Hygienic Drinking-Cups

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Hygienic Drinking-Cups

“CHILDREN,” said the teacher one night as the bell was about to ring for dismissal, “I wish when you go home to-night, you would ask your mothers if you may have a little cup to bring to school for your own drinking-cup. And bring a nice, clean paper box to keep it in under your desk.

“Sometimes, you know, a child has the measles or the scarlet fever or some other disease, and he comes to school not knowing that he has it, before he is really sick, and gives it to other children. He is more likely to do this if others drink from the same cup with him. Then, too, I am sorry to say, there is occasionally a child who doesn’t keep his face or his mouth clean, and we don’t like to drink after him. It is much nicer for each to have his own cup.”

The next day nearly all the children brought their drinking-cups in neat paper boxes. Teacher brought a large glass pitcher from which to pour water into the cups, and a clean plate on which to set it by the water-pail.—Teacher’s Institute.