Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-29

fants under six years of age from di-
gestive diseases alone. In 1919 dur
ing the four hot months, as a result
Of the campaign, only one child under
six years died of a digestive ailment.
Other communities have followed the
baby-welfare program with excellent
results, we are told but, at best, this
heavy death rate among our babies is
a disgrace to the American public.
BOYS and girls of school age, says
the writer are treated not much better
than the babies. Tens of thousands OF
children are suffering from serious
physical defects that might easily be
remedied if the particular states and
communities were as careful and hui
name as they should be III providing
medical inspection for all children. cS-
tabliShing community clinics, and III
stallng school and community nurses.
This is offered as Il simple and APP
proved program Long hours of
sleep with open windows daily use OF
the tooth brush one full bath week !;
plenty of outdoor play every day at
| least four glasses of water a day :;
plenty of fruit and vegetables IL the
diet bowel movement every day
If these rules are Obeyed, our Amer
| lean children would be healthy little
| animals whatever else they might be.
| If we really have the welfare Of >our
young at heart, here are few other
! things we should do:
I'VE ought to teach our children
. health in terms Of strength and beau
ty. and JOY rather than Of weakness
and disease We should tell boy that
| if he keeps clean and sleeps long hours
and takes plenty of outdoor exercise he
will feel well. and will grow up to he
Il good athlete like Theodore ROOse-
Welt. The girls should be told that by
keeping clean and well they will have
a sense of bodily comfort, and Will
grow up fresh, pretty and attractive
like fine girls in the advertisements OF
the high grade magaZineS-Or at least
as near like them as an actual human
being could ever become. In teaching
very young children the necessary
rules of health. it is enough to tel
them what to do, rather than why II
should be done The all-impOrtant
thing at this age is to install right ply
steal habits. Children of grammar
school age should be given the why, sc
that they will have their reason salts
fed and so cooperate more cheertullA
and wisely in the health program alc
out for them At the highSchOOl age
scientific knowledge concerning healtf
and personal welfare should be impart
ed to the child, and he should be active
ly interested in community health pro
grams BY that time he will have
reached a point where he is not only
able to care for himself intelligently
but also to be willing to help promote
and conserve civic conditions thai
make for good health and clean, saf[
community life"
Another Way of Putting Things Across
After personal hygiene lecture
given by the county nurse III one O.
our rural schools, trying to instill int
the minds of the children the value
of cooperation. how each child wa'
NNAAO~N
she asked the following: Now boys
and girls what shall we dO with thu
boy who doesn't keep clean or sleel
with his windows open? Are you go
ing to let him keep your school RECORD
5 DOWN." 1t was answered by flttl
grader. Don't you worry Mrs
Nurse. us fellers will take him on
behind the barn"
! Pa warmed the milk for the little calf
. Ma heated the food for the chicks;
They ate a hot dinner at noontime
too
But my lunch was cold as bricks.
We have a hot lunch at our school now
With cocoa or soup as hot as TIT
dickens:
> We fill up our cups as we pass along.
They've decided now were as good a
the chickens.