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homes attractive and happy. Definiteness in directions for work, carefully planned home work, and arrangements for getting school credit for home work make the activities suggested in the text readily attractive to the pupils. 

Since health education has been generally accepted as a necessary preparation for everyday living, many terse rules for maintaining health have been formulated. In every set of health rules, the selection of wholesome food is emphasized. Selection of food from the standpoint of health is constantly urged in this text. Moreover, in the chapter Keeping Well other health practices besides food selection are included. Chapters on child care also form a part of this unit. 

In modern educational circles it is thought that methods which merely inform pupils but do not stimulate to activity are ineffective. Throughout the text, workable devices are suggested whereby pupils may put into practice the activities about which they learn. 

In this book effort has been made to organize facts and express them in sufficient detail so that young persons will be interested and will comprehend its contents. Only approved classroom procedures and tested recipes are given. 

The experiments are so arranged that only a minimum of time is required to record the results of experimenting. Terse answers to questions pertaining to the important points of an experiment are recorded. This concise method makes it necessary for a pupil to reflect understandingly upon the results of manipulation. 

Illustrations with explanatory legends are used as teaching devices in this book. The popularity of the moving pictures has contributed to the educational effectiveness of illustrations with descriptive legends. 

Each chapter is introduced by stimulating questions and concluded by review questions. The latter include both subjective and the newer objective type of question. Each section