The muscles need not only exercise to make them strong, but a constant supply of good, pure blood. You must eat wholesome food, in proper quantities, at regular intervals.
You must take plenty of exercise in the sunlight. The blood and the muscles demand the light and the heat of the sun to make them strong.
How many muscles have you? How are the bones moved?How are the muscles generally found? In what manner do they work?
What is a voluntary muscle? An involuntary one? Illustrate the difference.
Compare the strength of a well-developed man with that of a horse. What is said of some insects?
Why should the muscles he trained? What is the result?
What kind of medicine is such exercise? How must your strength be built up?
What do the muscles need beside exercise?
Where should the exercise be taken?
Show some of the effects.
CHAPTER XII REST AND POSTURE
Never lie on your back when sleeping, but on the left or right side. Place your limbs in the easiest position possible; otherwise you will be troubled by bad dreams, which will awake you from slumber. Try to keep your mouth closed, so as to breathe through your nostrils. You will thus escape the unpleasant habit of snoring.
I am afraid that a good many children will find, if they notice their posture when studying their lessons, that their spines are curved like a bow and their shoulders pushed forward so as to crowd the lungs and prevent deep, healthful breathing. The boys, perhaps, will find a large dent or wrinkle in their clothing in front at the pit of the stomach. This shows that their posture is wrong.
What should be your motto? What do children need? What do their bodies and brains require?What position should be taken when lying in bed? What should be done with the limbs? What of bad dreams? How can you avoid the habit of snoring?
Who needs the most sleep? What is said of night and day? What of taking naps through the day? When should you avoid sleep?
What of standing and sitting? What ought your posture to be when walking? What is the right way to breathe? What must be guarded against when in the school-room or at home?
What will a good many children find, if they notice their posture when studying their lessons? What will show a boy that his position is wrong?
What is the right way to bend forward? What of the spine? What is a child apt to do when shown that his position at the desk is wrong? What have you to say of this?
CHAPTER XIII PURE AIR, CLOTHING, ETC
can be no good health without pure air. Always have it if possible. Before you lie down to sleep at night, make sure your windows are lowered at the top and slightly raised at the bottom, so that the room is well ventilated. If the bed has enough covering, you will sleep much better if the air is fresh and cool.
It is a good practice to spend a few minutes early in the morning, in drawing into the lungs all the air they can possibly hold. Then breathe out slowly, by keeping the lips almost closed. While doing so, rapidly thump the chest and ribs with the flat sides of your fists. This will expand your lungs and prevent the congestion or settling of blood among many of the organs, besides strengthening and toning up the system.
Boys should lay off their overcoats and overshoes, girls their wraps and overshoes when they enter a warm room. Always put them on before going out in the cold or wet. Neglect in following this rule has often caused pneumonia and death.
When heated from exercise, boys love to throw aside their outer clothing, so as to cool off. This is dangerous; better to feel uncomfortable for a little while until your body resumes its natural temperature.
Always obey the promptings of nature. Failure to do so poisons the blood, causes serious disease, and frequently destroys life itself.
Show the necessity of pure air. What precaution should be taken before lying down to sleep? What of drafts? What are necessary to sleep well?What is a good practice for each morning? What will this do?
What depends upon you? What results from carelessness in these respects? Of what ought you to be careful?
What use should be made of overcoats, wraps, and overshoes? What has resulted from neglect to follow this rule?
What is the proper course, when the clothing, shoes or stockings become wet?
What are children often tempted to do in the spring of the year? Is it a safe thing to do at any time?
What is said about cooling off?
What about sitting in a cold room or draft?
What other advice is given?
CHAPTER XIV ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES
a blister forms anywhere on the body, do not prick it. If you do, a sore will form. Leave it alone until it breaks of itself. By that time (generally in two or three days) a new skin will have formed, and the blister will pass away almost unnoticed.