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Show vc 1 X THIMIHK - r i I t Franklin has been receiving much at- water an inch or two deep, with nail tention rrivntly, nnl he certainly does scattered over the bottom, so that the not suffer at the hands of Mr. jar may not on them and have water under them. Cover the boiler and heat the water to the boiling point, and keep the Jat in the steam for at least BACTERIOLOGY m. an hour, then screw on the cover ami Written for Thk Hkk the fruit will keep. To place the fruit by tr. t A. Whiting. I f fr I r Conducted by J. K. Mi KNltJHT, Principal Normal Trahan School, In The - niv Our bird of ong are ilent now, There are no (lowers blooming; 1 Jut life bents In the frozen though. And Freedom' spring Is coming. (Jerald Massey. 1 r How Iloilo Is Irlps from the tongue! ee-lo-ee-- lo. vV t! rnHthly It $ La grippe means the grip," but dont say, He has the la grip. It Is barba rous. too much. In fact It Is the very kind of weather we need just now. Nature Is doing her best for us. Dont complain of the weather The Illinois State Teachers associaAltion has elected bert G. Lane of Chicago president. Thus the association honors itself In its commendable effort to honor a grand school man. ' t : De is neither Cyrano is dee nor du nor day: the e has the same sound as e in the" when, in rapid conversation, you say the man. Now say Bergerac is see-rah-n- o. bair-zhe-ra- k. h Cyrano de Bergerac without the drawl, and you have it in good French. Eng-glis- ;vif S The many friends and' admirers of nee Bcrnita Sabin, Mrs. Somers-Cockwho sang in the Congregational church two or three years ago, will be pleased to hear that growing honors have followed her since she went from here. She has lately finished a course of vocal instruction in London; England, and upon her return sang in Denver and before other Colorado audiences, eliciting the most flattering praise. s, $ $ 1- mw-a-da- No doubt he got them In hi O r the wry thing that y natuie tudy advocated I d t detined for the boy and girl who are fortunate though to haw the right .rt of teacher. Carlyle wasnt asking fir more botany, zoology, astronomy and such thing. Ktiine tif Walter Bond, a promising pupil under Professor McClellan, son of W. H. Bond, known in connection with the Marsac mill of Park City, will leave this summer, for Berlin, Germany, college course. Hut he wa asking for a closer ami more sympathetic acquaintance with the common, the living, the beautiful thing by which he wa d illy surrounded. Nature study is no fad, and It i not, for chiidnn of the gride, a book study. It I distilled to revolutionize the common school curricula. Iet us have limit purpis ur teaching. Purpose! purpose! purpise! khir work I In. vain without It. And hack of the purpose, Inteilgeiue. Inin telligence! Intelligence! High purp.s? will not avail without It. Intelligence and purpose! And above these two. conscience. Ah. let u have more consciences Jn our teaching. It Is another word rfy justice. It Is another word for love. It Is another word for righteousness. 1 1 is another word for God. Conscience! more conscience! all : conscience! Conscience touching high purpose and transfusing It into an allcontrolling motion. Conscience touching intelligence and burning away all the rubbish that would, In the name of knowledge, cover up and smother out saving ' truth. Intelligence! purpose! and conscience transfiguring these! Can we not have more teaching thus spiritualized? Who is ready? Who is able? Who is willing? Who is willing to try to get ready to save the race from the consequences of purposa-Ies- s, ignorant, conscienceless teaching? For there is much of it that can be characterized in no other way. The world is very much in need of a higher type of teacher. It always has been. Perhaps it will be for a long time to come. - But the conscious demand is even now much greater than the supply. Our profession is not yet overcrowded with those the world most musical needs. t $ studies. Walters prospects open out delightfully, yet if he makes good use On Monday evening, Jan. 23, Prof. of the advantages offered it means that W. G. Roylance will deliver the next he enters abroad upon a season of long, in the series of university free public close, exacting labor. Simply going to lectures. His subject is America and Prof. Itoylance is one of Germany will bring about nothing. Suc- England. cess there, as here, is the product of ef- the few teachers who can see through fort. the muddle of history the truth at its S ? bottom. His lecture will not be a For many years it has been one of rehash of wrhat you can find in the textmy constant regrets that no schoo- books on the subject. It will be such lmaster of mine had a knowledge of an interpretation of significant historinatural history, so far, at least, as to cal facts as you have not listened to have taught me the grasses that grow for a long time. The laboratory should by the wayside, and the little winged be packed with an appreciative audiand wingless neighbors that constant- ence next Monday evening. Mr. Charles K. Edmunds, of the ly meet me with a salutation which I are. cannot answer as things Why faculty of the university of Utah, has didnt somebody teach me the constel- a fine article in the January Self Culations, too, and make me at home in lture on The Character of Benjamin It was written while he the starry heavens which are always Franklin. work at Johns overhead, and which I dont half know was doing many-side- d The to this day? Thomas arlyle. Hopkins