Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . ofthe houses we meet would be a boon, andreally mean more air and sunshine, andconsequently help to remedy the existingdefect. However, we do not recommenddilapidation as the means to overcomesanitary errors. Dilapidation is unsightlyand unpleasant, and may be nothing else,although the carelessness and shiftless-ness which breed it are very proneand very likely to breed real sanitarydefects. CHAPTER IV OVERCROWDED AND DEFECTIVESCHOOLS While the home Hfe is vastly more im-portant than the school life, and thoughthe sanitary arrangement
Overcrowding and defective housing in the rural districts . ofthe houses we meet would be a boon, andreally mean more air and sunshine, andconsequently help to remedy the existingdefect. However, we do not recommenddilapidation as the means to overcomesanitary errors. Dilapidation is unsightlyand unpleasant, and may be nothing else,although the carelessness and shiftless-ness which breed it are very proneand very likely to breed real sanitarydefects. CHAPTER IV OVERCROWDED AND DEFECTIVESCHOOLS While the home Hfe is vastly more im-portant than the school life, and thoughthe sanitary arrangements of the sur-rounding farmhouses are usually vastlyworse than the neighboring schools, yetit is quite likely that the country school—overcrowded and with glaring sanitaryfaults—^is an item in the rural health. Thelittle one-room schoolhouse (Fig. 13), socommon all over the country, has turnedout some great and good men, and womentoo, but it has also turned out many thatmight have gotten along better in theworld if their physical condition and wel- 66. Fig. 13.—^The Old-Fashioned School with its Usual Pictur-esque Setting. Note Small by Mr. James McCormick, Jr. Overcrowded and Defective Schools 69 fare had been looked after: it is a goodthing to remember that real progress isnot the progress of the few great men, butthe standard and average of the plain,ordinary citizen. Bad enough, indeed, is it when citiescrowd their schools, but to have this con-dition, as is often the case, out in thecountry seems infinitely worse. The factis that all city children, no matter whatcity or where, attend school under sani-tary conditions far ahead of anything inthe country, for, like the rest of tiie ruralcommunity, the school has been sadlyneglected, and the days when IchabodCrane taught in Sleepy Hollow can al-most be duplicated in some of the backsettlements. In many of these schools the mostprominent fault is that of construction:that entailing in turn the various o
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