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Instead of working alone, many people work together. That is, they coöperate in getting things done.

They are dependent upon each other.

They work together and help each other.

Questions and Topics for Discussion

Name some of the changes that have taken place in America during

the last hundred and fifty years.

Name some things that have come into general use.

Where do many articles of food come from?

How are they brought here?

Does a man make his own clothes to-day?

Does he build his house?

Does he make his furniture?

Where are his clothes and shoes made?

How are they made? Do men work alone?

How do people coöperate in getting things done?

Are people of to-day independent of each other?

Name some of the things you need in order to live well and happily. Could you, or any other man, get all the things you need by your own work alone?

How do you help the people in your home, your neighborhood, your factory? How do they help you?

LESSON III

THE HOME AND THE FAMILY

NOTE TO TEACHER. Make on the board a list of the members of the family, such as husband, wife, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, etc. Interest the class in the subject through naming personal relationships.

It is important that we should have good homes. They should be clean. They should have much fresh air and sunshine.

We should have pure water to drink.

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There should be a bathroom in every house, and each member of the family should bathe once every day.

By keeping our homes and our bodies clean we can prevent disease.

Preventing disease is another way of working together and helping each other.

Everyone should try to own his own home. money paid for rent will soon pay for a house.

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Each family has a head. The head of the family is the

father.

The family depends on him for support.

To support his family he must have work.

He, in turn, depends on the community for work. Anything he does to make the community a better place to live in, and work in, is helping him and his family.

Questions and Topics for Discussion

Why should you have fresh air and sunshine in the home?

Why is pure water necessary?

How does keeping the home and body clean prevent disease?
Do you own your home, or do you rent it?

What kind of home would you like to have?
How can you get such a home?

Who is the head of the family?

How does he support the family?

Upon what does he depend for work?

How do the community conditions help his family?

What can you do to make your home and your community more beautiful?

LESSON IV

THE COMMUNITY

A community is made up of many homes and many families. A community might be called a large home or a large family.

Each family in the community has a head.

As has been said, the head of the family is the father. The father makes rules to be obeyed in his home. These rules are needed for the protection and care of the family.

Rules or laws, as they are called, are also needed in the community.

Officials of the community see that these laws are obeyed. Some of these officials are the policemen, the judges, and the health inspectors.

The laws that they enforce are for our good, just

as the rules in the home are for the good of the children in that home.

Some of the laws that the community makes for

the good of its people are:

Milk and food shall be in

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spected;

Tenements shall be inspected
to see that they are safe
and sanitary;

Fire escapes and halls shall
be clean and free from
rubbish ;

Garbage shall be carried

away;

Sidewalks, streets, and yards
shall be kept clean;

Children shall stay in school
until they reach a certain

age;

Order shall be kept.

AN INSPECTOR OF THE

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

The members of a community should work together to obey these laws, because they are for the good of all.

Questions and Topics for Discussion

Why are rules needed in the family?

What are needed in the community?

Why are laws necessary in a community?

Name some of the laws made for the good of the community.

Which laws do you think are most important?

Why do we say that these laws are for the good of all?

NOTE TO TEACHER.

LESSON V

HEALTH

Take the class on a trip to the office of the local Board of Health. Ask the official in charge to give the class a short talk on milk inspection, sanitation, quarantine, vaccination, or a subject of like nature. Let this talk be the basis of the conversation lesson when the class returns to the schoolroom.

The reason that the community makes such laws as we read about in the last lesson, is that they are necessary for good health.

Good health is one of the greatest possessions of man. Let us consider some of the enemies of health.

Many diseases are carried by impure water, impure milk, or impure food.

Flies and mosquitoes also are carriers of disease.

Dirt is one of the greatest enemies of health.

A yard that is not kept free from dirt, such as rubbish and garbage, will spread disease.

One citizen who disobeys the health rules places in danger the health, and sometimes the lives, of all the other citizens in the community.

For many diseases are contagious; that is, they spread from one to another until sometimes a whole community is affected.

That is why we have quarantine.

A notice is placed on the house where there is a contagious disease, and no one except the doctor is allowed to enter or leave the house until everyone is well again.

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