{"1": {"fulltext": "23^^ HOUSE WE LIVE IN", "height": "4227", "width": "2987", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nShelf.._.ri5^^7\\n^P3\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\n4:, n\\n^1:\\ns;^", "height": "4268", "width": "2986", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "y^\\ny\\niB^\\nA\\\\\\nf^^\\nfn.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0vVi", "height": "4283", "width": "2986", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN\\nThe Making of the Body\\nA Book f 07^ Home Reading, intended to Assist\\nMothers in Teachi7ig their Children\\nHow to Care for their Bodies,\\nand the Evil Effects\\nof Narcotics and\\nStimulants\\nVESTA FARNSWORTH\\nFor we know that if our earthly house were dissolved, we have a building\\nof God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. 5 i\\nWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in\\nyou, and ye are not your own i Cor. 6:19\\nPacific Press Publishmg Company\\nOAKI^AND, CALIFORNIA\\nSAN FRANCISCO KANSAS CITY NFW YORK", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "TVSro COPI ES ECEl V so,\\nLn)rary of CoBgrM^\\nOffice of tiig\\nMAY 1 1 1900\\n8egl\u00c2\u00bbt\u00c2\u00abr of Cepyrlgfct^\\nSECOND COPY. 7^ 2-\\nOP\\nZ}\\n1.\\n61419 -13\\nEntered according to Act of Congress in the A ear 1900, by\\nPacific Press Pubi^ishing Company\\nIn the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington\\nEntered at Stationers Hall, London, England", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "To\\nMY DEAR FRIENDS THE CHILDREN\\nand\\nTo All Who See the Creator\\nin His Creative Work", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nPAGE\\nHouses and Temples ii\\nThe Outsidk of the Body 17\\nSubstances in the Body 23\\nOur Frame ------._-. 27\\nProper Care of the Boxes ^5\\nThe Walls of Our House 40\\nWeatherboards and Roofing ^g\\nThe Cupola ^7\\nOur Telephone Syste.ai g^\\nThe Hall or Passage 71\\nOur Kitchen yy\\nThe Eating Room 84\\nFood and Fuel g^\\nA Pumping Engine 109\\nThe Caretaker 118\\nThe Bath Room 129\\nHow the House Is Heated j^s\\nThe Music Room 147\\nThe Hearing Passage 151\\nSome Wonderful Windows 157\\nA Good Servant 165\\nA Faithful Watchman 173\\nA Gentle Nurse 178\\nA Wicked Thief _ 13^\\nA Cruel Murderer 195\\nCharacter of the Master 207", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE HOUSE WE LIVE^IN\\nHOUSES AND TEMPLES\\nELEN: See this picture, mother. How\\npretty the house looks, with its wide win-\\ndows and porches!\\nMother Yes, it is a fine picture, and\\nsuch a house would make a lovely home.\\nMen build better dwellings now than they\\ndid many years ago.\\nPercy: Do people build the same kind of\\nhouses in all countries?\\nMother: Oh, no! If we should visit the\\nIndians, we would find them living In rude\\ntents called wigwams, or teepees, made of mats\\nand the bark of trees. In some countries\\npeople live in tents. Where^it is very warm\\nthey build so they may keep cool. In cold\\nclimates they make their houses warm. Can\\nyou tell me some things which are used In\\nbuilding houses.-*\\n(II)", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nThe House We Live In.\\nElmer: Stone, brick, Iron, wood, paper, earth, and straw.\\nThe Esquimau Hves in a house made of large blocks of snow\\nand ice.\\nMother You would not think such a house very warm,\\nbut it is the best he can make. Perhaps you have noticed\\nthat some houses are large\\nand some are small. Some\\nhave many rooms, others\\nbut few. They are made\\nin many shapes and colors,\\nand in some countries there\\nare hardly two which look\\nalike.\\nAmy: Here is another\\npicture. What kind of a\\n:p house is this, mother?\\nMother That is called\\na temple. It is built for the\\npurpose of worship.\\nHelen: Is a meeting-\\nhouse a temple.-*\\nMother: It might be called by that name, for It Is the\\nhouse of God, where His people worship Him. But as\\nwe were looking at these pictures I have been thinking of\\nanother kind of house in which we all live, which Is more\\nwonderful than any building ever made by men. There are\\na great number of these houses. All are made of the same\\nthings, all have the same kind of frame, all have the same\\nnumber of rooms, and, though there are thousands of them", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Houses and Temples. 13\\nin every country, they are all lighted, heated, finished, and\\nfurnished the same way.\\nPercy: Oh, I know what you mean! You are thinking\\nof our bodies.\\nMother: Yes; and if you study this house God made\\nfor you to live in, you will be ready to say, with King David,\\nI will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;\\nmarvelous are Thy works and that my soul knoweth right\\nwell. The more men study this body of ours, the more\\nthey find to make them wonder at the wisdom of its Maker.\\nIf a man invents a useful machine, such as a watch or an\\nengine, he is praised and called a great man. But how few\\never praise and thank the Lord for the body He has given\\nthem, and try to learn the best way to care for it\\nHelen I should like to know how to care for mine, but\\nI never thought of my body as a house before.\\nMother: We may call it a house, because the Bible calls\\nit so and, more than that, it says it is a temple. Listen to\\nthis verse: What? know ye not that your body is the\\ntemple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have\\nof God, and ye are not your own?\\nAmy Then this house or temple of the body does not\\nbelong to us, mother, for it says, *Ye are not your own.\\nPercy I see how it is. You know people sometimes\\nbuild houses to rent, and the One who made the house we\\nlive in gives it to us for a home as long as we live, and He\\nwants us to take good care of it.\\nMother That is right. The house is loaned or. rented\\nto us, as Percy says, for us to live in and care for. God", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 The House We Live In.\\ncares for it too, and if it wasn t for that it would have been\\ndestroyed long ago. Before any of us were old enough to\\nknow we had such a gift as our bodies, kind friends cared\\nfor them for us, and every moment our heavenly Father\\nwatches over us, for in Him we live, and move, and have\\nour being. When we go to sleep He still keeps the heart\\nengine pumping, and the parts which become worn out\\nduring the day are nicely mended without our thought\\nor care.\\nElmer: I want the house I live in to be like that pretty\\ntemple we saw in the picture.\\nMother: Then my boy must be very careful to keep it\\nclean, not only outside but inside as well. You know we\\nsometimes see houses painted nicely outside, and we think\\nwhat good homes they would make but when once .inside\\nwe find the rooms so dirty we want to get away. So boys\\nand girls may be nicely dressed and look well outside, but\\nif they do not eat good food and have good habits, their\\nbody-house is not fit to live in.\\nPercy: Adam and Eve must have had fine, large houses.\\nHelen: And they lasted a long time, too. Adam lived\\nin his for over nine hundred years.\\nMother: It is said that men keep building better houses\\nall the time, but the first body-house God made was the\\nbest ever seen in this world.\\nAmy: But why are they not made good and lasting now,\\nmother?\\nMother: One reason is because we do not use them\\nwell. Many persons would do better in caring for them-", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Houses and Temples. 15\\nselves If they knew better how to do it. If I gave you a\\ncostly watch, Percy, what is the first thing you would want\\nto know about it?\\nPercy: How to take care of it.\\nMother: Yes, you would find out how and when to\\nwind it, and just how to use it so it would keep good time.\\nWe should be even more careful to learn all we can about\\nour bodies. We should learn for what each part was made,\\nand how to keep it in good order. Men have taken bodies\\nlike ours apart, just as a watchmaker takes out all the wheels\\nof a watch, and they have found out many things about them\\nin this way. We should learn all we can about how to keep\\nwell and strong. If we are ill we make much trouble for\\nothers, and must suffer ourselves. If we are well we shall\\nbe a help and blessing to all around us. Not long ago I\\nread this prayer of a little girl for her body:\\n**Dear God, bless my two little eyes, and make them\\ntwinkle happy. Bless my two ears, and help me to\\nhear mother call me. Bless my two lips, and make them\\nspeak kind and true. Bless my two hands, and make them\\ngood and not touch what they mustn t. Bless my two\\nfeet, and make them go where they ought to. Bless my\\nheart, and make it love God and my father and mother\\nand everybody. Please let ugly sin never get hold of\\nme never, never!\\nThe Lord my body did prepare\\nMy dwelling-place to be,\\nAnd still it is a temple where\\nHe daily meets with me.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 6 The House We Live In.\\nMy head, my hands, my heart are His;\\nHe knows my being well;\\nAnd all its many mysteries\\nMy Lord alone can tell.\\nTo walk in ways of wickedness\\nMy feet can not afford;\\nFor all the powers I possess\\nAre holy to the Lord.\\nI ll pray to Him from day to day\\nTo lead my steps aright,\\nThat I along His heavenly way\\nMay be a shining light.\\nAnd He will keep my temple free\\nFrom every touch of sin;\\nHe truly saves and cleanses me,\\nThat He may dwell within.\\nMy eyes must see the good and true;\\nMy ears must hear His voice;\\nMy hands be ever glad to do\\nMy heavenly Father s choice.\\nC M. Snow,", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE OUTSIDE\\nOF THE BODY\\nOTHER: Let us look at the out-\\nside of our house before we try to\\nsee how it is made and furnished\\ninside. I think you know now\\nthat when I am talking about a\\nhouse or temple I mean the body.\\nIn some ways our bodies are like\\ntrees as well as houses. Look at this picture\\nand tell me what you see.\\nPercy: A tree with a straight stem or trunk.\\nIt also has branches, called limbs, and is covered\\nwith bark.\\nAmy: And it has roots, which hold it fast\\nin the ground.\\nMother: Yes, trees are made to stand in\\none place while they live, and so they have\\nroots. We have limbs like the tree, but our\\nlower limbs are used to carry us from place to\\nplace, for we were not made to stand still.\\nCan you think of another way in which we\\nare like the tree?\\n2 (17)", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 8 The House We Live In.\\nHelen: Oh, I know! The middle part of the body\\nis called the trunk.\\nMother Can you think of any other kind of trunk\\nthan the trunk of a tree or the trunk of the body\\nAmy A trunk in which to put\\nclothes.\\nMother: Yes, such trunks are\\nuseful to carry clothes. The upper\\npart of the trunk of the body, or\\nthe part between the arms, is called\\nthe chest. Sometime we will try\\nto learn what is packed away so nicely in the chest, or\\ntrunk, of the body, but we will only look outside now.\\nWhat is on top of the trunk\\nHelen A strong, shell-shaped box made of bones,\\ncalled the head.\\nMother This is what we might call the jewel-case, or\\nthe best part of all, for without it all parts of the body\\nwould be useless. Here we find the eyes, nose, mouth, and\\nears; and the head is fastened to the trunk of the body by\\nthe neck. How many limbs have we.\\nPercy: We have two arms and two legs, and these\\nare called our limbs.\\nMother: Now I think you can name the main parts\\nof the body. What are they?\\nHelen The head, trunk, and limbs.\\nMother You said the tree was covered with bark.\\nLook at your hand. With what is it covered\\nAmy: With skin.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Outside of the Body. 19\\nMother: Yes; we will talk more about this soft covering\\nof the body at another time. We found these body-houses\\nof ours are made to walk, work, run, jump, and do many other\\nthings. How are our limbs different from those of a tree?\\nPercy: They have joints so they can move many ways.\\nMother You may all put your arms out straight. Now\\nraise them above your head and then touch your head with-\\nout bending them.\\nHelen: We can t do it, mother.\\nMother: Let us see, then, how many joints, or bending-\\nplaces, we have. We will call them the hinges of our house,\\nfor they help us to use our limbs, just as the hinges of a door\\nhelp us to open or close the door. Please bend your arm\\nand tell me how many parts it has.