Middletown transcript., 1909-11-20
PRICE THREE CENTS

Work underteken should be IN proportion
to his physical and mental fitness to ac.
complsh ii. We see go much damage
from Orer7cork- especially in young girls
who Iase more ambition tIan physical
endurance, Who when school is closed for
the dsy, instead of being out of doors till
evening, go straight home and pour over
their books every possible spare moment.
hope to impress upon you that this is
the greatest mistake Of your lives. By so
doing you are inviting defeat to every
worthy desire in life beyond school honors
You are making physical wreck OF your.
selves from which you are likely never TO
fully recover. To accomplish high aims,
to do the greatest good for the longest
time, il is absolutely necessary TO keep
your power OF resistance at the highest
possible point. / would cay to b parents
try bard to grow healthy children and be
ready at all times to make any sacrifice
to abtain this end; teach the child from
the earliest possible moment that TO be
happy he must be healthy. If he seems
to be dull or abnormal in any respect,
investigate his condition. He NAV have
adenoida, hypertrophied tonsils, or de.
fective vision, and the correction of these
would result in material benefit. think
l can venture to say that one-half OF the
so-calied dull children in school suffer
from adenoids, an easily curable condi-
tion. The child's desk in school should
be looked after very carefully in order to
prevent spinal curvature condition often
unobserved and not uncommon. How
often we find that the boy or girl upon
reaching manhood or womanhood has
used every particle Of energy he or she
may have had and now is totally unfit
to assume lifs's duties. Almost as often
we find these same boys and girls are the
ones who have worked valiantly-yes
overworked-and won the honors at
school. The lesson is plain. Parents ad-
wise your children and explain to them
the Importance of high bodily resistance,
that they may escape being nervous
wrecks or subjects of tuberculosis
feel that our milk supply should re-
Ceive more attention. Milk is a most
excellent culture medium for various
disease producing organisms and a com.
mon carrier Of tuberculosis. Inspectors
should be appointed to investigate the
health of cattle supplying milk to the
public and to see that all parties who
handle the milk are healthy aud cleanly
in their habits. The COW should be tuber-
culin tested and only milk from. healthy
cows allowed to be sold. Most rigid
cleanliness in every particular should be
to prevent infection of the milk
from outside sources. 1t is so easy for a
suffering with tuberculosis to
infect the milk. I should say that it
would be unwise TO allow anyone suffer
ing wish tuberculosis to have anything to
10 with the milking or delivery of same.
Until legislation is more effective in these
matters it would be worth while to have
he various milk supplies tuberculin tested
1t regular intervals to see that it is free
rom tubercle infection.
Tuberculosis claims about one in every
lix persons throughout the known world
10 you must realize its importance. Each
and everyone of Us are more or less ex-
posed to the infection either because of
,ur own ignorance or care'essness or that
If others. With our present knowledge
md by the exercise of proper care We can
prevent tuberculosis Our first step in so
loing is to spread this knowledge to all
human beings and to teach them the inn
portance of its practicability. 1t is i'm
possible for US to realize the number of
ives that can be saved in few years by
IN organized educational campaign on
In conclusion let me urge
upon you in all your meetings to push
he Subject Of sanitation for in no other
inc of work can you accomplish go much
rood.