The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-01-28
State Supt. Cary Sends Out LET
ter Urging More Careful
Treatment Of ChiIdren
GIVE RULES FOR PARENTS
Urges That the Greatest Care be Taken
in Early Training of Children
Both in and out Of
School Rooms

Hon. G. P. Cary, superintendent of
public instruction, has just sent to F.
|J. Zimmers, superintendent Of schools,
a letter which has been quite univer-
sally distributed and which is creating
very favorable comment over the Ell
tire state. It concisely puts extremely
valuable suggestions with which every
mother should be familiar and which
should as largely as possible govern her
attitude toward her children.
Nervous children may be unduly
prococious or unduly dull They are
fretful and irritable. They sleep poor
" and their sleep is often disturbed by
night terrors' or by walking in their
sleep. They twitch great deal They
are emotional, too easily made to weep
or laugh. They need careful guidance
skillful treatment in order to ward off
the dangers that menace development
The family physician should be con-
stantly consulted and the duty devolves
upon him to make thorough investi-
cation into everything bearing upon
the child S life. He should give to the
parents schedule of diet, exercise,
baths, education, medicine, ETC., for
the child.
The suggestion made in Mr.. Cary S
letter applies more particularly to
quite nervous children, but since all
children are more or less nervous and
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where the application Of these rules
might be necessary it would seem
that the suggestions made are peril
nent and applicable to every child
especially to children passing through
that period of transition clearly indi-
Gated between the eleventh or twelfth
and the fourteenth and fifteenth years.
In connection with Mr.. Cary's letter
he submits DR.. Frederick Peterson IS
Map Of Life which is here given in
ten divisions. Realizing their great
value the ten paragraphs are given in
full
l. No stimulants should ever be Civ
en- to the little one, no tea, coffee, wine
or beers Narcotic drugs should never
be employed such as soothing syrups =
and the like
2. Every organ and function should
be kept in the highest state Of health,
and the nutrition should be es-
pecially looked after. The best kind of
strengthening food should be given.
3. The daily cold bath, physical ex-
ercise, sleeping in cold, well venti-
lated rooms, thin covering, hard mat
tresses, life in the open air, educa-
tion to endure ordinary pain; all
these measures should be carried out
to increase the child's vitality and re-
sistance to physical and mental dis
ease.
4. Develop the physical rather than
the mental side of the child. Let
there be no schooling until the age of
z years or even later in some in
stances.
5. Do not permit indiscriminate
reading, and especially avoid books
which stimulate the fancy or magma
ton. Outdoor scientific or mechan-
zeal studies are best, such as natural
history in all its bearings, carpentry,
etc
g. Regulate carefully the hours of
rest and work.
7. Accustom the child to quiet
obedience, and train it practically in
self control.
8. a country school, when the time
is ripe for it, or better, a quiet country
home under the care of a tutor or medi-
cal man; and away from the indulgent
influence Of home, would be best.
9. The period of young womanhood
needs especial supervision because of
the particular dangers Of that period Of
stress.
10. In choosing an occupation for
later life, let it be manual rather than
mental, out-of-door rather than in
door, and let the life of a country
rather than a city life.