The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-23

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 And father, who watches the store and the kitchens of the hotels. SO can tell that Chicago girl that ther, is no food danger from dirt or dis ease, even for sick peopIe?"
 Why, the health depastmens ] suppose"
 How do you know the health de 2artment does? l went into the lii He store near our school yesterday where we get our lunches The mat fries meat and makes sandwiches for us, and the meat on the cuttinf block was so thick with flies that you could not see it. They were com ing from his chicken yard next aoor And a cat was asleep on a sack of meal and l know cats carry diphthe ria and all kinds Of throat trouble and somebody is going to eat that meal Maybe Mother ordered some oI it today. The health department is not watching that"
 Great Scott don't go there any more ll ask about il down town omorrow."
 But. Father, nearly all the meat markets and grocery stores are like hat or nearly like it. And what must 1 write about the hotel kitch- lns?"
 Somebody is going to wake up if 4noueh questions are asked How are he embarrassing questions to be an wered?
 Children seeking information about Hot Springs for their letters, will earn the good things that will make hem patriotic ahd proud; but they who learn of the shortcomings of their athers as citgznsand will realize hat they must prepare for better citizenship. A man who knows a sit ation is the only man who ca nhan He it. The coming citizens will learn trough their letter writing
 What Kind of information Should
 Go Out.
 But if the right kind of information IS to go out of the town, the right iind of conditions must be obtained on which to base it.
 What is the advertising value of such a letter as this, if our Hot Springs pupil could ruthfully write t to Chicago, and Milwaukee. St. Louis. St. Paul Cleve md, Denver etc
 "Tell yonr mother that health is protected in Hot Springs by law as we'll as nature. The town is run to make people well and to keep them well.
 Our health ordinances are so well enforced that the streets, street cars, hotels, baths and all public places ar5 ,potlessly cleAn, people do not dare iisobey ordinances against splitting or committing other nuisances here.
 The health department regularly inspects every place that sells food and every hotel restaurant and board ng house kitchen in the town; they are kept in sanitary condition and if hey are found careless they are fined and notice of the fine is pub ished. You may see the sanitary rec ord of every hotel in town and of the places where it gets it's food hy ap- plying at the office of the health de. partment
 If your mother needs milk she can be sure that any she orders from any dairy in town is pure and per ectly clean. The dairies are scored regularly and our physicians know hat the milk is handled properly.
 The city water supply is watched in the same way so that the city wa ter is as pure as the spring water, All contagious sickness-the town is carefully isolated, reported and record of it kept, so that epidemics are unknown to Us here.
 Good health is prevalent in Hot | Springs: our death rate is lower than 1 that of any town of its size in ths United States. We attribute this tC our city control of health and sanitary conditions as well as to our splendid natural situation We have watel ,o cure every disease that persor may have contracted before comins here. and no condition that can har Dor or breed disease once he is here
 Lots of people have made theil home here since this has been spot ! less town" Residential propert, has been improved and made yer! valuable by these people who hav' built beautiful residences here re gently. Perhaps your parents will dt that, too, when your mother find now strong it makes her" School Value of the Letter Exchangs Letter writing is the most essen tial form of written expression to th' average man and woman, and abilit. ] in letter writing is an almost inyalu able asset in both business and socia life. Our public school children d' not learn to write letters except al an occasional exercise, because the, do not have letters to write. Ever a WOMAN'S APPEAL l ro all knowing sufferers of rheumAtism whetb