264 What Schooling Should the Country Girl Have 



various diseases enter the body, there perhaps to 

 return intermittently and with more serious effects 

 as the life advances. 



What may be done as preventive measures, it is 

 asked. Simply this : Prepare a better road from the 

 home to the schoolhouse, by putting in foot crossings 

 over ravines, by mowing weeds and grass, by filling 

 and draining low places, and the like. On stormy 

 days and on occasions when the young adolescent 

 girl is passing through her monthly period of weakness 

 one especially endangering the health it will be 

 advisable to provide a conveyance to school and back. 



Country parents also often need to be cautioned 

 in regard to over-working the school girl. Some even 

 require her to do practically the same amount of 

 work as she could well endure were there no extra 

 burdens at school. Manifestly, this is both unjust 

 and injurious. Observe the conduct of the young 

 school girl for a few days. If there is no song and 

 laughter in her life ; if she is not ruddy in complexion 

 and buoyant of step ; if she mopes and drones about 

 the place ; do not censure her, but seek a constitu- 

 tional cause and watch for evidences of an over- 

 requirement of work. 



The close inspection of the health of school chil- 

 dren, now conducted in many cities, brings out the 

 somewhat startling fact that many boys and girls 

 come to the class room every morning fatigued and 

 depressed beyond the point of effective study. The 



