Identifier: healthylivin01wins (find matches)
Title: Healthy living
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957
Subjects: Health
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Charles E. Merrill company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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very flag that little John Paul had dreamedabout so long ago, while the United States were stillunder the British flag. Serving the Stars and Stripes.—I do not suppose anyof you have had a dream just like that of John PaulJones. I think, however, that many of you must havehad some sort of dream of serving your country andyour flag. You have seen the Stars and Stripes flyingfrom almost every house, and have thought of oursoldiers fighting under that flag in France, and haveplanned that when you grow up you will do greatthings for your country, too. Even if it is never nec-essary for you to fight or to nurse the wounded in war,your country will need your loyalty and your devotion,to do her work in peace and to help with all your mightto make the United States of America a greater and anobler and a better country. SOME RULES FOR HEALTH 215 When John Paul Jones saw the war coming, he couldtell Washington that he was ready. That is whatyour country wants you to be to-day, ready for what-
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Fig. 77.—^The motto of the American boy andthe American girl is Preparedness forour countrys service. ever she may call you to do. She wants you to beready in heart: unselfish, devoted, brave, fair, honest.She wants you to be ready in mind: quick, thoughtful,well trained, full of knowledge. She wants you to be 2i6 HEALTHY LIVING ready in body: strong and sound and full of aboundinghealth. Do not think of health, then, as just something foryourself. If you lived alone on a desert island likeRobinson Crusoe, you might have a right to say, Ohwell, I dont care. Id rather have indigestion or catchcold than bother. As it is, you are a part of yourcountry. Think of the Stars and Stripes and what youcan do for the flag when you grow up. Be ready, asJohn Paul Jones was ready, when your country needsyou. Keeping the Body Fit.—^Let us see what the mostimportant things are that you ought to do, in order tokeep your body strong and well and ready for yourcountrys service. You have learned abou

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