Child’s Day

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The Child’s Day, by Woods Hutchinson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1912.

This hygiene book is aimed at elementary school aged children. It has a lot of assumptions built into it,

Boys ought to wash their hair every week; and girls, every two weeks; and girls, especially, should be careful to dry their hair very thoroughly afterwards.

And some strangled sentence constructions:

Why ought children’s first teeth to be thoroughly brushed every day?

illustration of a girl reading a book

The illustrations are sometimes very bad (especially the photographs), but some are quite charming, such as the one I’m showing here.

PG 18559