\\nPercy My arm has two parts.\\nMother: What do you think would be a good name\\nfor the part near your shoulder?\\nAmy: The top arm, or upper arm.\\nMother: I think upper arm is best. Now if that part\\nis the upper arm, what would you call the other part?\\nElmer The lower arm.\\nMother: It is also called the forearm. Now move\\nyour elbow joint backward and forward, and tell me what\\nkind of joint it Is.\\nHelen: It is like a door hinge, for I can move It only\\ntwo ways.\\nMother: Yes, the elbow joint unites the upper and\\nlower arm, and it can swing only one way. What shall\\nwe call the joint that joins the upper arm to the shoulder?", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nThe House We Live In.\\nPercy: The shoulder joint.\\nMother: Is this joint like\\nthe one in your elbow\\nHelen No, for I can\\nswing my arm backward or\\nforward or any way I like.\\nMother That is because\\nit has a different joint than\\nyour elbow. It is called a ball-and-socket joint;\\nthat is, one end of the bone is shaped like a ball, and this\\nfits into a hole shaped like a cup in another bone, like the\\none you see in the picture. This shows the hip joint, which\\nis also a ball-and-socket joint, the same as we found in the\\nshoulder. Now what is the joint called at the lower end\\nof the forearm.-^\\nAmy: It is called the wrist.\\nMother: The wrist is a joint that moves very easily in\\nmany different ways. Now how many joints, or bending-\\nplaces, have we found in the arm\\nPercy: The arm has three joints.\\nMother: Elmer, you may take this ball. With what\\ndo you hold it.\\nElmer: With my hand.\\nMother: Tell me some ways in which we use our hands.\\nHelen We hold, push, pull, lift, catch, and feel with\\nour hands.\\nMother: The inside is called the palm of the hand.\\nWhat do you find at the ends of your hands\\nAmy: Fingers.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Outside of the Body.\\n21\\nMother: Look at your fingers. Are they all alike?\\nPercy: One is much shorter than the others; all are\\ndifferent in length, and one is very small.\\nMother What do you call your short finger\\nElmer My thumb.\\nMother You would find it hard to button your clothes\\nand do many other things if you had no thumbs. A dog\\nhas no fingers, and if he wishes to hold or carry anything,\\nhe does it with his teeth. The first finger is called the\\nforefinger, or index finger, be-\\ncause it comes first, and we\\nuse it to point with. The\\nsecond is the middle finger;\\nthen we have the third linger;\\nand the fourth is called the\\nHttle finger, because it is the\\nwee, tiny one of all. Open and\\nshut your hands quickly. What\\ndo you call the parts of your\\nfingers where you bend them\\nHelen Finger joints and knuckles.\\nMother You see there are many joints in the hands,\\nso we can move them easily and quickly. What do you\\nfind on the ends of your -fingers?\\nAmy: Finger-nails.\\nMother These hard, horny nails protect the ends of\\nthe fingers, and give them strength. Our hands were given\\nus to help ourselves and others, and we should keep them\\nneat and clean. They were not made to strike or steal.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 The House We Live In.\\nAmy I read this verse about our hands not long ago:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHands were made to be useful,\\nIf you teach them the way;\\nTherefore for yourself or neighbor\\nMake them useful every day.\\nPercy: You haven t told us about the lower limbs\\nyet, mother.\\nMother: No; and any boy or girl who enjoys running\\nand jumping would think theirs a hard lot if they had\\nno legs.\\nElmer: I saw a boy with only one not long ago.\\nMother: It is a great loss when a person loses an arm\\nor a leg. Such people are called cripples. How many\\nparts has each leg?\\nAmy: Each one has two parts.\\nMother And how many joints has the leg\\nHelen: Three joints.\\nMother: That is right. The one at the hip, as I have\\nsaid, is a ball-and-socket joint; the one at the knee is a\\nhinge joint, and the ankle is quite like the wrist. Then\\nwe have the foot, with a number of small joints, like\\nthe hand.\\nPercy: But we have toes on our feet instead of fingers;\\nstill there is the same number.\\nMother Yes, and some people can use their toes to\\ndraw pictures, write, and do many other things. Now we\\nhave found what our body-house is like on the outside,\\nand we see how well each part is made for the work given\\nit to do.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "OTHER: Percy, do you remember what men\\nuse in building houses\\nPercy: They use stone, wood, brick, iron,\\nglass, lime, and paper.\\nHelen: And some houses are made of\\nearth and straw.\\nMother: Yes, and some of these things\\nare found in the body-house.\\nAmy Why, mother, we are not made of wood, stone,\\nglass, or lime\\nMother: That is true; yet some of these very things\\nare in your body. Those who have studied the blood tell\\nus it is iron, partly, that gives it its rich red color. You\\nsaw what a pretty red it is when you cut your finger\\nto-day, Helen. Some of the things of which glass is made\\nare in our hair and finger-nails, and our bones would soon\\nbecome useless if we did not give them plenty of lime.\\nPercy But how do the iron and lime get inside of\\nus? That is what 1 would like to know.\\nMother: It does seem strange, but the houses we live\\nin are made of what we eat. I once knew a young lady\\nwho thought she needed more iron in her blood, so she\\n(23)", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nThe House We Live In.\\nput some nails in water and let them stay till it was full\\nof iron rust, and then she drank it. Perhaps if she had\\nthought her bones needed lime, she would have taken lime\\nwater; but this is not the proper way to get iron and lime\\ninside of us, as Percy says. We can not eat iron and\\nlime, but grains and fruits can, and we eat the grains\\nand fruits. Iron is found in apples, tomatoes, and straw-\\nberries. We get lime in wheat, peas, beans, and other\\nfoods. Have you noticed how the men are building that\\nbrick house across the street\\nAmy: They put one brick\\non top of another, till thousands\\nof them are used in making one\\nhouse.\\nMother Well, that is the\\nway the house we live in is built,\\nonly instead of bricks it is made\\nup of what are called cells.\\nThese cells are little bags filled\\nwith something that looks like\\njelly. They are so very small we\\ncan not see them at all unless we look through a glass\\nwhich makes them seem much larger than they really are.\\nSome of these powerful glasses make a speck of dust look\\nas big as a large rock.\\nElmer: I wish we could see some cells.\\nMother: Here is a picture of some kinds. You see\\nthey are not all alike. Some are round, others are flat, or\\nnarrow, or long, or short; so you see they are of all shapes", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Substances in the Body\\n25\\nand sizes. Some are so very tiny it would take three or\\nfour thousand to make a row an inch in length. Others\\nare large enough so we can almost see them without a\\nglass. Some have no color at all; others are\\night colored, and some are quite black. There\\nare millions of cells in one drop of blood.\\nYour skin seems like one piece, yet it, too,\\nis made of layers of cells. If we should look\\nthrough a strong glass at a tiny piece of\\npotato, wheat, and some oatmeal, we would\\nfind they are all made of cells.\\nPercy: And do the cells last as long\\nas we live, mother.\\nMother: No, they keep changing all\\nthe time. When we walk, run, talk, think,\\nor do anything, some of these cells die,\\nand others take their places. The new\\nones are just like the old; for if they\\nwere not, our appearance would so\\nchange that our best friends would not\\nknow us. While boys and girls are\\ngrowing, they are putting many new cells into\\nthe house they live in. This is the reason\\nauntie said the other day that she hardly knew\\nyou when she had not seen you for a year.\\nAmy: What are the cells made of, mother?\\nMother They are made of the food we eat. This\\nshows we should be careful to put the very best things we\\ncan get into our body-building I mean such as the body", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 The House We Live In.\\ncan use, for what we lihe best is not always what is needed\\nto build up and strengthen us. When you get hungry,\\nthat is the call of the body for food to make more cells,\\njust as the mason calls, More mortar, or, More brick,\\nso he can build his wall higher and stronger. If his mortar\\nhas but little lime, or is badly mixed, or he has only broken,\\nbadly-shaped brick, the wall will not be strong or beautiful.\\nSo if we give the body wrong kinds of food, it can not\\nbuild such a house as you and I wish to live in.\\nHelen: If moving about kills the cells, will they live\\nlonger if we keep still\\nMother: No, they are made to live just so long, and\\nwill die anyway. If we should not work or play, the dead\\ncells would stay in the body, and make no end of mischief;\\nbut when we move about, it helps to carry them away, and\\nnew ones take their places. So you need not be afraid to\\nrun and jump, play and work; for the cells will take care\\nto keep the house you live in all right, if you only give\\nthem the right kind of food, and not too much of it.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PDAM\\nOTHER: Every building must have a founda-\\ntion and a frame of some kind to make it\\nstrong and give it shape. It is the same with\\nthe house we call our\\nbody. The frames\\nof houses which men\\nbuild are made of wood or iron\\nbut the framework of the body is\\nbuilt of bones. Perhaps you have\\nnoticed that in the frames of build-\\nings some pieces of timber are\\nshort, and some are long, and they\\nare cut into many different shapes\\nand sizes. So it is with the bones\\nof the body. How many do you\\nthink it takes to make our frame?\\nHelen: About fifty.\\nPercy: I guess one hundred.\\nMother: Not quite right, for\\nthere are over two hundred. All\\n(27)", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nThe House We Live In.\\nthe bones together are called the skeleton. The frame of\\na house divides it into rooms, and on it are fastened the\\nboards, laths, and shingles. In the house in\\nwhich we live the flesh is fastened to the bones,\\nand the whole is covered with skin. This\\nframework also protects the curious rooms\\ninside the trunk of the body. The largest\\nbone in our frame is the leg bone, which\\nreaches from the hip to the knee. It is called\\nthe femur, or thigh bone.\\nElmer: Are the bones solid, mother?\\nMother: No; I have brought some pic-\\ntures to show you how they look, for we can\\nnot see our own bones. One of them shows\\na bone that is sawed through lengthwise. You\\nsee the larger part at the end is full of little\\nholes, like a sponge. This makes it light and\\nstrong. There is a hollow place in long bones\\nfilled with marrow. It also fills the spongy\\nparts. Marrow is made of fat and cells.\\nYou must not think that live bones look like one which\\nhas been lying out-\\nof-doors a long time.\\nLive bones are full\\nof blood and have a\\npinkish color. They\\nalso have an outside\\nskin, which can be peeled ofT, as you see in this picture.\\nAmy: What are the bones made of?\\nThe thigh bune.\\nA bone with the outside skin partly peeled off.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Our Frame.\\n29\\nEnd of a bone\\nsawed open.\\nMother: Of animal and\\nearthy matter. You can take\\nthe animal matter out of a\\nbone by burning it in the\\nfire. It will then be white\\nand brittle. If you soak a\\nbone in a kind of acid, the\\nearthy matter will come out,\\nand it will then be so soft you can tie it in a knot like this.\\nWhen children are very young, their\\nbones are soft and easily bent. This\\nis because there is more animal than\\nearthy matter. Children sometimes\\nget hard falls, and their bones bend\\nbut do not break. Some, when\\nvery young, have legs that are bent\\nlike a bow. This is caused by stand-\\ning and walking before the bones are strong enough to bear\\nthe weight of the body, or by disease.\\nIn very old people the bones contain more earthy matter,\\nand they break easily. Grand fa-ther and grand moth-er\\nmust be careful not to fall, for if they break a bone it will\\ntake a long time to heal.