The New Spirit . r epileptic; and more than two-thirds will be degenerate. Thesame scientists having investigated thousands of cases, have made the following state-ment: Of children born to parents who are total abstainers, eighty-nine per cent willbe normal, while only eleven per cent will be abnormal. Is alcohol a source of poverty? Answers to questions sent lately to every alms-house in the United States show that fifty-one per cent of inmates of almshouses becamepaupers through drink. It is estimated that the paupers of England cost the nation$50,000,000 annually, as a result of alcoholic
The New Spirit . r epileptic; and more than two-thirds will be degenerate. Thesame scientists having investigated thousands of cases, have made the following state-ment: Of children born to parents who are total abstainers, eighty-nine per cent willbe normal, while only eleven per cent will be abnormal. Is alcohol a source of poverty? Answers to questions sent lately to every alms-house in the United States show that fifty-one per cent of inmates of almshouses becamepaupers through drink. It is estimated that the paupers of England cost the nation$50,000,000 annually, as a result of alcoholic drinking. The United States pays over$2,000,000; 000 annually to provide for the added crime, pauperism, idiocy, and insanityproduced by alcohol. The teachers of Mississippi should help educate the youth of our state on the ef-fects of alcohol upon the human body. Hon. Richmond P. Hobson said: Not a classor grade should be allowed to pass without educational instructions in the facts of alcohol. GROVER HOOKER. 20. RENA HUGHES Webster County ®lj£ Snttal Qlltmr of % Normal(College T H E Mississippi Normal College in line with thespirit of the times, organized this session aDental Clinic. The Forrest County Dental Society consistsof four dentists who are giving their assistance freeof charge to the Normal College physician to assisther in giving the Diploma Hygiene Class demonstra-tions in oral hygiene. One of the dentists comes to the college onceevery two weeks, and examines the teeth of the children of the Practice School andof the Arnold Line School, a near by rural school, where extension work is beingdone in hygiene by the Normal College physician. He makes the examinationsbefore the Diploma Hygiene Class, and gives the children a practical and interestingtalk on cause, the prevention, and the results of decay in the teeth. The dentists ap-proach the children by different means every time they talk. In one talk, the dentistillustrated the effects of a decayed tooth on the
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