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Show In the dormitories matrons are rapidly learning to place the beds in snch a way that the walls and wrners of the room are free and the heads of the children near the central portion of t,he room. They are h~gilluillgt o appreriate the necessity bf airiug dormitories by arop. p ~ n tch e top sasbca, rather t l~anb y rai%ingt he lower saslien, all11 the cles~rabilitvo f tloodiucr the sleenine roonip wit11 su~il-iah,tw. henever the mehther and the of thcso; permits. On the other hand, comparatively little progress has been made in the ventilation and lighting of schoolrooms in the older plants. The various simple devices that have been brought to the notice of teachers, aflording at least partial relief in these mat.ters, seem to be strangely neglected by them. It is hoped that dnri~igth e ensuing year all the class-room teachers will come to realize the fact that their first and foremost duty in the work of the sotroolroom is in the direction of the physical welfare of the children; that had air and improper lighting not only impair the health of the children, hut their mental and moral vigor. It is a characteristic commentary npon prevailing methods of teaching to step into an ill-ventilated and ill-lighted schoolroom at an honr when pup~lsre cite a carefully inemolized text.book lesson on one of these tooics. ~ o n t ~ ) a r ~ ili\ttelel ~pr ogress, too, hns heen made in the management of kitehen and dining room with rci'ert.ncc to screening them ngai118t flies. 111 mite or're1)eated tlirectious f r o~til~~ iost tiiw. I still Gnd in manv of the schdols tho s;?reening very i~~judiciousmlya Gged. For obviou"s reasons, in screer~ingk itchens and dining rooms provision should be made not only for preventing the entrance of flies, but also for affording a means of escape to such as will n~ravoidably enter. This call he secured in the case of half screening by pl+cing the half screen outside of the sashes, leaving onc-fourth of an inch of space at the top of the screen between the screen and the upper sash for flies to crawl out, and with sine and well peinted. ' Each winilowissnpplied witharobber curtain. Thus you see a bath o m b e taken in nrivacv and in suoh s, wav that no d r o o~f water that h38 beet) m c o i9ar.d upon a chi14 cau by nng po9e.tbI~. rl;auco be u~ e i la gain, oit1,t.r 11pou that rlnild or any urh,:r. l'lmr thr ?tall% nlny be used us drossinfi rootus is obvious. flure we have u 8vatc1.1 that call, in case of the lack of ncoensnry t'lo#ln. he |
