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Te Public Health Nurse.
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A. Public Health Nurse is one of the
greatest assets any community can
7;>•osesee. In; bueinesee in pleasure, •?tt
.everyday life, physical flttte•ss• and. good
health are essential. A Happy race is
a healthy rttea, ; but far too little
Thought bas been given to this seem-
' ingly obvious atatew,entla days gone
'by. The Public Health Nurse is cis
sentially a. teacher, )ier atm being to
beep wen 'people well, ams to help to
point out to those with whom she
-comes in contact the right course to
follow in the preservation of health
and physical fitness. Her work is not
confined to auy particular age, but to
every age. It just as important for
Iter to teach the expectant mother
things she ought to know about health,
as it is to advise a mother that breast-
feeding of he infant is best or that the
older boy or girl who has adenoids'
should have them removed.
It is equally important for fuer to
teach the simple laws of hygiene,
either personal or in, the home or com-
munity, and to warn people pf the dan-
gers of communicable diseases. Theme
is scarcely any limit to the extent to
which a public health nurse can be of
service to the community, but her
duties can be broadly outlined as fol-
lows:—
Care of expectant mothers.
Regular and competent supervision
of babies end .of children of pre-school
age.
To see that the child enteriug school
has a complete physical, examination
made to debermiue how much he
should • study and how his physical
condition may determine the trend of
his life. '
Regular supervision in s•ohool by the
nurse to see that a good physical
standard is maintained. '
A oomplete physical examination at
the time the youth is abadt to leave
eehool and enter industry, so that he
may start into work foe which he is
not physically fitted.
A general knowledge of the living
conditions and habits of the people
with a view to the promotion ot
hygiene and sanitation and an im-
proved standard of health to ail.
HOW SOME CHILD€?
To pravide educational facilities for an ordinary "railway coach con,
the thilldren of section men and set- into a school -room, with living
tiers eleng the Lines of the Canadian ters for the teacher, and was dc
National Railways at its s+malI stations the Canadian National she
and communities du northern Ontario, Toronto. It was put into com
has been a problem for seine years, and about the end of SeptembeT,
the sailution is now found in the eras- operation with the Ontario Dejra
tion ot a traveling school. i ' of Edueatlon, who supplies the t
This "little gyred school horse" was as well as ordinary school equi
Stiff Muscles.
Thies is the time of year when se-
dentary people who have neglected
tlheir'"dallry dozen" or, wors•e•yet, their
two-mile daily walk, come to realize
their mistake and Pay their penalty.
Some one who bas not ridden anything
(unless it be a hobby) for years sud-
denly remembers that he used to en-
joy. a gallop on the back of a spirited
-,aa , ,.ae leaves the 'offlce early
ing a lest delight. He goes home and
to bed filled with a determination to
repeat the pleasu'r'e. The next morn-
ing he can hardly dress himself, and
ofile
walking to he e
the thought lit of wa1 rg t
ARV EDUCATION
ext of the stop is determined by the size !
oth of the 'conarmaity and the number of
pupils in attendance at the ,classes.,
ear The currioulum is equal to that of the
the highest standard of rural schools.
or It Is interesting to note that at the
icy first stop the school car made one of
ree the pupils was a girl named "Rosie"
gbh who was unable to-' write her own
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
There is a curious fascination about and Pyle's Robin Hood and
making up 4issts of books that ought to Iron.
be read. It le a dangerous pastime,
for hardly anyoise else agrees with
your selection of a Five -Foot shelf or of
the Handled Best Backs. But widely .
se tastes and judgments vary there
are of course some books a knowledge
of which are essential to anyone who
wants to know anything about Were:• and there are some others, that
are by pretty general consent too en-
tertaining to be neglected by anyone
who ,can get any pleasure t all out of
reading.
