6 CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



As example, malaria is carried from one person to 

 another only through the bites of mosquitoes. The 

 number of mosquitoes, in most localities, can be kept 

 down to a very small number by well understood 

 means. They breed in standing water. Standing 

 water should either be removed, or covered against 

 their entrance, or supplied with fish or some familiar 

 creature to eat them. For one man in a community 

 to know this and do it is of no avail, where 100,000 

 do not. The conditions must be reversed. The 100,- 

 ooo must do this. 



House flies, which breed in filth, carry disease germs 

 on their feet, and every year bring sickness and death 

 into thousands of homes. The public should know 

 this and how to stop it. Remove the filth. Destroy 

 the breeding places. Not in one or two homes, 

 stables, or shops, but in every one. With proper in- 

 struction every citizen would look upon a swarm of 

 flies as a possible menace to his community and insist 

 upon immediate removal of the cause. 



In the Garden insects play an active part. Many 

 of them are useful and welcome. But there is a 

 never-ending warfare between the gardener and the 

 insect enemies. Here is the place to educate the child 

 to successful combat with such enemies. No mere 

 brute force will do. He must think and plan; study 

 the life history, discover the vulnerable points and 

 strike quickly and surely. 



Self-preservation is the first law of Nature. It has 

 become an instinct in those who have survived. Shall 



