uu CHILDREN IN THE HOME AND IN THE SCHOOL. Peed the child with plain, nutritious, well-cooked and easily digested food; allow the youngster to romp and play in sunshine and fresh air and sea to it that the child has an opportunity for restful sleep. Such is the prescription pre-scription which a medical journal gives for the health of boy or girl, and we commend the same The journal declares that, whether in country or in city, the home influence in-fluence on the child's health is most important. A constant and controllable controll-able factor is its food Herein lies the home responsibility of the mo ther. She must learn that the food of the growing child Is next only in importance to its feeding as an infant; in-fant; and that the greatest good comes lo it from plain, nutritious, well-cooked and easily digested food; that It needs certain foods for body structure nnd other foods to supply heat and energy. A child should frolic and romp and play because there i6 a natural relation between 3uch muscular activity and the proper performance of such material in car rying on their functions The mother must also realize that rest is as im pdrtant for the child as play, and that sufficient quiet, restful sleep does its equal part in ?forlng energy and bringing about perfect development Children need sunshine and fresh air, and at night should sleep in a well ventilated room with the windows well down from the top They should be bathed regularly and properly clothed. But no matter how well fed and clothed, how clean and well nour shed previous to jts admission to school, the parents' Interest must follow fol-low the child to the schoolroom and see that such environment does not undermine its health Herein lies the responsibility of the father, as a eiti ! zen and taxpayer It is his money that maintains the school and it is j his duty to see that his child is not forced into an overcrowded, poori'y j ventilated, overheated classroom com j pelled to breathe for live hours a day the expirations from forty or j fifty pairs of lungs, and Its condition so weakened as to render it vulner able to the attacks of infectious disease. dis-ease. Any one, on reflection, will be impressed with the futility of expecting ex-pecting a maximum propresslon, physical phys-ical and mental, where children are housed In overcrowded classrooms with little or no moisture in the air. compelled to breathe dry. itiated air and to attempt mental tasks with suffocated suf-focated brain cells deprived of ua Hire's generous supply of oxygen fr