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Show HEALTH CONTEST ESSAYS PUBLISHED, CBy Lillian Chiara, .Bingham High I School.) The school children can prevent the spread of contagious diseases in many ways that they carelessly overlook. Some "Don'ts" that would greatly aid are: Don't use the public drinking cup. Germs by the million are on its brim waiting to be transmitted to your Hps. Don't use the public towel. It's a very simple matter to distribute the bacilli on your face and hands. Many skin diseases are spread in this thoughtless manner. Don't (this is for girls) use another girl's powder puff. Don't borrow your neighbor's pencil and apply it to your lips, or for that matter, don't ever be found guilty of placing any pencil to your mouth. This is a filthy habit that should be broken. I Don t moisten your fingers to turn over the leaves of a book. It makes the book unsightly and leaves the deadly germs to be picked up by some innocent person. Don't neglect to cover cov-er your mouth when coughing or sneezing. L'on't spit on the floor. These rules are not hard, requiring only a little thought on a school child's part, yet how much suffering could be prevented if they were observed. (Your "don'ts" are very good. And they are not only good for school children, chil-dren, but they would be useful to grown-ups. And if people who eat at restaurants would observe next to last one it would do some good. Editor.) Edi-tor.) (Essay by Clyde Countryman, B. H. s., yg.) GermB originate in the community, the home and on the person. Food j clothing, dust, railroads, steamships, ' mall, and the natural elements may act s a carrier for disease. J School children come from hundreds , of homes. One home may have conditions condi-tions such that the members are eas-, eas-, lly sucoptible. They come In contact Iwlth other children by drinking from the same cup, tiding the infected one's books, girls Waning, and the gtjrm may circulate in a close, poorly ventilated venti-lated room. The way to exterminate a disease is to prevent it. This is possible if the child will remember that the habits hab-its of living must harmonize with the -plan of the body. A child should exercise ex-ercise dally, observe regular periods of rest, eat moderately, drink plenty of pure water, breathe plenty of pure air. avoid nervous strain, keep clean, abstain from dangerous habits, and' obesrve daily the conditions for the discharge of waste materials from the body. , v Always remember that fresh afr and proper food are the beNt tonics add systematic exercise and you have the most potent safeguards against disease. Clyde, your dope would do pretty well had you not undertaken to suppress sup-press that ecstatic paKtime of kissing, a findHirentl right' guaranteed to off citizens by the constitution in the clause, "right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Kissing fa evidently evi-dently a pursuit of happiness, hut since you practice with consistency : that which you preach, you are excut puted. Editor.) |