Plse U.S. Federal Bureau of Educa-
tion hats undertaken the task of choos-
ing forty booms that every child should
read before he is sixteen. Sheltered
behind the impersonality of a govern-
ment bureau, the persons who dr�`ew
up the list are at Least slate froth a
.oriticisin of their individual literary
tastes. Tjvey have chosen two 'of Miss
A1ootts books, Little Mee. and Little
Women; three of Mark Twain's; Tom
1§•`i`i1W8uanV-IfF l WU r, mLRaernd` The
ling'�s, The Jungle Book, Just. So
Stories and Captains Courageous; two
by Stevenson, Treasure island and A
Child's Garden of Verses; such vener-
able � las�sics az the Arabian . Ni is
• able c
gh ,
into a oar, is a, w
• f I•i bin P
even o c m
or g 1 iv m Tr vele
tFiso�p's Fables, Gu 1 e s Travels,
palling. + Malo'ry's Stories .of King Arthur's
The story will be precisely the sane ( Court, Robinson Cru'soe and Swins
$f; instead of a rider, our friend is a Family Robinson; Tang_ew'ood Tales,
Uncle Resmue, the fiery tales of the
brothers Grimm and of Hans ,Chris-
tian Anderson, Altos in Wonderland,
Heidi, Parkman's Oregon Trail, Hans
Brinker, Ivanhoe, Washer Babies, Mas-
ter Skylark, The Little Lame Prince,
Aedeich's Story of a Bad Boy, Miss
Nicalay's Boys' Life of Abraham
coln, Boutet de M•onvel's Jean of Arc,
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils,
Rebecca .of Sunuybrook Farm, The
Man Without a Gauntry, A Dog of
Flau.ders, Understood Betsey, by Miss
Canfield, Doctor DeaittIe, by Hugh
Lofting, Padraic Colum'•s version of
the adventures of Odysseus and How -
A good list on the whole;
read child ought to have 'clipp
most, perhaps all of;. them.
couldn't he be trusted to, r
Odyssey itself instead of a.
watering down of the t1eligh
story? Where are Dr v1.Copp
and Oliver Twist? Where are
ward Ho and The Greek Her
Charles Kingsley? Isn't the M
ous Island, as good as a dozen
of the Bureau of Edueatian's c
Anti would not La Salle and 11
savary of the Great West pleas
ligant youngsters as much as: tl
goal Trail,. or more? And how
Quentin Durward •er• the Tare
kete�ers ?
We •could keep on asking e
like this for •another columna
have got on to the difficult gr
personal taste and individual
ence. No one, even of thos
qualified to judge, would eel
same tc `- 'or "cyst- t1le.•...san?. .
best bors for 'ehaldrea. to read. But
there is-._ o Shaii:eslreare here. Ought
i,-�•-any-young i:•ers�on to getea''C ens, of
sixteen' without leading sometauinig
by the 'greatest •ot poets --A :Midsum-
mer Night's Dream and as You Like
It, at least? And, most serious omis-
i.
s on of all is the Englist Bible. 'Per-
haps the Bureau of Education takes it
j for granted that all children read the
I the Bible. That would have been a
i safe •assivan.ption once; It is not safe
to-d'ay. • But a young person has no
sufficient grounding for lifer no teain-
ing in appreciating the best and nob-
lest English prose writing and -no :ads-
quate preparation for understanding
the Biblical allusions of which all
literature is full, unless he has a good
knowledge ,cf the Bible. And that
I knowledge must be got in youth. The.
1 Bible lies so firmly at the foundation
of our Fife, our literature aiid our re-
Iigion that it. must be read early.
There is no other boot that we can-
not do without if we have to. Without
the Bible we have lost our spiritual
and our Iiterary birthright.
bennis player retuentng again to the
scene of his farmer triunphs•. .First
he has a congratulatory conviction
that his game has not fallen off half
as • much as he had feared, and then
an agonized- waking to the pain of a
. lot of angry and protesting muscles.
Many an ardent. vacationist spends his
• first •few days laying in physical dis-
comfort for his eaiar return to active
life.
For the treatment of tntrseular stiff-
ness a day's rest, followed by moder-
ate exercise with massage .or simple
rubbing, will suffice. But that takes
time, and in a brief vaoatiou or during
a busy season in a short-handed office
there is no time to give; so, if he is
wise, he will take preventive measures
• at the end of the first day's exercise.
A great •deal ,can be done. Tile strain
on his muscles has caused the forma-
tton of an unusual amount of exore-
mentiowe and ,therefore pois�ououe ma-
terial,—uric
a-
ternal; uric acid, lactic acid, and the
like, -which must be got rid of. The
�channela for this• are the bowelss, the
kidneys and the skin; therefore, a
moderate dose et some cathartic (pre-
ferably castor oil) should be taken, on
going to bend, followed by a dose of
salts in the morning, then two glasses
of water with 'a hilt teaspoonful of
bicarbonate of a�oda atgight, and two
• more in the morning. The niusales
most likely to be sore should be sweat-
ed, by wrapping thein in very hot �
sloths covered with two or three
layers of flannel or India -rubber tissue
and keeping the covering .on all night:
This treatment is best as prevention,
but twill also help along the euro.
King George Could Have
Been Financier.
