"Della saw the parade," said Ethel Brown. "She told me there were signs that said 'It's cheaper to put a sprinkler in your factory than to rebuild the factory'; and 'One cigarette in a factory may cost thousands of dollars in repairs.'"
"The doctors have been working to prevent disease," said Roger. "James has often told me what his father is doing to teach people how to avoid being sick."
"All these clean-up campaigns are really for the prevention of illness as much as the making of cleanliness," said Mrs. Morton.
"Everything of that sort educates people, and we can apply the same methods to our own lives," advised Mrs. Morton. "Why can't we have a household campaign to prevent giving Mary unnecessary work and to avoid irritating each other?"
"All that can be worked in as part of the duties of the Service Club," said Ethel Blue.
"Certainly it can. What's the matter, Ethel Brown?"
Ethel Brown was on the point of tears.
"One of the girls at school gave me an order for cookies the other day," she said, "and I didn't do them because we went over to the Hancocks' that afternoon."
"You got your own punishment there," remarked Roger. "If you didn't fill the order you didn't get any pay."
"That wasn't all. She was going to take them to a cousin of hers who was just getting over the mumps. She wanted to surprise her. She was awfully mad because I didn't make them. She said she had depended on them and she didn't have anything to take to her cousin."