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Drinking cups. The public drinking cup should every- 

 where be abolished. Recently there has been invented a 

 slot machine so constructed that if a penny is put into the 

 slot, there drops out a clean cup made of waxed paper. In 

 most schools sanitary drinking fountains are being used. 



Antituberculosis movement. In recent years people have 

 become so awakened to the fact that tuberculosis is our 

 most fatal disease, and yet that it is curable and preventable, 



piece 



of 



paper 

 7 inches 



souare. 



F on the line A C. 



E.overD. 



Fold B back. 



E F. nd there's 

 your sanitary 



DRINKING CUP. 



FIG. 154. How to make a drinking cup. 



that organizations have been formed throughout the world 

 for the purpose of combating this disease. In this country 

 there are at least sixty city committees devoted to this 

 purpose, and fifteen state organizations ; and a few years 

 ago there was formed the American National Association 

 for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The various 

 nations have organized an International Tuberculosis Con- 

 gress. These organizations are doing much in educating 

 the people by means of exhibitions and the distribution of 

 printed matter. 



