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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Poliomyelitis.-Miller Poliomyelitis.-Miller in the present time as in the past, the children of the best white families spend a large part of their childhood in the care and in contact with a colored nurse. It is very important to the welfare of both races that the young colored women who have the care of those children should be well trained and disciplined. It is important that they should understand thoroughly all the physical needs of the children under their care, so that they can keep them in good health. It is equally necessary that these young women's minds should be trained; that they should possess a great store of the wholesome and beautiful lore of childhood, that they should know how to share in their games, their play, and, in all their associations with the children, to impart this lore and learning of childhood in such a way as to inspire high, pure thoughts and ideas, rather than the reverse. On the other hand, perhaps the greatest need of the Negroes, as of most other people, is that something should be done in the schools the young colored women who have the care of those children should build better and more comfortable houses. They must learn to arrange the whole life that goes on within these homes in an orderly manner. The cooking must be wholesome. The meals must be served regularly, and with a certain amount of ceremony. There must be good books, sound habits, and wholesome ideas. A man can build the house but the woman must, for the most part, furnish the sort of culture and refinement that makes it a home. The course in child nurture and nursing has been established to complete the training in home building which is carried on as part of the industrial training of young women at Tuskegee. POLIOMYELITIS