Evening star., 1911-01-06
SCHOOL CHILDREN
| ETHEALTH ADVICE
Care of Body, Externally and
Internally, Subject of
Circular.
MONDAY EVENING CLUB
STARTS HYGIENiC PLAN
Pamphlet Tells of Dangers and
Symptoms Of Diseases.
WARNING MEANT FOR PARENTS
Asked to Give Heed to Future Hap
piness of Little Folks-Watch-
fulness and Doctors
Care Advised.
Pamphlet Tells of Dangers and
Symptoms Of Diseases.
WARNING MEANT FOR PARENTS


ties and the health department., the
Washington Monday Evening Club today
distributed $1,000 leaflets, designed to Inn
prove the physical welfare Of children In
the District of Columbia.
The pamphlets were issued to school
children to be taken to parents or guar
dams who are urged to insure the health
and future welfare of the rising gener-
alton by consultation with physicians or
dentists.
Attention now may save your child
from q lifelong handicap" is the slogan
Of the movement. Its promoters seek 10
give simply. in plain language. some OF
the results Of the latest scientific study
Of health In the home aand In the school.
The leaflets were distributed after a
''health talk in every room of every
grade in each of the public schools OF
the District.
The leaflet in part reads as follows:
characteristics of Healthy Child.
Are you sure that your child is not
suffering from some slight physical de-
feet, which may be entirely cured or re-
moved if you attend to it now, but may
seriously disable your child for life, II
you neglect 1t now? A recent investiga-
ton of 5000 pupils of Washington
schools revealed the startling 1act tnat
very large numbers had one or more
physical defects, which should gave
parent serious concern.
One in each twenty pupils had
defective eyesight; one In thirty was
afflicted with defective hearing: 6,6S
pupils as per cent? had defective teeth.
which needed attention. and threatened
the health Of the child: over 1000 were
mouth -breathers," suffering from ade-
noids, enlarged tonsils, ETC.. in a way
which affects the physical health and the
mind; 7O3 were under size: 72 were
'Ill-nourshed," and 923 were anemic.
Are your children among these. who Tor
their good health and future happiness
reed careful attention which they are
not receiving? Why not be sure about
1t Why not have your child carefully
examined at once by a physician?
IF the cinld shows listlessness. lack OF
appetite paleness. headache. disturbed
sleep or other igns Of poor health, 1t
should be investigated by parents and
physician.
Growth and Nutrition.
The rate Of growth for healthy child
is shown in the figures given above.
Proper. healthy growth depends upon a
good supply Of nutritious food. plenty of
and physical work, and sufficient play,
rest and sleep. Without these child
will either not grow as fast as he should,
or If he does grow, will lack strength
and vitality. Does your child eat Whoie-
some, warm breakfast. before going to
lunch in cold weather? Or does she
spend the pennies given her to buy Z
lunch, for candy instead OF Hlttered
rolls?
Food and Drink
Food should be taken at proper inter-
walls. not oftener than once in four hours.
II you let your child go to school with
out wholesome, warm breakfast, or
neglect a meal because something else in
| terests him, or because the appetite has
been interfered with by eating between
meals candy or other sweets, you do your
| child a positive injury.
| Food, If 1t is to nourish the body, must
| be thoroughly and slowly chewed. The
child's own appetite cannot be trusted to
| decide the proportion of meat to vegeta-
| BILE food. Most children are inclined to
eat too much meat and too little vege-
table food. Eggs and milk are valuable
foods for children.
1t is chiefly with respect to candy and
other sweets (and sometimes with refer
ence to "pickles') that the parent should
Il
child If sweets are allowed only at the
close of meals, and only in limited
amounts, and are forbidden altogether be
tween meals. there will be much less sick
ness from disordered digestion.
/ The growing child should not be allow
1 ed to drink tea or coffee. They accom-
plish no good; they frequently disturb
4 the nervous system. They often inter
| fere with digestion.
/ Water may be. taken in any ordinary
i quantity, if 1t is not too cold. Exces-
siye use Of iced drinks is injurious. Chill.
| dren should drink water freely between
| meals. rather than at meal time. II much
| LIQUID is taken while eating solid fooC
there is a tendency to swallow the food
| too quickly and without chewing 1t prop
erIy. and liquid. filling the stomach
makes its digestive action less efficient.
Fresh Air
Set a lighted candle on the table ant