\\nWhen we take a baby, we should not lift him by his\\narms, and we must hold him so his bones will not grow out\\nof shape. As he grows older, enough earthy matter will\\ngo into his bones to make them hard and strong.\\nPercy: But you said there was lime in the bones,\\nmother.\\nA bone tied in a knot, after the earthy matter\\nhas beeti removed by an acid", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nThe House We Live In.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^m.\\nfVe should not lift him by his arms.\\nMother: Yes, the earthy\\nmatter is partly lime. The\\nblood goes into the bones\\nthrough tiny blood-vessels,\\nand at all times of day and\\nnight the bones keep eating\\ntheir breakfasts, dinners, and\\nsuppers of lime, which\\nthey find in the blood.\\nHelen: What kind of\\nfood is best for the bones\\nMother: Good whole-\\nwheat bread will furnish\\nthem all they need. Peas and beans are also good.\\nWe will now look at the largest bones of our body\\nframe, and see if we can learn something of their size and\\nshape. We will not try to learn their hard names now,\\nbut will leave that till we are older.\\nWe will begin with the bones of the head. They\\nform what is called the skull. It is made of a number\\nof bones, joined like two saws with the teeth hooked\\ntogether. The chin bone, or jaw bone, is one of the\\nbones of the head.\\nLet me show you a picture of one of\\nthe most wonderful bones of the body.\\nIt is called the sphiey or spinal column.\\nPerhaps you can feel some little knobs or\\nridges in your back. The back-bone is\\nmade of twenty-four little bones piled one\\nxck-boiw.\\nSkull.", "height": "4117", "width": "2762", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Our Frame.\\n31\\nReels of cotton.\\non top of another. Suppose you had twenty-four spools or\\nreels of cotton, and you should run a string through\\nthem. When you hold them upright, you see you can\\nbend them any way you wish, or keep them straight.\\nNow if each spool had three wings like the one in the picture,\\nthey would be shaped very much like the bones that form\\nthe spine. The string is like the marrow, or spinal cord,\\nwhich passes through the spinal column from top to bottom.\\nThe bones which make up the\\nlower part of the spine are much\\nlarger than those at the top.\\nLittle soft cushions are placed be-\\ntween all these bones, something\\nlike India-rubber. These cushions\\nare to keep the body and brain\\nfrom being jarred, just as the springs in our carriage help\\nyou to ride easily. They also help us to bend the body\\nbackward or forward as we choose. You see if the spine\\nwas one long straight bone we could not bend at all. If\\nwe keep bending over while walking or working, after\\na time the cushions will get used to that position and\\nwe shall have a bad figure.\\nElmer: The boy with his hands in his pockets\\ndoes not have a good figure.\\nMother: No; and if he were to go into the\\narmy, the first thing he would have to learn would\\nbe to straighten up, and give his spinal column\\na chance to grow the right way.\\nNow we will look at the ribs. They are", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "The House We Live In.\\nfastened to the spinal column at the\\nback, and all but four are fastened to\\nthe breast-bone in front. There are\\ntwelve ribs on each side. There are\\ntwo bones on the upper part of the\\nback, which seem to dance every time\\nyou move your arm. These are the\\nshoulder blades. They are thin, flat\\nbones, which help\\nmake the shoulder joint. You can feel\\ntwo bones near your neck in front, which\\nare called collar bones. They are\\nshaped much like the letter f, and serve\\nto preserve the shape of the shoulders.\\nAmy: How many bones do we have\\nin our arms, mother.\\nMother: There are three in each\\narm, one from the shoulder to the elbow,\\nand two from the elbow to the wrist.\\nThere are a large number of bones in the\\nBones of the arm.\\nwrist and hand\\nThe middle part of the body be-\\nlow the spinal column is called the\\npelvis. In this picture we see two\\ncurious bones. These are the hip\\nbones. They are like the sills of a\\nhouse, which, you know, are large\\nand strong. There is a deep hole in\\neach one as larg^e as a toy teacup,\\nThe pelvis. r", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Our Frame.\\nZZ\\nwhich holds the round head of the leg bone. There are three\\nbones in each leg, the same as in the arm, one from the\\nhip to the knee, and two from the knee to the\\nankle, besides a funny little bone or cap which\\ncovers the knee. Then we come to the ankle\\nbones and bones of the feet.\\nHelen: How do the bones stay in their\\nproper places, mother I should think they would\\nfall apart.\\nMother: They would if they were not tied\\ntogether.\\nElmer: But what are they tied with.^\\nMother: With strong white bands or cords\\ncalled lig a-ments. Perhaps you have seen them on\\nthe leg of a chicken. When a joint is sprained,\\nthat means the lig a-ments are stretched or hurt\\nin some way.\\nAmy: I should think the bones would get\\ndry so they would squeak and\\nrub hard against one another.\\nMother: So they would if the\\nMaker of the body-house had not put\\nsoft cushions of gristle or car ti-lage be-\\ntween them. A soft, thin skin covers\\nthem, which pours joint water over\\nthe ends, and keeps them oiled just\\nright, so they bend easily, and never\\nsqueak at all. You have seen the\\ndriver of an engine oiling it so it\\nW 1 it bones tied together.\\nBones of the\\nleg midfoot.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 The House We Live In.\\nwould run easily and not wear out; but think of a machine\\nwhich will mend and oil itself for seventy years without\\nwearing out We have a most wonderful frame. The Bible\\nsays, Thou hast fenced me with bones and sinews, and,\\nHe knoweth our frame. Sometimes if we are ill a lono-\\ntime the bones that were not seen stick out; but when\\nwe are well, flesh covers them over so we hardly know we\\nhave any bones at all.\\nI once read a poem which I will repeat for you. It\\nmay help you to remember how many bones we have and\\nwhere they are:\\nHow many bones in the human head?\\nEight, my child, as I ve often said.\\nHow many bones in the human spine?\\nTwenty-six, Hke a climbing vine.\\nHow many bones in the human chest?\\nTwenty-four ribs, and four of the rest.\\nHow many bones in the human arm?\\nIn each one, two in each forearm.\\nHow many bones in the human wrist\\nEight in each if none are missed.\\nHow many bones in the fingers ten?\\nTwenty-eight, and by joints they bend.\\nHow many bones in the human hip?\\nOne in each; Hke a dish they dip.\\nHow many bones in the human knees?\\nOne in each, the knee-pan, please.\\nHow many bones in the ankles strong?\\nSeven in each, but none are long.\\nHow many bones in the toes, half a score?\\nTwenty-eight, and there are no more.\\nAnd now altogether these many bones fix,\\nAnd they count in the body two hundred and six.\\nAnd now and then a bone I should think\\nThat forms on a joint, or to fill up a chink,\\nA ses a-moid bone, or a wormian, we call.\\nAnd now we may rest, for w^e ve told them all.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "o G C= VI O\\nOF THE BONES\\nELEN: What s the matter with this house,\\nmother? It seems to be all out of shape.\\nMother: Perhaps it is very old and the\\nframe has decayed so it leans far over to one\\nside. It is unsafe to live in such houses, for\\nthey may tumble down if a strong wind comes\\nalong. I have seen some body-houses\\nwhich look very much like this to me.\\nHere is one of them. See how this\\nboy s shoulders are bent forward, and\\nhis whole body is wrong. If some\\ndisease, as consumption, should come\\nalong, like a strong wind, I fear his\\nhouse would go down. Some one\\nshould say to him, Straighten up,\\nyoung man throw your shoulders\\nback, and you will look more manly\\nand will live much lono-er.\\nSee how this boy s shoulders\\nare bent forward.^\\nPercy: I have seen some boys\\nat school bending over their desk when studying and\\nwriting. Is that good for the bones\\nMother: No; boys and girls should sit straight, stand\\n(35)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nThe House We Live In.\\nstraight, and walk straight. If they do not, after a time\\nthe cushions between the bones in the spine will grow\\nthicker on one side than on the other, and the back-bone\\nwill become crooked. You know soldiers stand erect and\\nhave fine forms. How much better\\nthis man looks than the one who\\nbends over! Do not form the habit\\nof bending forward while sitting or\\nstanding. The one who made the\\nbody made man upright, and in\\nthis he is different from the birds,\\nbeasts, or fishes.\\nElmer: Can the bones be broken,\\nmother?\\nMother: Yes, and it is a sad\\nthing for one to get broken, for it\\nis very painful and takes a long time\\nto heal. Children should be careful when jumping, when\\nclimbing trees, or when they go in any place where they\\nmay fall and break their bones.\\nMany persons give the bones of the feet a wrong shape\\nby wearing tight boots or shoes. This causes corns to\\ngrow, which become very sore and painful. Perhaps you\\nhave heard how the Chinese women bind the feet of their\\nlittle girls, and pinch them up, till they look more like clubs\\nthan like feet. The little one often cries and moans for\\ndays, but the mother and father pay no attention to her\\nsufferings, for they think it would never do for their girl\\nto have big feet.\\nBoys should sit straight.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Prope7^ Care of the Bones\\nAmy: O, yes, niother; here is the pic-\\nture of a woman with little feet! See her\\ntiny shoes! They are no longer than a\\nbaby s. In the other picture you see one\\nof her feet with all the toes doubled under.\\nI don t see how she can walk at all.\\nHelen: She must be silly. I think\\nGod knew how big to make our feet, as\\nwell as other parts of the body.\\nMother: That is true, but the poor\\nChinese women do not know better, and\\nthey think Christian women are more\\nfoolish than Chinese women, and that\\nthey bind the bones in a way they them-\\nselves would never dream of doing.\\nHelen: How, mother.^\\nMother: They say Christian women\\nand girls squeeze the waist so tight it\\ngives no room for some of the most important\\nparts of the body-house. I think\\nyou said, Helen, that God\\nknew how big to make our\\nfeet. Do you think He\\nknew how big to make the\\nwaist\\nHelen: I suppose so,\\nbut a small waist looks so\\nmuch better than a large\\none.\\n(37)\\nSee her tiny shoes P\\nAll the toes doubled\\nunder,", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "3^\\nThe Hi\\nouse\\nWe Live In.\\nMother: And the Chinese lady thinks her little feet\\nare so much prettier than large ones, and she would rather\\nsuffer the pain, and hobble around all her life leaning on a\\nservant, than be out of fashion. The Christian woman\\nthinks a small waist is pretty, so she makes her clothes\\ntight, and suffers all kinds of aches,\\nrather than let the body remain as\\nGod made it. What is the difference?\\nHere is a picture of the ribs as God\\nmade them, and here is one after\\nthe waist has been bound around\\nwith tight dresses.\\nIf we saw a man put-\\nting iron bands around\\nhis house we would think\\nthe one who built it had\\nmade some mistake or it\\nwould not need anything\\nto hold it together. If people feel as though they would\\nfall to pieces, or if they have the backache, when their\\nclothes are loose, it shows they have abused the muscles\\nof the body and made weak that which God made strong.\\nAmy: Is it wrong to wear tight clothing, mother?\\nMother: Yes; it is very hurtful for girls to wear their\\ndresses even a little tight, for the bones are soft and easily\\npressed out of place. We should wear warm, loose cloth-\\ning on all parts of the body, and never, never squeeze the\\nfeet, waist, or any other part out of shape. Your arm\\nwould be very painful with a tight band around it, but that\\nHere is a\\npicture of the\\nribs as God\\nmade them,\\nand here is one\\nafter the waist\\nhas been botmd\\naround with\\ntight dresses.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "P^^oper Care of the Bones. ^9\\nwould not do as much harm as tight shoes or tight bands\\naround the waist. It is better to be healthy than to be in\\nfashion.\\nYou remember that the blood flows through the bones\\nto feed and make them grow. Good blood will make them\\nstrong and healthy. Children sometimes have a disease\\ncalled the rickets. This shows that their bones are soft\\nand need more lime. They should eat plenty of good\\nbrown bread.