The New Spirit . r inspector to estimate, such as milking, churning, feeding;, killing fliesand mosquitoes, and helping with sick people, the parents can furnish the needed infor-mation for giving the proper grades. This plan has an advantage in that it will developa spirit of individual responsibility in the inspectors and a desire to make everythingbetter on the part of all concerned because these grades count as a part of the gradesgiven for the regular school work. Credit may be given for sleeping with windows open, brushing teeth, cleaningnails, clothes, and bathing, making fly traps, and
The New Spirit . r inspector to estimate, such as milking, churning, feeding;, killing fliesand mosquitoes, and helping with sick people, the parents can furnish the needed infor-mation for giving the proper grades. This plan has an advantage in that it will developa spirit of individual responsibility in the inspectors and a desire to make everythingbetter on the part of all concerned because these grades count as a part of the gradesgiven for the regular school work. Credit may be given for sleeping with windows open, brushing teeth, cleaningnails, clothes, and bathing, making fly traps, and iceless refrigerators. This would applyto both sexes. Then for boys, credit can be given for feeding, milking, carpentry, girls, credit can be given for sweeping floors with a dampened broom, making bedand keeping a neat orderly house, preparing lunches and home cooking. Credits may begiven for other things, but special emphasis should be laid on the work which tends tomake better health. ELLA McDADE. 26. H. V. McRAE Clarke County Slj? g>rij0nl ffimnrij CHILDREN usually have plenty of food, but of-ten it is not of the right kind. There are chil-dren in every school, the inadquacy of whosediet is shown in part by anemia, underweight, en-larged glands, and similar conditions. The loss ofeducation and training through absence is far greaterthan that of children of the same age in a betterstate of health. A school lunch served at recess satis-fies the physical need of the child, and refreshes himfor the further mental strain of the mornings work. An idea of the value of the school lunch firstoriginated in Switzerland and later was taken up inGermany and America. In order that we may seewhat the lunch is doing in the many city and ruralschools, an example of one of the lunches served inthe primary department of the Mississippi Normal College is given: Practical lessons in the food values of the articles served; and their sourceswere given in this department in the servin
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