Healthy living . Fig. 6.—Health habits: vigor-ous play in the open air. i8 HEALTHY LIVING you are walking or running about. Dont loll and siton the middle of your back with your feet on the chairor sofa. Old people and sick people and tired peoplemay need to rest in this way, but a child should be ableto sit up, straight and strong. Dont forget to give your eyes a chance, too. Thosetwo eyes are among your very best and most useful servants. Keep them strongand clear by always having agood light when you reador sew. Bedtime.—^At last bedtimecomes. The body that hasworked hard all day mustrest a
Healthy living . Fig. 6.—Health habits: vigor-ous play in the open air. i8 HEALTHY LIVING you are walking or running about. Dont loll and siton the middle of your back with your feet on the chairor sofa. Old people and sick people and tired peoplemay need to rest in this way, but a child should be ableto sit up, straight and strong. Dont forget to give your eyes a chance, too. Thosetwo eyes are among your very best and most useful servants. Keep them strongand clear by always having agood light when you reador sew. Bedtime.—^At last bedtimecomes. The body that hasworked hard all day mustrest and grow, so as to dostill more to-morrow. Dontshorten the sleep time thatit needs. The teeth must be brushedagain. And then—to bed, ina room with the window opento let in the cool fresh air, and off to the land of dreamswith the memory of a well-spent day!. Fig. 7. -Health habits: a goodnights rest. Questions for Discussion and Review 1. What was a knight? What did a boy have to do to becomea knight? 2. Do we have any knights in America? What quahties thatthe knights had are still needed to-day? 3. Is it important that girls as well as boys should be strongand health)^? Why? A WELL-SPENT DAY 19 4. Is illness ever a persons own fault? Try to think of somecases in which illness would be the result of bad habits. 5. What are the things that a boy or girl should do beforebreakfast to get ready for a good day? How many of them didyou do this morning? 6. George was very sleepy one morning and lay in bed till itwas nearly time to start for school. He drank one mouthful ofmilk and took one slice of bread to eat as he ran, and he forgotthe lunch he generally took to school. Tell how you think Georgefelt during the morning, how he got along in his lessons, and howwell he played in the ball game at recess. 7. Why are games that are played by teams
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