\\nNo boy who wishes to grow large and strong should\\ntouch beer or tobacco. These poisons in the blood will\\nmake the bony framework of the body small and weak.\\nThe size of the man depends on his frame. Many boys\\nare making their bodies and minds very small by smoking\\ncigarettes. By using strong drink or tobacco the house we\\nlive in is defiled. The blood and all the body, inside and\\nout, becomes soiled and filthy. If any man defile the\\ntemple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of\\nGod is holy, which temple ye are. If one should go into\\na beautiful temple and break the windows, stain the white\\nmarble walls, and cover the floor with filth, we would think\\nthey did wrong. How much worse to destroy the wonder-\\nful, living temple which God Himself has built!", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "LMER: I don t like to look at pic-\\ntures of bones and skeletons, mother.\\nMother: No; like the framework\\nlll^^^^-^ of a house, they are not pretty, and\\nyet they give shape to what we do\\nike to see. When your father built this\\nhouse, do you remember how he made\\nthe walls\\nPercy: The spaces between the tim-\\nbers were filled with bricks, so there was\\na solid wall.\\nMother: Well, it is that way in the\\nbody-house. The bones are all covered over and\\nfilled in between with muscles. It is these which\\nmake the cheeks so plump, and give the whole body its\\nround, pleasing form. It is the muscles which move the\\nbones.\\nAmy: But what is a muscle.\\nMother: You have seen lean meat, have you not.^\\nThat is muscle. When boiled it seems to be made up of\\nlittle bundles of tiny threads of fibers, each wrapped in its\\nown thin blanket. Here Is a picture of a muscle. These\\n(40)", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Ilic Walls of Ou7 House.\\n41\\nsmall threads are not twisted together, but are laid side by\\nside. It takes one thousand seven hundred of them to\\nmake a muscle an inch thick in children,\\nbut in grown people it takes only five\\nhundred.\\nHelen: Are the muscles fastened to\\nthe bones, mother.-*\\nMother:^ Yes; many muscles are joined\\nto the bones by strong cords, called ten-\\ndons. The picture shows the muscles of the\\narm, with their tapering tendons at the wrist.\\nYou see our muscles end in these little\\nropes, or cords, to save room. What a large\\nwrist we would have if the muscles were as\\nlarge there as in the arm! Now grasp your\\nright arm and open and shut the fingers of\\nyour right hand. What do you feel\\nPercy: The flesh moves.\\nMother: That is because the muscles\\nof your arm pull back when you shut your\\nfingers, and stretch out when you open them.\\nThey are some like this piece of India rubber.\\nIf you pull it out, it gets thinner, and if you\\nlet go, it snaps back and becomes short and\\nthick. Perhaps you have seen the leg of\\na fowl cut off at the joint, and know if\\nyou take hold of the strong cords you\\ncan move the toes up or down. So the\\nMuscles of muscles and tendons move in our feet\\nMuscles of the arm, with\\ntheir tapering tendons at\\nthe wrist.\\nthe hand.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nThe House We Live Ii\\nand hands in the same way. Every step we take, one\\nmuscle Hfts the toes in front, and another pulls up the\\nheel behind.\\nIf a person sits still much of the time, he will have\\nweak, small muscles, because he does not use them. That\\nis one reason why people are so very weak after being ill.\\nWhen we use our muscles, they grow large and strong.\\nYou have seen the blacksmith s arm and noticed how lar^e\\nand strong it is. To use our muscles does not wear them\\nout, but does them good.\\nElmer: I should think the muscles were our servants,\\nto do whatever we wish done.\\nMother: Yes; and better servants no pe. son ever had.\\nIf the brain says, I w^nt a book, the muscles of the legs\\ncarry the body where the book is those\\nof the eye look for it those in the arm\\nand hand lift it and the master of the\\nhouse gets what he wants. We can not\\nmove or do anything without these serv-\\nants to help us.\\nAmy: It must take a good many to\\nserve one who wants as many things as\\nI do.\\nHelen: I read not long ago there\\nwere about five hundred of them, big\\nand little, and that they, have many\\nshapes and sizes.\\nMother: That is true; and one who\\nhas so many servants as that, ought to", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "The Walls of Our House. 43\\nbe able to wait on himself, and help other people, too.\\nSome of these servants, those in the feet, legs, arms, and\\nhands, wait to be told what to do. Others go to work\\nand keep at it without telling, and they will work even\\nthough the one living in the house should tell them to\\nstop. When you wink, you do it without thinking, for\\nthe little muscles over the eye know it is their duty to\\nkeep the eye clean and bright, and they keep at their work\\neven though you should tell them to keep still. Your\\nheart is a hollow muscle, and it works faithfully night\\nand day as long as you live. The stomach is made of\\nmuscles, which take care of your breakfast and dinner with-\\nout a word from you and there are many more of these\\nfaithful servants who work to keep our house in order.\\nPercy: But don t the muscles get tired, mother?\\nMother: Yes; and when they ask for rest, we should\\ngive it to them. We do not need to sit still and do\\nnothing in order to rest the muscles. If we have been\\nstudying, it rests them to sweep the floor, hoe in the\\ngarden, or work or play. If we have been playing or work-\\ning hard, it rests us to sit down and read or study. Change\\nof work is better than to be idle. Walking, running, or\\nworking makes the muscles grow large and strong.\\nWe must also have plenty of sleep. A boy or girl\\nwho works and plays out in the fresh air and sunshine,\\nwill be strong and well, while those who sit in the house\\nwill be weak and sickly. But it is not best to work the\\nmuscles till they are all tired out, for using them too\\nmuch is nearly as bad as not using them at all.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nThe House We Live In.\\nHelen: I read a story not long ago about the king of\\na tribe in Africa. He did not move about or work, so he\\nbecame ill. He sent for his doctor, who saw that all he\\nneeded was to use his muscles, but he did not dare tell\\nhim to go to work, so he made two large clubs, and told\\nthe king the medicine which would make him well was in\\nthe handles, and if he would swing the clubs each day till\\nhis body was moist, the medicine would go from the clubs\\nGiving his muscles exercised\\ninto his hands, and make him strong and well. The king\\ndid as the doctor said. Each day he swung his clubs in\\nthe open air, and he soon became strong. He thought he\\nhad a very skilful doctor, and praised him for his great cure.\\nMother: And yet it was only giving his muscles exer-\\ncise which helped him so much. This shows the importance\\nof using them.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "The Walls of Our House. 45\\nElmer: Do we need anything else to make the muscles\\nstrong, mother?\\nMother Yes one of the best things to make them\\nstrong is plenty of good, plain food. As the muscles are\\nused, they wear out, and must have new timber to build\\nthemselves up. You would think it strange if a carpenter\\nbrought brick, mortar, glass, and timber to mend a house,\\nand without his help each part should take just what it\\nneeded, putting in half a dozen bricks in the chimney, a\\nboard in the floor, a new pane of glass in the window, and\\nsome mortar in the right place. But this is what the house\\nwe live in is doing day and night. When we sleep, the\\nmending goes on better than when we are awake, and it\\nis done so well we do not hear or think of the busy little\\nworkmen inside. All they ask is the right kind of food,\\nnot too much or too little of it, and they will take the\\nright thing to the right place, and keep the house in good\\norder.\\nHelen: I have read of some men training their\\nmuscles. What did they do to train them\\nMother: They were very careful to take only that kind\\nof food which is good for the muscles. They can not use\\nwine, beer, whisky, or tobacco, for these make bad blood\\nand weak muscles. Then they work all they can bear,\\nbut not too much.\\nPercy: But Mr. Blank says it makes him strong to\\nhave a glass of beer or whisky.\\nAmy: And Mr. Blank is such a big man he must have\\nstrong muscles.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 The House We Live In.\\nMother: To be big is not to be strong. It is well\\nto have some soft cushions of fat between the muscles,\\nbut, as a rule, those who have much fat are not as\\nstrong and well as those who have less fat and more\\nmuscle. Whisky does not make the muscles grow, nor\\ndoes it make any one strong. Would you like to have\\nme tell you why this is so\\nElmer Please do, mother.\\nMother Do you remember when we were driving\\nup that long hill yesterday how tired the horse seemed till\\nhe was struck with a whip. After that he went much\\nfaster, and did not seem tired at all for a little while. The\\nwhip was a stim u-lant to the horse. Whisky and beer are\\nstim u-lants, too. Mr. Blank works till his muscles are tired,\\nand then, instead of giving them food and rest, he gives\\nthem beer, which makes him think he is stronger when he\\nis really weaker. The whip made the horse forget he was\\ntired, but don t you think if he had rested an hour and\\neaten some good oats and sweet hay, he would have had\\nmore strength than he had after he was struck with the\\nwhip?\\nPercy I think so for if we had given the horse no\\nrest and had kept whipping him, after a time he could not\\nwork at all.\\nMother: And that is just what happens to the man\\nwho drinks beer. Perhaps you have seen a man stumbling\\nalong the sidewalk. He is first on one side and then on\\nthe other, and we say he is drunk. This means that the\\nalcohol he has taken has poisoned his body so the muscles", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 The House We Live In.\\nwill not do their work properly. The man can not make\\nhis servants do as he tells them for he has made them all\\nsick, and he is sick. It is a sad sight to see any one drink\\nthis poison, and make himself helpless.\\nAmy: I never knew b.efore that strong drink hurt the\\nmuscles.\\nMother: And there is another poison about as bad\\nfor them, and that is tobacco. If a boy wishes to grow to\\nbe a large, noble man, with an active mind, a clean mouth,\\nsweet breath, clear eyes, and strong muscles, he will not\\ntouch tobacco. In some countries there is a law against\\nboys using it, because it does them so much harm. To-\\nbacco makes the muscles weak and unsteady. Like alcohol,\\nit makes a person feel stronger when he is really weaker.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "OTHER: After your father had filled the frame-\\nwork of his house with bricks, can you tell me,\\nElmer, how the outside was covered?\\nElmer The walls were covered on the outside\\nwith boards, and the roof with shingles.\\nMother: That would do very well for a wooden\\nhouse, but for one that can walk, run, jump, and\\nskip about, such a stiff covering would be sadly out\\nof place. We sometimes smile because the snail\\ncarries his house around on his back but the house we\\nlive in must move itself and carry the one who lives in\\nit. How are boards and shingles fastened onto common\\nhouses so they will stay.\\nPercy: With nails.\\nMother: Just think of driving nails into muscles! Yet\\nyou see our body-houses must have some kind of a cover-\\ning. It must be thin and strong and one that will stretch.\\nLook at your hands and see if they do not have the very\\nbest covering that could be made. Pinch up the skin, and\\nsee how thin it is, and yet how well it fits every part of\\nthe body.\\n4 (49)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 The House We Live In,\\nAmy: And the skin stretches, mother. See, I can bend\\nmy knee and elbow, and move my fingers as I please.\\nMother: Yes, it is like a close-fitting garment. What\\nwe call the skin is really two skins. You see I can put a\\npin through the outer skin in the palm of my hand, and I\\nfeel no pain, and you see no blood.\\nHelen: Isn t that all the skin we have?