Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-08-27
HEALTH I'll TO
BE SHOWN HERE
sThe Public Health Nurse Will Be
Shown at the Strand Theatre
Friday Evening.

FrNay evening".
The Public Health Nurse" is an ed
ucational motion picture which has re-
Gently been produced by the Minnesota
Public Health Association in CORPORA
ton with the American Red Cross, and
will be shown at the Strand theatre,
Friday, August Doth A plea for the
medical inspection Of rural schools and
an effort to do away with the prejudice
and lack Of cooperation on the part
of parents, which still remains, are the
purposes Of the play.
No professional actors take part
Even the leading roles are played by
those experiencing most Of the play in
their every day lives. Mary Margaret
Muckley, r. N, while Field Secretary
Of the Minnesota Public Health Asso-
citation, now State Supervisor Of Public
Health Nurses for the American Red
Gross, directed the production and
played the leading role, that Of the
school nurse. The juvenile roles are
carried by two grade school children,
OO11uA10 Dali, IAC SOA VI Oil ODoLAAeAIN
father, and Ann Hughes, whose parents
encourage Public Health work.
The scenes are laid in rural dis
trict of Minnesota, and show the ac-
tual conditions, both sanitary and un-
sanitary, which surround the rural
school child in Minnesota.
Johnnie Bart doing his morning
chores preliminary to walking 2 miles
to school opens the play. With his cold
lunch he hurries off to school, but with.
the Huckleberry Finn attitude, he gazes
with longing eyes out on the lake. The
teacher interrupts the usual routine by
explaining how on the next day the
!. Public Health nurse will visit the
fschool. The nurses visit was won as
prize for the districts selling Red
Gross Christmas seals the year before.
The parents are invited to visit the
school to meet the nurse.
The good news, however, meets with
opposite receptions in two homes. Ann
Hughes mother is much interested, and
looks forward to meeting the nurse.
But Johnnie Pei hurries home from
school, runs UP to his busy daddy urg-
ING him to- see the nurse ga mil (,
Farmer Bart snakes his fist at his eager
little son and with blazing eyes, TITS
all rot ! Don't you suppose | know
when my kids is sick?" and he dismisses
the subject for the time forbidding him
to be examined by the nurse.
On the next day while the children
are sitting on the school house steps
and swallowing their cold lunches in
chunks the County Superintendent and
the Public Health nurse arrive. The
nurse stops and speaks to the children
AS she does a picture flashes thru her
mind,-a vision OF the noon day lunch
in the school as it ought to be, each
child eating dish Of warm food at his
own desk. y
With the afternoon session the phys
ical examination of the pupils begin.
The County Superintendent introduces
the nurse. The nurse examines the
eyes, ears, nose, throat, and notes the
general appearance Of each pupil. When
it is Johnnie's turn he shakes his head
and can only say "My dad won't let
me-" But just at this moment he sees
his father enter and calls out, chats
him now
Thus it comes to pass that Farmer
Bart gives his consent to having John
ME examined While the eventful hours
Of the nurses visit were passing by,
3 Farmer Bart consulted his wife, ex-
pressing his views that s'Kids is>gettin'
to be more trouble to raise than fancy
bred stock The mother did not argue
that point, but she advised her husband
to give Johnnie a chance.
After shaking hands with the nurse
and watching her examine Johnnie
Farmer Bart leans" little to "thenl
><new tangled notions
q A physical record card is filled out
for each child and Health Sugges
( lions card sent to the parents of the
children showing physical defects. The
nurse then makes the round of follow
up calls visiting the parents to whom
she sent the Health Suggestions. Sht
visited the Hughes home, and found
Mrs. Hughes much concerned over AIMS
defective hearing.
When the nurse visited the Bar
home she was warmly received. Far
mer Bart, after witnessing the exam
nations at the school and seeing fol
himself that the defects were actual
was completely converted, and wa
willing not only to take Johnnie to tn
dentiest, but decided that dental atten
ton might spare himself additiona
misery from a long aching tooth.
MRS OLOF HALVORSON,
nm HanIpIy .sIc HAIIED