The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-09-08

first aid to the sick and injured.
you have an epeleptic child in you
. room and it has a convulSion don
get excited. Loosen its clothing, lay
flat on the floor, put your ruler be
tween its teeth so that il will no
wound its tongue, wash its face witt
cool water, give it all the air possible
and wait for the seizure to pass away
If your scholar should break an arm
or leg, don't move or allow it to b
carried away but lay il down, put tn,
limb in as natural a position as ma,
be, until you can get surgeon to it
Moving il only allows the rough edge
of the fractured bone to wound tn,
tissue around il and complexities the
} injury.
If your charge is wounded anC
bleeding, don't put anything unclear
on the wound, but remember thai
pressure will control the bleeding,
until the doctor gets there.
You hav call heard of the con-
servation theory of natural re-
sources, timber, coal waterpower,
asphalt, clay; Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr..
Pinchot, prominent on the one side,
Mr.. Ballinger on the other, and
while think this all very impor-
tant, | am sure that it all ought to
give way before another great con-
servation problem, that of the health,
the physical resources of the human
body, which is most important Of all.
Now there is no politics in this and
all of you teachers, regardless Of age,
color or previous condition of SER
vitude ought to give it your endorse
ment. We have three 'D's" in our
midst, all capable of being corrected,
that are responsible for more sick
ness, poverty and suffering than all
other causes combined. These are
darkness, dampness and dirt" The
natural enemy and destroyer of all
germ life is fresh pure air and sun
light, and God gave these remedies to
you free. You don't have to have
them prescribed by a doctor nor do
you have to go to drug store toIhave
them dealt out to you, all you have to
do is to leave the darkness and 90 out
into Gods sunshine and breath the
airto enjoy these benefits.
The three evils of school children
are mouth breathing, eye strain and
contagious diseases, but multiple |
troubles follow in their wake. The |
mouth lbreather is not voluntarily
so but breaths through his mouth,
because he can get air to the
lungs in no other way. His tonsils
are enlarged and possible adnoids
occupy the post nasal space, so as to
preclude the air. Now the tonsil
being large inflamed with open Grips
are the proper breeding ground
and culture media for the germ life,
and when they cough, sneeze or in
any way forcibly expel the air from
the lungs, it energies filled with in
fectuous germ life to be again breath
ed into healthy lungs of non-infected
children. Now the open water bucket
is constant menace to all children.
Those mouth breathers use the cup
or dipper, and it is again dipped into
the water and by the time few have
used it the water is absolutely unfit
for the human stomach. Have closed
water tanks with spray faucets. Let
each child drink from the faucet and
as often as once a day, and oftener
would be better, wash the faucet with
a solution of boric acid. Never al
low school room to be swept dry,
children expectorate on the floor and
this sputa dries and becomes incor-
porated with the dust, filling the dust
with germs, which are safer on the
floor then floating in the air to be in
hailed into the lungs. If there is a
feather buster in your room burn it
up; it does not get rid of any dust,
only changes its location either back
to the floor to be again infected or in
to the air to be inhaled. Compel
your ianitor to use a damp towel as
a buster and wet down the floor each
time he sweeps lightly. Now teach
ers, you cannot move windows, but
you can remove seats-eyes are in
iured not so much by bad light, in
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