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elevators and other conveyors. One view shows the double conveyor for carrying drop-letters and packages from the first to the second floor. The horizontal belt requires two horse-power; the elevators,

each four horse-power; the drop-letter conveyors, each four horse-power, which, together with the basement mechanical appliances, makes a total of 100 horsepower consumed.

Trained Nurses in Schools

By H. D. Jones

HE staff of the well-regulated school of the future will include a trained nurse. Already has one been appointed to a Philadelphia school, in recognition of the urgent advice of a recent congress of medical men. It is manifestly absurd, if not worse, contended the doctors, to try to force an ailing child to understand the lesson before the class; and too often a boy or girl is threatened with punishment by an overwrought teacher, when the fact is that the youngster is sick, not stupid, but is too shy or too dull to explain mat

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Also it is becoming alarmingly apparent to the directors of public schools, that in the poorer districts children are frequently sent to school by ignorant parents, actually suffering from a contagious disease. In such cases it is. not the fault of the teacher if the emergency is not recognized at once. A trained nurse is the proper person to be on the spot and to be made responsible. In the Philadelphia school

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where such an expert attendant has been installed, the usefulness of the nurse has become so apparent that others are to be added to the various schools until all are supplied.

The particular nurse who is seen at work in the accompanying illustrations is a capable person, and can be depended upon to act without hesitation in the absence of the medical attendant of the school. She has a dispensary in a little

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VACCINATING SCHOOLBOYS.

Boy with bared arm has just been operated on; others are waiting their turn.

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room adjoining one of the classrooms, and here the sick child is taken at once for treatment. If it is a case of throat or ear affection, the nurse administers the right remedy; if it is merely a child's ailment, a headache, or a cut finger, the

EXAMINING FOR THROAT AFFECTION.

nurse speedily sets matters right and sends the child home or back to the classroom as the case requires.

By a recent order of the Board of Education the regular medical attendant of the schools is forbidden to do anything but diagnose the case and prescribe for the patient. The nurse must do the administering. The doctor who examined school children prior to the issuing of this order, merely advised that the child be sent home, if he deemed the case sufficiently serious. Too often this only aggravated the trouble, for in many cases the home was a far less attractive place to the sick child than the schoolroom, and the result of ignorance and neglect would be a hospital case. Under the new arrangement the doctor advises the nurse, the nurse attends to the child's ailment, and overworked mothers and hospital attendants are spared much unnecessary anguish.

The child who faints in school usually causes a semi-panic among the other children, and the teacher is not supposed to be an expert in nervous troubles. The trained nurse can be called in to grapple with such an unusual situation, and

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Dinner-Pail Philosophy

A heart of gold is better than a cheek of brass.

When you lose thirteen dollars, it's a sign of hard luck.

Some things go without saying, but a woman's tongue isn't in that class.

A wise man doesn't attempt to pull himself out of trouble with a corkscrew.

up.

Ancestral pride is going forward by backing

Invite the hot-air spouter to call again in December.

A really good man is an accident-that rarely happens.

The man who lives upright is apt to die in a horizontal position.

An ounce of confidence in yourself is better Remember that "there is generally a lot of than a pound of confidence in others.

It is easy to get to think that you are warming the world when you are roasting others.

It is easy, by a careless word, to shatter a reputation, but how hard it is to make proper amends.

Pessimism is egotism. If you can't bring a condition to your mind, bring your mind to the condition.

brass in the composition of a knocker."

There is a tide in the affairs of man when everybody seems to try to soak him.

There is something wrong with the man whose heart is not made lighter by a child's laugh.

Remorse comes not with legitimate failure, but with reflections of wrong-doing and halfhearted effort.

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Whose trees suggested to Whittier the poem, "The Sycamores." It was a rendezvous for troops at the time of the Indian massacre, and is considered one of the most important and interesting historical landmarks in the town.

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WASHINGTON MONUMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Built of white marble. Height 555 feet; base 55 feet square. Cornerstone was laid July 4, 1848, but

work was not completed until 1884.

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WHITE HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY, MONTGOMERY, ALA. Occupied for a brief time in 1861 by Jefferson Davis and his family, after Mr. Davis's inauguration as first and only President of the Confederacy.

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CAPITOL AT MONTGOMERY, ALA.

In which was established the Confederate States Government, and from the front steps of which Jefferson Davis was inaugurated President, February 18, 1861.

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