\\nMother: No; for under this thick, outer skin is what\\nis called the true skin. It has such fine blood-vessels that\\nif you could see them, they would look like fine network.\\nIf you should prick this inner skin it would hurt, and the\\nblood would flow. This shows it has nerves as well as\\nblood. Under the true skin is a layer of fat. This is like\\na warm woolen garment to keep the body warm. Between\\nthe outer skin and the true skin there is some jelly-like\\ncoloring matter, which gives it color.\\nHelen: Is that why some persons are very dark and\\nothers are light, mother.^\\nMother: Yes; your true skin is just the same color as\\nthat of the negro and the Indian. The coloring matter\\nunder the outer skin is all that makes the difference. This\\nouter covering is made of little horny scales laid one over\\nanother, much as a roof might be if it had ten or twelve\\nlayers of shingles. The outer scales keep wearing away\\nall the time, and new ones take their places. You know a\\nsnake sheds its skin and crawls away with a new one.\\nWe shed our skin, too, little by little, but the scales are\\nso small we can hardly see them. If you should wear\\nyour under-clothing several days, and then shake it in the", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Weather-boards and Roofing. 51\\nsunlight, you would see little scales floating about in the\\nair like dust.\\nAmy: Isn t the skin thicker in some parts of the body\\nthan others\\nMother: Yes; on the palms of your hands and the\\nsoles of your feet it is quite thick, while on the lips and\\nsome other parts of the body it is very thin indeed. Have\\nyou noticed how the skin looks if it is scratched and then\\nheals up\\nElmer: Just the same as it did before.\\nMother: But if there is a deep cut or a severe burn,\\nhow does it look after it heals?\\nHelen: There is a scar left.\\nMother This shows that the outer skin and the color-\\ning matter will come back as they were before if they are\\nhurt; but when the true skin is injured, the blood makes\\na kind of patch, which we call a scar. Another curious\\nthing about the true skin is that it has tiny muscles, and\\nwhen the body is cold, they draw up and make little hillocks,\\nwhich we call goose-flesh.\\nBut the skin is very useful, besides being a covering for\\nthe body. When we were getting dinner to-day, what did\\nwe do with the potato parings and other things we did\\nnot wish to keep?\\nPercy: We put them in the garbage box.\\nMother: Why did we do that?\\nAmy: Because they were not fit for food.\\nMother And what do we call that which we do not\\nwish to keep, and so throw away", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 The House We Live In.\\nHelen: We call it waste.\\nMother: What do we do with waste matter? Do we\\nlet it stay in the house\\nElmer: No; we throw it away.\\nMother: Why would it not be best to let it remain\\nin the house\\nPercy Because it would decay and make us ill.\\nMother Well, it is the same way in the house we live\\nin. All the food we eat can not be used, and some parts\\nof the body are wearing out all the time. If the waste\\nstayed inside, we should become ill. In the skin there are\\nthousands and millions of little tubes called pores which\\nhelp carry away the waste. If you become very warm,\\nyou say you are sweating, or per-spir ing; that is, drops\\nof water come out all over your body. They come through\\nthe pores, or little holes in the skin. But we sweat, or\\nperspire, all the time, whether we can see it or not. If the\\npores of the skin were stopped up, a person would soon\\ndie. If the skin is very dirty, the sweat can not get out,\\nand it stays inside. To show you how many pores there\\nare, you may look at this little piece of\\npaper, which is just one inch square. In\\nsuch a space on the limbs there are five\\nhundred pores. On the trunk of the body,\\nforehead, back of the hand, and on the\\n9\u00c2\u00ab^ inch square: foot, One thousaud and on the palm of the\\nhand and sole of the foot there are tzventy-seven hundred.\\nEach of these little waste-pipes is one-fifth of an inch long.\\nIf they were placed one after another, wise men tell us we", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Weather-boards and Roofing. 53\\nwould have two or three miles, and perhaps even more, of\\nwaste-pipes for the body. What do you suppose would\\nhappen if they were choked up, and all the waste should\\nremain inside?\\nAmy: We would become ill.\\nMother We surely would. Sometimes we call it\\ntaking cold. If we cool off too quickly when warm,\\nor get our clothes wet and do not put on dry ones, or in\\na warm spring day put on thin clothes, all these things\\nstop the waste-pipes, and w e catch cold, have a sore\\nthroat, and we may have a fever, which shows that the\\nwaste is being burned up inside and the house becomes\\nburning hot.\\nPercy Then the pores must be kept open all the time\\nif we would be well.\\nMother Yes but there is another way than those I\\nhave told you by which they get choked up. The waste-\\npipes leave the dirt they carry out of the body on the skin,\\nfor that is as far as they can carry it. The master of the\\nhouse must see that the skin is kept clean, so the pipes\\nwill not be choked.\\nElmer: Then he ought to wash it often.\\nMother I think so, and not only some parts, but the\\nwhole house needs a good scrubbing with soap and warm\\nwater as often as twice a week, and if he will then take a\\nbath of some kind each day, that will keep the skin clean\\nand healthy. Even rubbing the whole body once a day\\nwith a damp towel and then with a dry one, will keep the\\nwaste-pipes open, so they can do good work, if there is a", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nThe House We Live In.\\nthorough scrubbing twice a week, as I have said. We\\nshould also be careful to wear clean clothing next to the\\nskin, for there\\nis about a quart\\nof waste matter\\ncarried through\\nthe pores every\\nday. Can you\\nthink of any\\nother ways in\\nwhich the skin\\nis useful besides\\nbeing a cover-\\ning and carry-\\ning away the\\nwaste\\nHelen It\\nhelps us y^^/ dif-\\nferent objects.\\nThose who are\\nblind learn to\\ndo many useful\\nthings by the\\nsense of touch,\\nthings by this sense.\\n-^,M II I nil\\nA thorough scrubbing.\\nMother: Yes, we learn many\\nYou know when you show anything to a baby it stretches\\nout its little hands to feel of the object. How do you\\nthink such poisons as alcohol and tobacco affect this cov-\\nering of the body", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Weather-boards and Roofing, 55\\nAmy They must make more waste in the body, and\\nso the skin has more to do.\\nPercy I think it must fill it full of poison.\\nElxMER Does alcohol make the skin look red, mother\\nMother: Yes; that is why a man who drinks beer or\\nother drinks containing alcohol, has such a red face. Some-\\ntimes his nose is called a rum blossom. The alcohol\\nmakes the blood-vessels larger than they should be, and so\\nhis nose and face become very red. Bad food is also\\nhurtful to the skin, for it can not be clear and healthy it\\nthe blood is not clean. Pimples and sores are caused by\\nbad blood, and they show that better food is needed in\\nthe body.\\nAmy: But you haven t told us what the roof of the\\nbody house is, mother.\\nMother: Have you ever seen a house with a thatched\\nroof I mean one covered with hay or straw instead of\\niron or shingles 1\\nElmer: Oh, yes, we saw some when we were out in\\nthe country!\\nMother: Well, the roof of the house we live in is\\nmore like that than like a shingled roof.\\nPercy: Now I know what you mean: the body-house\\nhas a roof of hair.\\nMother And it is a most beautiful covering, too.\\nEach hair grows in a little pocket, which is furnished with\\na tiny bag of coloring matter and a bottle of hair oil.\\nThese give color to the hair, and keep it soft and smooth.\\nIf we put much oil on the hair, it causes the oil bottles in", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 The House We Live In,\\nthe skin to dry up. There is no dressing so good as thiu\\nwhich is made in the skin. We should brush and comb\\nthe hair carefully, to keep it shining and healthy.\\nPeople sometimes lose this beautiful thatch, and we say\\nthey are bald-headed. In very old people it turns gray\\nor white, and it is like a beautiful, silvery crown. The Bible\\nsays that a hoary head is a crown of glory. Very small,\\nnew houses sometimes have no thatch at all, but as they\\nget larger and older, one grows, and at first it is fine as\\nsoftest silk. The Bible says that even the hairs of our\\nhead are all numbered or counted by our heavenly Father.\\nFrom this we may see how much He loves and cares\\nfor us.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE CUPO LAp\\nLMER: Have you seen the cupola on the new\\nhouse in the next street, mother?\\nMother: Yes; it is very pretty. It is quite\\ncommon now to build cupolas on large houses. But\\nI was thinking, as you came in, of the cupola, or tower, on\\nthe house we live in. Can you think what it is\\nPercy: It must be the head.\\nMother That is right, but, unlike the cupola of a\\ncommon house, which is used but little, the head is the\\nbest room of all, and the others would be of little worth\\nwithout it. It is here we find the master, the one who\\ngives orders to his servants, the muscles, and directs all\\nthey do.\\nIn large business houses you sometimes see a room\\nhaving on the door the word Office, and you know if\\nyou have business there, that is the place for you to go to\\nfind the manager. We might call the head the office room\\nof the body, for it is here the manager is always found if\\nat home.\\nWhile you know there is a master to our house, yet you\\ncan not see him. He may peep through the windows, you\\nmay hear him speak, and you can talk to him. Perhaps\\nyou will love him very much, or you may dislike to be near\\nhim. You may see his work, but still you can not see /it7n.\\n(57)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 The House We Live In.\\nAmy: You must mean that the mind is master of the\\nbody, is it not, mother?\\nMother: It surely ought to be; but I am sorry to say\\nthat in some houses the servants get the master to do as\\nthey Hke, and then the body-house has a bad time, for\\nwhether one member suffer, all the members suffer with\\nit. The apostle Paul said, I keep under my body, and\\nbring it into subjection, and this is the work given to the\\nmaster of every body-house. The mind should know what\\nis good for the body, and, though the servants may ask\\nmany times to do as they like, he should firmly say, iVi?,\\nwhenever they wish to do wrong. Can you tell what the\\nmind is.\\nHelen: It is the part of me that thinks and remembers.\\nMother: And it also wills, that is, we make up our\\nmind, as we say. Why do you think our mind is in the\\nhead\\nPercy Why, if our hands, arms, or feet were cut off,\\nwe could still think.\\nMother: Do you remembet the name of the organ\\ninside the head with which we think\\nAmy: The brain.\\nMother: Yes; and since the brain is such an important\\npart of the body, it is put in the strongest room of all. It\\nsometimes becomes ill if not used right, so we should learn\\nhow to keep it well. The worst sickness in the world is\\nmind sickness, and it is hardest to cure.\\nThe brain has six coverings in all. The outside cover-\\nings are the hair and scalp, or skin. Then we find the", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "The Cupola,\\n59\\nstronor bones, fitted closely together with saw-teeth edges.\\nInside the bones the brain has three coverings: first, a\\ntough, strong skin then a very thin covering, hardly thicker\\nthan a spider s web; and the third is made up of many little\\nblood-vessels, which feed the brain.\\nAmy I wish we could see how the brain looks, mother.\\nPercy: I have seen brains at the butcher shops. Do\\nours look like that\\nMother Yes, quite the same.\\nYou have all seen the marrow in\\nthe bones. The brain looks some\\nlike that, too. It is made of jelly-\\nlike matter, and seems to be all\\ncrumpled up, so it is full of ridges\\nand creases, as you see in this pic-\\nture. It is said a baby s brain is\\nquite smooth, but the more a person thinks, the more\\nridges and furrows his brain will have and the deeper they\\nare. A frog s brain is smooth, like this.\\nElmer But I don t see how the brain thinks.\\nMother That is one of the things we can never under-\\nstand. God gave men life, and when we are alive we think.