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THE HOME CIRCLE
A BALLADE OF HOT WEATHER.
FOUNTAINS that frisk and sprin
kle
The moss they overspill;
Pools that the breezes crinkle;
The wheel beside the mill,
With its wet, weedy frill;
Wind-shadows in the wheat;
A water-cart in the street;
The fringe of foam that girds
An islet’s ferneries;
A green sky’s minor thirds—
To live, I think of these!
Of ice and glass the tinkle,
Pellucid, silver-shrill;
Peaches without a wrinkle;
Cherries and snow at will,
From china bowls that fill
The senses with a sweet
Incuriousness of heat;
A melon’s dripping sherds;
Cream-clotted strawberries;
Dusk dairies set with curds—
To live, I think of these!
Vale-lilly and periwinkle;
Wet stone-crop on the sill;
The look of leaves a-twinkle
With windlets clear and still;
The feel of a forest rill
That wimples fresh and fleet
About one s naked feet;
The muzzles of drinking herds;
Lush flags and bulrushes;
The chirp of rain-bound birds
To live, I think of these!
Envoy.
Dark aisles, new packs T)f cards,
Mermaidens’ tails, cool swards.
Dawn dews and starlit seas.
White marbles, whiter words—
To live, I think of these!
— W. K. Henley.
SCHOOL EPIDEMICS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
It is Not Necessary for the Child to Have Measles. Whooping
Cough or Scarlet Fever—Proper Sanitation, Disinfectants and
Individual Drinking Cups Will Prevent Epidemics.
By Mrs. F. L. Stevens.
ANY PLACE where numbers of
people are accustomed to as
semble favors the spread of
disease, whether it be the meeting
house, the town hall, or the school.
For this reason
"children’s dis
eases” are more
prevalent during
the school session
than during vaca
tion periods. Rare
ly a school ses
sion closes in city,
village or country
without the ap
MKs. htkvknb. pearance of one
or more of the so-called “children’s
diseases” in the form of a school epi
demic, varying in violence in pro
portion to the vigilance and intelli
gence of the mother and teacher.
Knowledge of disinfection and abso
lute cleanliness are the important re
quisites in the control of disease.
The first step in the war against
school epidemics is the knowledge
and belief on the part of both par
ents and teachers that children’s dis
eases are not necessary. The old
superstition should be discounten
anced that every child must, run the
scale of children’s diseases, that
every child must sooner or later have
whooping cough, measles, ehickenpox,
mumps, scarlet fever. People used
to think that yellow fever, cholera,
smallpox, were alike inevitable. Now
we know better. The price of ignor
ance of the truth that these other
diseases now thought to be neces
sary attendants upon childhood has
been great, has brought about a loss
of school advantages, and huB result
ed ofttimes in permanent physical de
fects, loss of vitality and for the
great army of children under school
age death before reaching five years
of age.
How to Guard Against These Dis
eases.
The method of protecting children
from children’s diseases has the merit
of being a common-sense and rational
procedure. First of all, the charac
ter and severity of the attack can
not be foreknown. Slight and ap
parently insignificant cases of scar
let fever may be followed by a most
malignant form. The mildest cases
of measles may develop severe and
even fatal pneumonia. As a rule it
is the desire of the careful mother
to keep her children as far as pos
sible from infection, or more correct
ly, to keep Infection as far as possi
ble from them; but occasionally one
hears, “Oh the measles that 1
‘going’ is of such a mild type that
it is just as well the children should
take it now and have it over.” a
case of this kind of reasoning came
under my observation not long ago
A fond father of a beautiful litth
girl, laboring under the delusion that
all children must one time or another
have childrens’ diseases, permitted
his daughter to be exposed to meas
les, and the child died.
Dr. Jenner tells us that the same
thing was common in his day; when
Parents intentionally exposed their
children to smallpox under the Idea
that they would have it some time,
and that it was just as convenient to
have it then as later. In this mat
ter of children’s diseases It Is a food
practice which aims at putting off
the evil day as far as possible.
