The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-03-19

world, aud sent those four children -
healthy, wholesome, lovesble condi-
tion to church and school.
Ii Is the desire to do a thing that
sometimes makes thing done. A
teacher ~ our force had distressing
ly bad case OF parental neglect in a
seven year old. She protested to the
mother and got this reply: eff you
want my child washed wash him your
self" The teacher replied: eff this
child is not bathed by tomorrow
morning ] will" Can you who are
interested in art and our new school
pictures get into your mind another
"a life size impI Iession-with a state
ly school building and that wiIl-ful
school teacher posing as the Diana of
the Tubf
Poor, little, uncomfortable urchins,
who sit and twist and squirm, not
knowing what ails them, but never
knowing the luxury of healthy, Wig
orous circulation that is the inherit, :
ance of the we'll bathed aud we'll
aired. Their discomfort puts them
into many bad habits that accompa-
MED by possible inherited tendencies
and aggravated by evil suggestions,
In some cases, at home and abroad,
for evil associates with fllth, make OF
that child's life record that is tin
ful. Evil thoughts are like disease
germs and lodge In filth; az the
thought is, the tongue utters, and as
the thought and speech will the deed
become. Again, ga habit Is cable "
"a 10 k<
supports her family by washing. She
takes In five or six family washes q
week and works from dark till dart
She sends to school 4wo children who
make your heart glad, they look so
wholesome and clean aud :omfortab-
ly dressed. They slways make me
think OF the famous Beau Brummel' s
favorite perfume, "Plenty of clean
linen, and country washing" Fash
ion says that never since styles began
for children have style, simplicity,
comfort and minimum cost gone so
hand in hand. A LiIiputian Bazaar
in New York City deals exclusively in
children's clothing 1t Is recognized
authority all over the Amer lean world
for the fashionable Its ready
made clothing is only within the
reach OF the extremely wealthy, but
its styles are copied by every fashion
sheet in the country. They should
be popular now for they give every
requisite of comfort and beauty. 1t
costs but few cents for patter II
and made at home the finished gar
ment Is within the reach of every one.
They give to the girl the freedom of
action and comfort of body found III
boys clothing They combine waist
and kniokerbt tckers foi children OF
three month to eight or ten years.
They are stylish aud they do away
with exposure and prospectus of
pettiooats that looks like dilapidat-
ed shingle roof with the unclcanness
OF kitchen mop.
A child should be clothed to give
him warmth, protection from the eIe-
ments, cleanliness, comfort that
means freedom of movement, and foi
beauty. These combined will give
him health, grace OF limbs Il d joy Of
life. The undercloi hing should give
the child all the necessa y warmth hnd
protection from the cIimat changes,
and the outside clothing should be SO
chosen as to aid the underclothes for
freedom of movement aud cleanliness.
The real clothing of child should
be in his underwear and leave it to
the outside clothes to add the conven-
ventional aud the beautiful In the
outside clothing comes the orportun-
ity to crafty the Unborn tight of:every
child to be beautifully dressed-and
beauty does not mean lavish expendi-
tuie OF money. A child in my room
this year, brought here to escape
asthmatio troubles, was the smost dis
tinguished, stylish-looking child in
the room She was not pretty. Her
hair was in colonial cut, tied with a
clean ribbon. She wore warm fan
mel union suit. dark blue serge bloom
ers fast to a guimpe, no pettiooats and
over these sailor blouse and skirt.
There we're wooden hose and high,
heavy soled shoes. Across the aisle
sat the delicate child with cotton un-
derweai, (onoel white panties, three
shingle lengths Of dirty petticoats,
faded multi-colored plaid wool dress
and a ground.in. dark.streaked white
apron, whose embi oideIed bertha
rufile cost half the price of the serge
suit and added neither cleanliness,
comfort, warmth nor b auty. Cotton
hose aud thin shoes completed her
attire. That child is chronically un-
comfortable She is only half clad.
Layers of clothing where 1t is not
needed and not enough where 1t is.
Half these children come TO school
through rains and snow with nothing
ON their heads and more than half
have serious throat troubles One
child uttered from acute ear ache and
stomach ache. She was always bare
headed, till suggested the head GOV
ering as remedy, Three members
of that ohild's family have died of
tuberculosis that Gieat White Plague
that takes off 100, 900 people in Amer
lea every year one In ten of ne all.
This child has been seen in your cold
est weather washing her shoes at the
hydrant.
There Is an orthodox church that
for years preached that the man who
was born to To hanged will hot be
drowned. They got away from that
belief. The medical cult preached foi
oth0r years tnat tuberculosis was a
he, editary disease. They too got
away from where they started. There
was, a class Of school teachers, wise In
their way, who preached that the dull
lard In the school room would be a
failure In life. They, too. are learn,
ing wisdom. There 10 In my home
town a man who as dull boy never
got even to the eighth grade in
school.
He has since won wide distinction
as the greatest Hereford cattle man in
the world. He raised and sold one
animal that brought $4,000.