Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-10-29

eff orts- toward health. Our children
are becoming ambitious to be well,
and even to grow fat.
Even those children whose parents
have urged them to partake of whole
some food without effect, find that
the counsel of the nurse has met
with enthusiastic response.
Itis notable fact, hardly without
exception, that parents make very
poor teachers either in music or lit
erary pursuits, for their own chill
dren without the influence of some
outside stimulus. Perhaps this is best
so that the child will not receive all
its impressions from mother and
father, but will absorb new ideas
from other sources.
Miss Brumbaugh is giving some
good advice to the children as she
goes along, not for their health alone
but as to their need for strength that
it may lead to higher scholarship and
better scholarship to the occupancy
of their proper sphere in the commu-
nifty in which they live.
The teachers in the Edgefeld High
and Graded School have been cour-
teous and helpful to Miss Brum-
baugh, and tie fact that they know
from the charts left with the school,
the exact physical and mental condi-
tion of each child in their respective
grades should be of inestimable ad-
vantage to the child as well as to
themselves. Prof. Brooks has been
very loyal TO the interests of the chill
dren and their parents in urging
them to follow Miss Brumbaugh's in
struction. She has found the teeth
of the children of Edgefeld and the
arches of their mouths unusually fine
and who knows how much of this is
due to the sentiment made by our
good dentists, unselfishly made, for
the care of the teeth in our commu-
nifty? sThis, Miss Brumbaugh consid-
ers great asset and she has added
her weight of testimony to that of
the dentists by impressing them with
the Importance of taking care of
their teeth.
Every individual has his or her pc
culiar influence, and this is one of
Miss Brumbaugh's effects: One little
boy, under her admonition on the
care of the teeth, has, from very
reluctant fellow along that line,
come to be very enthusiastic, and
each morning after having gone
through the brushing process, goes to
his mother and grins and says, Chow
do they look now?" He has fallen un-
der the spell, Mothers should well
come every aid which gives sponta-
neous self-movement to their chill
dren and not be jealous of any other
persons influence. Let US welcome
every iristrumentality which will add
to the child's welfare.
The greatest powers and infuenc-
es of this world are the unseen, in
visible forces, only seen in results.
For instance, the splendid play in the
Opera House on Friday evening.
The public enjoyed it immensely,
but not many dreamed of the varied
and multiplied influences which had
to be exerted, the obstacles in
thought to be overcome and the pow
er of one mind over another to bring
lit into harmonious beauty. All visi-
BILE facts have their beginning in in
visible influences. In proportion as
these are wholesome and working for
community upiift, in that proportion
will existing ignorance or evil be. cor
rected, and events come to pass
which will give our splendid county
| a pure and more wholesome atmos-
phere. e.
Miss Brumbaugh will, as soon as
the schools are inspected, have her
office ready to make examination of
children under school age and will
interview mothers as to the care of