Report of the Women's Institutes - Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...should be attractive thin i tsy school, because in the city there are many sources that attract and elevate, net K art galleries, exhibitions, etc., while in the country these are limited to the hone, is school, and the church. In school, when you think of it, the hours are short, the years pass quickly, d there is much to compass. Even the best teachers can do little more than eem love of learning, but even with a good teacher and bright pupils, sometimes-' physical conditions are such as to hinder progress. We go to sleep in church if the air is bad, or yawn, and lose all attention. 'J this is so with adults, much more is it the case with untrained children. BiJr makes restless boys, restless boys make an irritable teacher, an irritable teacher mn a boy want to act very badly, thus completing and continuing the process. Jr i: false economy that saves on the ventilating system at the expense of the educated possibilities of the children. Dust: Of recent discoveries in pathology, none has opened up so great-& as the discovery of germ life, and though we have gone so far in the path of instigation, our daily life does not keep pace with our knowledge. A great enemy woman is dust, and we are at a loss at times to know where the dust comes feSome of it we undoubtedly carry in from the street on our clothes, some of it from the movement of our ordinary work, is stirred up as we walk or sit, frorc 'J floor or the furnishings; some comes from the circulation of air, which is rarely from dust particles; and some of it is from the waste products that are constat'-' being thrown off through the agency of the skin, which is one of the moft import of our excretory organs. If you want to test how rapid is this process, take a bath and a good rub, ua few...