Part 19

III. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL. 1. Have you a park near your home? When the people leave at the end of the day, how do the lawns and paths look? Are there cans in the park to hold the papers and scraps? 2. How are the streets in your town cleaned in winter? In summer? 3. How do the houses get rid of their waste? 4. If the waste goes into a river, is the river water used for drinking? Who decides where the drinking water for the town shall come from? 5. Why are drinks containing alcohol harmful to take (give four reasons)? What is a narcotic? How does drinking alcohol lead to crime? 6. Write down five ways in which you can help to keep your town or city beautiful. Five ways in which you can help to keep your own home beautiful. 7. Why should every city have parks for the children?

THE EVENING MEAL

1. Play housekeeping, and order the dinner. 2. Write down a list of things for a good supper. 3. Why does Nature give us so many different kinds of food? How does she teach us not to eat too much of one kind at a time? 4. Write down on the board as many of each of these kinds of food as you can:--meats; vegetables; fruits; breads; sweet foods; fish; grains; food (not fruit) that does not need cooking; food to drink. 5. How do you help to make meal times pleasant? Make up a story about the picture on p. 159, and tell it in class.

A PLEASANT EVENING

1. Just after a meal, what is your stomach doing? How can you help your digestion? 2. Have you played any of the games mentioned here? How did you play them? 3. Look at the picture on p. 165; why is this a good after-supper corner? How do you sit and hold your book when you read in the evening? 4. What parts of your body are you exercising and taking care of when you read? Of what use is a healthy, vigorous body without a healthy, vigorous mind? How can you keep your mind healthy? How can you keep it vigorous? 5. What kind of books do you like best to read? Tell the class the names of some good ones.

GOOD NIGHT

I. GETTING READY FOR BED. 1. At what hour do you go to bed? When do you get up? How many hours' sleep does this give you? Is this enough? Why do you need so much sleep? 2. As you undress, what do you do with the clothes you take off? Why should you air your clothes every night? How can you take an air bath? Is this as good as a wash? 3. How do you care for your hair at night? 4. Do you ever go to bed without brushing your teeth? If you do, what happens all night long to the food scraps that were left around and between your teeth? As these scraps decay, what harm do they do? What makes a tooth ache? 5. Draw a little picture of your own teeth as you see them in a looking-glass. Are there any spaces that you can see where food might lodge and stay? How can you keep your teeth quite free from scraps of food? 6. Why are teeth necessary? How must they grow to make good cutting tools? If they are not straight or sound, what can you do about it? 7. Why ought children's first teeth to be thoroughly brushed every day?

II. THE LAND OF NOD. 1. When you are ready for bed, how do you fix your windows? Why is it even more necessary to have the air blowing through the room at night than in the daytime? 2. How else is your body being purified at night? Does your body do any work while you are sleeping? What work? 3. What kind of sleep should you have if you are perfectly well?