SCORING THE HOME 35 



are cheating is yourself. Be faithful in your health habits ; 

 it pays in the long run. 



Scoring the home. Emerson has said that we must 

 "hitch our wagon to a star." This really means that we 

 must have high ideals in life. In order to estimate your own 

 homes in the light of the chapter you are now reading, there 

 follows a score card which each boy and girl should study, 

 and then for his or her own satisfaction attempt to 

 score his or her own home. Remember to be honest in 

 your scoring, and although your score may seem low, 

 nobody's score will be perfect, because we have " hitched 

 our wagon to a star." This home project will be a pre- 

 liminary survey of our homes, and in a later chapter, we 

 shall make a more careful study under each of the head- 

 ings in this score card. You will notice that this first 

 score card has three columns headed respectively, " Per- 

 fect score," " My first (guess) score " and " My final (real) 

 score." This means that you are to make an outline of 

 this score card as a preliminary exercise for your note- 

 book. In the second column place the score you think 

 you ought to have, after having first consulted the score 

 cards you are referred to at the ends of certain of the chap- 

 ters. The scores should be totaled and a grand total ob- 

 tained. The third column marked " My final (real) score " 

 will be filled little by little as you study the future chapters. 

 You will probably find that your first estimate was far too 

 high and thus the third column will serve to check up 

 on your " guess " or first estimate. This shows a use of 

 the scientific method referred to in the first chapter, and 

 will be excellent practice for you. 



The score card that is given is only a suggestion and 

 may be advantageously changed to meet local conditions. 



