The Child's Day

y is the second recitation over before your throat begin

makes you want some. I should like you to notice how much water you drink every day. Perhaps a glass

rd to believe, but more than half of that weight is water; and because we are always g

g will happen, except that after a few days it will shrivel and dry up. But fill the glass with water, and in a few hours the bean will begin to swell; and in a fe

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ifteen cents, or paper ones for a few cents a dozen. If you don't have your own cup, I hope you will get one and carry it. Here is a pattern for a paper cup that you can easily make for yourselve

s well. It is both drink and food; and a very good food for children it is, too.

ery clean? It is because they have found that the tiny plants, called germs, that make people si

Now, however, they are much more particular; and the health officers, or Boards of Health, are insisting that public water supply, such as is brought into our houses in pipes, shall be

THE CITY

any miles to bring wate

rom typhoid fever than any other civilized country. Germany, which, of all countries in the world, is the most particular about keepi

to prevent at least two thirds of our nearly 400,000 cases

ly become higher than it is in our large cities. The main cause of this is the custom of digging the well in such a place that the waste water thrown out from the house, or the drainage from th

gestion may drain through the soil till they reach the drinking water in the well. These dangers can be avoided either by having the well dug at some distan

eat up the dirt that would make us sick. But since disease germs are so tiny that we cannot possibly see them with the naked eye, we must know where the water and milk that we use come from, and whether or not they are perfe

ant to caution you against buying "pink lemonade" or soda water or any other drink of that sort from the penny venders and open stalls on the street. The drinks they sell are not made from pure fruit juices, but from different flavoring ex

I ever tasted. When I said, "How good it is!" one of the little girls piped up, "Billy and

beautifully sealed with wax, and even this she had done by herself! Do you think I could have kept it that way very long? Perhaps not, it was so good; but if I ha

, I had poured it out into a glass. Can you

the tiny yeast plants what seeds are to other plants. Seeds fall into the ground and grow, but these yeast spores fall into the grape juice and grow. While they are growing in the grape juice, they eat what they want from the juice; and, as they eat, t

t we call wine. They treat apple juice in just the same way to make cider; and they even take fresh rye and barley and corn, and mash them up, and put yeast plants into the mash to ferment them

ok at it when it sparkled in the cup. He said no really wise man would drink it. Of course not; the wise man use

an clear pure water, and no better foo

HERE BOTH BOYS AND