80 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



condition. If one is not actually sick, it does not follow that he is 

 physically fit. "Health should be preached," says Miss Baker, "as a 

 sacred right and a patriotic duty." Among ohter things Miss Baker 

 stresses starting the day with a good breakfast, fresh air, sunshine, play 

 and exercise, some rest during every day, no overwork, plenty of sleep, 

 certain foods and good fitting and suitable clothes. All these things 

 she taught her class of children in just as entertaining a way as any 

 class in school should be. 



The class in nutrition was properly followed by the Milk Fairy pag- 

 eant. This drives home the necessity of milk in the diet as no amount 

 of lectures could do, and gives the children the opportunity of taking 

 part in a delightful pageant. Johnny, who is an undersized, irritable 

 child, tells the doctor how he hates milk and simply will not drink it. 

 After Johnny is asleep, the milk fairy appears, and with her a troop 

 of lovely fairies representing the various elements of milk. The fairies 

 are dressed in filmy frocks of all the rainbow colors. They dance for 

 Johnny and sing him songs, telling of the virtue of each element they 

 represent. In the corner of the stage Is a huge milk bottle draped 

 with our country's colors. The result is that Johnny awakes to tell 

 his mother of his wonderful dream and his resolve to do the doctor's 

 bidding and drink lots of milk. 



The presentation of this pageant at the fair is a story in Itself. The 

 state fair board paid Miss Samuels for training the children who were 

 gathered from the playgrounds of Des Moines. Miss McKee helped 

 to select and teach the dances of the fairies. The state dairy council 

 bought the material for the costumes. Mothers from Highland Park 

 and other women who were interested made the costumes. The dairy 

 companies of Des Moines sent cars to the playgrounds for the children 

 and returned them after the pageant. The extension department of 

 Iowa State College provided Miss Imlay and Miss Storm, who directed 

 the staging and presentation. It is a splendid story of what coopera- 

 tion will accomplish. 



A playlet, the High School Clothes Line, carried the audience to the 

 question of suitable and becoming clothes for the girls of what is 

 called the "flapper age." Five girls meet at the home of one of them 

 quite by accident one day. They fall to discussing clothes, criticizing 

 their own and those of their school mates. As a certain article of cloth- 

 ing is mentioned a model appears on the stage showing it. In this 

 way both the suitable and unsuitable garments from shoes up to hats 

 are actually seen. Also, the modes of hair dress. The girls do not 

 need to say much about them for in this case seeing is most certainly 

 believing. 



Here, too, no description would be complete without the story of the 

 origin of the play. The farm bureau women of Woodbury county had 

 taken the subject of clothing for their year's project. At the end of the 

 year they planned to put on some "stunt" which would show what they 

 had been doing. So they wrote what was the beginning of this playlet, 

 "The High School Clothes Line." Since then it has been added to and 

 changed till now It is a play which any community large or small can 



