1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



741 



toward the 70's, is a bright, healthy, come- 

 ly-looking woman. 



I do not know whether Dr. Evans has 

 been reading Terry's writings or not; but 

 here is what he said about giving the chil- 

 dren in the Chicago schools a AM?»id instead 

 of a kiln-dried atmosphere for breathing. 



As a result of this agitation the Chicago educa- 

 tional system has originated a new verb — "to hu- 

 midify." The meaning is simple: All hot air, be- 

 fore entering the schoolroom, is passed through 

 jets of water or of steam. It now picks up its mois- 

 ture in "humidifying" chambers in the basement. 

 Instead of in the throats and nasal passages of the 

 children and teachers. 



My good friend, I do not know just where 

 you are going to live and breathe during 

 the coming winter, but let me impress on 

 you the needed importance of insisting on a 

 humid atmosphere as well as warmth. Ter- 

 ry tells us that if the air is sufficiently damp 

 we can be comfortable five or ten degrees 

 lower; so there is an absolute saving in fuel 

 by watching the atmosphere of your home, 

 as well as the horses, pigs, and chickens, 

 every day of your life. Now, they have 

 some children in Chicago who are threaten- 

 ed with tuberculosis; and, may God be prais- 

 ed, they are succeeding in making them 

 loell. There is a picture given of the out- 

 door school on the roof of the house during 

 the winter time, and you can well afford to 

 invest a dollar in a copy of this magazine, if 

 you can not get it otherwise, just to look 

 at the picture of the consumptive children 

 in their open-air schools. Here is what is 

 said about it: 



On the roof of one of the Hull House buildings 

 the United-Charities of Chicago have established an 

 open-air school for tuberculous children. Here, on 

 the most freezing winter days, are fifteen invalids 

 from the stockyards district, clad in close-fitting 

 Eskimo suits— the girls, like the boys, in trousers — 

 'with moccasins and blankets, bravely fighting for 

 health and life. They are gaining in weight and 

 color, and, like the children in Mr. Watt's open-air 

 school, are making abnormal progress in their les- 

 sons. 



So much for the schools. Dr. Evans was 

 given authority to inspect one of the under- 

 ground bake-shops of Chicago. 



An inspection showed that there were about fif- 

 teen hundred bake-shops in Chicago, nearly all of 

 them below the pavement-line. They were dirty, 

 begrimed catacombs, heated with blazing red fur- 

 naces, thickly populated with white-garmented, 

 pasty-faced, slow-moving figures. These pallid in- 

 habitants were usually panting for fresh air; in 

 many cases no provision had been made for it at all. 



What do you think of the above? By the 

 way, the enterprising managers of shred- 

 ded-wheat biscuit saw the above and copied 

 it for an advertisement in the Sunday 

 School Times. Theysuggested that, instead 

 of buying bread made under such conditions, 

 the people should buy their biscuit made in 

 their great sunlit bake-shop that cost a mil- 

 lion of dollars, at Niagara Falls. Well, the 

 bakers broke out in a tremendous wail when 

 Dr. Evans said they must get out of their 

 filthy underground apartments, and then 

 the city authorities had a muddle on their 

 hands. But all at once the mighty forces 

 of nature interposed in the shape of a big 

 rainstorm or cloudburst, and the water ran 

 into those dirty basements in such a flood 



that the inmates had to get out in a hurry; 

 and now Chicago's bread is baked above 

 ground. At one of their trade conventions 

 one of the number got up and said, "We 

 are (in consequence) better men, better citi- 

 zens, and better bakers.''' 



Dr. Evans went everywhere. He went in- 

 to the people's homes. He went into the 

 nickel theaters, and raised a rumpus. He 

 put up posters in the street-cars. One of 

 them reads, "Which way are you going — to 

 health and long life or to consumption and 

 early death?" Reader, how does the above 

 hit you? It almost makes one laugh to 

 think how near Dr. Evans has come to the 

 title of Terry's new book, "How to Get 

 Well and Live Long." Another card reads, 

 "Closed windows mean dirty air, and dirty 

 air poisons the lungs and means death." 



The last sentence in this exceedingly val- 

 uable article is as follows: 



Manifestly, a material reduction in the death rate 

 from tuberculosis will take time: but the figures 

 show that Dr. Evans is already making headway. 

 Before he started his campaign, there were annual- 

 ly 187 deaths per 100,000 from this disease, whereas 

 last year this had been reduced to 174. If, as the 

 sanitarians dream, the ideal city of the future is 

 the one in which contagious disease will not exist, 

 the prime characteristic of that future city, as Dr. 

 Evans has demonstrated in Chicago, will be freely 

 moving, clean, fresh air. 



Dear reader, even if there is a good deal of 

 filth about us, even if we were formed of "the 

 dust of the ground," as in our text, is it not 

 also true that the great Father above 

 "breathed into " all of us "the breath of 

 life"? and not only that, our text tells us 

 that " man became a living soul." God has 

 given most of us, at least, a good breathing 

 apparatus to start with. If he didn't, our 

 parents have been more or less to blame be- 

 cause they did not do their duty. But we 

 may rejoice that he has given us good com- 

 mon sense; and we can certainly shake ofT 

 sickness and disease (and perhaps even 

 death for a long while) , if we get up and be- 

 stir ourselves; and I am sure we can, each 

 and all of us, unite in praising his holy 

 name for the light that is being shed on us 

 in recent days, in regard to this very matter 

 of keeping healthy and happy and well. 



THE LAND OF THE " SVNDOWN SEA," ETC. 



Our Homes interests me more than all the rest. 

 Money is not every thing with me, and I rejoice to 

 see that there are patriotic men and women in the 

 country who have the welfare of the nation at 

 heart, and are not afraid to speak the truth. Most 

 of our preachers seem to be afraid. Of course, they 

 are depending on a salary for a living, and they 

 know pretty near how far they can go without of- 

 fending their congregation. 



We must try to get good moral men in oftlce — men 

 who are too dignified to weaken their mental and 

 ■physical ability by the use of opium, morphine, in- 

 toxicants, tobacco, or any other degenerating 

 agency: then a moral and physical education 

 should be compulsory in all schools, and there 

 should be at least a small flower-garden to every 

 school. They should be taught to love a flower, to 

 love something, yes. to love the Creator — to love 

 and respect all good people. They should also learn 

 that, to be "happy," it is necessary to be healthy. 

 They should learn to eat natviral food, and abstain 

 from all artificial food such as sugar, flour, vine- 

 gar, wine, etc. 



By the way, I see Mr. Graves finds a little fault 



