Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — RED CROSS HEALTH CHORES. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS HEALTH CHORES.

Performance by “health chorea” by children is to be one of the principal features of The Modern Health Crusade to be conducted jointly by the Bureau of Junior Activities of the American Red Cross and the National. Tuberculosis Association, with the co-operation of tfte Council of Na 7 tional Defense and the U. S. Public Health Service. Each child is to be asked to keep a daily chore record to be filled out on blanks opposite sentences reading as follows: 1. I washed my hands before each meal today. .<• 2. I washed not only my face, but my ears and'neck, and I cleaned my finger nails today. 3. I tried to keep fingers, pencils and everything that might be unclean out of my mouth and nose. 4. I drank a glass of water before each meal and before going to bedr anifi drank no tea, coffeei nor other injurious drinks today. 5. I brushed my teeth thoroughly in the morning and in the evening today. • • 6. I took te nor more slow, deep breaths of fresh air today. 7. I played out-doors or with windows open more than thirty minutes today. 8. I was in bed ten hours last night and kept my windows open. 9. I ried ‘ today to sit up and stand up straight, to eat Slowly, and to attend to toilet and each need of my body at its regular time. 10. I tried today to keep; neat and cheerful constantly and to be helpful to others. 11. I took a full bath on each day of the week that is checked. Children will receive ranks and insignia of pages, squires, knights and knights banneret for faithful performance of their chores. The crusade begins in February, according to announcements sent out to Lake Division Red Cross chapters in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.