At a school in London attended chiefly by poor working-class children the experiment was made in one standard of giving each little girl her own piece of soap and a small envelope of waterproof sheeting in which to keep it—this, in contradistinction to the common practice of there being one cloakroom cake of soap for the general use of all children using the room. It was a lesson in practical pei "sonal hygiene which worked excellent ly with the children, though jo few mothers complained of the super-faddishness of their offspring when the latter objected to sharing the common family cake of soap, and "wanted a slice cut off for themselves is an experiment which will bear repetition; one, indeed, which demands repetition on an extended Iscale. Children should be brought jap on the "to each their own" system where toilet articles concerned, and it is a wi who from' toddling days gives each her kiddies a toothbrush, sponge bag, soap tablet, sponge and so on, "all their very own." The joyous individuality of such things delights tiny children as much as it adds: to the common welfare of the world. The boys and girls also grow up with the desirable habit formed as a natural part of their (character instead of having to relearn such things in later life.
It is perfectly easy, and in many cases correct, for mothers to say that it does not matter when tiny brothers and sisters use the same soap tablet, the same sponge, and so on. It is not the "mattering" of the moment so much as the "mattering" of the future that counts. The promiscuous use of soap and other articles of toilet jhas been proved to be responsible for much spread of disease, but in many cases the habit of doing so exists simply because folk have "never been taught any better"—they have been brought up to share common toilet articles and utterly fail to realize that any possible harm may come from the habit. This attitude is obviated when from their earliest days children are taught that it is a proper and important matter to have their lown soap—and other things. like grip her femininity, for only by putting the things into politics that man, in his stupidity, leaves out is anything worth while to be accomplished. We might as well throw a number of illiterate men
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