Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-04-17
LEST WE FORGET

in our schools, but there is no study
in the school curriculum that falls SO
short of the opportunities that it might
have. The child has little actual
knowledge of his body or its care. AL
most nothing is taught of the important
organs Of elimination and absolutely
nothing of the reproductive organs. If
the child is to get this information he
has to wait for a college course, which
is denied the majority. All this leads
to much ignorance, or worse, misinfor-
nation. As some one has said OF
health matters. 1T isn't that people
don't know. hut they know so much
that ISN'T So" When shall we learn
that scientific knowledge. carefully and
accurately impaired. will he our boys
and girls best safeguard! Physiology
should he the science of every day liv-
ing.
Uuevenly Matched.
Is one Of your eyes much weaker
than the other? The other day the
nurse found another of those children
seeing with only one eye and entirely
Unconscious that anything w.is wrong
He rubbed the Sinking eye in iaw;iatr
mcnt. but it just wouldn't read more
THAN the big +. Did you ever see two
horses mevenly matched? The good
horse Will finally give ont because OF
his extra load. So it is with eyes.
Corrective glasses will cqualiZc the
strain. 1t doesn't pay to run car
with one light nor to depend upon one
eve for your vision in old age. Better
correction now than an old age in
darkness.
Diphtheria Facts.
| Diphtheria is one disease for which
we have Il method of making sure
diagnosis, a sure way of determining
whether the child will take the disease
| CHE Schick test), sure preventive
and sure remedy. People who de-
| pend upon home remedies, drugless
Lcalcrs and doctors too careless in
diagnosis and treatment are RESPONSE
bic for this disease continuing to exist.
There is no reason why it can't be
stamped out completely.
Ivory Pickets.
That's what your teeth are on the
gate TO your stomach. In our home
inspection it is we'll to look to their
polish. If you look in your child's
mouth in good light you can see II
there are disc0loration or holes: il Il
picket is broken or out OF position,
irregular or prominent, or surrounded
Ivy inflalncd gums or pus. The serious
ress of bad teeth has long been over
say nothing Of parents. Our complac-
clt neglect of children'S teeth has been
responsible for an untold amount of
sickness, pain and Disagreement.
Eight of every ten school children have
defective teeth. Are you safe in as
srming that yours is one OF the two
who have sound teeth?
Every day we see grown ups with
teeth prOtruding and with undcvelopcd
Jaws. Hnt do we realize that cOndi-
ton was caused by adenOids? Or we
see some one with jaws unequal. DO
we know that was caused by pulling
that six year molar that should have
been saved: Mothers are always inter
csted in bahy's first tooth. hut they
seem to take little interest in that first
permanent tooth which is far more i'm
portant.
If IL mother would only realize that
lEy washing a small child'S teeth she
could keep them whole until the new
teeth were ready. how much she could
save the child. His little jaws would
develop straight and his teeth come
evenly. \ decaycd tooth next Il bad
lone or near Il new one will infect the
sound tooth. just as surely as a few
Iljiu iDplSN III IL ps'Sh'' wa >''S'7> 49,
GOOD ones TO rot. 'Onc-third OF our six
wear old tots have Assessed teeth.
Bad cases Of pyerrhoea. that really
dreadful disease of the gums. have
lbecn found among our grade children.
1t is caused by neglect of the teeth.
The nurse has seen this disease i'll its
worst f0rms-every tooth has lOssened
and dropped out. though they were not
decayed. Again she has seen cases that
lhave resulted in Il complete poisoning
of the system, so that the patient died
| from heart trouble or other organic
nilncnt II has even been known TO be
tie fore runner of cancer of the jaw.
| And TO think all this could he saved
jhy good hygiene Of the mouth ana
teeth. The dentist may not he your
best friend. but pay him Il regular
visit
The Baby Special.
Miss Eliza Morse, who did so much
| for public health work in Iowa, went
4, ,arn f,r hnr Innt har