on which there was a little red dot for every case reported. I wish you could see that map. It is so interesting. But the more dots there were, the more puzzled grew the members of the board. The milkmen who supplied most of the houses that were marked on the map with the red dots said their milk was all right. So father had the inspector visit the farms from which the milkmen got their supplies. Sure enough, every farm was in good condition and all the farm people were clean, healthy-looking men and boys; but one of the milkmen on one farm he forgot to mention. When my father heard of that he took the inspector of contagious diseases and went out to that farm. There he found a house where a woman and two children were just recovering from scarlet fever." "Well, Frank," interrupted Bob, with eyes wide open, "did the cows catch scarlet fever from them?" "No. The whole trouble came from the fact that one of the men, who had had a light case of the fever and did not know it, had helped wash the milk cans, and the scales from his hands probably fell into the milk. Just that carelessness and ignorance brought about all the sickness and death. Have you ever been into the city laboratory?" "No, but I wish I might go." "The milk department now has a separate laboratory for milk analysis. Then there is another room in which no work is done except that of testing the water and ice. Just think! They are so careful, that the big laboratory is separated from the little ones so that there shall be no possibility of mistake in the work. I like to look through the microscopes and examine the microbe cultures. The inspectors analyze groceries and all kinds of food supplies, such as flour, vinegar, baking powder, and even sugar. I can't remember just how many pounds a week the meat inspectors have condemned during this year as unfit for food, but I think it was over fifty thousand, and that is a great deal for a city of this size. Of course I don't know all the departments under the care of the Board of Health, but there must be a great deal of work for the medical inspectors. Why, think of the care of such men just in relation to school children! When a contagious disease is reported to the health department the case is assigned immediately to one of the inspectors. This inspector has to go to the house of the sick child and learn how many children there are in the family, and what school they attend; and he also has to examine the premises to see if any unsanitary conditions exist. He must disinfect the house during the sickness and after the patient is well, and he has to see that other children who have been exposed to the disease are excluded from school, as well as the children of the infected family. "These same inspectors, in our city, have charge of the vaccination certificates. Father says that a medical examiner and the men working under the department of public works, where they have to investigate plumbing in private houses and other sanitary conditions, hold very responsible positions." "Oh, dear, what a lot of knowledge a man must have to hold such a position!" "Yes, Bob, a man must know a great deal if he is going to amount to anything in this world. You like to study and will get into the high school, but I tell you it is just a 'grind' for me to keep at my books. If I did n't want to be a man worth while to the government, I would never go to school another day." Bob laughed as they rose to leave the school porch. "I guess we shall both have to work like Trojans if we are going to be men like our fathers." "Yes, I rather think we shall have to work!" APRIL: GOOD WILL AMONG ALL CLASSES OF CITIZENS For the Teacher: THE CALL1 PRISCILLA LEONARD Help lighten the load! Humanity stumbles ahead on its road, Help lighten the load! With all of the strength that the heart can command, Suggestions for morning talks To give the class some idea of the right relation toward newcomers to our country, talk over with them the 1 From The Outlook, November 23, 1912. By arrangement with The Outlook Co. subject of good will among all citizens. If the children have had the good fortune to be born in the United States it is especially their responsibility to make the newcomers, the old people and the children, feel at home. For interesting stories about the different nationalities see the bibliography in Grade V, for October. See also English for Coming Americans, Peter Roberts. Y.M.C.A. Press, N.Y. The Peace Association of Friends in America, Richmond, Indiana, publishes a set of stories illustrating Good Will in their monthly pamphlet, The Messenger of Peace. Learn: The presence of the Lord with man is first given when he loves his neighbor. -SWEDENBORG. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a' that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be, for a' that. BURNS. Read: "The Vision of Sir Launfal," Lowell. R.L.S. No. 30. Houghton Mifflin Co. Examples of good will among all classes; tell the class of: High and low-Governor Roger Wolcott of Massachusetts and the newsboys.-Lincoln and the wounded soldiers; see Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ida M. Tarbell. McClure, Phillips & Co. Rich and poor - Carnegie libraries. - Rockefeller endowment for Medical Research. Floating hospitals. Wise and ignorant Gifts for free lectures, e.g., the Lowell Lectures of Boston. -Women's Municipal League of Boston; ask for their report on clean and dirty markets. -Helen Keller and Miss Sullivan; see Story of My Life, Helen Keller. Doubleday, Page & Co. Black and white-Story of "Natty"; see Life of Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, by Vincent Y. Bowditch. Houghton Mifflin Co. - Faithful slaves in Hayti. Ayahs in India in Sepoy Rebellion. Native and foreign - Mary Antin and Dr. Hale, Mary Antin and her teachers, Mary Antin and her representative at the State House; see The Promised Land, Mary Antin. Houghton Mifflin Co. LITTLE ATHENS'S MESSAGE1 ANNA DOAN STEPHENS Little Athens lived in a small American city. I am sure you have wondered if Little Athens really, truly, was a child born in the Greek city of that name far over the earth. You will have to guess at the strange story of how he and his father, alone now, came to make their home in this pleasant place. However, you know a town of not many thousand people is large enough to support one business of blocking hats. Since they lived in the neat coachman's house in the rear of Miss Grace's premises, the father considered themselves "comfortably fixed" with this fairly definite bread-and-butter arrangement of life. Miss Grace had helped Little Athens in speaking English. She found him so well prepared in arithmetic, geography and history that he was equal to those of the upper grammar grades. In history he was happiest, for to him this subject was a fascinating story of the people 1 Abridged. Copyright, 1913, by The Peace Association of Friends in America. |