Towels in the Schools

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1909

Towels in the Schools

THE city physician of Des Moines has made a recommendation that ought to be adopted by all the school boards in the United States. He says that individual towels should be furnished for the children in the public schools, and that if this is not done, there should be no towels at all in the schoolhouses. It must be admitted that this physician speaks truthfully when he declares that the “public” towels now used by the children are reeking with disease germs, and are unfit for use. Either discard them altogether or give each child in the school his own individual towel daily. This advice is so timely and sensible that one wonders why such a plan was not adopted by wise school boards long ago. Individual towels or none.—Selected.