If IRs Majesty, Xing George, of
Englabd, had not been been to the
throne, he could have became a suc-
cesstui merchant or financier, says
Montague Norman, Governor of the
Bank of England,whose financial mis-
sion to the United States will prob.
ably have farr'eaebtilg and beneficial
affects upon ootnnhere•e and exchange.
When reactionary elements 'railed
et the funding of the British debt to
the United States, it was the Xing who
;mupperted the ¢Buck of England arid
Other banks in condemning the outcry,
*Mg Geerge Wished his people to be
*minded that the settlement with. the
Milted States was favorable to king -
laird, and emphasized that the furore,
menacing to his oetanei's• credit and
commerce',. s7ie'til�d cots, And that
lake the ercl: at the political chatter.
Fresh Marvels,
When each beloved lane I know
Is covered deep in drifting snow
And only the Northwind walks, at noon
In woods where thrushes sang In June,
Then. Beauty dons another dress,
Learns a new way of 1avelinessl,
And every leaf and flower 'io.st
le doubled by the sculptor frost.
Beneath a shoulder of the hill
I see my river standing still,
A floor of marble veined with, gray;
Upon the anouaitain far away
Tho fcresit clearings glisten bright
Lilee inlets and lagoons of light.
The sun pTrurs dawn a flood of fire
Upon the distant village spire.
More than I thought had gone away
Comes back into this, shilling day
Fresh nharvels, .everywhere I look,
Blossom before me now. The brook
Goes pacing like a princess through
Palatial ,chambers strange. and new,
Aiut'over all, on :columns bare,
Towers the blue temple of the air. •
—Odell Shepard':
Britons Acid Fifth Meal to
Their Daily Repasts. The Queen Writes With
name. The advent o'f the school oar
bas been weleamea by both the clii1d
rein and parents throwgneta the Cap
reel division and should the expert
!ent prove successful this year, plane
inare under way to inaugurate the eye -
tem on other northern Ontario Buss
of the Canadian National Railways.
SHEEP RANCHING AREAS OF CANADA
on No .country in the world is !perhaps
better adapted than Canada for sheep
raising and no country offers greater
opportunities for the development of
the industry. The physlioal features,
the sail, the climate, and the agricul-
tural population are all favorable to
the prmoduction of mutton and wool of
the highest quality. In most of the
provinoes there le an abundance .ot
wasto lands admirably suited to the
raising of sheep. Furthermore, there
are many farms, particularly in west-
ern Canada, that as yet are carrying
no flockts. In eastern Canada on mixed
farm lands and in the grain belt of
western Canada the small flock of ten
to fifty ewes is _generally kept. These
flocks can be maintained at little ex-
pens•eand return an excellent revenue
for the labor required and money in-
vested. In the reugb.er parts of east-
ern Canada and in some district$ of
Manitoba larger flocks of from one to
several hundred head are kept under
semi-ra,nching conditions, often by
new settlers wlio may have been •orig-
inally miners, or. fishermen, Many suit-
able areas are atilt available for the
Canadian -Red Cross ` Has oarnyiug oaf flocks of this' size. In
Spent Sint Millions on Peace- south-western Saskaltahewau, southern
t and parts of northern Alberta, and in
Time- F"rOgraYA]in0. ! British Columbia, sheep ranching is
That in round figures the Canadian practised quite extensively, but even
disbursed e' these provinces there are tracts of
Soci�et has coca in these
Red roes 1
C y
the war six millions (6,000,000) of land awaiting ranching or semi -ranch -
dolma in fumthering ,its national peace- ing purposes: On western farm lands,
time programnse that about one-half by utilizing 'stubble pickings, supple -
the revenues of this Soci,eey, available vented by a forage 'crop with a short
finishing period of grain, the farmer
could market choice market lambs to-
wards the 'end of D•eee�mber•.
Lends itself to Farm Routine.
cart
g
•witJh its fleece and at two .years pro
duces both• wool and lamb. Statisti,
caliy, the wool sdtuatio.n could not be
better for the shortage of wool dun
ing the past year has been reflected in
price values to the extent of around
10 .cents for the lower grades and up
to 15 cents or better for the finer
wools. The prospects are that the
sheep men in the business have seven
a1 good years -ahead.
The Dominion and pmovtneial gov-
ernments have repeatedly drawn at-
tention ;to the possibilities for sheep
ranching in this. country through bul"
letins by the va9i•iaus agricultural de-
partments. The Natural Resources In-
telligence Service of the Department
of the Interior, at' Ottawa, has also pub-
lished a report on the woollen indite -
OW and quite recently •lies issued a
inap showing in graphic form the ex-
tent and location of the various areas
in Canada adapted from the standpoint
of food •suppiies and climate for sheep
ranching, .copies of which are avail-
able, .without charge, to those interest-
ed. A complete summary of the mun-
leer and Laoatioih of knitting mills le
also shown on this map.
