Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-10-02
LITTLE JOHNNY AND MARY
Or Practical Means for Keeping
Our School Boys and Girls
Strong and Healthy

ItODle are apt lO llllllh liidl
when a child is old enough to go
to school, it is able to take care
of itself. Because a child can
dress itself, wash its own face
and hands, march off to school
every day, and knows enough to
come home when it is time to eat,
does not excuse the mother from
certain very important duties IN
relation to the child's health.
Whatever is done for the child
to make it strong and well, will
show itself in good work at
school, and latter on in better
manhood and Womanhood.
School children need to be
protected from their own ignor-
ance. What we can do for them
in the years that they are going
to school means a whole life
time of health and ability. Pro-
per food; clothing, rest and out
door exercise are the important
things to remember in caring for
them.
Many children who do not keep
up with their classes and who
sometimes do not succeed IN get
ting through school at all, are
children who have some physical
defect.
Sleep School children, like
other children, should sleep with
windows open both summer and
winter. Fresh air is the best
protection against disease.
No child between the ages of
six and ten should go to bed lat
er than eight O'Clock in the even
ing. The idea that the child will
be benefited by play in the street
until ten or eleven O'Clock at
night because it is summer is
wrong. Much harm is often
, done by late hours in the way OF
overtiring the child and over
) taxing its strength.
1t is better for children to lie
straight, so that their backs viii
. be straight, or to have a very
+ flat pillow under their heads
J. Children S bones are not very
= hard, and the oftener they are
bent in one particular way, the
I more likely they are to stay II
that particular shape, and hlgf
9 pillows may bend bones unnatur
\ ally.
Children should go to bed anC
q get up at regular times. Unless
: they are sick, they should get VI
A as soon as awake and not lie il
! bed.
a Food School children, in or
der to have the proper amour
of strength, must be we'll fe'
with plain food that is easily di
gested. They are not ready t
eat everything that grown peopl
n eat. 1t is as important that
e school child should have its meal
u at regular hours as 1t IS for tn
. little baby, and that the scho(
child should eat little betWee
Al regular meals. Without fooC
S the school child cannot work,
&c Before School No school chill
y should be permitted to go
- school in the morning until tf
. mother is certain it has bee
u washed, combed and had i
teeth brushed, There should a
{ so be a daily movement of II
=. bowels, preferably before II
~ time of leaving for schoc
oS MANY a child is dull or restle
throughout the school mornir
because this duty has been ne
- lected.
Or m After School Hours Childre
!. after school time, should spel
the daylight hours outdoors
play A nearby play groul
or a park is the best possit
place, if there is no grassy yar
all If there are lesson to be prep;
yer ed, they should be done just |
'lr- fore on just after the event
OF meal. The child should not pl
TO outdoors after dark, except
Ety summer months.
nc Adenoids. Prevention and CT
u Children should be watch
from the time they are bab
to see that they breathe throu
their noses and not throu
opened mouths. Breathing W
Irs. the mouth open is often 81
A. that growths are growing beh
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