university. where he will continue his -- -- post-gradua- te In I wo previous article I have at-t- m to point out om of the dancer u hirh confront u from our mi. In this I shall croscopical try to describe a few more, and also to suggest such remedies a I can. For convenience I shall arrange the several thing under separate headings. MEAT. Meat I alway more or les Infected by bacteria. Even the deeper tissues contain them abundantly. They are wholly responsible for its Most of them do little or no harm beyond making It Impossible to preserve the meat for any considerable length of time, unles It Is kept cool, but the action of a few forms is decidedly dangerous. The harmful speck produce, as the result of living, a class of compounds known as Most, or at least many, of the ptomaines are violent poisons, and they are the cause of the severe, and frequently the fatal cases of poisoning which follow the us of canned meat, or sometimes fresh meat which has stood too long before being cooked. For some reason which I do not know, fish and poultry an more likely to develop dangerous ptomaines than other kinds of meat. Meats are frequently rendered unwhnlfiwme'aml more or less irritating to the digestive organs, even when the ptomaines are not actually poisonous. It Is a safe rule never to allow meat to reriiain uncooked for a period of hours in a warm place. If the cooking cannot be completed, the meat should be thoroughly heated and then set away in as cool a place as possible. If this is done every day the meat will keep for a long time, though the treatment may not Improve its flavor. Other things being equal, the meat from young animals will not keep so long as the flesh of older animals. Canned meats with the slightest disagreeable odor or which look either slimy or powdered, should always be suspected. Unfortunately meat which is wholly unfit for use may give no sign of its dangerous condition. pul rm-mlt-- pto-maim- jar and cover them with cold cov- ers, or cover which have been heated for only a short time. Is to invite failure. It I more ditllcuit to successfully can corn than almost anything else. This Is due to the fact that not only are there bacteria on corn, but there are also the sports or reproductive cell of a specie which is especially Injurious to ptets-rvecorn. These spores are much more ditllcuit to kill than the fully developed form. To successfully destroy them the corn, carefully cov-er-- l, should be steamed for an hour; then set away for a day and steamed ngain. and one day later subjected to the same treatment. In this way the d bacteria will be destroyed as fast ns they geeminatei, and under favorable circumstances all of the spores will have germinated within three days. s. CURTAINS AND CARPETS. I fear that an attack upon curtains and carpets will bring the wrath of my lady readers upon me, but the fact remains that both of these are highly unsanitary. Careful experiments show that every particle of dust on either one is covered with bacteria, and the air of a carpeted room is simply charged with bacteria for a long time after the floor s 's w ep t "orTHe curTains shaken. AXl have said of bacteria several times before. most of these are harmless, but very dangerous forms may be present. As long as consumptives are permitted to be as regardless of the public health as they now are, so long will the germs of that dread disease be brought into our houses. Until very recently consumptives have, expectorated without protest on the sidewalks and on the floors of. public1 buildings. In many cases the sputum is quickly gathered up by some ladys dress and ultimately deposited on some damp place on the carpet, where the bacteria will Increase in numbers with almost inconceivable speed, and become a serious menace to the health of the family. I am not at all prepared to suggest the next step beyond the carpet, but the rug has many of the good features of the car- CANNING FRUIT. pet, and is far less dangerous, as it isV one' When talks of having good easily taken up and cleaned and ex in luck the accomplishment of any posed to the light of the sun. Curtains line of work, it is an indication that he should very often receive this treathas been working without a clear per- ment if they are used. ception of the philosophy of his task. CONSUMPTION. No household duties are more frequentIn a previous article I made the stately consigned to the realm of luck than bread making and fruit canning. ment on what 1 suppose to be good auSuccess in either of these lines depends thority that more people died from conupon a clear conception of the nature sumption than from all other diseases of the material used, and its relation to combined, and I tried to show how, by the microscopical forms of life which proper attention to milk, the death rate are sure to come in contact with it. might be greatly reduced. UnfortuIf canned fruit is to keep all species nately milk is not the only means by of bacteria must he rigidly excluded which it is communicated. Sputum from the can. To do this the jars and from consumptives, whether carried their covers must be kept in boiling into the house or left to dry on the water for at least an hour; without al- street, is a menace, and every city lowing the jars to cool, the hot fruit should pass and thoroughly enforce an should he placed in them and the hot ordinance against any kind of expectocovers loosely placed over them; then ration on the sidewalks or on the floors place the jars in a boiler containing of public buildings. Even the breath 1 . r |