The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-12-04

home diet of the undernourished we
are hoping, with the aid of the Red
Cross to re-establish our ten o'clock
and two o'clock milk lunches in the
, West Bend Schools. -.
"My third point is
8. Posture. H.. :
did you ever pass a clothing store
mirror on your way down town and
glance in to catch a view of the good
looking citizen who is passing, only to
discover that your feet don't look just
right and your head sticks out at a
funny angle to the rest of your body?
Do you know just what is the matter
with you? You didn't, when you
were young, have school nurse to
tell you how to breathe and walk
and stand. Of course your mother
told you to throw your shoulders back
and pick up your feet but it didn't
make the impression on you that it
would if an honest to goodness nurse
whom your young mind accepted as
authority on all things pertaining to
health, had talked the matter over
with you. 1t is too late to try to make
you over now but it is just time to
begin on your boys and girls, and that
is what we are doing. If, ten years
ago there had been some sort of a
health instructor in every county in
this State,s perhaps when the men of
Wisconsin were examined for the
army we wouldn't have found three
thousand of them suffering from ltuber-
culosis. If there are that many boys
and men in the state with this dread
ed disease, then we can only con-
lecture on how many young women
are in like plight, for there has been
40 survey taken on the women of this
the teachers and the pupils and more
frequently therefore stop for a little
talk or visit than / do in the towns.
let me pause minute and ask you
taxpayers and teachers who have a
voice in the affairs of our county to
talk this Tri-county sanitorium every
where. Last weeks papers told of
the, suggestion that it be built and
very! few of you know how badly we
need it. Right now, I could tell you
of many cases were it not for violating
professional condolences of mothers
and children, of young men and young
women, who not only need but want
sanitorium care, but it is impossible
to give it to them with the present
inadequate accommodations. Give
these people, your neighbors and
friends, a chance Root for this sani-
forum, think it, talk it, and We'll have
it. We need it both for prevention
and correction. We must have it
eventually so why not now?
"My fourth point is:
4. Ventilation.
Here again the country schools rare
ly need thought on this subject. From
outside doors and regret to say fire.
quently from loose window frames,
they get all the fresh air they need.
Unluckily when it comes through
loosely fitted windows it comes in I'M
healthy drafts but the county nurse
seems to have but little influence over
poor carpentering. However, next
year there is no telling what she may
be able to do. In the city schools the
fan system is very satisfactory when
it works, which it very often doesn't
Then, when you attempt to better the
situation by opening window you are
| confronted by an irate janitor. who is
most irate. He takes the matter as
a personal injury. and insult for the
fam system is his particular pet and
pride, and when he is through with
yom. you feel that you would rather
face the Black Hole of Calcutta the
| next time, than his righteous wrath