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that more fun, better looks, and increased power to 

 do usually accompany improved health ; for all three 

 are powerful levers with children. That mental 

 attainments gained at the expense of health are often 

 of little practical use is also emphasized. Technical 

 terms and physiological facts are not given, unless 

 a knowledge of them will help better to impress 

 the importance of establishing correct bodily habits. 

 Questions that will induce intelligent word study and 

 stimulate full topical recitations are arranged at the 

 end of the book. A glossary giving possibly un- 

 familiar words is also included. Both of these 

 features will be of practical use to teachers and 

 parents. 



Training pupils to gain power in correct oral ex- 

 pression is one of the most difficult problems of the 

 school. Should this book prove an aid in this respect, 

 it will afford the author much gratification. If the 

 information it contains causes even one child, who 

 might otherwise have been weak and sickly, to enjoy 

 better health and greater usefulness, the writer will 

 feel well rewarded. 



Acknowledgments are hereby gratefully made to 

 Dr. Charles G. Stockton, Professor of the Principles 

 of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, University of Buf- 

 falo ; Dr. John H. Pryor, formerly Superintendent, 

 now Trustee, of the New York State Hospital for the 

 Treatment of Incipient Tuberculosis; Dr. F. Park 

 Lewis, President of the Board of Trustees of the State 



