The Bulletin 43 



Boys and girls are much alike, and rightly so; the girls love much the 

 same sports, and it is only just and right they should have them. If a girl 

 wishes to get out and romp and play, she is called a tomhoy and made to 

 feel she has committed a crime. This should not he so. Why not let her 

 develop as we would the boy? 



The school is a large factor in development of country life and one of 

 the chief agencies for keeping the youth on the farm. If this is to be done, 

 we must not only make it attractive and remunerative, but we must interest 

 them in their work. This can be done by making the work intelligent, by 

 carrying the every-day life into the school and making it a part of the real 

 work. 



The true, the beautiful, the good, are so closely interwoven that we need 

 to develop them together in the growing mind. The child should be taught 

 to cherish the truth because it is the truth; the beautiful because it tends 

 to elevate; the good because righteousness exalteth. 



Mothers' Problems. 



Mes. Henry Slagle. 



If "variety is the spice of life," we have no monotony, no stagnation; but 

 the ever urgent call to duty presses us forward to meet them, and mothers, 

 like every other individual, should have a great master purpose, a purpose 

 to live a life of supreme principle which is so commanding and imperative 

 in its demands for recognition and exercise that there can be no mistaking 

 its call. Any kind of a human being can wish for a thing, but only strong, 

 vigorous minds can do them. 



In Phillips Brooks' talks to young people he urges them to be something 

 with all their might; and who needs to follow this admonition more than 

 the mothers who have the God-given responsibility of turning the young 

 minds into channels of usefulness, and getting them to see that there is a 

 purpose and an individuality in each little life. We must care for the mind, 

 and we must care for the heart and the body. The latter is by no means 

 the most important, but we are inclined to dwell on it, and I, as a mother, 

 am going to give some of my experiences and some of others. 



We must begin at a very early age or in the early stages of existence to 

 care for these little ones; they must have prenatal care for the best develop- 

 ment. Send to the U. S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau, and get 

 a fine treatise on this. We can make ourselves confident and efficient by 

 studying conditions, diseases, remedies and how to use them. If we know 

 a thing we are confident, and do not go into a panic if some disease de< 

 velops or some accident occurs, but with our own reason and experience take 

 a simple diagnosis of the trouble. And if we have been a careful discerner 

 of the laws of nature, and therewith developed a hygienic sense, this will 

 enable us to more or less instinctively decide whether it is something we 

 can manage or if the skill of a physician is needed. It is a part of my 

 nature to be deeply interested in all these things, and it has stood me in 

 hand many times in the rearing of my eight children. We must study causes 

 and effects. 



But now to begin at the beginning. The first thing when a baby is born 

 get your almost indispensable roll of absorbent cotton; then your boracic 

 acid solution which has been prepared by these proportions: two teaspoons- 

 ful of the dry powder to one-half pint water, boiled and put in a clean bottle 

 ready for use. Take a little tab of cotton and saturate with this solution, 

 then clean one little eye by wiping from the nose outward. Throw this in 

 the fire and get another tab of cotton and treat the other eye in the same 

 way. Never use the same cotton for both eyes, as one may be infected and 

 the other not. Now this is a mild, clean disinfectant, but after you have 

 used this get the little box containing two ampules of a one per cent nitrate 

 of silver and get as much as one drop in each eye — more will not be harm- 

 ful. These little boxes are kept now at all well equipped drug stores anr" 

 have been prepared by experts. They cost only ten cents, and this will in- 



