Adenoids are not monopolized by children whose parents are ignorant of the importance of them and of physical examination. Last summer I was asked by a small boy to buy some chocolate. A glance at his cigar box with its two or three uninviting things for sale showed that the boy was really begging. He had thick lips, open mouth, "misty" eyes, and a nasal twang. I asked him if his teacher had not told him he had lumps back of his nose and could not breathe right. He said, "No." I explained then that he could make a great deal more money if he talked like other boys, stepped livelier, and breathed as other people breathe. He said he had "been by a doctor onct but didn't want to be op'rated." I turned to my companion and asked, "Have you never noted those same lines on your boy's face?" Although he had been lecturing on mouth breathers, he had never noticed his own boy's trouble. He hastened home and found the infallible signs. The mother declared it could not be true of her boy. About five months before, their family physician had said of the child's earache, "The same inflammation of the nasal passages that causes earache causes adenoids; you must be on the lookout." Although in the country, the boy's appetite was not good and his zest for play had flagged. They had looked for the trouble to back generations and in psychology books,--everywhere but at the boy's face, in his mouth, and in his nose. After the operation, which took less than two minutes, the appetite was ravenous, the eyes cleared, and the spirit rebounded to its old buoyancy that craved worlds to conquer. The new personal experience made a deep impression upon my friend's mind. He wanted everybody to know how easy it was to overlook a child's distress. One person after another had a story to tell him; even the janitor said: "You'd ought to have seen our John at sixteen. He spent a week by the hospital." The only people who do not seem to know more than the new convert are the mouth breathers whom he religiously stops on the street. The indexes to adenoids and large tonsils for the teacher to read at school are: 1. Inability to breathe through the nose. 2. A chronically running nose, accompanied by frequent nose-bleeds and a cough to clear the throat. 3. Stuffy speech and delayed learning to talk. "Common" is pronounced "cobbed"; "nose," "dose"; and "song," "sogg." 4. A narrow upper jaw and irregular crowding of the teeth. 5. Deafness. 6. Chorea or nervousness. 7. Inflamed eyes and conjunctivitis. The adenoids and large tonsils discovered at school are an index: 1. To children needlessly handicapped in school work. 2. To teachers needlessly burdened. 3. To whole classes held back by afflicted children. 4. To breeding grounds for disease. 5. To homes where children's diseases and tuberculosis are most likely to break out and flourish.