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Show Topics of tt THE NURSE IN PUBLiM Chicago Rccord.Herald. The public ia familiar w of medical achool inspections spcction has boen a leatSIr S "J100 hygiene since tlie as 13-12. when the Citv Couifll provided that all pnolic self Sv? illed' PWians, whl1 should be to inspect, not onl$ ssircSf 0 thc gcnerai h3 Tho nurse in tho public Bchft ever, a comparatively new wi s thero .13 some talk justllJ P'?.C ,1K nurses jn argo oft children of Chicago, an accl system is not without inff timeliness. -M The, object, of medical iSF, exclusion; that of tho intfljil the trained nurse into- th4 P prevention. And the BystS not disease alone, but truai " morahzation as well. 8! t Thc ochool nurse has her! f sing-room or " dispensary: V t reu who are not aick eno'ugl f home, but who require som "J tention, are sent to this drf-The drf-The nurse attends to theji return to the class-rjom?. . eyes are washed with borae i tions, skin diseases are trei ' insr io their condition, eU. aro properly dressed, andi t Tho children who aro He" 'J account of more serious d; P visitel after school hours, aj i, advises the mothers, furnieM dj of free clinics, offers a hi ( where necessary in the waji tne sick-room clean and vej !' watches the "case" throi t ious stages. When tho cj ciently restored ho unist'S i school. Jj 1, Finally, the trained nt i! routine inspections of the'f to detect early symptoms i They are, in snort, respond health and cleanliness of a f rcn in their charge. They aj direction of tho health boar 0 JF A NATIONAL CUJ 1: Boston Post. i 0 An imperial edict has b China forbidding tho use 6; J thc cultivation of tho poppy' auction of that drug, anlr the Council of State to d l: tions which shall free thel J this curse within ten yeari announcement of a nati 1 rather than a passing blai J? bition. . ? It was opinra that open! commerce and interconrM? world. More than 100 yea China was a closed land,ffi nicnt sought to check the 'aw opium vice among ( tho pap claring the trade illegal. Ifm might have been successi g the greed of -England. I produced opium in great q wanted tho Chinese markej tho ports whicli the Chin p mont closed against the'eri demoralizing drap. England 0 upon China. The 'English $ victorious; they broke into f looted the palaces, burned t' y acted a stupendous inde compelled a treaty recoj trade in opium. . i k INVENTIONS TO Indianapolis Star. xi ll At a meeting of telephoa , Eastern citv last week, M ventor of tlia "phantom i tern, whereby double convs be carried 011 over the sairi that telephoning is merely f fancy and proplicsied, ae? ment of the next decade, '1 of a transcontinental line; talking can bo carried on York to San Francisco. TJ ing startling in thiB. The ' public has such confidence ' and in the possibilities. oJ ) and within the last twenti has seen so many wonderi f perhaps now moro expect! I and greater marvels than ar. are better acquainted withji ? ties that stand- in the ing them. Yet tho propose ca6e is simple and reasonajfc ACCURACY AND HUiJ PittEburg Dispatch. A remarkable example A and preciseness of enneerj ments is afforded by the nj which were takon beiorel the junction of the tunneh Hudson river at New York struction by the-Pennsylva It is shown that these atruj ing from tho opposite shoflj ing in the middle ot the, been carried forward unat and river bed with such M they will meet and lit into witn a variation of a sixty inch. In other words, hunari of subterranean construct! mud and water have bee with practically no more v tho prescribed lines than 1 been laid out on an open PJj |