Arizona republican., 1920-11-18
VISITORS AT THE STATE FAIR EXHIBIT
Sketches By L. M. EriOn. R. N.

go if she could learn me something about babies. Seems like the schools don't teach nothin' like that, nohow- anyways. ours didn't. an I never got to go much nowsys." She looked backward and sized up her meager icanism came to the fore. But I got a awful good man, an I hope we can raise our children to know mora than what we know; an he hopes so, too. I sure am obliged to you for givin' me this nice talk, an he'll find a couple of dollars for us to join the Red Cross. We ain't got much, but we sure do be- lieve in what you call health teachin' wish we'd had 1t when I was a chap" She felt much more hopefulthan the nurse did, because that baby was very skinny and blue around the mouth and
 the mother was very plainly under
 nourished. One helpful interview
 seemed so very inadequate to meet the
 situation that the nurses eyes were
 wet.
 The Country Teacher
 "oh, wait a minute. No. just go on. because I want to stay right here a
 while" and the little country teacher
 beamed on the Red Cross nurse in
 charge of the exhibit This is just
 what I wanted, but didn't expect to
 find it today. ~xVhere can I get some of those height and weight charts, and
 what can I have to carry off with me |?
 Let me get some things down in my notebook" She spent a good half hour noting addresses where she could ob-
 tain material and she made funny lit-
 tie sketches of. some of the posters
 Now, this is my idea of a state fair lexhibit that's worth while" she com lplimented our modest display of health material. You kaow, the parents think
 the teacher ought to know everything
 ard ten chances to one she doesn't, you
 know" Yes, know" said the nurse
 "but If you just keep in touch with
 your department of health in the bu-
 reau of education. and pass your prob lems on to your state university ana
 other agencies which are ready ant
 anxious to help you, you will be able
 to handle practically every situation
 without letting peopls krEow you dom
 know" and the nurse and the teacher established a perfect understandiny right then and there, and they chattet for several minutes like old friends This was delightful. but the nurse ha, to excuse herself in order to attend ti other visitors. The subjects of tn next sketch were gazing around then with eyes which seemed not to believ what they beheld.
 The Cotton picker's Wife and Daughters
 Tho mother appeared about thirty : five, but she said she was twenty si1 The little girls were eight and ten. Al three were pale and listless and yer shabbily dressed except that the littl girls had on very bright new ginghar ! dresses. A friend of the nurse wa {, standing by and she said, My daugh . ter is out gambling for a kewpie dol She wants to throw all her none
 away on those gambling devices. D
 yours want to do that?" she asked tn q -picker's wife. 'Tt wouldn't d d them no good to want to. cause the d ain't got none to throw away nor { . do nothin else with. They cain't hardl 2 git enough to eat, an they don't kno' f nothin' bout such as that They'I d good girls" she added. with uncor c scious irony. Thereupon the nurs n turned her attention to the little grou r from the cotton fields The motht T was much interested in the questio U of dental care. She had not one soun r tooth and had never had any denti
 work done, but she hoped to git the1
 oi' snags out and have some stol 4 teeth some day" The little girls we1 . weighed and measured and given son . booklets, and the mother grew COT q fidential. You young ladies in hel " sure have been sweet to me an n st children. Arizona has just the nice Iy most neighborly folks I ever saw an, Il? where's. Say, if one of my neighb s. ladies hadn't give my girls sor Id dresses I never could have brung e D. to the fair. Yes'm they go to soho es but the little one, she ain't able a go much. She's weakly. Her teach be says she has adenoids, whatever the ce is, don't know" She was given 1t booklet which told all about adenoi' VI There was no doubt about the lit tn one having them. And so they e I ioyed the fair. Passed in by a neig he bor and without a cent to spend, tn 1r, made heroic efforts to have a go ne time. The nurse was dewy- eyed aga y" because she knew of no dental eli ,ol and no free treatment for the ch he with adenoids. Being public hea q nurse in Arizona is fraught W