health education by dr j j middleton provincial board of health ontario br ulddleton will bs glad to answer question oa public health a tan through this column addre bun at gpadlta house bpaiils crescent toronto iwa kteping school children up to a nor- j be obtained it is consequently now mal standard of health and efficiency the aim of all complete schemes lor is an important part of public health the workers to keep in touch with the work at the present time one reason children aged one year to five years for the urgent necessity of this work and to endeavor to conserve their would seem to be due to the fact thatj health during the early years of as a rule very little medical or nursi growth and development when so ing supervision is given to the pre- many chronic and disabling diseases echool child and consequently it ar- are apt to originate if there is a f all- rives at school age with its physical ture to observe the early signs of per- defects if any uncorrected the verted health medical supervision of school children i the movement in favor of conserv- is at the present time much more in ing infant and child life is now viewed vogue than the supervision of the pre- on even broader grounds the desir- bchooi child this is in a sense re- j ability of watching over the health of grettable because if the defects were the expectant mother of bringing to corrected earlier they would not full term the large number of pre- cause so much trouble and it often mature births that are known to occur happens that when the child has ar- and of providing skilled attention at rived at school age tho defects have the time of birth is everywhere recog- elready caused irreparable damage a nized the solution of the problem of if the comet came the astronomical hunters of the sky are after big same they are looking for the antral of a monster comet not one of the hairy stars as the ancients call them that journey around the sun in vast elliptical orbits returning to our neighborhood at regu lar intervals but a visitor from the outer void of space just about once in every ten years such a stranger comet of large size makes its appearance in the heavens the next one is almost due and the comethunters are watching for it some astronomers specialize in hunt ing for comets they use for this pur pose a peculiar kind of telescope of low power but wide field of view there is more than a purely scienti fic interest in the discovery of a new comet astronomers have long since concluded by purely mathematical rec koning that a comet is likely to hit the earth head on sooner or later novelists have dealt with this possi bility and have drawn fantastic pic tures of what would happen to our earth if it collided with a comet and scientists agreo that in the event of such a catastrophe tho entire popula tion of the world might be destroyed by the poisoning of our atmosphere from the gas carried by tho comet the head of a comet is gaslit it consists of a relatively solid nucleus which looks like a star in some cases thousands of miles in diameter sur rounded by an lmmeno envelope of burning gas the quantity of ga3 carried by a big comet may not probably be greater than the earths entire atmosphere one can imagine then what might be the result of a prof u 3 mixing of this gas very probably unbreathable with our air the rebel i looked into the sky at night and saw how horde on horde the stars came forth in ordered bands obedient to their lord then further down the slope of blue along the west i saw a fiery meteor pass a fool that sins against the law he left a line of sputtering red to vex the quiet skies brief as an atheists doubt of god that makes a show and dies claribel weeks avery tea is hood tea folks who want the very best use red rose orange pekoe hew stiibgth for weak stomachs the fall weather hard on little oses tquint for instance unattended to in oarly childhood will result in defective vision which often cannot be success fully treated after the child has reach ed the age of five or six years numer ous cases have come to the attention of child welfare workers where a f quint was alowed to right itself and in consequence thj child a year or two later has practically the use of only one eye within the past year or two an at tempt has been made in all wellorgan ized health centres to continue the work of child welfare through the pre school period in the early days of the movement the scope of the work was largely limited to infants and the period from birth to the attainment of one year of age it is now recognized however that the child between in fancy and school age cannot be ex cluded from any system of control and infant mortality is to be found through a variety of means one is increased educational facilities for mothers and especially young mothers to learn the art of childcraft another is breastfeeding another is regular and periodic examination by the fam ily physician some means must be found for providing 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was the norwegian composed by the poet bjornson the old portuguese na tional hymn is unique in that it was writteu by an emperor dom pedro of brazil although the exkaiser an nounced during the war that he had written a new hymn for the german nation apparently however it was never published the famous russian national an them is noteworthy in that the tune by tho composer lvoff was written be fore the words which were composed afterwards by command of the czar the authorship of our own national anthem has nevor been definitely set tled its tune has been appropriated by both germany and denmark for national hymns whatever his vocation or station in life the thing which each should strive for most earnestly is the unqualified approval of his own soul this will outweigh all honors ail riches all fame and will give him that power and courage which will enable him to outride in safely all the storms which may assail him on lifes voyage indigestion disappears when the blood is enriched the 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but they did not do me a particle of good then i got medicine from a doctor but with no better re sults by this time 1 had changed from a robust healthy girl to a com plete skeleton losing flesh dally then my parents asked me to try dr wil liams pink pills and i began their use after taking them for a short time i began to feel better and con tinued the treatment until i was com pletely restored to health since on rare occasions when i have felt the need of a tonic i turn to dr williams pink pills and they never disappoint me most members of our family have at some time taken the pills with good results so i now always recommend them to all in need of a reliable tonic you can get these pills from any medicine dealer or by mall at 60 cents a box from the dr williams medicine co brockvllle ont easy tricks ko 340 three squares nai fie a i rigo classified advertisements home study shorthand or bookkeeping taught in twenty home lessons proficiency guaranteed diploma given empire business 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