Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1911 — Kansas Pupils to Have Paper Towels [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kansas Pupils to Have Paper Towels

rIPEKA, Kan. —Paper towels for the use of every child in the Kansas public schools probably will be installed before the next school year begins. E. T. Fairchild, state superintendent of public instruction, and Dr. 8.-J. Crumbtne, secretary of the state boned of health, are watching with interest the experiments being car rted on Is several Kansas schools with the paper towels. If the experiments are successful an order may be issued abolishing the common roller towel in all public schools and this will mean that each pupil must furnish his own towel or the school board must supply the individual paper towels. The state board of health abolished the common drinking cup two years ago and there has not been a single epidemic of diphtheria in the state si nee. and very few Isolated cases. The board also prohibited the use of the common drinking cap in railroad trains and stations and the common drinking cups have been abolished in h;

all hotels The next move will be to abolish the roller towels in railroad trains depots, hotels and the school houses of the stste. Several cases of infection of different diseases through the use of the roller towel are known. It la believed that the paper towel will not be much more expensive than the roller-towel laundry bills The towels are 10 inches wide and 18 inches long. They are heavy, absorbent tissue paper. One will dry the face and bands easily. A set of fixtures and s roll of 1,000 towels costs from $2 to |3 and extra rolls cost 50 cents tar each 1,000 towels When used the towels are to be horned.