Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 19

19 “The Roof Over Your Head— Does it leak! If so, consult us. Eesti- ()] mates gratis—service, 'satisfactory. n «. FERGUSON _ 1. 1114 5¢h St. N.W. Ph. N. 231-232. PAINTING BY EXPERTS ‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1921. ° HEALTH TEACHING [ s o AT SEADOLSLRCED Government Printing Office. | Harry Boernstein, for forty-two ]yelrs an employe of the government 20 Per Cent of Pupils Re- ported to Be in Under- nourished Condition.. | printing office and dean of the proof Pointing out that at least 20 per| {room there, was presented with a Icem of the American school children and dialects, and was regarded as an Suthority at the print shap on_ the |DASHES THROUGH BRIDGE. Latin tongue, French, Spanish and Italian, as well as on German and | EVERETT, Wash, December 12— | Austrian. He also had a knowledge |TWO men aro belleved to have been | of Hebrew script, Greek and Scandi. | ¥illed and several suffered injuries in | navian tongues, and could decipher |% Wrecx of Great Northern train No. Chinese and Japanese characters. 7 forty miles east-of here. The tra He is sixty-five years of age, and |which wus a fast mail carrier, pluazed | e . He e ton o G270, | through a bridge which recent floods | printer and compositor in the royal |had damaged. Mail Clerk Samuel Hile- British_printing establishment thére, ‘man and Fireman George Irving are where his father was in charge. believed to have been drowned. W % % % DEEPLY CUT BUY NOW AND SAVE !large traveling kit by fello = ployes on the occasion’ of his retire- ment from the service Saturday. are so much undernourished as to be in a serious condition, James J. TigeTt, | federal commissioner of education, to- | DOMESTIC—SAVE 8c SARDINES 3 =10 NEW YORK STATE—WHOLE MILK CHEESE *27 A BEANS =5 PEA HOLIDAY SPECI He was a specialist languages day called upon the teachers of the | =2 | Give Your Child the Greatest Of All Christmas Gifts—One That Brings a Life-time of Joy N |joys a period of full physical efficiency ; for only ten years,” said Commis- y . 9 The Nation’s Greatest Asset sioner Tigert. “Iliness is one of the great causes of poverty and family | misfortune. “Among our children of school age N |at least 20 per cent are so,much! undernourished as to be in a serious | The children of today are the citizens tomorrow. They are the nation’s asset. No labor is so imperative as that of making the children into 100% Ameri- can citizens. We do not want condition. The rejection of at least one out of every four young men in | the draft brought startlingly to our attention our failure in health and N [physical education. 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