68 GOOD HEALTH 



Later yet, the well children touch those books and play- 

 things, get those same microbes on their hands, rub their 

 eyes, and leave the microbes there to go to work at once. 

 The only place where these special microbes can do 

 harm is in the eye. 



In this way disease microbes may be passed from eye 

 to eye and from schoolhouse to schoolhouse, until there 

 is an epidemic. 



In some schools the children all wash in the same 

 bowl and wipe their hands and faces on the same 

 towel. This is most unfortunate, for nothing helps 

 eye disease to spread faster. Always be careful not to 

 use any water, or wash cloth, or towel that any one else 

 has used. 



Teachers are more particular about such things than 

 they used to be. They know the danger, and when they 

 see children with red eyes, or when they notice that the 

 edges of their eyelids look rough and sticky as if they 

 had been fastened together by something, they either 

 send the children to a doctor at once, or send them 

 home lest they communicate the disease to the other 

 children. 



" Pink eye " goes in just this way from child to 

 child. It also travels so swiftly that if the first child who 

 has it is careless a whole room full of boys and girls may 

 soon be afflicted by it. He who has " pink eye " should 

 therefore be as thoughtful for others as for himself. 



