Show r-m- r mm m i. T I I I How Your Child Should Study I i I ii i I By W. W D. D I WHEN HE BE LEARNS SLOWLY I say that your our boy is not making YOU I progress In his studies tudie Have you OU been alert ever evor watchful to note nota whether or oi not ho he Is Ie addicted to the thc cigarette habit Do not be bo too quick to answer No my boy does docs not smoke Thousands of ot boys boy's In the Now York City public schools and elsewhere who smoke belong to educated and Intelligent Intelligent Intelli Intelli- gent families Granted It Is unwise to allow thebo the bo boy to note nota that you aro are suspicious but at tho the same sarno time limo be over on guard When ho Is on the tho street or playing In Ina ina a 0 vacant lot lot time and again ho lie has been offered a cigarette or very cry often otten only onh a puff like Boy he ho was curious s to know what tho t taste to was like Not ot at nt all agreeable ac at nt first However to him tho the thou thought ht of or a cigarette In the corner cornor cor cor- nor nCr of or his mouth seemed so manlike and all bO boys boye Imitate their elders elder Soon thero there arose within a craving for tor smoke The habit had been acquired If lt you ou find that ho docs does smoke first point out to him tho the evil ovll effects being careful to prove that th the tho effect on a n growing boy Is Ie much more moore harmful than upon a grown full man And then keep an nn eye ee upon him during his every ery moment awake or asleep a until tho the habit has been lost Take any meas meaS- eros ures no matter how severe If necessary necessary 1 I sary Bary to save sa tho the boy from himself Do not answer His father has baa smoked since h he was watt wasa a n. boy of or 14 and ho lie enjoys the best of ot health Tho The majority Q of the tho boys who habitually smoke are ero BO so affected ir n n- tally and ph physically that they are f- f to control are aro unable to learn their lessons and In extreme cases their growth crowth Is materially stunted and anel their physiques ar are permanently weak weak- ened If It you aro in doubt as ae to th these se facts ask tho the teacher of ot tho the special class for backward pupils In the tho public schools Ho lie or sho she will tell telI you that the majority majority ma ma- of or the boys bos In the tho class cines smoke and as a result are arc too indolent to study are not naturally sweet sweat tempered cannot hold pens steadily and despite the tho fact that before the they wore smokers smokers amok amok- ers era they could run as fast and as far faras faras as 89 other bo boys s 's their wind now gives out It If they run over ever so snort short a a. dis dis- tance Two thousand four tour hundred and two pupils In eighty schools of at Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- I cago o were vero reported as aa addicted to tho the cigarette habit Tho The parents of ot tho the I majority of or these boys did not know I Aro Are you ou certain that your our boy Is not I acquiring or has not acquired this pernicious pernicious per per- perI I habit I |