WRITING A HEALTH BOOK

(4) Caring for Baby

Bathing; clothing; food; fresh air.

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(5) Caring for Health in Public Places Coughing, sneezing, spitting. Using individual drinking cups or bubble fountains.

(6) The Government's Care of Health

Medical inspection in schools; inspection of food, milk, drinking water; sewage; collection of garbage; housing laws; hospitals; district nurses.

(7) Food and Drink

What should be eaten, what avoided; good manners at table; right habits of eating and drinking to promote health.

(8) Quarantine Cards

What are they; why posted; by whom?

(9) Milk Stations and Ice Stations

Are there such stations in your neighborhood? By whom are they kept? Why?

(10) The School Nurse

How does the school nurse help keep you well?

(11) Overcrowding

Why are overcrowded houses, public buildings, and street cars or trains unhealthful?

(12) Darkness and Dampness

Why are dark, damp rooms, unventilated workshops, and cellars, dangerous to health?

(13) What I Can Do to Help Make my Home a Healthful Place.

(14) What I Can Do to Help Make my School a Healthful Place.

(15) What I Can Do to Help Make my City a Healthful Place.

XII. HOW HONESTY MAY BE SHOWN The village blacksmith was honest. A good American is honest in all his dealings.

1. Below is a list of words that may be used in place of honest. Read them.

Honorable, fair, open, straightforward, upright, just, true, faithful, trusty, reliable, trustworthy, truthful, sincere, frank.

Would you not like to have these words apply to you?

2. Below is a list of words that mean the opposite of honest. Read them.

Lying, unscrupulous, untrue, deceitful, dishonest, false, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous, dishonorable, insincere.

Would you like to have anyone use these words in speaking of you?

3. Write eight sentences telling how a good citizen and remember that you are a citizencan show honesty in work; in play; in paying debts; in speech; in study; in money matters; in treating the property of others; concerning the rights of others.

XIII. CARING FOR THE COMMON WEALTH 1

Make a list of all the things in your city or town or village that you own as much as anybody. How should you care for and protect this property?

XIV. CHAPTER TEST

1. The Duties of a Good American Citizen

A teacher in England, named John Smith, has written a letter to your teacher in which he asks this question: "What can boys and girls in your school do to show that they are good American citizens?"

Write a letter to Mr. John Smith, answering his question. In your answer, think of such things as these: your appearance health, cleanliness, neatness; your treatment of others family, school friends, strangers; your work — at

Note to the teacher: Important suggestions are in the Manual, page 244.

home, at school; your care of public property; your speech.

Your letter will show whether or not you know the duties of a good American, and how well you can write the language of your country. Be careful of your writing, spelling, punctuation, and choice of words.

2. Copy and memorize the following quotation : Every feat of heroism makes us forever indebted to the man who performed it. . . . . . All of us lift our heads higher, because those of our countrymen whose trade it is to meet danger have met it well and bravely. All of us are poorer for every base or ignoble deed done by an American, for every instance of selfishness or weakness or folly.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

FOR REFERENCE AND REVIEW; BOOKS TO READ; SPELLING DEMONS; PARTS OF SPEECH; USES OF CAPITALS AND MARKS OF PUNC

TUATION; ABBREVIATIONS

Note to the teacher: Your Manual suggests some of the many uses to which the material of this chapter can be put.

I. ONE HUNDRED GOOD BOOKS TO READ

You will enjoy reading many of the following books. Do not try to read them all. While you are in school, two or three books each month will be quite enough. You might read more in vacations.

Where can you get these books? Large public libraries have them all. Small libraries will surely have many of them. If the librarian knows that you and your classmates want to read them, she will try to get more. Perhaps you have a school or classroom library which contains many or all of these books. If not, would you not like to start such a library? Talk with your teacher about it.