8. Are they not likely to look all the better than if pinched

up?

9. When our shoes get wet, how should we dry them? 10. Must not the drying be very gradual and slow ?

11. What happens if we dry them rapidly near a large

fire?

12. Is it not much better to have two or three pairs of shoes or boots?

13. Do they not wear much longer in proportion, and are we not always sure of a dry pair?

14. Then this is really better and cheaper for us?

15. Besides boots and shoes, what do we wear on our feet? 16. Why do we wear socks or stockings?

17. Would not the leather be very hard to the feet, and perhaps injure the skin?

18. Do not our feet get hot with exercise?

19. Could the leather absorb the moisture thus produced? 20. Then is not the sock or stocking necessary ?

21. Should it not be washed frequently?

22. Should we not, especially if we walk a great deal, frequently have clean socks or stockings?

LESSON 87.

DRESS IN CONNECTION WITH SPECIAL PARTS OF
THE BODY.

1. Do you know what parts of the body require to be especially protected by dress from change of temperature?

The chest, and round and below the waist.

2. Should these parts always be covered with flannel in the winter?

3. Is it not better to cover them also with flannel in the

summer?

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4. Do not people often expose their chests very foolishly in the evening?

5. Is not this apt to give them cold, particularly when they are not accustomed to it?

6. Should the throat be covered up?

It is usually found better not to cover it up, except in unusually intense weather.

7. Have you not often seen persons who usually cover up their neck when they go out, but who will stand at an open door, gossiping, with nothing on?

8. Is not this likely to give cold?

9. Did we not learn that our feet must be kept dry?

10. Can we be too particular about being well shod ?

11. Is not this one of the rules of health? (See Lesson 86.)

LESSON 88.

COVERING FOR THE HEAD.

1. In most parts of the world do they not

head?

2. Do you know why this is necessary?

cover the

3. To protect it either from the extreme cold or heat. 4. Should the head be covered with anything heavy? 5. Should not the head dress be light?

6. In warm climates is it not important that the head be kept cool?

7. Knowing what you do of non-conducting materials, do you think that the covering of the head should be of a conducting, or of a non-conducting material?

8. In either a hot or a cold climate would not a conducting material, such as a metal hat, soon make us ill?

9. Do you think the colour of the head-dress is important? 10. Do you know that some colours absorb the heat more than others?

11. What colours absorb the heat most?

Dark colours, and especially black.

12. Can you explain, then, why white hats are worn in the summer?

13. Are ordinary bonnets any protection to the head?

14. Is this a reason why parasols are so much used?

15. Do you think it a foolish habit for bonnets &c. to be so made that they are useless for the very purpose which they are supposed to serve?

16. Should the head be covered at night?

No, it keeps it hot; and in an ordinary room in this climate, even in the winter, it is harmful for a person in health.

LESSON 89.

WASHING MATERIALS.

1. We saw the necessity of the clothes we wore next our skin being of a washable nature.

be washable also?

Should other clothes

2. Are not most of the things we wear washable, except those we wear outside us in the winter?

3. Can you not easily understand why these are washable?

4. Does not anything we wear collect the dirt and dust around us?

5. Does it not also collect the refuse from the body? 6. Can you not understand, then, how beneficial it is for as much as possible of our clothes to be of a washable nature?

7. Should young children wear much that is not wash

able?

8. Can we be too particular in this respect with young children?

9. Is not washing and getting up linen and calico ex

pensive?

10. May we not wash flannel and some woollen clothes without much cost?

11. Is there not a pleasant fresh feeling about clean clothes? 12. Do you think this is healthy?

13. Is it dangerous to put on clothes that have not been completely dried?

14. What does this do to us?

15. Though washable clothes may be somewhat more expensive than others, do they not make up for this in wholesomeness, and consequently, do they not promote health?

16. Do not old clothes, which cannot be washed, such as cloth clothes, always smell unpleasantly?

17. What is the best way of keeping these as sweet as possible?

Constant brushing, hanging them in the open air,

or in a room of which the windows are open.

18. In warm weather especially do not people wear washable clothes?

19. Why is this?

20. Is it a healthy thing to do?

LESSON 90.

PRESERVING CLOTHES.

1. We have heard that clothes collect the dirt, and that those which can be washed are cleaned in that way. How

are other clothes cleaned?

2. What does brushing do to them?

3. Does it not take out the dust and dirt that has got into

them?

4. What does this dust consist of? (See Lesson 160.)

5. Is it not bad for our health to go about with clothes full of such matter as dust?

6. Is it not very destructive to our clothes?

7. Should we not, to preserve our clothes, always brush them, or otherwise get the dirt out of them, when we take them off?

8. Have you ever heard of moth getting into clothes?

9. What sort of clothes does the moth settle in?

10. What time of year especially do they attack clothes? 11. Do you know what tends to promote the growth of moth in clothes?

Putting them away damp.

12. Should they always be brushed and dried before they are put away?

13. What may be put with them?

Pepper or camphor.

14. Is it not better to go through clothes that are put away at some regular intervals, in order to prevent moth getting

at them?

15. If we have but small wages, will not taking care of our clothes really make our money go farther?

LESSON 91.

MISCELLANEOUS.

1. If persons do not attend to rules about dress, may they not suffer in health as well as in pocket?

2. Do you know that very young children cannot maintain sufficient warmth of themselves?

3. If, then, they are not properly dressed and kept warm, will they not die?

4. Do

you know that many thousands die in this way from want of proper clothes, or clothing that does not retain their warmth, when very young ?