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FOOD "STUNTS." London's school children are far sturdier and healthier thun were their parents at a similar age. Striking testimony to this fact is forthcoming in the report, on the health of children by Sir George Newhan, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.

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velopment of body, mind and character. They create and de- velop, as nothing else can, such A competent and well-informed qualities as initiative accuracy, teacher, atcadily and consistently quickness of decision, unselfish- supported, will ensure an effec-ness, self-control, the team spirit, tive presentation of the subject, and a desire to play the game." But there are some difficulties to Added to this is their enormous overcome. In some places the health value."

men know how to behave in vary area. Yet this is at present the ing circumstances, other do not; case. some men find truth and strive to

Games. live by it; others do not." The

An earnest appeal is made for Board of Education, he insists, the encouragement of games from holds that, primarily, health is a the health standpoint. In the fe to be lived, and not a subject young of all animale-puppies, to be taught, and therefore that kittens, chicks, baby elephants, is better than theoretical instruc-seems to be an instinct of playful- the acquisition of healthy habits and the human infant-there tion. In a word, that hygiene, ness. like English, cannot be merely an writer, "something we ought to "Is it not," asks the Isloated subject in the curriculum, train and build upon? Education but is pervasive. It is intimately should be charming to the young. connected with physical training, It should be a growth and har- Since 1908 these reports have domestic subjects, science (and nessing of its animal instincts, its made an annual appearance col- especially biology), and even hie- bodily senses, its mental faculties. lectively they constitute, in their less, it might be difficult for for- sunshine, and in the wide and Itory and geography. Neverthe-It should spell happy days in the compiler's words, a "sort of Domesday on the physical condi- eigners' visiting our schools to winsome fields of nature.

understand our direct methods of should consist of the beginnings tion of the English child" and inculcating the principles of of music, art, and letters, of ad- the present volume is the custom-hygiene, or the place of that sub- venture and heroism, of the ary lively commentary on the jeet in our educational system. vigour of the youthful body and means of raising a healthy young The conclusion to be drawn from the curiosity of the awakening England.

ovidence gathered from various mind, of tales of romance, of For, of course, the improve-parts of the country is that direct games... ment is not confined to London, teaching is unequal and variable, stitute an additional and effective . Field games con- It embraces elementary school according to the circumstances of means for securing the full de- children throughout the country the particular school., and the Chief Medical Officer at- tributes it to medical care and supervision, better nurture, phy- sical training, fresh air, improved school sanitation, the direct treatment of ailments and defects, and the higher social standard of the community.

Sir George dismisses the fash- jonable food "stunts" of the pre sent or any other time, and plumps for a mixed and varied diet which shall combine each of the features which the faddists demand to the exclusion of the rest. As to the current contro versy on clothes, Sir George sums up his own opinion in the vigor- ous comment: "Food is more im- portant than raiment, yet many poor bodies foolishly clothe them-authorities seem to have allowed groups. The number of "routine"

be inadvertently children found to be suffering) selves with fine apparel though hygiene, to they know that food is better crowded out of the curriculum, from physical impairment or some than silk stockings."

being either unappreciative of its particular defect or disease was "More often it is careless value or unable to arrange for its 367,032. (or 20 per cent.), while mothering, ignorance of upbring-Presentation; and in some areas minor ailments numbered 666,668. Sole Agents: W.R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong.ing, and lack of nurture than there is no escape from the con- In regard to one aspect of the actual shortage of food which re-clusion that the subject has been work, Sir George Newman objects sults in a mal-nourished child, In-neglected.

to an invalid child being entered sufficient sleep, chronic fatigue, Local education authorities who merely as "debilitated" or "deli- absence of fresh air, and lack of deliberately neglect to make rea- cate." "This," he insists, "is a exercise are exerting a very great sonable provision for school convenient label for our ignor- influence day by day on the well-education in hygiene seem to me ance. It is a makeshift and tem- being of multitudes of children. to incur a grave responsibility,porary diagnosis. It is necessary Magnificent schemes and expen-and I invite them critically to re-to investigate the condition much sive staffs are of no avail if view the position in their own more thoroughly. Disease in mothers and teachers neglect areas. Why, for instance, should early life is not peculiar; it is the these simple matters.

the boys in Hornsey regularly be child, the patient itself, who is Food Comes First. taught hygiene, the way to live a peculiar." "Fod is more important than healthy life, and the boys of Lon- raiment, yet many poor bodies don receive no regular and sys- foolishly clothe themselves with tematic education of this sort? It fine apparel, though they know is unsatisfactory and inequitable M that food is better than silk that the children of a particular stockings," says Sir George. district should be deprived of ad- "Some men,” he continues, "know vantages effectually obtainable by how to live, others do not; some the children of a contiguous

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