CHAPTER II 

 HEALTH 



1. Meaning of Health. When we notice the stream 

 on the hillside, and the many plants and animals about 

 us in the cities and country, we find that everything is 

 busy and active. To have good health is to be active, 

 ready for work. To have good health is to be happy 

 and pleasant, to have no aches or pains to disturb one's 

 activity and work. Would you not like to be in a high 

 school where all the boys and girls have good health and 

 never have to stay at home because of sickness? 



2. Value of Health. Health is wealth. But the 

 joy and happiness which come to the home where there 

 is no sickness cannot be measured in dollars and cents. 

 If a workman earning twenty-five dollars a week gets 

 sick and is confined to his home for two weeks, what is 

 the cost? Services of the physician, $20.00; medicine, 

 $5.00; nurse, $12.00; extra work for his wife, $10.00; 

 loss in wages, $50.00; making a total loss, for the two 

 weeks, of $97.00 in money, besides the sorrow and suffer- 

 ing in that home. Millions of dollars are wasted every 

 year because people are careless about their health. 



3. School Work and Health. Boys and girls cannot 

 do good work in school unless they are healthy and know 

 how to keep healthy. When you feel sleepy because of 

 overwork or because of staying up too late at night, 

 you cannot do good school work, Your brain is not at 