Fatality of These Diseases.
In all contagious diseases the dan
ger to life varies with the age of the
child. The younger the child the
more likely to succumb to attack.
For example, of the 4,855 children
in the United States who died from
whooping cough last year, 4,679 were
under five years of age. The figures
about whooping cough tell us that 4 0
per cent of the deaths from whoop
ing cough are among children under
one year of age, 30 per cent is the
death rate during the recent year.
15 per cent the third year, 6 per rent
the fourth year and only 9 per cent
in all the subsequent years of life.
I he same facts hold true with re
gard to measles. After the fifth year
the proportion of deaths Is enormous
ly diminished. Every year of escape
renders the child less susceptible to
contagious diseases. To he sure, even
grown up people take scarlet fever,
measles and other contagious dis
eases, but the susceptible period of
childhood being passed, the danger
is greatly lessened.
How Diseases Are Spread.
lo come to the practical point us
lo how may the child he shielded
from school and home contagion, it
is evident that the teacher as well aB
the mother should he aide to recog
nize symptoms. Whenever a child
shows signs of fever he should he
separated from the other children
until such time as it can be deter
mined that the disease is not conta
gious.
Practically the whole list of dis
eases of childhood are transmitted
through the breath, discharge from
the nose and mouth or ears, and in
case of the eruptive skin diseases, as
chickenpox, scarlet fever, and scar
latina, from the particles of dead skin
cast off during the healing process.
Hoils and other contagious sores also
spread by means of dead tissue given
off during healing.
The child's mouth is the most im
portant organ for tho distribution as
well as reception of disease germs.
The mouth is never out of service. A
disease-laden mouth infects and re
infects itself and the body of its
owner. Food and water, carry the
disease germs into the stomach and
thence throughout the system. Not
only does the child re-infect himself
but scatters the germs In the air
whenever he sneezes or coughs.
A rlose watch should be kept upon
the child showing symptoms of
"cold." Many of the "catching" dis
eases start with cold In the head, as.
for instnnre, influenza, whooping
cough and measles. The first symp
tom of mumps is a sore throat or
swollen glands, which because they
commonly accompany a cold are no?
at first distinguished from it.
Abolish the Common Prinking Cup.
As was said in the outset, knowl
edge of disinfection and simple .effec
tive disinfectants, such as listerlne
as a throat wash, and creoltn for
bathing sores, cuts and other skin In
juries, together with absolute clean
liness will do much to reduce school
epidemics.
There Is. however, another source
of danger present in a large number
of our country school houses, and
that Is the water bucket and tin dip
per Since the* mouth is in almost
every instance the seat of contagion,
it is readily apparent what a perfect
disease disseminator a tin dipper may
become. One child suffering an in
cipient attack of dipbflierin, whoop
ing rough or measles, could easily
and effectively Infect an entire school
\ prominent rural school teacher
of a Southern State demonstrated not
long since that by banishing the tin
dipper and by the use of individual
paper drinking cups, that during an
entire si bool session not a single
epidemic of contagious disease made
its apnearanee In the school, a school
that had repeatedly suffered during
previous sessions The common
drinking cup must disappear from
our school rooms before we shall
have made any very great progress in
the war against "children's diseases "
"IHfTeient, |tut Not lletter."
A woman said, "1 really believe
you enjoy your house work." "I do."
I answered. Another said to me: "I
keep my house because | must, but 1
rebel against it nil tin* time because
I know 1 was made for better
things." "Different tilings, O sister."
I might have said, "lint better,
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never.” If it be true that the home
lies at the foundation of all Hfet
how ran there he a better calling
than that of home-making, or a
more difficult, let me add? For that
reason we women need the help of
experts in home-making and home
preserving, just as the men need their
experts' help In their grain and stock
raising.—Mrs. M. M. Dangs, in Illin
ois Farmers' Institute Bulletin.
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