Show AN ITEM OF SCHOOL HYGIENE 1 in a Connect connecticut icat town recently an epidemic of diphtheria broke out among the pupils of one of the grammar schools and the towns health physician on investigation discovered that it was ahe practice of the school to distribute every morning the pencils used by the pupils and to collect them ea each ch afternoon before the children went home nearly all school children put pencils in their mouths either to moisten the lead at one end or to suck or chew the other end in meditation and the germs orthis dangerous disease were thus freely distributed among the pupils the epidemic was the result this Is ii just a suggestion for you as a parent to look into your you rown own childrens welfare at school see that athey they have their own pencils aud and use them exclusively see that they sit with th their air backs to the light see that they use their own drinking caps cups towels hair brushes bru combs etc and see that the ventilation is properly arranged in the schoolroom your children spend some of 0 the best hours of their lives away from your care cabe in the carlof care lot teachers who are perhaps strangers to you and the health ol of your child Is often seriously jeopardized during these hours mutual lite life insurance interests |