\\nIn Him we live, and move, and have our being, and to\\nbe able to think is one of the best gifts that comes with\\nlife. It is the life God gives us which makes the body-\\nhouse worth more than the most costly palace in the world.\\nIf we look carefully into the brain, we see that the out-\\nside is gray, and the inside is white. Wise men tell us\\nthis matter is made of cells, called nerve cells, or brain cells.\\nThe brain is full of\\nridges and creases.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6o The House We Live In.\\nThe gray matter tells the muscles what to do, and the\\nwhite part sends the orders to all parts of the body through\\nthe nerves.\\nElmer: Have we more than one brain, mother?\\nMother: I might say no, and yes. It is really one,\\nand yet it is in several parts. One is the big brain, which\\nis found above the ears in the top of the head. It is with\\nthis part we think and reason. Then there is a little brain,\\nin the back part of the head under the large brain. It is\\nabout as big as a medium-sized orange. Each brain haa\\ntwo parts, a right and left hah, so we really have two\\nbrains. It might be said we are left brained when we\\nare right handed, for the right hand is ruled by the left\\nhalf of the brain.\\nAmy: How large is the brain, mother.-^\\nMother: That of a man weighs about three pounds.\\nAn elephant s weighs eight or ten pounds, and that is\\nthe heaviest of any we know. The brain must be used, the\\nsame as the muscles, if we would have it do its work well.\\nIt makes it grow and does it good when we study and\\nthink. As it was made to think about something, we\\nshould give it good things to think about. If it is lazy, it\\nwill lose the power to work, just as the muscles do, and if\\nused, It will grow stronger and can do still harder work.\\nHelen And does it ever need rest\\nMother Certainly it must rest, the same as the mus-\\ncles. People sometimes hurt the brain by working it very\\nhard and letting the muscles do nothing.\\nPercy: But how can it rest? We can t stop thinking.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "The Cupola. 6i\\nMother: No; we think of something all the time we\\nare awake, so the best way to rest the brain is to take\\nplenty of sleep. Sometimes a part of it keeps awake while\\nthe body is asleep, and then we say we had a dream.\\nAnother way to rest the mind is to set the muscles at\\nwork after we have been reading or studying. Boys and\\ngirls in school should spend part of each day working, or\\nin some way using their muscles in the open air.\\nElmer: I should think the master of the body-house\\nwould want to look outside of his little room sometimes.\\nMother Yes, he does and the cupola of which we\\nhave been talking has two wonderful windows.\\nAmy: Oh, I know what they are! They are our eyes.\\nMother: Yes, and through them the master looks out\\nand sees all that is passing around him.\\nHelen I should think there ought to be windows on\\nall sides of his room. He can look out only one way.\\nMother: But you see this cupola is placed on top of\\na tower we call the neck, which turns easily and quickly,\\nand, besides, the whole house can face about in an instant,\\nso he can look other ways than straight ahead, with no\\ntrouble.\\nPercy: Why do you call the brain the master of the\\nhouse, mother?\\nMother: Because it tells the feet, hands, tongue, eyes,\\nand all other parts of the body what to do, and they obey\\nit. Sometimes we find a bad master in one of these beau-\\ntiful houses. He tells the feet to go to a saloon. He tells\\nthe tongue to ask for beer and other kinds of strong drink.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 The House We Live In.\\nHe tells the hand to lift the glass to his lips. It may be\\nhe knows he is taking poison into the house, which will\\nmake his servants, the muscles, unfit for work. Perhaps\\nhe knows, too, that the drink will hurt himself more than\\nany other part of the body-house, for it puts him to sleep\\nwhen he ought to be awake telling his servants what to\\ndo, yet he does it, and often suffers all the rest of his life\\nfor his folly.\\nElmer Does alcohol hurt the brain\\nMother: Surely it does. It makes the blood impure,\\nso it can not furnish good food for the brain. It causes\\nmore blood to go to the head than ought to be there. It\\nmakes people mad, crazy, or insane.\\nSometimes it brings that awful disease, delirium tremens,\\nand then the poor master thinks his best friends are his\\nenemies, that serpents and horrible creatures are crawling\\nover his body, and he dies a terrible death, and goes into\\na drunkard s grave. He ruins the house God gave him to\\nlive in, and finds it is true that at the last it biteth like\\na serpent, and stingeth like an adder.\\nChildren, never touch these poison drinks.\\nNever put them in your mouth,\\nTo steal away your brains.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "m^ mw\u00c2\u00bb.\\nOo\\nOUR\\nTELEPHONE\\nSYSTEM\\nlERCY: Ting-a-ling! There s the telephone\\nbell. How strange it seems to talk to peo-\\nple, and hear them talk, when they are miles\\naway!\\nMother: But the most wonderful tele-\\nphone in the world is found in the house we\\nlive in.\\nHelen: Why, mother, you don t mean to\\nsay we have wires all through our bodies, do\\nyou?\\nMother: Not wires, but something that\\nanswers the same purpose, only it is far more\\nperfect. You know the brain is the master of\\nthe house, and there are hundreds of muscles\\nwaiting to do what he bids them. But the\\nbrain is upstairs, safe in his own strong little\\nroom. How can he tell the fingers how to\\nwork, and the feet where to walk\\nAmy: Please tell us, mother. I m sure I\\ndon t know.\\nMother: Well, instead of wires we have\\n(63)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nThe House We Live In.\\nthousands of little lines called nerves, reaching from the\\nbrain to every part of the body. They are made of matter\\nlike that in the brain, and they are so close together that\\nyou can touch no place on your body, even with the point\\nof a pin, without touching a nerve. Mes-\\nsages are sent over them to the brain,, and\\nback again to the muscles. With the nerves\\nwe feel. We call it the sense of\\ntouch.\\nWe might call the brain the\\ncentral office, from which mes-\\nsages are sent, and where they\\ncome back. In the city you have seen\\nmany wires stretched on poles. Sometimes\\nthey are bound up together and covered\\nover, making a cable like a big rope. You\\nremember I told you there is a spinal cord\\nor marrow running through your backbone.\\nThis is made up of many nerves, as the\\ncable is made of many wires. There are\\nsixty-two branch lines coiled up in. it. By\\nlooking at the bottom part of the picture\\nof the brain you will see where this large\\ncable enters the central office. Really,\\nthe top part of the cord is a little brain itself, with a long\\nname, which we will not trouble now to learn.\\nElmer: If all the nerves come from the backbone, how\\ndo any get to the face?\\nMother: There are some little holes in the skull, and\\nThe nerves.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Ou7 Telephone System. G5\\nthrough these twenty-four branch lines pass, carrying the\\nnerves all over the face and head. One pair find their way\\nto the nose, and they tell the master of the house how\\nthings smell. Another pair reach to the eyes, and tell him\\nhow things look. They are nerves of sight. There are\\nthree pairs to tell the muscles of the eye how to move. One\\npair passes to the ears, and are called nerves of hearing.\\nThe others are scattered all over the face, passing to the\\nteeth, tongue, and throat, and even to other parts of the\\nbody. This picture shows the brain as the main office, the\\ncord or cable in the back-bone, and how the branches extend\\nto all parts of the body. Still there are thousands of smaller\\nlines which can not be seen at all.\\nHelen: And what sends the messages to and from the\\nbrain over the nerves, mother\\nMother: The power which sends them is called nerve\\nforce, though what it is even the wisest men do not know.\\nWe can stop it by pressing on the nerves, just as you can\\nstop the current of the telegraph. We sometimes say that\\nour leg or arm is asleep. If we try to move, it gives us\\npain, or it may be we can not move at all. One nerve\\nruns along the back side of the arm over the elbow. If\\nwe hit the elbow, it makes the arm and hand feel numb.\\nWe say the funny bone, or the crazy bone, is hurt, but\\nit is not the bone at all, but the nerve.\\nAmy: I heard a lady who is ill say she wished she\\nhad no nerves. Why do we have them\\nMother I think we have already learned how useful\\nthey are to carry messages for us. We would be quite\\n3", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66\\nThe House We Live In.\\nhelpless without them, for the brain sends word over them\\nevery time we move any part of the body. Another reason\\nis they watch for our welfare. If we are cut or burned, it\\ngives us pain. We don t like the pain, so we are more\\ncareful when we use sharp tools or go near the fire.\\nIf you touch the hot stove, you jerk away your hand.\\nI m burnt, the finger sends word to the brain. The\\nbrain sends back the message, Get off the stove,\\nquick. And to the nerves of the eye it says, See\\nf it is blistered. To the face muscles, Make up\\na wry face to show how badly it hurts. To\\nthe feet and hands, Get some cold water to put\\nthe burned finger in. To the tongue, Tell\\nyour mother about it. All these mes\u00c2\u00ab\\ns are sent at the rate of one hun-\\nfeet a second, and the eye, face,\\nhands, feet, and tongue all feel\\nsorry for the burnt finger, and do\\nall they can to help it.\\nEvery part of the body,\\nthe bones, muscles, stomach,\\nheart, and lungs, has these\\nuseful little nerves to let the\\nmaster know when anything\\nis wrong with them.\\nElmer: Do the nerves\\never get sick, mother\\nMother Oh, yes, very\\noften Sometimes they are\\nTell vour mother about it", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Our Telephone System, 67\\nso ill that no message can pass over them to the brain. Then\\nwe say the person is paralyzed. A lady had her limbs par-\\nalyzed. She cx)uld not walk, or move her feet at all. One\\nday she took a foot bath. She could not tell whether the\\nwater was cold or hot, and soon the nurse found the skin\\non her feet blistered, because the water was too warm. The\\nnerves were dead, and she felt no pain at all. Pain is hard\\nto bear, but if there were no pain, the house we live in\\nwould soon be ruined. It tells us when danger is near,\\nand because we do not like the pain, we take care of the\\nbody. The nerves are more wonderful than any telephone\\nor telegraph, and when you get older, you must learn all\\nyou can about them.\\nHelen: The brain must have a lot of work looking\\nafter the nerves and sending so many messages over them.\\nI don t see how it can think of anything else.\\nMother Perhaps I can explain it to you. Suppose\\nthere is a family who have much to do. The father\\ndoes the hardest work of all. When his wife sees how\\nmuch he has to do, she tries to help him all she can,\\nso she does many things without saying anything to her\\nhusband about it. They have one son, a strong, upright\\nyoung man, and he takes part of the work, because he\\nwishes to help his parents. We will call the large brain\\nthe father, because it does so much of our thinking. As\\nyou say, Helen, if he looked after all parts of the body,\\nthere would be but little time for study and helping other\\npeople. Besides, he falls asleep sometimes, so the little\\nbrain, which we will call his wife, takes the work that must", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 TJie House We Live In.\\nbe done all the time, as good wives and mothers do, suxti\\nas keeping the heart beating, the lungs breathing, and\\nother parts of the body at work which can not stop to\\nrest. Then there is the spinal cord, which we will call the\\nson, and he takes charge of the feet and hands when they\\nhave common kinds of work to do. When you went to\\nschool this morning, I saw you reading a book while you\\nwalked. Your brain did not send w ord to each muscle\\nwhat to do every time you took a step, but you walked\\nwithout thinking, as we say. The spinal cord took\\ncharge of your feet, so we know it can do an easy kind of\\nthinking. When you were learning to skate, Percy, you\\nkept thinking all the time how to move your feet and what\\nto do to keep from falling. But after you had learned\\nhow, Father Brain gave his son. Spinal Cord, charge of you,\\nand he thinks of something else most of the time while\\nyou skate. It is the same with anything we have learned\\nto do well by doing it over and over, such as playing the\\npiano, riding a bicycle, and many other things we keep\\ndoing again and again.