Hosiery Mills Are First Glass.
In, this connection it may be in-
teresting to quote a well-known liri-
tiah authority with respect to the el- • f??,
ficien Y c of Canadian woollen nulls, 1
namely Ni, Alfred
Baker, profess-
or
Y
-
or of Textile. Industries• at Leeds lint-
•_J,
varsity, who, following a visit of in-
spection
nspectiow to Canada and the 1?nited
States in 1919 said:
"Upon the whole the Canadian wool.--
malts come 'up to the best Yorkshire •--
some few Yorkshire mills are bettor,
many are very much worse. Quite a
considerable part of Canada is so tor-
tunate in.. •climatic'conditions that even
in spinning and weaving no special
erraug•sments, other than those made.
iu Yorlehire, for example, are adopt-
ed.
1 "Hosiery mulls are in evidence in
levelly textile ,distri'ct of the Dominion
and the equipmeut of tlio,se mills
`lleraves little'. to be desired. The hosiery
mitis of tine United States axe possibly
i behind the hosiery iuills of Canada, in
The
• fact 'same, of the Cauadian hosiery
i milks c'aunot be beaten."
at the .end of the war with the revenue
accruing since, has been spent for the
benefit of disabled members of the
Canadian Forces; that the other half
has gone largely into the public health
and health a•otivities of the •organiza-
tion; and that .last year the sum •of
six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($650,000) was spent. on Red Cross
•i, work in alt parts •of' Canada, will be
! the gist of a stastetnrent"to be issued at
Ian early date from Red Cross Head-
quarters in Toronto.
This statement, which has been pre-•
pared by Dr,0James W. Robertson,
Chairman of the Central Counoil of
the Red Cross in. Canada, and Lieut,
x-zquant Color Helps Furnish Colonel.J. L. Biggar; ME., Chief Com.-
Your
om•
Your Horne.
missioner, will deal in detail with the
•
causes which made it imperative at
There is a great deal in allowing, the •close of the war that Red Cross
color to help- furnish your rooms— work should go.en without pause; will
Dolor in the walls and woodwork, in outline the peace -time constitution of
the floor and ceilings, color in the fur- the World. League of Red Cross, Bocie-
ni�s'hings, the gay sofa pillow here and ties and the Canadian Red Cross;
there, or the planned color conformity w:i!l show the Red Cross Health
of the window curtains. Color, in education as furthered bye the Red:
short, in a mad, though carefully plan- Cross and other health agencies in
nod riot! Canada has been largely responsible
And this Is easy to achieve if you for the fleet that since the tear many.
hart .your decorative •educes before thousands of Canadian school children
tits purchase of furniture Perhaps shave been medically oxarnined; will
yoU--like many dis�ot•imninating people referabo the fact that tho Jauior
—wish to buy "only the few pieces
which are good," and add .other's as
your inclinatiOn or econemie situation,
allows. By a well considered use of
color you will 'be able in the n eanitime
to furnish your rooms adequately, an
fact sometimes' more adegrrabely and
arti,s�ti0allly than if you bought thefur-
Maas you wanted but paid•' little at-
•tentibn to lacltgrounids or color
s.clietnes,
Although they already eat four moils
a�clay counting the hievitable afternoon
tea, Britone are now adopting the ells
-
tam of having a fifth: repast. The new
habit is called "•elevens+ing,''
Net *nay in homes of the leisure
class, ltut among ofllce v,"orkere as
well, it is becoming the pranotice to.
take e.offee and a sandwich a 11
o'�cieck e+wery morning,
':pea room proprietors recemly halve
reported en unpmececlerited rush of
patronage at that hour, ands predict
that "e+levensing" soon will become 'a,
national fixture.
Good Customer for Japan.
The United States buys 95 per cent,
of alt .the, silk Japan exports,
Diamond Ring.
London. —, "Mary R., Jainlary 11,
1927." This was how the queen
scratched her name an a window -pane
with a diamond tit n 'Hag on lier hand
at a beautiful Tudor'farrnisouse.in the
Norfolk village of Walpole Si, Peter.
The house 'is Dovecote Farm, a 16th
century building recently aequirerd and
res�tbee•d anti furnished appropriately
to the period by the rector, an. old
friend of the queen's, the Rev, H. C.
