Uochester, V. Y., Syracuse, N. Y., cities all over the country, yes, and little country villages contribute the evidence in every increasing number of cases, all of which, that keeping good and warm doesn't mean good mental efficiency, and that keeping cool and well does.
A Western court recently decided a verdict against a contractor for personal damages in the case of a laborer who, while at work for the contractor, drank water supplied by the employee and developed typhoid fever in consequence. The court held that it was the contractor's duty to see that the drinking water was not polluted. Hood. A sign indicating the direction of the wind.
When schoolrooms are badly ventilated, when the air is so foul it almost knocks you down as to enter in the middle of the session, it is a question whether school boards may not be held pecuniarily responsible for the injury to the school child's health, for the contagious diseases, the "children's diseases," such a condition invites. It not legally responsible, then the school authorities are surely responsible so. Both and morally the parents. And a parent who is afraid to protest, to complain, to file his vigorous objection in the most public manner he can devise, is a very sorry sort of parent indeed.
There are too many moral cowards in the community.  The community. A schoolroom that shows a temperature of 7.5 degrees is badly ventilated and a menace to the children forced to spend five hours a day in it. 