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7. Eead in some good book for 30 min. and count the 

 words read. How many would this make per hour ? 



8. Calling 400 pages with 400 words to the page an aver- 

 age-sized book, how many good books could you read each 

 year at your present rate of reading by devoting 1 hr. each 

 day to them ? 



9. How many books have you read ? Counting 400 pages 

 to the book, how many hours have you spent reading good 

 books ? 



10. A kitchen that is poorly arranged requires the mother 

 to take 100 more steps each day in preparing the meals than 

 she would in a well-arranged kitchen. How many unneces- 

 sary steps does she take in a year ? How many miles is 

 this? (Allow 20 in. to a step.) 



11. If a kitchen cabinet saves a mother 50 twenty-inch 

 steps daily, how many miles is she saved in 20 yr. ? 



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25. The teacher should assist and encourage his pupils to 

 make a weekly produce and grain chart of the local and city 

 market prices of all the farm products of his school district. 

 Any good daily or weekly paper will give the city market 

 prices, while the county paper will give the local or home 

 prices. This chart should be tacked on the wall of the school- 

 room, in a place where all the pupils can read it. Once a 

 week a new one should be made, the pupils reporting the 

 market prices. 



The child who grows up to be a farmer, not accustomed 

 to read and study the markets, will never be in a position 

 to command the highest prices for his products. He must 

 know the markets in order to know how to buy and sell 

 intelligently. 



