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Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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. Ours is brick. Teacher — These are allgood materials for houses,and when they are worn inany place we can put in anew brick or board and makethem almost as good as new.Our bodies get worn out too,with all our work and play,and need repair. Only theother morning I heard a littlegirl trying to tell how hungryshe was. She said : O mother,there is such a big hole in my stomach, I cantwait any longer for breakfast. You couldnt mend that kind of a hole withwood or stone. What do you suppose hermother did use ? Yes, we need food to make good the wasteof our bodies,—bread and butter and milk andeggs and fruit and fresh vegetables and meat. Perhaps some of you have been in a milland have watched the men at work. They putin the grain at one end of the mill and it comesout at the other, fine white flour all ready to bemade into bread. Something like that happensto our food when we eat. We put it into ourmouths and in a very little time it doesntlook in the least like beef or potato. It has
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we work or play or think, we wear out tinyparts of our bodies, and every time we eat, ourfood goes to mend these worn out parts andmake them as good as new. Need of Exercise and Rest. But there are other ways in which we cantake care of these wonderful bodies of ours.Let us think what they are. You sometimes have chicken for dinner.How many have noticed a difference in colorbetween the meat on a chickens leg and thaton his wing? Which meat is more tender?Which part did the chicken use more? Whydoes a horse have very stronglegs? How do a babys arms-get strong ? Set the childrento thinking by such questionsas these until they know that Every part of the bodygrows strong by exercise. Many children are unwill-ing to go to bed at an earlyhour. They must be taughtthat plenty of sleep in thefirst part of the night isanother important essentialto growth. Show them thepicture in this lesson oflittle Jessie Hilton and tellthem how she got her bright,face and clear complexion. Early to Bed. neve

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