Eugenics in race and state.

  • International Congress of Eugenics
Date:
1923
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    LIPE STORIES OF ШСН SCHOOL GRADUATES 389 One woman who has taught school for twenty-seven years, and attended normals almost every summer reports perfect health. Another woman says she has been ill only two weeks in eighteen years. Seven have undergone appendectomy. One man lost an arm during military service in the Phillipines, but health has been good since. One woman with a record of poor health says her mother had a similar history and that her daughter is a frail, nervous girl. Another woman who has had seven minor and three major operations and five years of neuritis is stiU going strong and expects to live out her allotted time of three score years and ten. Only one case of typhoid and malaria were reported. Both of these occurred while they were living in Oklahoma during the pioneer days. With such a splendid record of health in the group, it is to be expected that their children should have the same or better. ШОН SCHOOL INFLUENCES Only eight of the twenty-seven recall the marked influence of any one teacher. However, there was one teacher of English who seems to have inculcated two habits with the majority, if not all of the class. First, the habit of reading and studying books worth while as is shown in their libraries that they have collected. Second, the habit of fastidious personal cleanliness, the result, to some extent, of her frequent talks on Not every woman is beautiful, but everyone can be beautifully clean. Her instruc¬ tions on the care of the hair and teeth must have been right and obeyed as all of the girls still have plenty of hair, and only one is compelled to wear an artificial denture. In the early nineties, the Saturday night bath was a national habit and this teacher's insistance on the daily bath was almost revolutionary. But may it not be assumed that these habits of personal hygiene which she helped to fix, have been determining factors in the remarkable health and longevity of the group? Five of the group who have made financial successes, rate their high school work very highly; two others say it had no value. Three of the four women teachers consider the high school course the foundation of all achievements. Four women engaged in various occupations place a great deal of emphasis on the good results they secured from the training; but one says, It had no value to me whatever. Eleven did not answer the question.