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an equal amount of nutriment if carefully and tastefully
prepared.
Trades and arts are usually acquired by careful training
under the instruction of skilled masters, but no instruction
is usually given in the art of preparing food in the most
economical and healthful manner, other than by mistresses,
who, from having paid little or no attention to such matters
themselves, ore incompetent to teach, and cooking is commonly
learned hap-hazard, at a large and constant cost for
waste.
Teachers should commence by teaching what to buy,
and how to cook for those with the humblest means.
School Board.
1874.—It is most important that schools should not be
allowed to be a means of spreading disease by receiving
children affected with contagious disease. And it is satisfactory
to know that children are not re-admitted to school
after having had contagious diseases without a certificate
from the medical man who has had such cases in charge that
recovery has taken place.
What a vast additional instrument for good the School
Board might become if children were instructed in that most
desirable information, the means of preventing the causes
and spread of disease ! If they were taught to fear the
disadvantages and poison of intemperance, the danger of
overcrowding, the necessity for pure water and pure air ; in
fact if that sanitary knowledge which the poorer classes
especially require were instilled into the plastic minds of
young children !
1856. The elm trees of this parish are being destroyed
by a small beetle (the Scalytus Destructor.) Unless attended
to all fine elm trees in the parish must ere long yield to
insect lavages. The plan which I should suggest (and