. Health in home and town. boys should be cheer-ful and helpful. They should take pride in helping tocare for the home, or in doing errands for one should keep their own things in order, and shouldput away games and books after using them. The Well-Regulated Home. — Good family habitsare just as necessary as good personal habits. A regulartime for rising, for eating, for working, for recreation,and for retiring, all help in making the family life well-ordered, regular, and hygienic. Promptness is a greathelp in the home. Each day brings its own work and eachseason its own duties.


. Health in home and town. boys should be cheer-ful and helpful. They should take pride in helping tocare for the home, or in doing errands for one should keep their own things in order, and shouldput away games and books after using them. The Well-Regulated Home. — Good family habitsare just as necessary as good personal habits. A regulartime for rising, for eating, for working, for recreation,and for retiring, all help in making the family life well-ordered, regular, and hygienic. Promptness is a greathelp in the home. Each day brings its own work and eachseason its own duties. The family life, games, sports, andpleasures are an education to the different individuals. THE HEALTHFUL HOME 5 The Use of the Home. — For many centuries homeshave sheltered and protected parents and their civilized lands they have done more than this. Thehome is the place for growth and development. Thechange in life to better and better things should bereflected in the home. As old thoughts are outgrown. The Well-Kept House of a Laboring Man for new, so the old home should be replenished to reflectthe new growth. But the home is more than a is the place of peace and rest. It is the place wherewe renew, daily, our strength and inspiration. Living Together. — Courtesy and forbearance makeliving together in the family a source of happiness. Thehappy home is cheer, is peace, is trust, is delight;it is all these for, and all these in, each other. Thelittle festivals of love are kept, but, after all, the bestdays are the every-days. Longfellow has expressed asimilar thought, Home-keeping hearts are 6 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN Municipal Housekeeping. — As people live togetherin families, so families live together in villages, towns,and cities. Many problems of living must be solvedby the community as a whole wherever a large numberof people live together. A safe water-supply andsewage system are the chief essentials. Sufficient policeand fire


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