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TTOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SEOTTON 3 Home and Farm Magazine Section Editorial Page Suggestion From Our Associate Editors, Allowing For an Interchange of Views, Written by Men of Experience on Topics With Which They Are Fully Acquainted Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought. HOUSEWIVES BEWAEE OF UNCLEAN MILK! DUK1NG the hot weather milk is particularly susceptible to . . contamination, and for that reason the U. S. Department of Agriculture is issuing a timely warning to housewives: "Beware of Unclean Milk!" When milk is delivered it should be put into the refrigerator nt once. A very brief exposure to summer heat makes it unfit for use. If it is impossible to have the botlles put immediately into the re frigerator, provide on the porch a box cotnaining a lump of ice. In planning a house, arrange to havo the refrigerator set in the wall with an opening on the outside. It is always possible to provido locks fir these boxes or refrigerator door?, and supply the milkman with a key. The interior of the food compart ment should be wiped every day witli a clean cloth, and thoroughly scalded ns often as once a week. Under no circumstances should the drainpipe of an ico box be con nected with a sewer. Iteforo removing tho cap from a bottle of milk, the cap and the neck of the bottle should be washed and carefully wiped with a clean cloth. Tho cap should nof be pushed down into the milk. It may be easily re moved with a sharp pointed instru ment without injuring tho contents. The bottle when once open should be kept covered and the milk should be kept in the original bottle until it is used up. Tho original cap should not bo replaced, but instead an inverted glass may be put over the top of the bottle. The bottle when not in use, should, of course, always bo Wt in tho refrigerator, and any milk that bus been poured from it : ito another vessel should not bo poured back. Onions and other foods having a strong odor, especial!; during the hot weather, very easily impart their distinctive smell to milk that is left uncovered. This is an additional reason for al ways keeping milk in a covered re ceptacle. Milk bottles should never be taken into a sick room for as they aro usually returned to the milk man they may thus carry infectious diseases into other homes. Every milk bottle left at a house where thero is an infectious sickness should be boiled before being re turned. The best thing to do in such circumstances is to provide one's own milk bottles or covered dishes into which the milkman may pour tho milk from his bottles. The duty of each individual to his neighbor in this connection i.i most important. The board of health may be called to disinfect milk bottles properly after they have been in a borne where there is sickness. In any case, bottles should be given reasonable caro before they are returned to their owner. Tho practice of pouring vinegar or kerosene or other liquids into them temporarily when not in use should by all means bo discouraged. The containers should be washed in cold water first and finally in warm water before they are returned to the farmer supplying the milk. Thcso little details of cleanliness aro matters which can not bo regu latod by tho Federal or State Gov ernments, rules and regulations that require pure milk to be de livered to the homo may be ren dered valueless by careless indi viduals in the home. Tho best ef forts of the milkman or farmer to deliver first-class milk will amount to nothing unless individual house wives will co-operato for the good of tho community. MOKAL EDUCATION. IN moral education don't moral ize This is the advice of Prof. P. G. Gould, an English educa tor of note who has been touring the United States as demonstrator for tho Moral Education League of London. Professor Gould 's carefully work ed out program fo"r moral instruc tion in the elementary grades im presses Bureau of Education offi-', cials as one of the most valuable. of the present efforts to make educa tion tell in fine character. Story telling forms the basis for most of tho instruction ia Profes sor Gould's plan. Once a week, or oftener, it is as sumed, the teacher or principal givos a systematic lesson on the conduct of life. The various virtues are taught, not as abstractions, but by con crete examples and by interesting stories. , The teacher is not to say: "This ought to be done"; she Is rather to say: . ) "This thing has been done." Hearing constantly about right actions, the pupils learn to appreci ate right conduct. The spirit be hind the instruction is the spirit of service; but this and other techni cal moral terms are tj bo rarely, if ever, mentioned. "It is possible," Prof. Gould points out, "to give many lessons on civic duty and scarcely ever use the word patriotism, and yet tho temper of consecration to one's duty and country may permeate the teaching and inspire the pupils." Prof. Gould disclaims anything novel or faddish about his work. It is by no means new, he says. "I have over and over again af firmed that my teaching was, in the strict sense of tho term, anti quated; that is to say, it consists of the empluyment of the concrete and dramatic manner which is illus trated by ancient poets as well as modern, by the narratives and para bles of the ItiOlo or the Talmud, by ballad singers and story tellers of the middle ages and by allegor ists such as John Bunyan. "What perhaps I may claim is that I have reminded educators of simple, fundamental principles, which, in the somewhat unnatural rush of overcrowded school pro grams, we are all apt to forget; and along with that effort to get back to more direct action in moral teaching, I have, it may be, com bined a certain enthusiasm and freshness; at least I hope so." "Don't" is a word that gets very tiresome to us all. How much more so to a child. & HEALTHY, NOISY CHILDHOOD. IT IS interesting to note the re sults of careful investigations into the causes of dullness and precocity in children, says Maximil ian F. E. Groszmann, Pd. D. Pre cocioiM children are, s a rule, heav ier, and dull children lighter, than the average child of tho same age. Precocious children aro tailor and havo larger chests and wider heads than backward children. No child whose weight is below the normal standard for his ago should bj permitted to enter a high school grade that the average child of his age attends, except after such a physical examination as shall sat isfy the physician that the child's strength will be equal to the strain, Here, tho connection between physi cal and mental conditions is very plain. Physical weakness 'often produces an abnormal mental state. In ill ness or convalescence, or when suf fering from hunger and fatigue, most of us arc more irritable than when we have our full strength. Selfishness, untruthfulness, ill temper and the like very