\\nPercy: Does alcohol harm the nerves, mother.\\nMother: Yes, indeed. Alcohol seems to like the\\nnerves better than any other part of the body, and it does\\nthem more harm than any other, except the brain. When\\nalcohol touches a nerve, it dries it up and makes it hard, as\\nthough it had been burned. It causes that dreadful disease,\\nparalysis, of which I have told you. The nerves get so\\nstupid and sleepy they do not know what the brain says\\nto them. They can not tell the muscles what to do, and", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Our Telephone Sy stern.\\n69\\nthis is why a drunken man staggers. A drunkard lias\\ntrembling hands, because the poison has made his nerves\\nsick. Sometimes those wonderful nerves of the eye and\\near tell him lies, and he believes what they say. Some-\\ntimes the poor nerves and brain are so nearly dead that\\nthe man falls down, and people say he is dead drunk.\\nElmer: I have heard people say tobacco was good for\\nthe nerves, that\\nit made them\\nfeel rested, and\\nthey could think\\nbetter.\\nMother: To-\\nbacco is a poi-\\nson, and is as\\nhurtful to the\\nnerves as alco-\\nhol. One who\\nuses it thinks\\nhe is rested, but\\nthe reason he feels so is because the poison has put his\\nnerves to sleep. Tobacco also creates an appetite for strong\\ndrinks. It is very bad for boys to use tobacco in any way.\\nAmy What should we do to keep the nerves well\\nMother: Give them good food, plenty of fresh air, and\\nno poisons of any kind. They must also have rest to keep\\nthem strong. It helps the nerves to be happy and cheer-\\nful. The little boy in this picture is forming a bad habit,\\nwhich will not only make him unhappy but unhealthy.\\nThe little boy is forming a bad habit.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 The House We Live In,\\nHateful, unpleasant thoughts make poisons in the body and\\ncause sickness in the brain and nerves. People sometimes\\ndrop dead by becoming very angry. A merry heart doeth\\ngood like a medicine. Yes, it is much better than any\\nmedicine men can make. Children should form the habit\\nof being happy and hopeful. The brain and nerves will\\nform good or bad habits, and the master of the body-house\\nshould use all his power to have them good instead of bad.\\nEvery evil habit leaves a scar on the brain.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THMMLL c^R R^iifiE\\nwmmm\\nOTHER: I once read a book called Uncle\\nTom s Cabin, and In it a story was told of\\nhow a lady was once talking with a little\\nnegro girl named Topsy.\\nWho made you? she asked the child.\\nNobody, as I knows on. I sped I grow d, was the\\nanswer.\\nNow we know God made the body-houses we live in,\\nfor it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves;\\nyet in one way Topsy was right, for we all **grow d.\\nGod made us grow, and it is He only that can make\\nanything grow.\\nElmer: But we must have food to make us grow.\\nMother: Yes, everything that has life must have food\\nof some kind. You remember I told you we had iron,\\nlime, and other things to build the body-house, just as a\\nman must have wood, brick, iron, and glass when he wishes\\nto build. We have looked at the outside^of the house we\\nlive in, and we have learned some things about its frame,\\nits servants, the telephone system, and the master who lives\\ninside. Now we will look through some of the wonderful\\nrooms in the house, and I am sure you will enjoy learning\\nhow they are made, and the work that is done in them.\\n(71)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "J72 The House We Live hi.\\nThe door, or entrance, is so small we can not possibly\\ngo inside ourselves, so here is a slice of good whole-wheat\\nbread we will send, and I will tell you what it finds within.\\nAs it has no tongue, I will speak the words it would say\\nif it could talk, and you may ask any question you wish.\\nNow listen:\\nI was made from the wheat that grew in a farmer s\\nfield. After the miller had ground me into flour, your\\nmother made me into a loaf, and I was baked in a hot\\noven till I was brown all over outside. As she put me\\naway to cool, she said, That will make the children grow.\\nShe left me alone a whole day, for she knew I was unfit to\\nbe eaten while so warm. After that I was cut into slices\\nand made ready to help mend and build up the body-house.\\nI started on my way to the kitchen, where much of\\nthe work is done, and to get there passed through a pair\\nof front doors, which were a pretty red color. These\\ndoors, I have been told, can do wonderful things besides\\nopening to let visitors pass in. They can sing, whistle,\\nand talk. They look best when the corners turn up if\\nthey turn down, one does not care to go near them.\\nHelen: Oh, I see! You mean our lips.\\nMother Yes, I think that is what you call them.\\nWhen I passed inside the doors, I found a double row of\\nthirty-two servants, all dressed in clean white dresses, waiting\\nfor me. Children have only twenty-eight of these servants,\\nI am told. It was their work to make me ready for the\\nkitchen downstairs. If the house is very new, you will\\nfind only three or four, or perhaps none at all.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nThe House We Live In.\\nPercy: The servants must be the teeth. I didn t know\\nthere were so many.\\nAmy: And I think the bread we eat doesn t always find\\nthem wearing clean white dresses, either. There is Uncle\\nJohn his teeth are all stained with nasty tobacco juice.\\nMother But they should be dressed as I have said,\\nand they need careful brushing and washing every day.\\nThey should not be used to crack nuts, for they may get\\nbroken. If they are not well cared for, the dresses wear\\nout, and great holes can be seen in them. Sometimes they\\ncan be mended, and again they cause the master of the\\nhouse much trouble, and he is obliged to get some one\\nto take them away, because they give him so much pain.\\nI was quite surprised at the way these servants treated\\nme, though I suppose they knew best what to do. Some\\nof them cut me in two. Others tore me into pieces and\\nground me till I thought I was passing through another\\nmill. As I had a chance, I looked around, and then I\\nsaw the room I was in had a beautiful arched ceiling of a\\npale pink color.\\nThere was a large servant behind those dressed in white,\\nand he wore a pink uniform. You should have seen the\\nway he rolled me over and over in that room. The serv-\\nants in white dresses never stirred from where they were\\nstanding, but the one wearing the pink uniform jumped\\nfrom one side of the room to the other, and seemed to be\\na very lively fellow. I don t know what he would have\\ndone had he not been fastened to the floor. Sometimes,\\nI am told, he peeps out between the folding doors to see", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "The Hall or Passage. 75\\nwhat is going on outside, or to tell what kmd of work is\\nbeing done inside. I have heard that sometimes his dress\\nbecomes a dirty yellow or brown, and a man with a wise\\nlook comes and asks this servant to step outside a moment,\\ntill he can see how his uniform looks.\\nHelen How funny to think of our teeth and tongue\\nas our servants\\nMother: But that is what they are. There is another\\ngroup of servants in this passage, called glands. They have\\nlittle rooms opening into the passage near the floor, and\\nalso in the back part of the room. If you ever visited a\\ncave, you remember the walls were wet, and water was\\ndropping from them. You know the skin on the outside\\nof your body feels dry. Some parts of the body have\\nskin inside, but it is wet instead of dry. It is that way in\\nthis hall. That which makes it so is called saliva, and it\\nis the duty of the servants called glands to pour saliva\\nover the food as soon as it comes through the front doors,\\nwhile the tongue rolls it about, and the teeth grind it.\\nElmer But what good does that do\\nMother: It moistens the food and makes it slippery,\\nso it can pass on to the kitchen. Perhaps you know bread\\nis partly made of starch. Another thing the saliva does is\\nto turn starch into sugar, and this makes less work in the\\nkitchen downstairs, as the cook down there has but little\\nto do with starch.\\nAmy: How may we know when the starch in bread\\nor biscuit is changed to sugar?\\nMother: If you let the teeth chew your food a long", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 The House We Live hi.\\ntime, until It becomes well mixed with saliva, you will find\\nthat It tastes sweet. This Is because the starch has become\\nsugar, though you must not think this kind of sugar Is as\\nsweet as the sugar which you buy.\\nHelen: If the walls In this room moisten the food,\\nwhy should we drink while eating?\\nMother: It Is not best to drink much when you eat,\\nand not at all unless your food Is very dry. The glands\\nfurnish from one to three pints of saliva a day. If you\\ndrink much, the saliva Is not well mixed with the food,\\nand It Is hurried down to the kitchen before the servants\\nhave finished their work. This makes extra work for the\\ncook downstairs.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "KITCHEiN\\nOTHER: We will now let Bread proceed witli\\nits story. Remember I am telling you what it\\nwould say if it could talk. Now listen. While\\nI was in the passage and the servants were\\nmaking me ready to go to the kitchen, I saw a\\nsmall pink curtain in the back end of the room,\\nand I wondered what was behind it. I soon\\n_ found out. After the tongue had pulled and\\n\\\\v( pushed me around and rolled me over as long\\nas he wished, he pushed me back toward the\\ncurtain, and I found myself in a room with no floor. I\\nsaw a passage which opens into the nose, but as soon\\nas I came in sight, a curtain fell back and closed it, so I\\nknew I was not wanted there. Then I saw another door,\\nwhich I afterward learned led to the bath-room in the\\nlungs, but as I was about to go in, a little trap door\\nclosed tightly, and so I found that was not the way to the\\nkitchen. There was still another passage, for this room\\nseemed to be filled with doors, even though it was so\\nsmall, but that led to the ear. I began to think I was\\nnot wanted at all, for every door I came to was shut in\\nmy face, as it were.\\n(77)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78\\nThe House We Live In.\\nHelen: I don t wonder Bread didn t know which\\nway to go, do you, mother and it was a stranger in the\\nhouse, too.\\nMother: I was just thinking about going back through\\nthe folding doors through which I came, when a door\\nopened in the back part of the throat, and I began to sHde\\ndownstairs. Such queer stairs you never saw. They\\nseemed to grow larger as I\\nwent down, and smaller at the\\ntop, so they kept pushing me,\\nand I could not go back if I\\nwould.\\nPercy: I suppose it was\\nthe same way when I swal-\\nlowed a button the other day.\\nI wanted it back badly enough,\\nbut it wouldn t come.\\nHelen: That shows you should never put such things\\nas pins and buttons in your mouth.\\nElmer: And what did the kitchen look like?\\nMother: Like no room you ever saw in your life. I\\nlooked around for the corners, but there were none. It is\\nshaped some like an ^g g. Here is a picture, which will\\nhelp you to understand the shape of the room.\\nYou see it has two doors, or openings, one at which\\nto go in, and the other to pass out. The walls are a pale\\npink color and are full of wrinkles if the room is empty.\\nWhen the master of the house sends down so much bread\\nor other food that it fills the kitchen full, the walls become\\nThe stomach.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Our Kitchen. 79\\nsmooth and the room is larger, but when the food first\\nbegins to go down, it finds the room quite small, and the\\nwalls full of folds, or wrinkles.\\nThis room is very strong, as there are really three walls,\\none inside the other. The pink lining inside is made of\\nwet skin, something like that found in the room upstairs.