The Washington times., 1923-11-05
Do You Teach Your Children
To Avoid DiSeaSe?.
If Not, You Neglect a Simple, Easy Duty

If Not You Neglect Simple Easy Duty.
What child learns before the age of IT NEVER
FoRGETs
belief nsted into the child before the age Of
usually remains that human beings belief THROUGHOUT
LIFE.
When you go into Mohammedan school, Algiers for In
stance, you the poor little children bending books
learning by heart the teachings Mahomets Koran and
learning much else
teacher sits on high platform. With a long bamboo
stick he reaches hits the head any child that
not be studying his routine lesson very appropriate
T o snas Td q a he ,ond .v
religion in the public schools and he has iand much
But this he say truthfuy: by the time have hit
those little boys the head regularly every day until they
e sur. sH text y tV nGr1H rs S hs can Be
AND ALWAYS BELIEVE IT."
Don't use stick on your chldren's heads.
or any other stupid text or ANY kind Of education
Remember rather what Plato says:
"a free ought to be slave in the aequisition of
knowledge of any kind Bodily exercise when compulsory
o1D UNDER oSns NO hold o1 the he
mind"
Beating has effect THE MEMORY but not on the
mind That is why the you hammer from the
Koran into the memory of child the stupid human
BENG you have when he grows up.
Interesting the child ~-@ =
It our American custom to leave much the teaching
OF children to professional schOolteachers
But the intelligent fathers feel their responsibility as
eeachersfor no one teach boy girl like his or her
own father mother And this is especially true in MAT
TIERS OF HEALTH.
We hear great deal-and too much-about the duty of
enghtenng children in regard to matters that have been
usually kept from the but We do enough about the
duty of making children understand the ordinary truths
With great peaure we repn a0d y. ne 1on 70 read
this quotation from exceenty managed health bulletin
No boy girl likes to be sick Neither do
avoid nothing in way
Among those diseases that boys and girls
and measles All of these CONTAGIOUS catching"
BY matter that from the Or mouth
then follow simple directions they II
large would be able avoid dpheri scarlet fever and
Keep from children who suffering from colds
eft dS ssd no so Ds say w they a% I ~
gum candy fruit, or foo food of an. any kind
not visit h a ne Es es' We shsS be
any warning sign
knowingly. Take no chances.
This Is very simple advce-it may your child from
Illness from death you from anxiety expense and
dphthra is real the ratesnak that they in the
Above all, TEACH THEM TO USE THEIR MTELLI-
GENcE Convey knowledge to them by the question and
Say: Johnny how do little boys cold7 And let
him learn to answer From other boy who is cough
Then ask him. johnnie, how you keep from catching
cold? And let him by keeping away from boys
and stockings as soon as get my feet wet by remembering
that eat too much at the picnic the party choke
my stomach and catch cold from stuffing."
Don't try to pour knowledge INTO little boy but try
to bring knowledge OUT of him For the love of knowledge
and the power learn there develop both
awakening the appetite Of the mind the Imagination and
curiosity not by trying to force dull cold facts into resist
ing brain.
Plato
Certain professors Of education must be wrong when they
that they put knowledge into the soul which
there before like sight into blind eyes. y
Whereas argument shows that the power and capacity
Of learning exist in the soul already"
No will be well and strong unless he is marvelousy
fortunate or has been taught a child.
Tell little boy that when he reads book with his
head bent downward his backbone squeezing top ribs
against his lungs and his lungs cannot deveop-and
not have chest like Dempsey.
Explain to him that his salvary glands wonderful
chemical factories producing the substances that digest
food Tell him that he swallows the food rapidly before
the savary glands do their work he cheats them