Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — Cho-Cho is Corning Children! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cho-Cho is Corning Children!

4®BMBMaia^HO-<T10! Cho-Cho! 1 £L ■ <• h <>*• <’h <»■ t»li_eJ ■ w>w~" cla u h!’* - 1 ;. , <I,. (I the “s'X> ■ ; z ~W—eluhii ( ii paekedTigw 1 IL,, ■ I mill I ljct ’he >’ig assembly ~ - “~~'T'TTt~>xti < 7iTt • I Sure* enough. it ( , ho-Chd'.'~~Tntr m health clown. The fairrihar figure xvirlk cd out on the platform ami every chilli there could see at a glance Unit—he was n really-truly, sure-enough circus clown, with his white face with red spots on it, his big white ruff, full trousers and coat, marked with the brightred-dia-monds. In one hand he carried a metal baby) -and on the other arm'-a- market basket filled with green vegetables, from the midst of which peeped a fry-ing-pan and a coffeepot and a pint bottle of milk. “Hello, children!" he called out. “Glad to see you?" And he tripped over an imaginary obstacle, nearly losing his hold on his market basket, to The unholy joy of the youthful specta tors. “Ho. ho!" he roared.- “Almost lost my dinner that time. dTrns-e vecvmhtes are precious. I eat ’em alive and get big and strong." The white figure advanced to the center of the-platform by slow stages, because of a continuous dropping of the .various nrtieles contained In his basket. In picking tip a carrot he dropped a beet and in picking up the .beet he dropped a-crrtrhage, and so on: and how these children laughed.’ At last he deposited his burdens safely mn the bench. ' “I’ve been to the country and the things and his wife. Shad I tell you about The delighted .yell that went up was answer enough. So ChceCho toldTabouTj it. The farmer and his wife showed him how the cows were milked and they told him that these animals were working overtime to get milk enough for the city children, who insisted bn drinking milk instead or tea and coffee because it makes them grow tall and i strong. This reminded him that he had had " no milk since breakfast and he must fnter e'UTESmr—ishment. for milk is a food as well as a drink and he makes it a point to drink at least a quart a day. He took tlie i bottle Of milk from Ids kskct. re moved the paper top, wiped the neck i of the bottle, carefully with a, paper napkin, explaining that he always this to any bottle or glass or cup from which he drank, as one never knows who used the article or whether or not they had whooping coughor measles or mumps or any other disease that one might catch.' Then, with much joyous blinking of the eyes and rubbing Of the stomach and wiggling of the,toes, he drank the entire contents of the bottle. He found the eggs, which the hens had laid in 'the hay, and learned that there is asifnuch nourishment in one egg as there Is in a good big piece of beefsteak. The vegetable garden was visited and he learned that spinach, a fegetalde for w’hlch he never <n»red, contains a vast amount of Irpn.

