South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-02
First Celebration of Holiday in
South Bend Gives Promise
of Bearing Fruit--DiSplayS
Exploit Sanitation.

Disease Prevention day in South
Bend gives promise OF bearing fruit.
simultaneously with every city in
Indiana, South Bend took up the work
of advertising sanitation.
In a hundred different ways mod
ern methods OF maintaining cleanh
ness were portrayed, and comparisons
were made with the old superstitious
ways used in the past.
Lined on both sides with booths
each setting forth by apt Illustrations
telling point in the campaign for
the promotion Of health, the exhibit
room in the old Sailor Bros. store on
:. Michigan St, must be conceded
place Of first importance in the fea-
lures of Disease Prevention day. The
exhibit opened Friday morning and
was filled all day with interested Wis
itOrs. The exhibit viii be preserved
intact throughout the coming week in
order to give everyone an opportunity
to see it.
Displays i'm Windows.
The two large show windows OF
| the store have been turned over TO
the children's dispensary and TO the
home-making department of the pub
lie school. The high school girls, as
sisted by Miss Ada Hitler. head of the
home-making department, and her as
sistant faculty, have arranged in the
north window the dining room in the
home of a family of six. Huge posters
on the walls explain in simple terms
the different foods which contribute
TO the upbuilding OF the body and set
forth the point that the least eX-
pensive foods are the most nOurish-
ing. The table is set with the simple
foods which should constitute the meal
of the average family of six in order
10 get the most for the money.
The dispensary exhibit consists OF
several dolls dressed to show the prop
er and improper way Of clothing in
| fants, dolls sleeping in approved cribs
| and dolls enjoying the luxury OF the
bath. The wall is covered with a
series OF posters illustrating causes of
and remedies for infant mortality.
Many Arrange Booths.
inside the various booths have been
arranged by the Visiting Nurse as
sOciation, the Florence Crittenton cir
Gle. the Anti-tuberculosIs league the
| Anti-saloon league and Christian Tenn
perance unions, the Associated Char
| tiles, physicians. opticians. dentists
! grOeers and butchers, the National
Consumers league and the Metropoli-
| tan Life Insurance Co, as well as the
| Dispensary association and the school
| department of household economics.
Every booth strikes home to some
! one and some booths strike home to
| everyone, as for instance the home
| economies booths in which some SO or
| 60 common food stuffs are arranged
to show their comparative value In the
| amount OF money spent and the
amount Of nourishment gained. tt IS
| shown that there is as much heat
value in / OF ounces Of beans as there
is in one pound Of spinach. There is
/ as much heat value in five dates as
| there is in two grape fruits. The
illustrations go on lad infinitum" and
everyone is revelation or value to any
| housewife. Another illustration OF in
| terest consists of two market baskets
each containing one dollars worth OF
| food, but one just twice as valuable as
the other in point of food value.
Clever Housing Exhibit.
| The housing exhibit prepared by the
Associated Charities consists Of a
series Of cleverly conceived posters
| illustrating a parody on THE House
| That Jack Built" showing the effect
| Of poor tenement houses not only on
| the tenants but upon the wealth which
| buiit them.
The Grim Reaper garbed in black
/ and carrying his threatening scythe
commands attention to the statistics
assembled against alcoholism by the
! Anti-tuberculOSis league and the Tenn
1 perance unions. The Visiting Nurse
| association has furnished two kitchens
and two bed rooms in contrasting con-
ditions rooms on the one hand which
/ breed disease through dirt and dis
order and those on the other hand
which promote health and happiness.
The Metropolitan exhibit is along sim
| liar lines.
The Anti-tuberculosis league shows
in its exhibit a model house with
/ sleeping porch and window and YER
anda arrangements which will afford
/ substitutes for Out-Of-dOOr sleeping,
| together with pictures and statistical
data and practical information con-