Show SAFEGUARD YOUR CHILDS heavill HEALTH BY preventives parents wh who got consider 1 sider summer as a season aserson for regaining health g and n d dread winter as a season to be lived through with as little sickness as possible have not paid enough attention to the health measures that can be used in winter one of the most common troubles for children to avoid is the familiar cold exposure to some one who has a cold and a reduction of genera geneval physical resistance should be guard ed against it if colds are to be prevented it is difficult to keep children from exposure but there would be far fewer exposures it if more parents kept their children from school when they have colds and if teachers did not put so much emphasis on in perfect attendance even more dangerous than the school is the moving picture theatre and overcrowding over crowding in homes the second factor resistance can be more definitely controlled food is an important means of building up resistance to disease milk fruit and vegetables should not be eliminated from the childs diet even though winter is here adequate exercise so much more difficult for children to procure ir winter than in summer will probably improve the three important functions of appetite bowel elimination and sleep sufficient rest is as important as ac exercise a quiet home as important as going to bed early akin to tg rest is the problem of overstrain placed on many children by parents who are over ambitious that they skip a grade in school or do too many things outside of their school work eyestrain is also a factor of real importance for it can easily upset a childs nervous system and make him quite incapable of carrying on in school sch otil such conditions often can not be detected without the aid of a thorough physical examination a service which every child should have at least once a year |