THE HYGIENIC SCHOOLBOY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 5

THE HYGIENIC SCHOOLBOY.

“This,” says Mr. Carmichael. Minister of Publiclnstriiction in New South Wales, "is tho Hygienic Schoolboy. 1 didn't invent him, but 1 have developed him so that ho is beyond recognition in comparison with previous types of tho samo species. Ho never chews the end of a pen or pencil. For seven generations, neither ho nor his ancestors have ever spat on a slate; in fact, they have not used slates for fifty years. Tho Boy would rather die than take a bite out" of another boy’s apple or watermelon. If any unenlightened \ouug savage, by a clever jog at his elbow, throws on the ground the orango which ho has begun to suck, ho takes tho orango to the Health Department to bo sterilised before, ho extracts anymore of its juice. Ho is never without a pocket handkerchief made of antiseptic gauze, and ho keeps tho handkerchief in a different pocket front tho string he pulled out of tho rubbishbasket, and tho frog ho found in the garden fivo minutes ago. Whenever the Boy* goes fishing, ho keeps his hooks and lino in a solution of carbolic acid up to tho moment when ho begins to use them, and ho covers his hands with specially-medicated collodion if they begin to chafe. Ho sprinkles tho ,desk with phenyl before ho begins to write, and ho would not uso a drinking-cup after another boy, without washing it for 20 minutes in water super-heated under pressure to 250 deg. Fahrenheit. Two Hygienic Boys will not fight, unless each can show tho other that he has been disinfected not more than one hour before tho combat begins.”