Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-19
Review Of Some Positively Anus.
ing Responses to Questions
Propounded at Session.
DIGESTION VIA @ERIE CANAL. !,
Also Some Novel Reasons Why One
Should No, isxpcctoratc Upon The
sideMallss--Germs and Diseases.

l.5| Is
Nov that the worry of examination.
time Is over, the days of anxiety as to
#s whether the anxious applicant would
pass have zone the way of all days,
and the appointments have been Sc
cured and the schools placed In running
order, Il brief review of some of the
questions propounded in the recent
teachers examinations. with some of
tflc 'lreak answers to tho same Is
not only interesting, but in some cases
positively amusing
IN the first place it is gratifying to
llote that the freak and fool answers.
are growing less year by year; the
standard of mentality required in
teachers is growing higher, and fewer
incapable persons are making the at
tempt to pass examinations which they
{ know to be beyond them than has ever
& before been tha case. This salutary
COM. ton has been brought about by
& the fact that the public generally. and
school boards particularly, are awak-
,ening to5thc necessity for paying bet
tier salaries to the men and women who
devote theil time and means to OBJ
character to warrant placing them
In charge OF the training of chidren
The principal of one of the city
schools this morning said that the sal
y aries Of teachers at present run from
20 to 80 per cent higher than those paid
five years ago: that where the maxi
mum wage paid the grade teacher five
years ago was not over $i2 per month,
at Is now SS5; for principals. against
500 paid five years ago, the salary is
now $l60 per month, which makes 1t an
OF 'ect for men and women to make adj
ditlonal effort to qualify themselves to
act as teachers, and enables the school
board to select better material to take
charge of the schools than has been the
case heretofore.
Reyerting to the subject of fool
answers to examination questions, the
q following are some instances actually
happening during the late examinations
4 held for county teachers in this state:
s>. PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Some questions and answers in physi-
olcgy and hygiene, given to both grades
in the examinations follow
What are the evils OF mouth breath
ing?"
waste going out and the fresh air COM
ing in.'
ITO much air enters the lungs and
+ is forced out before it has been prop
erly renovated. Impurities are taken
into the stomach"
'.When you see anyone breath
drought the mouth it is a sign of gui-
tar
breathing through the mouth puts
the throat to a strange unnatural bust
ness and often causes soreness"
Mouth breathing will cause you to
et,,, l1,,,
zone result of mouth breathing is,
the annoyed groweth.''
"Breathing: When you breath it
causes the mouth to always be: open
and very old germs and dust goes to-
the lungs and stomach, and when you
talk lots and you have to stop to
breath it makes it quite bad"
'Breathing through the mouth causes
the lungs to become hollow and in
stead of your lungs being we'll devel-
epsd they are small and sink in
FIVE DOLLAR COUGH.
Explain why money should not be
placed in the mouth.
''ff q coin we're swallowed it would
cause q growth Of some kind. II
Isn't saving proposition either II
you swallow q penny seine doctor will
make you cough up So"
Money like other minerals often
carries germs of diseases and is also
often placed on the eyelids of corps
and therefore should not be put in the
mouth.
Money should not be placed in tho
mouth because the mineral substances
that has collected on the money are
taken in the saava aud then mixed
In With our food which gives our di-@
gcstive organs more work and the min
eral substance is so strong 1t tends to
destroy the glands
money in the mouth gives a tar
nish taste, which when swallowed goes
through the different parts of the body
and gives it u weak feeling.
1.-THE Chinese carry small change in