which makes one strong so that one can win races ;ind..pij.eh basebulLs_bcirli r limn any of Hie oiln‘< ft - our - gang? m ml iw-tmr —- -- And- what do you think! \\ hen he got back after chtiiig'Tlrese things tlmt Inake otic strong and healthy he had gained a whole pound. hp^'eH’Ty’tTamTimroirthe scaTet amF letting one of .the children read the FiTgures. A whole pound ! and a normal child is only supposed to gain half a jiuwul its ti whole month. He pranced about and laughed with glee over this glad hews. • And then he produced the frying pan ami the coffeepot. which he brandished in the air as he pranced gbout, Zdeehirllig t !hi4 i hey-—weTe t Ii'eAbTFtFEL enemies of all children, and the only thing that should be put in them was Igdes. Nothihg cooked in a frying pan (H* a coffeepot was fit for any child to take into his system, and he hurled them from him in a rage. TlieiTire gave a side-splitting imitation of a boy going to bed. He undressed with great care and carefully folded each garment and placed it on a chair, yawning and rubbing his eyes the while. "What does he do next?” he asked his audience. “He brushes his teeth!” vyas the reply. "He sure does,” answers Cho-Cho, “and this ts how' he brushes them, up and down, up. and down, in the new style, instead of cross-ways in the. oldfashioned way. And then he gargles his tfhroat like this, to get rid of all the dust of the street—-and next?” "fie takes a bath !” “Hight again," says the clown, and you never saw such fun as Cho-Cho _htld in l)iS-bu.Lb a= Sj ; , rtibbing himself aiuL and getting soap jn his' eyes and Tffotftli,TnnT s[rifrfFrfng”and laughing all at once. One* never realized that a bath could be such fun. ~ “And now," said he. as he rubbed his back with the imaginary towel, “what next?” “He opens his windows!" came the chorus. “Of course," Said Cho-Cho. “he opens them at the top and the bottom, like this, so that Mr. Good Air can come in and Mr. Bad Air can go out. And now - he drinks a glass oi nice. ££h£ tTiTfiks four ol' these every day and this is his last—mm. mm. it's good L Now. he jumps into bed and the first thing you know he’s snoring away_ like this." • ' 1 “1 must go now. But remember I If you do these things you'll gain half a pound a. month." So he backed away and out the door, kissing his hand and shouting "Good-by” at every step, though The children yelled so that he eoulil hai'dly be luuird at all.- = This is a true story. "It happened just this way in' New York city and is going to happen in many other cities. Cho-Cho is a real clown and he is working in this thing.Jfor Cnele Sam to make the school children, strong and healthy. , The school hygiene division of the National Bureau of Education of the | Interior Department Is carrying on a ! national health contest among the school children of (he country.. At : present thgre are, according to SecreI tary Lane. 6.<XX\OOO underweight chil-

dren in the country, and 1.>,000,01)0 suffering from dgfggts whidL. * could be prevented or corrected. The i bureau of education's 'health contest aims to reach iliese children. “Health, strength, joy” is the motto of the division, and its methods are I all directed toward making health education real fun. Health charts which 1 children till in for themselves, showing ■ their weight and height and how much • <>a < h of them gains, are sent—by.-the~ }.,iivi«i f .n t., _« 11 ■ hmfir and teachersi which a-k for them; Brightly colored pttmpblets for teachers and children, ' and personal letters, give advice about i health problems. And best and latest H>f all, Cho-Cho. real circus clomt, has been employed to make amusing and helpful talks on what jt child should eat. wear and do to be-strong and well. It is a fact that at least 15 per cent of our children today are suffering from nullnutrition, resulting not so much from eating too little as from ea ti ng an d d rtnki n g th e wrong Id nd of - food. All sorts of methods have been tried, with very little success, to remedy this condition, to induce the parents to provide and thfe, children to eat the foods that will nourish and give tliem st reng th. Cho-Cho and a pair of scales, on which each child can be weighed once a month, is a combination tlmt will go a very long way toward bringing about the desired results. .... The monthly weighing is a most important factor in this work. Johnny and Jenny, who have rigidly lived up weeks, step onto the scales wiTh ilieir eyes .shlhhlg ahd their hearts pounding with excitement. If they-~luive —gaitted ~ more than-1 he desired half a pound, their cup of joy is brimming over, and If, on the other hand, they ttre not quite up to the mark, their ghilty consciences remind them of the coffee which they have drunk or of the baths which they neg- ; lected to take, or the green vegetables | which they refused to eat, and they realize that Cho-Cho .was right—one cannot do these things and still gain his Imlf a pound a month. _ Cho-Cho is very busy these days. He is booked solid for months to come in various cities. But one clown cannot ~ao~nTFtlie work of the country, and so" other Cho-Chos are being trained. It i« a nation-wide campaign, which they are waging to better the condition of the boys and girls who are to constitute the next generation of our citizens. , —: r-ts “What the Dickens.” Shake peare as well as Dickens anticipated some modern catch phrases, such as the popular injunction to keep your hair on. “You are like to lose y our tifur '”—remarks one of the characters in, **the Tempest." Then we find Falstaff exclaiming: “The game is up.” “I cannot tell what the dickens his name is." ~~ And a thirsty soul In “Antdny and Cleopatra” confesses: **l have yet room slv-stnntehya. more.”—London Chronicle. -