Show The FreshAir Habit Early impressions are very enduring endur-ing and can make useful habits IH well as evil ones a sort ot second nature na-ture In order to forestall the cbef danger of indoor life make your children love = ick after fresh air make them associate the idea of fusty rooms with prisonlifepunishment and sickness Open a window whenever they complain of headache or nausea promise them a woodland excar = ion as a reward of exceptionally good behavior Save your sweetmeats for outdoor festivals By the with ery of associated ideas a boy can come to regard the lonely ehadetree as a primary requisite to toe enjoyment enjoy-ment of a good storybook Or mes pensees ne voulent jamaij alter quo avec mes jamfes esys Rousseau Only the movement of my feet seems to Bet my brains agoing and it is just ss easy to think debate rehearse etc walking ay sitting the peripatetic philosophers derived their name from their pedestrian proclivities procliv-ities and the Stoic sect from their masters predilection for an open norcb Children who have been brought up in hygienic homes not rarely feel ae if they were going to be choked in unventilated rooms and I would take good care not to cure them L euch salutary idiosyncrasies idiosyn-crasies Every observant teacher mast have noticcd he innate hardiness of young boys their unaffected indifference to wind and weather They seem to take a delight in braving he extremes ex-tremes of temperature and by simply indulging this penchant ot theirs children can be made waterproof water-proof to an almost unlimited degree and in nothing elM can hey ba more safely trusted to the guidance of their protective instincts Dent be afraid that an active bey will hurt himself by Tolnntary exposure unless his chances for outdoor play are so rare as to tempt him to abuse the first opportunity op-portunity Weatherproof people are almost sicknessproof A merry hunt ingexcursion to the enow clad highlands high-lands will rarely fail to counteract the consequences of repeated surfeits even girls who have learned to brave the winter storms of our tern t-ern prairies will afterward laugh at draughts and raw March winds I |