| Show THE COMMON DRINKING ItKIN KING CUP the use of a common drinking cup for IschA school DOI children has long been suspected as a means of communicating contagious diseases such as diphtheria scarlet fever whooping cough the mumps measles chicken pox por and various allmen ailments ts of the eye to remedy thle this a drinking fountain has been invented by a citizen n of rochester N Y which if brought into common us use would do away with the use of drinking cups in public places it consists according to an item in the scientific american of a marble pedestal about 3 feet high capped with a tunnel funnel shaped bin basin 12 inches in diameter upon applying pressure to a lever at the base of the basin a jet of water up tip from the center of the basin all and d into the mouth when held over it with a little practice ones thirst may be abundantly satisfied without the intervention tion of a drinking vessel of any kind the let jet is arranged so as not to spatter this device admits of no contact of the lips with the let jet pipe or any other portion of the apparatus the weter water flowing from the supply pipe through the jet directly tato into the mouth and all waste into the bowl where it immediately flows ott off by an escape pipe none is allowed to accumulate if it is to be used by small children wooden steps at one side enable even the smallest child to obtain an am adequate supply of water to slack his thirst no doubt tints this device if adopted in the schools would bethe be the means of preventing the spread of much disease but in the meantime it would seem practical for each child to carry with it a little drinking cup of its own and use only that during school hours A suggestion to that effect by superintendents of schools would be carried out immediately dia tely |
