Both Uses of
hygiene
in
Main Street
- She alternately detested herself for not appreciating the kindly women, and detested them for their advice: lugubrious hints as to how much she would suffer in labor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions about the things she must eat and read and look at in prenatal care for the baby's soul, and always a pest of simpering baby-talk.†
Chpt 20 *
- But——Please don't think I'm unsympathetic if I ask one question: Will the teachers in the hygienic new building go on informing the children that Persia is a yellow spot on the map, and 'Caesar' the title of a book of grammatical puzzles?"†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(hygiene) practices promoting the prevention of illness and maintenance of health -- such as cleanliness or promoting sanitary conditions