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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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."
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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.
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