Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-01-30
PUBLIC WELFARE DEPT.
BIZ Miss Margaret Thomas
Health Nurse

Your body is your lifetime willing
servant Abuse tit will be. patient
but when it takes revenge it takes it a
thousand fold.
Give it square deal. and it will
give YOU a square deal and more-it
will give you back pure blood and
strong. skilled muscles and a clear
brain for your future happiness, your
country's service and the worlds
work. State Board of Health.
With the large amount of material
hat has come into my office this last
week it has given me quite full
louse. and Il good deal of it will soon
G wandering out to different parts of
he county through the schools, and |
ask all the children. when the pamph-
let's come to them. to take time to read
them. and other things are to be hung
on the wall of the school room, and from
these you will know that other parts
of the country are interested in your
well being. and with your cooperation
we will soon he letting the other parts
Of the country know where Rusk coun-
~ is on the Good Health map.
This last week | spent some very
pleasant days at Glen Flora and Bruce
and the South Side school of Lady
smith and the children and | had a fine
exchange of ideas.
| realize that people are prone to dis
believe the fact that children in rural
districts are more physically defective
and more of them suffering from NAL
nutrition than the children in the cit
les. but this does not mean that these
rural districts are not the best places
in the world to live.
But the work that we are doing for
our rural children now is the same that
has been done for city children for
long time and when our work becomes
as we'll organized as it is i'm the cities,
we can have. as results, the healthiest
children of the two. for we have the
natural conditions. which are prOduc
tive to better health than the crowded
conditions of the large cities, and the
children are the most responsive crea-
lures III the world. and the most inter
esting.
In asking that the children who
bring their dinners to school have one
hot thing as a supplement. Miss Sands,
the domestic science teacher of Lady
smith. Immediately made arrangements
for it at the highSchOOl and from all
appearances the children are enjoying
it. and | see that some of the rural
schools are also having it. and if there
are any others will You please let me
know for in my office I have a map and
on every school having hot lunches
put a tack with a shiny yellow head
and anyone coming in can quickly see
| how many schools in the county are
| doing it,
We find many children with large.
spongy tonsils and adenoids which
| make it impossible for them to get
| enough air into their lungs. and it
often makes it difficult for them to
| make their grade in school. also some
| children cannot do good work. because
| il is impossible for them to see we'll
If children are lmderweight or back
| ward in school, we inquire on these
| points:
1. Do you go TO bed early at night
so that the little 'corpies' who build us
! have plenty of time to do their work ?
And remember that the child grows
| more during the first six years of his
| life than at any other time. and like
| animals and plants. is. moulding the
foundation for its future manhood or
| wOmanhOod. and it is a very common
| mistake. as well as a great injustice to
| the children to send them TO school too