proves that, no mutter how healthy a child may be at birth, good home circumstances 

 are necessary if that health is to be maintained, while the condition of the home 

 depends largely upon the habits of its inmates. A delicate child placed under good 

 conditions of air, light, food, rest, and exercise, and consistently trained in good 

 habits of cleanliness, mastication of food, daily attention to relieving the body of 



waste and injurious matters, self-control, and prompt obedience, may attain and 

 maintain a standard of health and power of productive work in maturity never 

 realized by a companion who, from the standpoint of heredity, had infinitely superior 

 chances at birth. 



In speaking here of health, will my readers bear in mind that I refer to mental 

 and moral, as well as to physical, health. 



