. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. p candy, drinkingfrom a common cup, going to see other childrenwho have had a contagious disease, drinking milkthat has been uncovered, leaving the cover off yourgarbage can, letting flies get into the house, tak^ing medicine without a doctors orders, staying uplate at night, and sleeping with your windowsclosed, cause many of the diseases that the hos-pital has to cure. There is one more help toward growing up auseful member of Uncle Sams family. Just assoon as a boy is old enough to go into the manualtraining room at school, or a girl
. What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship. p candy, drinkingfrom a common cup, going to see other childrenwho have had a contagious disease, drinking milkthat has been uncovered, leaving the cover off yourgarbage can, letting flies get into the house, tak^ing medicine without a doctors orders, staying uplate at night, and sleeping with your windowsclosed, cause many of the diseases that the hos-pital has to cure. There is one more help toward growing up auseful member of Uncle Sams family. Just assoon as a boy is old enough to go into the manualtraining room at school, or a girl into the cook-ing room, Uncle Sam wants this boy and girl torub Aladdins lamp. See, somewhere ahead ofyou, the home your handwork is going to helpmake for you. A boy who learns to be a car-penter, or an engineer, or an electrician, or aprinter, or a farmer, or any one of the other use-ful tradesmen the public schools will make him,can earn a home. He can rent a house at first,and buy one, perhaps, later. He can save some HELPING HIS DEPENDENT FAMILY 89. THE GIRL WHO LEARNS TO SEW IS ONE OF UNCLE SAMS HOMEMAKERS money and when he is old he will not be a towncharge, cared for in a public home. The girl who learns to cook, and sew, and takegood care of all the furniture, and coverings, andcooking utensils, and dishes, and pictures, andbooks, and plants that make a home, will behelping to keep that home for the future. Ifshe learns how to take care of the sick, and buyfood without wasting money, and keep accounts, andcultivate a garden, she will be an even greaterhelp in Uncle Sams family of homemakers. 90 WHAT TO DO FOR UNCLE SAM The home that Uncle Sam wants hoys and girlsto begin thinking and planning for, even when theyare in school, is as large as they can possiblyafford to build it. It has some extra rooms sothat there will be a place for the grandmotherand grandfather if they should need to come andlive in it. Sometimes the town wishes to pay forboarding an orphan child, or
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