Part 20 (2/2)

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(_New York Times_)

ONLY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH POOR EYES

There was opened down Hester Street way last week the only public school in the world for children with defective eyes Bad eyesight has been urged for years as a cause of backwardness and incorrigibility in school children Now the public school authorities plan, for the first time, not only to teach children whose eyes are defective, but to cure them as well

(5) (_The Outlook_)

DISEASED TEETH AND BAD HEALTH BY MATTHIAS NICOLL, JR

The complete disappearance of teeth frohly cultivated classes of huone far on a course that leads to the coenerations Only by immediate adoption of the most active and widespread measures of prevention can the hu of the whale

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(_Harper's Weekly_)

THE SPAN OF LIFE

BY WALTER E WEYL

You who begin this sentence may not live to read its close There is a chance, one in three or four billions, that you will die in a second, by the tick of the watch The chair upon which you sit may collapse, the car in which you ride may collide, your heart may suddenly cease Or you may survive the sentence and the article, and live twenty, fifty, eighty years longer

No one knows the span of your life, and yet the insuranceto bet upon it What is life insurance but the bet of an unknown nuainst the payth of your individual life is a guess, but the insurance coe death rate

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(_The Outlook_)

”AMERICANS FIRST”

BY GREGORY MASON

Every third n country

And three out of every four persons there were either born abroad or born here of foreign-born parents In short, in Detroit, only every fourth person you meet was born in this country of American parents