The New Spirit . nace to the home. She sleeps in unkept and insanitary houses. She plays withand nurses our children and in this way gives them diseases. The negro nurse also gives diseases to the children, for she feeds them, nursesthem, and plays with them. Even tho she be perfectly healthy, unless she be intelligentand posesses an awakened conscience in matters of health, she will take the innocentsweet baby into places of disease; she will bring it in contact with infected surroundings;she will allow it to be handled and caressed by the public. We ought to do all in our power to improve th
The New Spirit . nace to the home. She sleeps in unkept and insanitary houses. She plays withand nurses our children and in this way gives them diseases. The negro nurse also gives diseases to the children, for she feeds them, nursesthem, and plays with them. Even tho she be perfectly healthy, unless she be intelligentand posesses an awakened conscience in matters of health, she will take the innocentsweet baby into places of disease; she will bring it in contact with infected surroundings;she will allow it to be handled and caressed by the public. We ought to do all in our power to improve the health conditions of the negroesin our midst, by helping to save them from the ravages of disease. Besides inaugurat-ing measures for making sanitary their homes, and their mode of living, we should givethem through their schools, church societies, orders of brotherhood and other organi-zations practical instruction in hygiene. This is the white mans burden at the present time in Mississippi. R. D. REYNOLDS. 38. T. J. ROWAN Copiah County atn gwpplg of Sural Spools TH E status of education for the leading cities israpidly becoming the ideal towards which therural schools are working; but there is stillone important factor in the progress of education,the hygienic conditions, which is not stressed suf-ficiently. One of the least thought of, yet most im-portant problems of rural schools, is the water has been demonstrated in recent years that impurewater is a menace to health. The principal source of water supply for theone teacher rural school is the open well. Heretoforethis means of water supply has been looked upon asabove suspicion, and no doubt many wells are absolutely innocent of any contamination andyield excellent water; but we now know that many wells are contaminated. Some un-doubtedly contain water, which originally impure, coming from a long distance throughthe soil has become purified by filtration. Others, however, are in more direct connectionwith obje
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