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GOOD MORNING I. Waking Up II. A Good Start III. Bathing and BrushingBREAKFASTGOING TO SCHOOL I. Getting Ready II. An Early Romp III. Fresh Air—Why We Need It IV. Fresh Air—How We Breathe ItIN SCHOOL I. Bringing the Fresh Air In II. Hearing and Listening III. Seeing and Reading IV. A Drink of Water V. Little Cooks VI. Tasting and Smelling VII. Talking and Reciting VIII. Thinking and Answering'ABSENT TO-DAY?' I. Keeping Well II. Some Foes to Fight III. Protecting Our FriendsWORK AND PLAY I. Growing Strong II. Accidents III. The City BeautifulTHE EVENING MEALA PLEASANT EVENINGGOOD NIGHT I. Getting Ready for Bed II. The Land of NodQUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

The Child's Day Chapter 1 WAKING UP

If there is anything that we all enjoy, it is waking up on a bright spring morning and seeing the sunlight pouring into the room. You all know the poem beginning,-

"I remember, I remember

The house where I was born;

The little window where the sun

Came peeping in at morn."

You are feeling fresh and rested and happy after your good night's sleep and you are eager to be up and out among the birds and the flowers.

You are perfectly right in being glad to say "Good morning" to the sun, for he is one of the best friends you have. Doesn't he make the flowers blossom, and the trees grow? And he makes the apples redden, too, and the wheat-ears fill out, and the potatoes grow under the ground, and the peas and beans and melons and strawberries and raspberries above it. All these things that feed you and keep you healthy are grown by the heat of the sun. So if it were not for the sunlight we should all starve to death.

While sunlight is pouring down from the sun to the earth, it is warming and cleaning the air, burning up any poisonous gases, or germs, that may be in it. By heating the air, it starts it to rising. If you will watch, you can see the air shimmering and rising from an open field on a broiling summer day, or wavering and rushing upward from a hot stove or an open register in winter. Hold a little feather fluff or blow a puff of flour above a hot stove, and it will go sailing up toward the ceiling. As the heated air rises, the cooler air around rushes in to fill the place that it has left, and the outdoor "drafts" are made that we call winds.

These winds keep the air moving about in all directions constantly, like water in a boiling pot, and in this way keep it fresh and pure and clean. If it were not for this, the air would become foul and damp and stagnant, like the water in a ditch or marshy pool. So the Sun God, as our ancestors in the Far East used to call him thousands of years ago, not only gives us our food to eat, but keeps the air fit for us to breathe.

In still another way the sun is one of our best friends; for his rays have the wonderful power, not only of causing plants that supply us with food-the Green Plants, as we call them-to grow and flourish, but at the same time of withering and killing certain plants that do us harm. These plants-the Colorless Plants, we may call them-are the molds, the fungi, and the bacteria, or germs. You know how a pair of boots put away in a dark, damp closet, or left down in the cellar, will become covered all over with a coating of gray mold. Mold grows rapidly in the dark. Just so, these other Colorless Plants, which include most of our disease germs, grow and flourish in the dark, and are killed by sunlight. That is why no house, or room, is fit to live in, into which the sunlight does not pour freely sometime during the day. The more sunlight you can bring into your bedrooms and your playrooms and your schoolrooms, except during the heat of the day in the summer time, the better they will be. The Italians have a very shrewd and true old proverb about houses and light: "Where the sunlight never comes, the doctor often does."

So you see that Nature is guiding you in the right direction when she makes you love and delight in the bright, warm, golden sunlight; for it is one of the very best friends that you have-indeed, you couldn't possibly live without it.

In one sense, in fact, though this may be a little harder for you to understand, you are sunlight yourselves; for the power in your muscles and nerves that makes you able to jump and dance and sing and laugh and breathe is the sunlight which you have eaten in bread and apples and potatoes, and which the plants had drunk in through their leaves in the long, sunny days of spring and summer.

So throw up your blinds and open your windows wide to the sunlight every morning; and let the sunlight pour in all day long, except only while you are reading or studying-when the dazzling light may hurt your eyes-and for six or seven of the hottest hours of the day in summer time. Perhaps your mothers will object that the sunlight will fade the carpets, or spoil the furniture; but it will put far more color into your faces than it will take out of the carpets. If you are given the choice of a bedroom, choose a room that faces south or southeast or southwest, never toward the north.

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“GOOD MORNING I. Waking Up II. A Good Start III. Bathing and BrushingBREAKFASTGOING TO SCHOOL I. Getting Ready II. An Early Romp III. Fresh Air—Why We Need It IV. Fresh Air—How We Breathe ItIN SCHOOL I. Bringing the Fresh Air In II. Hearing and Listening III. Seeing and Reading IV. A Drink of Water V. Little Cooks VI. Tasting and Smelling VII. Talking and Reciting VIII. Thinking and Answering'ABSENT TO-DAY?' I. Keeping Well II. Some Foes to Fight III. Protecting Our FriendsWORK AND PLAY I. Growing Strong II. Accidents III. The City BeautifulTHE EVENING MEALA PLEASANT EVENINGGOOD NIGHT I. Getting Ready for Bed II. The Land of NodQUESTIONS AND EXERCISES”
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Chapter 2 A GOOD START

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Chapter 3 GETTING READY

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Chapter 4 AN EARLY ROMP

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Chapter 5 FRESH AIR-WHY WE NEED IT

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Chapter 6 BRINGING THE FRESH AIR IN

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Chapter 7 HEARING AND LISTENING

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Chapter 8 SEEING AND READING

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Chapter 9 A DRINK OF WATER

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Chapter 10 LITTLE COOKS

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Chapter 11 TASTING AND SMELLING

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Chapter 12 TALKING AND RECITING

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Chapter 13 KEEPING WELL

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Chapter 14 SOME FOES TO FIGHT

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Chapter 15 GROWING STRONG

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Chapter 16 ACCIDENTS

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Chapter 17 GETTING READY FOR BED

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Chapter 18 Waking Up.

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Chapter 19 A Good Start.

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Chapter 20 Getting Ready.

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Chapter 21 An Early Romp.

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Chapter 22 Fresh Air-Why We Need It.

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Chapter 23 Bringing the Fresh Air In.

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Chapter 24 Hearing and Listening.

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Chapter 25 Seeing and Reading.

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Chapter 26 A Drink of Water.

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Chapter 27 Little Cooks.

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Chapter 28 Tasting and Smelling.

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Chapter 29 Talking and Reciting.

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Chapter 30 Keeping Well.

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Chapter 31 Some Foes to Fight.

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Chapter 32 Growing Strong.

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Chapter 33 Accidents.

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Chapter 34 Getting Ready for Bed.

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Chapter 35 The Land of Nod.

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