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NATURE STUDY AND LIFE 



I may add to the above Miss Henry's solution of the 

 schoolroom dust problem. At the beginning of the school 

 year 1900-1901 all the feather dusters in the building 

 were collected and burned. Dusting cloths were pro- 

 vided, and two girls in each room were honored by being 

 appointed dusters for the month. They are given instruc- 



FiG. 196. The Hkalth Brigade 

 Upsala Street School, Worcester, Mass. (Photograph by Katherine E. Dolbear) 



tion on dusting and on the care of the dust cloths and uni- 

 forms. The dusters come fifteen minutes early each 

 morning, take their cloths to the sink, moisten them, 

 wipe the desks and furniture of their schoolroom, rinse 

 their cloths, and hang them up to dry. Once a week the 

 cloths are laundered. 



The result of the year's experiment was, not a case of 

 contagion in a scJiool of ^5 pupils dicriiig the entire school 



