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AN IDEAL HOME.
1. Must be tidy, cleanly, and sani
tary in all its apartments. John
Wesley wrote in quotation points;
“Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
2. Good cooking of wholesome food
makes physical strength, and temper
ate habits and sweet dispositions are
largely dependent upon man’s physi
cal strength.
3. Regular hours for eating, sleep
ing and working and the systematic
performance of each duty establishes
character.
4. Each member of the family must
be kept busy. Contentment can be
found only when the life is full of
purpose. Reasonable diversions must
be given in the home or they will be
sought outside.
5. The Curfew law must become
the family law if the sanctity of
home life is to be impressed upon the
youth of our nation. Temptation is
far removed from a boy or girl when
under the family roof.
6. Absolute truthfulness on the
part of parents and children must be
exacted, as truthfulness is the basic
element of character.
7. The Golden Rule is that of jus
tice and each member of the family
must be sure of justice at home. The
little child, the domestic or the head
of the house each has his rights, and
they must be respected.
8. High ideals of purity, honesty,
and culture must be held before the
family if the trend of life is to be
toward the noble, good and true. —
Tattnall Times.
UNHEALTHY CHILDREN. _
The report of a committee of prom
inent educators that in the United
States one-third of the public school
children, or about twelve million, are
behind in their grades because of
physical defects which could be rem
edied is only another proof that there
should be incorporated in the public
school laws of every stale some ar
rangement whereby the health of the
students could be cared for. Between
a healthy body and an educated mind
the choice of the wise is for the
healthy body. Without health knowl
edge is of very little value. Yet a
very small part of the money expend
ed for public school purposes goes
to teach the pupils how to care for
themselves. Practically none of it
goes for actual physical examination
and the correction of individual de
fects.
The plan of physical examination
has been tried and found to be good.
In each secondary school a medi
cal practitioner is in attendance as
many hours each day ss is necessary.
In girls’ schools this attendant is a
•woman. There is a consulting room
in each school building fully equip
ped. The child on his first admission
to the school is given a thorough
physical and medical examination. A
complete record of the various tests
is made, together with facts about
the parents’ health and previous dis
eases. Even the teeth are examined.
( 6uch an examination is repeated four
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
times a year in the lower grades and
twice a year in the upper grades. Any
defects are reported to the parents
for treatment by the family physi
cian. The medical inspector visits
each class room every day and watch
es the children.
On signs of sickness a child is sent
home, and if necessary made to stay
there till well. A special list of
pupils suffering from serious dis
orders, such as heart disease, is
made, and special watchfulness to
ward them is maintained. In the
girls’ school at Sophia it is said that
not a single case of infectious disease
among the day scholars in three
years has got past the consulting
room. All children with tuberculo
sis or even predisposed to it, are ex
cluded from the schools and sent
either to sanitariums or to the open
air life and tonic treatment of the
colonies scohaires, provided for their
benefit. The medical inspector, in ad
dition gives instruction in physiol
ogy, watches the gymnasium work
and gives special courses to teach
ers. Very poor children are provid
ed with free medical attendance and
proper food. The record of each
•child is kept in a separate book, and
at the end of its school work its com
plete history from this point of view
is on file.
The cost of such a system is very
small when compared with the num
ber of lives saved and the increased
efficiency of the students. —Fort
Worth Telegram.
MAN’S WANTS.
It has been said, “Man wants but
little here below, nor wants that lit
tle long,” also, “Net what we want,
but what we get, makes up the sum
of living.”
We beg to differ with the first sen
timent expressed. Man wants a
great deal, and he most always wants
what he hasn’t got.
Ask the average man what he most
wants, and he will reply “more mon
ey,” or the equivalent of money.
We hear a great deal in these days
of socialism about the unequal distri
bution of wealth. It’s true that some
men are born rich and some men are
bom lucky, but it’s also true that
some men are bora poor and die rich.
And the mere fact that the richest
men in the country today were poor
boys, puts to rout all this fanciful
and high flown talk about the une
qual distribution; for if one man can
start poor and get rich, let the other
poor fellow try it too, and if he don’t
succeed, why, he hasn’t anyone to
blame but his own lack of business
ability—which after all is not always
the poor man’s fault.
If you want a thing, get out and
hustle for it. This is a hustling age,
and the man who sits down and fuss
es because the other fellow gets all
the good things, is going to be right
there fussing when the end comes.
If you haven’t got a dollar, make
one; if you don’t know how, find out
how. All over the country there is
a steady cry going up for men, more
men. Be a man then, and not a
grumbler; fill the bill and get the
money, if it’s money you want; if
it’s fame, get fame. Whatever it is
you want, set out after 1 it, and set
out with the understanding that there
is no such thing as stopping. If you
don’t get what you are after, you will
get something; at any rate, you will
have time to grumble.—Elberton
Star.
ASPIRATIONS.
By Edwin Emerson, A. M.
Oh! for clear thought to aid all men,
In things which seem above their
ken,
And show the false and true,
In such a guise that they may know,
Fo£ evermore the way to go,
And the straight road pursue.
Oh! for that gift of genial speech,
By which at once all hearts we reach,
And make men yearn to rise,
Where they may see the noblest
things,
And feel the joy rare knowledge
brings;
And thus at length be wise.
Oh! for keen sight to see outspread,
Through all the earth on which we
tread,
Most precious gifts for man;
Which banish from his thoughts vain
fears,
And smooth his pathway through the
years,
However long the span.
Oh! for the poet’s art to sing—
To thought profound, warm feeling
bring,
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Expressed with rhythmic grace;
So that the song, a potent spell,
Deep in the hearts of men shall dwell,
And bless the human race.
Oh! for a pen with wliich to write,
The winged words just now in flight,
Lest they be caught no more;
And fix them to be read by all,
And have them henceforth at our call,
To be oft pondered o’er.
Oh! for a life of high emprize,
Direct, sincere, without disguise,
Os all men read and known;
Built firmly on the rock of truth,
Though waxing old, secure of youth;
Alise —itself alone.
Oh! for an optimistic mind:
The good in all things prone to find;
A stranger to despair;
It sees, the howling storm today
Shall by tomorrow speed away,
And leave the prospect fair!
Oh! for contentment’s placid state;
’Mid this world’s turmoil still sedate;
All duties promptly done;
In danger calm, devoid of fear,
Unblanched if death itself appear:—
The moral victory won!
Oh! for long life —when we are
dead —
In minds and hearts which we have
led
Along the upward way;
A pleasing vision this —to see
The coming race more wise, wore
free,
And nobler in its day!
—The Open Court.
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