Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-02-12
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school sanitation.

HEBRON. Neb.. Feb Ito the Editor
OF The Bee: / was about to write to
you the same that the one person who
wrote 20 you on February 8. printed in
your paper on the 9th instant. signed
sanitary Crank" upon the subject.
Sanitation versus Examination" i
wish TO add to what has been said that In
fifteen or more years of my experience
In the country schools ] never expert
enced death with any of my pupils.
much less or more. no such diseases that
seem to take hold of the pupils In your
city and some others. The children who
are up early in the morning, that get
good exercise at home or outdoors, en-
dure more cold weather and seldom fall
victims OF the disease unless housed in
school rooms with so many others. with
insufficient ventilation and exercise.
In some schools they have insufficient
intermissions When child looked Ian
guild or the like, 1 never felt like con-
demning him or her. l made a change
of the atmosphere in more than one
respect and lost no time either.
Sometimes / felt obliged to turn my
pupils out to run around the school
house while the entire room was quite
well thrown open to the outside. In
stead of talking OF more hospitals, better
give the children a chance at the pure
air. The halls or corridors In school
buildings could be occupied for few
minutes when too cold to open the ven.
tilators in the school room and avoid
troubles as you have had. READER.
sOldiers' Home Queer Roster.
BURKETT. Neb.. Feb. Ito the Bdi-
tor OF The Bee: No stranger can realize
the diversity OF the people at Soldiers
and Sailors Home here. We have three
Kings but without a kingdom; one Noble
and two Gaylords. and Kaiser, who is
not German, either. and we have only
one Freeman. We have two Parishes.
two Groves. one Park. one Hall, two
Barns. two Woods. with two stubs, five
or six feet high; two Butterfields, but
are lacking the butter. We have three
Rhodes. but need repairing. one Is Long.
We have a few animals. four Campbells,
ono Wolf. in sleeps clothing; one Fox,
silvertip, and Nice. Lamb. very
Wooley; one Fisher and Leech. Otis,
all Wright for we have a Barr, two Cards
and gate. but 1t is only an Applegate.
and Shield. We have Waters, even a
Flood. but has done no damage as yet.
We nave n beake ana TWO w ellS, water
is very poor. but we have two Church
wells We have no Christian, but have
Christianson. We are not rich, but
we have Silver and Gould. and one
Jewell. of unknown value, and two
Stones. In the rough one Nickle and
two Pennys. and a Priest. but no church.
We have enough to eat. such as It is,
with two Cooks. one Baker. three Bunns,
but only one Dunn. and two Crumbs.
two Pickerals and one Roach, and a
small Fry and two Irish Murphys. two
Peppers, one Bradberry. new variety.
We have no weekly papers. but have
two Story and three Dailys. land we
must remember the Maine). We are
lucky to have only one Grayback, three
Of our members are Brown. two are White
and one is Green. We had two Burns.
but were easy to put out. One says he
Is Young. but looks a little old. We have
two SHOWS, for Easter. and have two
Balls. but only one Piper, only one
Wendt. but two are Comming. We have
two Miliers. two Taylors. one Carter and
one Skinner with nothing to skin, and
one Trotter. but not very fast.
ANSON NJ. OTIS.