Show Oxygen Vitamin Sleep and Happiness Trails Lead to Rosy Cheeked Youth Copyright 1932 by NEA Service Inc You stop your our work and look anxiously at Johnny He is tired again You know it from the way his shoulders sag the wa way he lolls over every chair he hc comes to his pasty color calor his dull eyes What arc are you Oll gong going to do Ask him what is 15 the matter Scold him for not eating more Get out the bottle of tonic tome Write to the teacher and ask her to excuse him from his home work Probably Or at least some of them One thing is almost inevitable and that is your calling Johnnys Johnny's attention attention at to the thc fact that he is tired I shouldn't do that I should do domy domy domy my talking to UI myself Have I been making him do too many errands or given him tasks beyond his strength might well be the first question you put to yourself But the thc chances are arc I that you will discard this as the prime I cause of his weariness He hasn't far farto farto farto to walk to school and two or three errands errands er er- er rands on top of that and the few little things you require his help with at home should not exhaust a healthy boy of 10 NOT ENOUGH SLEEP That decided other things present themselves Is he getting enough sleep You count it up Hes He's a coaxer and generally doesn't get settled settled settled set set- until 10 Then hes he's up at half halt past 7 You arc are not sure Is Isit Isit it enough No that is not enough He should sleep from 8 or at the latest to 7 Perhaps more if he gets nervously tired And fifteen min minutes minutes min min- utes at noon or after school to lie he flat flaton flaton flaton on his back quietly Food Well now you suspect you OU are arc coming to it Is he getting oranges or raw tomatoes once a day a good nourishing variety of vegetables lots Clots lotsof of them m milk lk to drink a little meat once a day dap or eggs or fish Perhaps he is getting too many eggs and thc they make him bilious for some children cannot digest them very well Stewed fruit cereals bread and butter All AU this the you ou ask yourself and again you find a ready answer No Johnny wants flapjacks for breakfast he wont won't touch cereals or milk he shiv ers at the sight of almost every cry vegetable vegetable vege vege- table but loves pork and beans which you rou have about every other day Potatoes and macaroni he also loves also lot pt ot biscuits and ham gravy and pie pic I agree with you That is one thing to be remedied at once Oh no dont don't discard everything he likes so much although the pie could be dispensed with but dont don't let him have those things too often or to the exclusion of the necessary foods Dont Don't forget the milk please Now how does he stand or sit On the middle of his spine You draw a mental picture of him in school slouched down with his chin on his chest or his shoulders suspended like a second story extension over his desk How does he breathe Does Docs he ever ever draw in a decent breath of air down to the bottom of his lun lungs s No you know very well he doesn't Your self-conversation self has crystallized crystallized crystal crystal- your thought Now you know where you are Johnny Johnn stand up dear you say brightly Oh no like a soldier see sec You press his hips forward his stomach ach aeh in and his chin up What a handsome handsome hand hand- some fellow you are when you stand like that Chest out Ch Chest Chat t out Breathe deep Again Well that's the thc beginning of the oxygen trail Now for lor the thc vitamin trail the sleep trail and the happiness happiness happi ness trail That combination should put roses in his cheeks and flesh on his bon bones More than people have been in continuous employment in inthe inthe inthe the London industrial district for the thelast thelast thelast last seven years |