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family better. How is it in your home? Could a few 

 dollars be well spent for equipment which would make 

 mother's life easier? Why not study the situation as 

 a home project? 



The habit of work. The great inventor, Edison, in 

 his seventies, is able now to work long hours day after day. 

 It was his habit to work, even when he was a small boy. 

 We find that most men and women who have developed 

 into leaders accustomed themselves to work when they 

 were young. Learn to accept your share of the home 



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Practice these exercises every morning and evening and watch the effect upon your 

 general development. (After Tolman.) 



duties, for thus you will develop a sense of responsibility 

 and habits of industry. Learn to do home tasks willingly, 

 for thus you will develop unselfishness. The efficiency of 

 a household is lowered by every idle member who lives 

 there. Learn now to be a helper, and some day you will 

 assume more easily the responsibilities which will come to 

 you when you are grown up. 



Recreation in the home. It is an old saying that all 

 work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work is 

 wrong, and all play is wrong, but play is just as important 

 as work for normal boys and girls. Recreation sometimes 

 means re-creation, for we are really made over by doing 



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