. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. atteredall over the country and keeps them in excel-lent repair, in addition to improving and enlargingthem continually. These include post offices, lighthouses, Indian schools, quarantine stations, hos-pitals, and houses where government employees live. Learning to cook well may take a girl into oneof Uncle Sams food stations, for the United Statesis thinking very hard about its pantries. UncleSam, himself, is going to market to learn how muchthings ought to cost, which foods are better to buybecause of the nourishment they contain, and
. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. atteredall over the country and keeps them in excel-lent repair, in addition to improving and enlargingthem continually. These include post offices, lighthouses, Indian schools, quarantine stations, hos-pitals, and houses where government employees live. Learning to cook well may take a girl into oneof Uncle Sams food stations, for the United Statesis thinking very hard about its pantries. UncleSam, himself, is going to market to learn how muchthings ought to cost, which foods are better to buybecause of the nourishment they contain, and howthey should be cooked. The Government is makingrecipe books that are sent for the cost of the postageto those who want them. It is regulating the scalesused by the grocer, the butcher, and the vegetableman, and is even doing a little canning and pre-serving on its own account to find out just the bestway of keeping foods. Your school drawing will help you to do Govern-ment draughting, perhaps, or help in the patent GETTING READY TO WORK FOR HIM 203. Copyright, Clinedinst, Washing-ton, D. IN THE U. S. SENATE WITH THEIR CAPTAIN office. Nature study may lead you into forestry,or the great work of keeping our wild fowl, birds,and animals safe in the National parks. Knowinga foreign language is a splendid thing for boys andgirls because Uncle Sam is always in need ofinterpreters. If you prepare yourself well for your schooltests and pass them, you will be almost sure to beable to pass Uncle Sams examinations. There areseveral hundred of them, known as civil serviceexaminations, and almost any one who has been 204 WHAT TO DO FOR UNCLE SAM graduated from the public schools can pass boy of fourteen may be appointed as a page, anapprentice, or a messenger. When he is eighteenhe is eligible for a Government position as railwayclerk, lighthouse keeper, cadet in the revenue serv-ice, a surfman, or an assistant in the WeatherBureau. Like most other great helps to our coun
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