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precautions should be taken? How often should a child under 
one year be fed? from one to two years? 
13. When suffering: from a cold what precautions should be taken? 
If it is necessary to continue to care for a child in spite of your 
cold? What is the wisest thing to do first if a child is ill? 
REFERENCES : 
Wheeler, M... The Baby, His Care and Training... Harper, Kinne and 
Cooley... The Home and Family... Macmillan Holt, E. Emmet. ..Care 
and Feeding of Children. Appleton. 
THE CITIZEN*** 
SYMBOL- EIGHT-POINTED STAR 
1. Name five things on which the comfort and welfare of your 
home depends, which are controlled by your government. 
2. What can you do to improve the government of your community? 
3. What are the principal qualifications of a voter in your state? 
4. What is meant by a secret ballot? When you vote how can any- 
one tell for whom you voted? 
5. Who is a citizen? Are all voters citizens? How can a person not 
born in the United States become a citizen? 
6. Tell the duties of the principal officers in your native village or 
city; also of your country, such as mayor, sheriff, etc. 
7. What officer in your community would you go to for help in case 
of a helpless man without money or friends, a person with 
scarlet fever, a child who is not in school, a break in the water 
main in the street? 
8. What are the duties of the governor of your state? 
9. Who makes the laws in your state? How would you go to work 
to get a new law passed? 
10. What are the duties of the President and of each of his cabinet? 
11. Describe how Congress is composed... How are your representa- 
tives in Congress chosen? 
12. How do laws made by Congress differ from laws made by your 
state ? 
13. What political party would you choose to belong to and why 
would you choose it? 
REFERENCES: 
“The Woman Movement in America,” McClurg and Co., Chicago. 
“The Woman Voter’s Manual,” Forman and Shuler, Century Co., 
1918. 
“Democracy in Reconstruction,” Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Cleve- 
land and Schafer. 
“History of Politics,” Edward Jenks, Macmillan Co. 
“The Subjection of Women,” John Stuart Mill, Frederick Stokes. 
“Your Vote and How to Use It,” Mrs. Raymond Brown, Harper 
Bros. 
“The Story of a Pioneer,” Anna Howard Shaw. 
“American Commonwealth,” James Bryce. 
“Promised Eand,” Mary Antin, Houghton Mifflin. 
“Land of Fair Play,” Geoffrey Parsons, Scribner. 
“Making of an American,” J. A. Riis, Macmillan. 
“Peace and Patriotism,” E. S. Smith, Eothrop, Eee and Shepard. 
