Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
USEFUL FOR ALL, BUT GIRLS
ESPECIALLY
Shooting Bears In the Kitchen

ApMOOAAlS DEuAb III lHB hAbCHCH
Women all over the country prob
ably applauded the recent statement
of the First Lady of the Land wheI
she told the annual convention of the
Girl Scouts of America that it takes
as much courage to wash dishes
|, three times a day as to shoot bear
Girl Scout work teaches young
girls the importance of housework,
she added
There is a thrill even about the
prospect of meeting a bear that is
absent from most hOusewOrk. If tho
blOodkruns fast among the perils OF
the Kitchen, it may be over the
dropping of grandmother's china cup
the burning of the roast, or the dis
covery of q mouse. The ordinary
routine of three meals a day, clean
clothing, clean house, is quite
enough. Many women consider
housework mere drudgery, and what
man who has ever tried it will blame
them?
But in the simple task of dish
| washing women may hold one of the
keys to the family's health, physi-
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formed so thoroughly that micro
organisms are removed from forks,
spoons, cups, glasses, and other ar
ticles that are conveyed directly to
the mouth, there can be no. passing
of communicable disease germs
around the table by this method.
These are the frontiers of modern
! life, these are the bears" that stalk
the family forest. A woman who
sees clearly their place in the devel-
opment Of safe environment flies
the gallant flag of courage over the
humdrum wash tub and bath tub and
kitchen sink.
Schools I'm Diet Campaign
School children of the present and
future throughout the country will
be Reality and wise, even if they
fail to attain the wealth provided in
the old adage, if school executives
throughout the country succeed in
keeping their program of education
of careful diet in permanent run
ming order.
Within the past few years school
authorities, particularly in the
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ments, have been making a deter
mined drive to develop sane health
and dietary habits among the chill
dren. Practically unanimous has
been the ban against serving tea
and coffee in school lunch rooms.
For as Doctor Charles B. Lewis, di-
rector of the department of health
and physical education in the Proyi-
dence spublie cchools puts it:
what children need nowadays is not
a stimuIant, but stimulus. Exer-
else and sleep, proper nourishment
and a balanced diet, only these can
provide the stimulus. The stimulant
acts like a whip. II drives"
In Cleveland and Milwaukee, in
the Middle and Far West and down
South, the movement for sane diet
both in education and the actual
serving of foods and drinks in
school lunch rooms has become |
more and more sweeping and COM
plete. Educational authorities in |
the public schools of New York have
been particularly drastic. SupePin- |
tendent of Schools William ]. O'Shea |
has ordered coffee, tea and pie from
the lunch rooms of New York public |
the former on the ground |
that young students should not have |
and pastry because he. |
said it required too much energy to
digest. The succulent "hot dos"
has been also banned because it was |
declared too highly seasoned" for |
The young appetite, and pop and 9TH
Ell similar drinks have been declared
ineligible as having no place in q
proper school diet.
Candies and certain sweets have |
been retained in the luncheon list OF
he New York schools, particularly /
and some kinds of cakes.
Custards and the favored gelatin
.ype of puddings are in favor both
rom the standpoint of digestibility
md balance for dishes made with or
without cream.
All sweets. however, are sold at
he end of the cafeteria line and
:annOt be purchased unless the stu
lent has selected at least one nour-
shing dish from among the other
0ods. Eatables may be brought
rom home to the school lunchroom
,ut in a general way must pass mus
er as a suitable type of nourishing
Ood.
Seli-Help Il
The government is on the look
,ut for ways to simplify problems
or mothers. "Self-help" garments
ave been recently inspected and
onsidered by the Bureau of Home
with an eye to making it
,ossible for the little folks to dress
themselves.
Self-help clothes for youngsters
lean self-help inevitably for moth
rs. Little undergarments made for
xample of durene cotton which
old their shape, and keep their soft
uster after many washings will help
usy mothers just as two buttons in
tead of four help baby fingers try
ng to master the intricacies OF fash
Oh.
But the mutual help program
forks both ways. For example many
mother wants her children to learn
D ,amuse themselves because this
ives her more time for other duties.
.ctually it does much more than
MS. The child who has learned to
make things" with its own hands;
} use it's imagination in inventive
Law. has a much better start toward
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