St veIey, who was curate at Sandririg-
ham from 1902 to 1905.
The window is in the rector's study
a beautiful old xoom which the
queen admired. bl'er majesty stayed
for half 811 flour.
Gross which originated in Canada 4n
1914 has now over 100,000 members
in the Dominion and has spread into
many other lands where it to -day num-
beet ten millions; will state that in
the past three years 11,000 woolen
have taken the Red Cross- Home Nurs-
ing courses, will announce that 5,873,-
745 pieces en health literature have
been distributed by the Red Cross;
will desoribo the • invaluable services
afforded settlers in t'he.hinter1and•s of
.the Dominion through the thirty-tiibe:
Red Cross Outpost Hospitals now in
operation in many provinces; will
make known the very definite oontri-
butions made to safe and satisfactory
settlement of immigrants through the
Seaport Nurseries of the Red Cross
aiid the follow-up records kept in these,
unique institiitirons; will' enter into
details regarding 'what has been cion
by way of Disaster Relief in the past
seven years and will outline the tasks
for the future if all snob urgently
necessary work is to be carried for..
ward.'
It is understood that this. statement
will precede a nation-wide campaign
for national support of the Red Cross
and that this canxpaigir will be launch*
eel on Idmpire Dny in all parts of, the
Demiriion and will condone until Do -
Minion Day, 1927•
The labor attached to sheep• raising
is not great and is more or less sea-
sonal, leading itself readily to the or-
cler of events where grain farming is
s
the major farm activity. The, initial
cost of a sizasblo flock is not large, and
so if the. best returns are not made at
the start, the loss is not likely to be
heavy. • Expensive buildings• are un-
necesnsary for sheep and a .cheep pole
and 'straw shed is ample. No animal
has a higher value eor weed destrac.
ion than .sheep. The sheep provides
two ,sources of revenue annually. Th
lamb pays for its keep the first yea
Dog.
A cool wet nose that searches for your
ii,asud ;
The venture of a tongue that asks:
"Why linger?"
A question that is.'also a command
Worded by gentle teeth en captured
finger;
A begging paw to conquer with its
charm,
Enslavement to a personal appeal;
A leap ahead that ,seems to say
"What Irarn'>,
To follow tale no matter bow you feel?"
A parse, a quick discarding of such
means
Of drawing lazy humans, out of doors;
A. challenge, an insistency ,that seems
A brow with ancient care—a gaze that
scores
A victory demanded by the whole
Weight anti pressure of a brown -eyed
soul.
--C!baeles R. Murray, in "Vo•iee.e."
Salt Breeze.
Salt breeze!"
And tate tights, en shore.
How many fathoms deep is the sea?:
Grein, green waiter,
And boa -buoys .elangtug noisily.
Only a fe'w miles out,
But the fog sets in;
1I'ow rnany leagues across the sea?
A signal ship,
And a blinking dight,
And the moist air- stirring fitfully.
A ;sailor's, life
On the endless waves—
Row wouldit do, 'for you, for nit?
Salt' breegc,
And the shove, ligiiis gone;
`Night, and day, and the open sea?
enatla ll, Deal.
Which Draws the Crowd?
The opportunities 'offered to -day is
the public schools for the study of
music develop the ltinti of knowledge
and ability that motivates directly in-
to the .coan:nlunity. This is seen in ate
improved quality of singing in the Sim. {,
day ,s,chools and churches, more and
better talent available for the elutieh l:
choirs and community .orchestras.
Music herpes greatly to bring the :t
home into the ,school. What other sub
9 g p is
sets bring parents to school as apes
music? Is it algebra, Spanish, Latin,
OT is it music, with the •ca'che•stra thanw'
boys' chorus and eperette that draw ,
yl i .'!
the •crowd?
Al! Believer;; In Re -marriage.
At the wedding at Christch'urcli, hug -
land, of Mr, J. Dashfield, a widower,
and Mrs. Hayward, a widow, the offici-
ating, clergyman, the bent man, end
the bride a fattier were all renrarri�ed.
widowers.
Debit is Missing.
A bachelor,
in sending his weekly
soeks were found to be darned, but
underneath ,the note was written:
"Sorry. We found no debit in your
bun:di•e et washing to the laundry, en
closed a note:
"Please darn socks aid debit"
When the washing was returned tlt�
parcel.
Related Fur Animals..
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The Mink, peppier for its fur, b=
lenge to the weasel family,
dare alis Valuable Egg,
The egg of the Califeralet condor 1
valued at abnrit $1,500.
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