The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-12-31
DO WE NEED TRAINING IN HY-
GIENE?

woman to enter and go
through a college on the CO.
educational plan, about
twenty-five years ago, may have
been more or less interested in the
many plans that have been sug-
gsted, adopted and become part of
many college curriculums, since.
Under the old rules for the educa-
ton Of women in colleges, the scien-
ces and the other branches of higher
learning took up most of the time;
some of us had to waste precious
hours on astronomy, higher mathe-
MATES and history, which might
have been more proftably spent,
in the light of after-years, on letters
and other branches. Hygiene had
not become the fad then it after
ward developed, and many of us got
through with a general working
knowledge, only, of this important
study.
1t seems a waste of time to take
Goals to Newcastle, and those who
would really benefit most from the
practical instruction of hygiene are
denied it. The average country
school is too badly overcrowded,
underpaid and of too short session
to permit much beyond "the Three
RS" being taught, and it happens
that the city child, whose surround
ings are so carefully looked after
by municipal guardians, is the one
who is stuffed with the rules and
regulations of proper living, diet,
etc.
We have been told that Christ
mas, to the historian, is simply
survival of the old Pagan Satur-
MALTA. 1t has really become a time
of unlimited, and often unlicensed
eating, drinking and merry-making
The religious part of it is too we'll
known to need comment from this
Sourcey but that phase is not so
universal as the other.
Travel gives great opportunity for
gathering, and if one took a
journey for even a short space, dur
ing the holiday season, one could see
many interesting and curious things.
Our country people are, perhaps,
the happiest on earth when they
can 'get about and see their folks"
Our city jewellers are usually very
we'll satisfied with what their home
town affords them in the way of
amusement and diversion, unless
they are transplanted country folk,
when they throw back to type
and go gadding country-wards at the
first opportunity. 1t is while look
ing at these travellers one realizes
what unfairness has been shown
the country people in the matter of
education, and one of the most start
ling examples of the utter absence
of hygienic training was manifest
during the recent holiday season.
The family which illustrated the
point was composed of fat, well-fed
father a small, thin, work-worn
mother; little spindle legged girl
of about nine years, and fat, roll
licking baby boy, the exact reproduc-
ton in miniature of it's daddy.
All were dressed in clothes that
had cost a considerable sum of
money, in the concrete. The mother
had on good tailored suit, the lit
tie girl a hat of the dimensions of a
coal scuttle, Of handsome white
satin with band of pink ribbon and
some pink roses on it; the little baby
had on nice white dress, with warm
cap and cloak, and the mothers hat
was of black velvet with some very
good black plumes. Daddy had on
a good warm, ready-made suit, and
a homespun shirt, with a collar but
no tie.
Evidently he had been "seeing
some friends" and his one ambition