(Kansas City Star)

    MUST YOUR HOME BURN?

    Autumn is the season of burning homes.

Furnaces and stoves will soon be lighted.  They have been unused all summer and rubbish may have been piled near them or the flues may have rusted and slipped out of place unobserved in the long period of disuse.  Persons start their fires in a sudden cold snap.  They don’t take time to investigate.  Then the fire department has work to do.

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    (New York Times)

    ONLY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH POOR EYES

There was opened down Hester Street way last week the only public school in the world for children with defective eyes.  Bad eyesight has been urged for years as a cause of backwardness and incorrigibility in school children.  Now the public school authorities plan, for the first time, not only to teach children whose eyes are defective, but to cure them as well.

    (5) (The Outlook)

    DISEASED TEETH AND BAD HEALTH BY MATTHIAS NICOLL, JR.

The complete disappearance of teeth from the human mouth is the condition towards which the most highly cultivated classes of humanity are drifting.  We have already gone far on a course that leads to the coming of a toothless age in future generations.  Only by immediate adoption of the most active and widespread measures of prevention can the human tooth be saved from the fate that has befallen the leg of the whale.

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    (Harper’s Weekly)

    THE SPAN OF LIFE

    BY WALTER E. WEYL

You who begin this sentence may not live to read its close.  There is a chance, one in three or four billions, that you will die in a second, by the tick of the watch.  The chair upon which you sit may collapse, the car in which you ride may collide, your heart may suddenly cease.  Or you may survive the sentence and the article, and live twenty, fifty, eighty years longer.

No one knows the span of your life, and yet the insurance man is willing to bet upon it.  What is life insurance but the bet of an unknown number of yearly premiums against the payment of the policy? * * * * The length of your individual life is a guess, but the insurance company bets on a sure thing, on the average death rate.

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    (The Outlook)

    “AMERICANS FIRST”

    BY GREGORY MASON

Every third man you meet in Detroit was born in a foreign country.  And three out of every four persons there were either born abroad or born here of foreign-born parents.  In short, in Detroit, only every fourth person you meet was born in this country of American parents.  Such is the make-up of the town which has been called “the most American city in the United States.”

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