frequent ly have a pathological basis. This is so characteristically true that we may in most cases consider moral aberrations as conclusive evidence of some sudden moral discrepancy. Do not run for the rod, but for the physician; but be careful what you call a "moral discrepancy." In nine cases out of ten, the so called naughty child is only a nor mal child, and the fault lies not with him, but with yor. who do not understand him, says The Mother' Magazine. The healthy child is usually act ive, noisy and boisterious. Beware of the quiet child who is - so often praised and petted. Remember: refinement and self control must not be forced before their time. There are normally quiet children, to be sure, but the majority of quiet children are more or less abnormal. They are cither dull, painfully precocious, diseased, fatigued or bored. Do not try to hasten your child's development; do l ot give him a hot house culture; do not drive him; do not suppress his natural instincts. Be thankful, instead, for your noisy, healthy little savage. $ ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. THE farmer is not to blame for the high cost of living. Nor for the cost of high living. Dean Davenport, of the Ulinois College of Agriculture is an author ity. Here is an editorial by him: "Belief from the excessive and growing cost of living is to be sought, not in the country and on the side of food, but in the town and the things of the town. "It is to be sought in clothing and Bhelter, in luxuries and enter tainments, the things of trade sup plied by the town. "Clothing, like food and shelter, is a fundamental and costly neces sity. "There is no manifest attempt to standardize trade in clothing. There is clearly a conspiracy be tween designers and manufacturers to prevent the development of standard styles, especially in wo men's dresses and hats. "With every year comes a radi cal change, a change in cut, color and texture so different from that of the season before as to compel your wife and mine to buy new or to be conspicuous, if not grotesque. "This change in extreme fash ions has but one object; namely, to force everybody who can to buy anew as often as possible. It has another effect; namely, to induce, persuade or otherwise incline the great middlo mass to spend all it can earn. The retailer is powerless. It is the business of trade to serve the public, not to eploit it. "My father at 12 years of age went out to work at $6 a month, and the wages were collected by his father. "What does the modern boy know of the real value of . dollar! "I do not desire to return to the old days, but I do want these young sters to work and save, for indus try and thrift are fundamental vir tues at any stage of civilization, and a generation of spenders will produce only licentiousness, pover ty, crime and degeneracy." AS TO CHOLERA INFANTUM. THE babe cannot contract chol era infantum from the moth er's milk unless tho mother's system itself is wholly disorganized. It is necessary, therefore, for the mother to eat carefully, to have strong control of her nerves and mind, and to observe about herself those little habits of cleanliness that must, directly or indirectly, contribute so much to the good temper and health of the child. Frequent bathing, massago, fre quent changes of linen, simple foods, are all health-preservers. They are far less expensive than doctors' bills nnd tho expenses at tendant on death. Should the child bo given tho bottle, everything that comes in contact with the milk should be kept scrupulously clean. The process of sterilization as a protection for the babe is being urged by every prominent sanitary agency in the country. Sterilized food is that which has been sub jected to an agent (usually heat) capable of destroying the germs of fermentation or disease which may be present. The most common ar ticles of food capable of carryiarj disease are fresh fruits, water and milk. ; Water may be rendered sterile by boiling or distillation. It is then best kept for use in sealed bottles laid on ice or placed in a cool spot Ice should never be put into drink ing water, but should be packed around any receptacle containing it. Milk is usually Bterilized by boiling or by exposure to superheated steam. All germs in milk can be destroyed by heating it to 212 de grees. The ordinary method of sterilis ing milk is to place it in sealed jars, or bottles, each containing an amount sufficient for one feeding, which are then subjected to the action of steam. It is then cooled rapidly, kept sealed from the air, and placed on ice until needed, $ WHAT IS FUN? NEW YORK newspaper sayt '. "Fishing is fun. "Tennis is fun. Golf il fun. Antomobiling. is fun. "But making money is more fun." This is typieal of eity philosophy. The philosophy of the "money mad," fast living New Yorker. What fun do they have anyway living all cooped upt What do they know of the pleasures of life wb have never seen the ran rise, heard the rooster's early crowing, or the tinkle of cowbells at night, have never hai a faithful horse for a friend, or breathed the pure, freah air of the eountryt Life is full of fun. It's fun to drive behind a fast horse, to drive the last load of hay into the barn before a storm, to wateh growing grain, to see the chil dren at play, to watch the gocd wife' smile. Yes, there are many kinds of fun. But the best fun is to taekle a hard job and get away with it to win tho satisfaction of a worthy deed well done. -4- TEACHING BOYS AND GIBX5 TO USE PARCEL POST. !N the current issue of Farm and Fireside, Herbert Quick, editor of that publication, writing a article showing the value of the parcel post to farmers, tells, as fol lows, of a plan by which boys and girls can be taught how to use the parcel post: "In a certain rural school ia Cook County, Hlinois, a 'parcel post club' has been organized. Tb boys and girls bring their eggs, green corn, radishes, butter as4 other produce to school, put tha, goods in hampers, and ship by par cel post to a select list of customer in the city. They keep the record of this club as a part of the school exercises. They figure the profit and the losses. "Ten years from now this new agency of transportation will haw been pretty well developed." 1 THE HIGHEST FORM OF SEEVICE. HOUSEWORK may seem lit drudgery. In many homes it is. But it is only one form of human service. We were all born for service. Housework is the highost form of human service. Let us honor the women who make our homes. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers In this locality wno wish to fully cover all sections of Oregon and Washington and a por tion of Idaho will app'y to local pub lishers for rates. General advertisers may address C. L. Burton, Advertising Manager, 411 Panama Building, Portland, Oregon, for rates and informatioj. The publishers will accept busi ness from no advertiser whose relia bility can bo questioned.
