~
grade or Oh and the work certificate That viii he
issued II the other conditions are comnlIed ui+b
That's what the hard conditions OF life hrtns,
them TO. ~ Aie DIihs
Issue warrants against inattentiye naran,s,
ANYBODY VINO knows what city rnaristratas
are knows what that means. You're plt mn trio1
Tor getting the warrant II you're a man Won ere
insuited: If you're woman. you get off with a
Miss Williams said that more than anv4h,n,,
else, New York needed larger number OF schoni
nurses3 TO go into the homes follow up cases
we have none she said. II don't know VIII,
the lower West Side is always LEFT out snnnn ms
because it's not so picturesque as the East Sida
nurse is of the greatest help She can get tbinge
from dispensary which ignorant ard timid par
ents can't get.
THE child suffering from some nervous disease.