\\nThe middle wall is made of muscles, which cross one another\\nin different ways; for the kitchen has many of these useful\\nservants. The outer coat, or overcoat, of the stomach\\nhas for its work to pour out a kind of water to keep the\\nwalls moist so they will not stick to other things which are\\npacked so closely in the trunk of the body. 1 am sure no\\nperson could ever pack so many things in a trunk the same\\nsize without crowding some of them or getting them out\\nof order.\\nHelen: But I would like to know who acts as cook\\nin this curious kitchen.\\nMother The name of the head cook is Di-ges tion.\\nThere is a whole family of helpers, named Juice, whose\\nwork it is to assist Di-ges tion. Of course they do not boil\\nand bake, as we do, but they take the food and make it\\nready for the use of the body. Perhaps you would call it\\ndi-gest ing it.\\nThe chief helper is a very important person, called Gas-\\ntric Juice. When the kitchen is empty, Gastric Juice stays\\nin some tiny bags or bottles which cover the walls of the\\nkitchen all over, but as soon as anything comes into the\\nroom from the stairway at the top, she comes out and goes\\nto work. She pours a fluid which looks like water, ovei", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "8o The House We Live In.\\nthe food, which dissolves, or melts it. If you could look\\ninside you might think the stomach was sweating; but\\nit is only Gastric Juice coming out to care for the food you\\nhave sent down to build and mend the body. Several\\nquarts come from the walls of the kitchen every day.\\nWere you ever in a ship at sea? If so, you know that\\neverything in the boat was shaking and moving. As soon\\nas Bread comes into the kitchen, it finds the room moving\\nlike that, and it is thrown from one side to the other, and\\nchurned up and down, over and over, till, if you could see\\nit, you would never think it was bread at all. Gastric\\nJuice melts and mixes it, and it becomes so changed it\\nlooks very much like paste. After Bread comes down-\\nstairs, some potatoes, fruit, and other things come tumbling\\nafter, but after all has been in the kitchen two hours, you\\ncould not tell which is bread, fruit, or potatoes for they\\nare all mixed together.\\nI expect you are wondering how the food would ever\\nget out of the kitchen. After it was shaken and churned\\nseveral hours, the walls gave it a push, and it came to the\\ndoor where visitors pass out. Such a queer door it was,\\ntoo, but it opens and shuts like the one at the entrance to\\nthe passage. This door has neither hinges nor rollers. It\\nwas kept tightly closed while the food was churned about\\nand melted, and it looks quite like a boy s lips when he is\\ngoing to whistle. As Bread came near, the door opened,\\nand part of the food paste passed through into another\\nroom. Strange as it may seem to you, this door seems to\\ndo a kind of thinking, and if food tries to get through", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Our Kitchen. 8i\\nbefore it is made as fine as it should be, the door seems to\\nsay, No, sir; you can not go through here; and it shuts\\nso close together that not another thing can pass out. So\\nwhen the food came the first time, the door seemed to think\\npart of it was too big to go through, and it was sent back,\\nto be churned and squeezed again before it could go into\\nthe next room with the rest of the food.\\nElmer: I didn t know it took so much work and such\\na long time to digest what we eat.\\nMother: This should teach us to use care in what we\\nsend into the stomach. Let me tell you a few other things\\nabout the stomach, which we call the kitchen of the body.\\nThe helper, Gastric Juice, does her work perfectly if she is\\nused well; but when the master of the house is unkind, she\\nalways makes him suffer for it. Sometimes he sends down\\na lot of cold water, ice-cream, or some other kind of ice,\\nwhen she is just ready to begin her work. This makes\\nher kitchen so cold that she is obliged to wait till it\\ngets warm again. She doesn t like much water when she\\nhas work on hand for she thinks Saliva and herself can\\nmoisten the food as much as it needs.\\nAmy: Does Di-ges tion like hot drinks, mother\\nMother: No; they burn the tender walls of the stom-\\nach and make them weak. Tea and coffee are hurtful to\\nthe stomach, as well as to the nerves and other parts of the\\nbody. Another thing Di-ges tion likes is to have all the\\nfood she is going to work on at once. That means we\\nshould eat what we need and then stop. If the master of\\nthe house sends down a good-sized dinner, and, after waiting", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 The House We Live In.\\nan hour or two, sends some more, the poor cook has a\\nhard time, and It is no wonder that she gets sulky. It\\nis as though you had been at work during the day, and\\nthen I should ask you to work all night, and give you no\\ntime to rest.\\nThe cook in our kitchen is willing to work hard, and then\\nshe wants a rest, and this she ought to have. She hates\\nto work at night after working all day, but some masters\\nare so unkind as to even call her up after she has gone to\\nbed, thinking her day s work is done; and she works and\\nworks away while other parts of the body have rest.\\nHelen: I suppose that is when we eat between meals\\nor late at night.\\nMother: Yes; and another thing the cook dislikes is\\nto have her kitchen filled so full that no more can gret in.\\nShe must have room to work.\\nElxMEr: That means we should not eat too much.\\nMother: That is right. We should never eat till we feel\\nso full we can take no more. If a builder was beginning\\nto build or mend a house and you should pile bricks, timber,\\nstones, and lime around him till he had no room to work,\\nhe would say, Please take part of this out of my way,\\nand then I can do something. So the stomach wants just\\nenough, but no more, and we should not make the cook cross\\nby abusing her in this way. She also dislikes hot things,\\nsuch as mustard, pepper, and spices. How would your eye\\nfeel if you should get some pepper or mustard in it?\\nElmer: It would smart.\\nPercy: It would look red.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Our Kitchen. 2 2,\\n]\\\\I other: That is the effect they have on the stomach,\\ntoo. Neither does the cook like to have much fat or\\nsugar. Sometimes she gets so provoked when the master\\nof the house sends dov/n things she can not use, or too\\nmuch even of that which is good, that the doorway to the\\nstairway opens by which they came down, and she throws\\nthem back in his face. He has a sorry time of it then,\\nand it may be quite a while before she is pleased again.\\nBut she only does this after she has suffered a long time,\\nand when she knows it is for the good of the body-house.\\nAimy: What a long time it takes to fix up the food we\\neat so it can be used in the body I would like to know\\nwhere the food goes after the cook in the kitchen has\\ndigested it.\\nMother: We will finish this part of the story in the\\nnext chapter.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "|i 5\\n-J \\\\J^::\\nOTHER: While waiting for the door to open\\nto let the food pass from the stomach kitchen,\\nlet me tell you that the walls of the kitchen are\\ncovered with hundreds of little mouths for you\\nmust remember this room is like no other that\\nwas ever made. These tiny mouths keep drinking\\nthe food which is digested, and it is taken into the blood\\nthrough the tiny blood-vessels which cover the stomach.\\nAt last comes the food which could not pass the door\\nagain, and this time it passes through into a long, narrow\\nroom, with walls quite like those of the kitchen. Some-\\ntimes a plum pit gets into the kitchen the cook is unable\\nto use it, and when it goes up to the door, it closes quickly,\\nso it must stay where it is. Sometime after the door will\\nopen and let it through.\\nHelen: That is the same as though you should tell\\nme I should not do a thing, and then, because I teased\\nor coaxed, you should let me do what you had before said\\nI should not.\\nMother: Yes, that is the way^ with this door-keeper.\\nBut sometimes the door closes very tightly, and then there\\nis trouble, for that which can not get through the second\\n(84)", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "The Eating Room. 85\\ndoor must find its way back through the first. We should\\nbe very careful about swallowing large seeds of fruit, buttons,\\nor anything that is hard and can not be digested. People\\nare sometimes made very ill in this way. But now we\\nwill learn what is done in the second room.\\nPerhaps it might be called the serving room; for\\nit is here the food is made ready for the eating room.\\nHere we find two assistant cooks. The name of one is\\nPan-cre-at ic Juice, and the other is called Bile. Each\\none has a room of his own. Pan-cre-at^ic Juice has his\\nhome in a room back of the kitchen, which is called the\\npancreas. Bile lives in the largest room in the body-house,\\nwhich is called the liver.\\nThe liver might be called a factory; for it has hundreds\\nof little rooms in which Bile is made. It has a waiting\\nroom, called the gall, where Bile stays when he is not wanted.\\nThis tiny room is close to the liver, and from that Bile goes\\nto the serving room. On the way he meets Pan-cre-\\nat ic Juice, and they go on to their work together.\\nBile, like some other servants, is hard to please, and\\nhe will do only one kind of work. It is the duty of these\\ncooks to finish up the work that Gastric Juice has begun.\\nBile will work with hardly anything but fats, and it is his\\nwork to make them into such tiny drops that they can\\nbe used in the body. He must also furnish part of the\\nfuel to keep the body warm. He sometimes gets lazy or\\nangry if the master of the house gives him too much\\nwork, or if he sends too much fat or sugar into the serv-\\ning room. The master of the house tells his friends he is", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 The House We Live In.\\nbilious, which means that Bile is out of temper and\\nwants less hard work and more rest.\\nPercy: Is Pan-cre-at ic Juice so particular as Bile?\\nMother: No; he is much more obliging, and is willing\\nto do anything that needs to be done. Together these\\nhelpers work over the food after it comes from the kitchen\\ntill it is very fine and creamy.\\nAmy: Does this room look like the kitchen?\\nMother The walls are very much the same, and they\\nkeep eating or sucking up the food that is wholly digested,\\nmuch as a sponge sucks up water. A part is taken up this\\nway and goes into the blood-vessels at once, but part is\\nsent on to the eating room, where hundreds of little people\\nare waiting for their breakfasts and dinners.\\nHelen: How does the eatings room look?\\nMother: This room is very narrow and about twenty\\nfeet long. You must not think it is a straight room twenty\\nfeet long, for it is not. At one side it is fastened to a thin\\nband, and -the band is gathered like a frill or ruffle, so the\\nroom, though it is folded over and over, never gets tangled.\\nPerhaps I might say it is like a tube more than a room.\\nThe little folks who eat here do not sit at tables as\\nyou do. They are fastened to the walls, so they are\\nalways in the same places. Another name for this room\\nis the small intestine.\\nElmer: I would like to see some of the little folks\\nwho eat there. How large are they?\\nMother: They are so very, very small you could not\\nsee them unless you had a strong glass to help you. They", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "TJie Eating Room. 87\\nstand up straight, like the soft, silky part of velvet or\\nplush. They are called Villi.\\nAs the food comes in from the serving room, another\\nhelper, called In-tes ti-nal Juice, takes any part which the\\nother servants have not finished as it passed through their\\nrooms, and thus digestion is complete. The Villi soak the\\nfood up as it passes them, as a plant draws water and food\\nfrom the ground.\\nHelen: But how does it all get into the blood?\\nMother: I was just about to tell you that part of the\\nstory. You have seen little creeks, and you know they\\nflow into larger ones, which form small rivers, and they,\\nin turn, flow in some broad river toward the sea. So this\\ncreamy fluid which is sucked up by the Villi goes into tiny\\nveins; these open into larger ones, till all flow in one\\nstream about as big as a slate-pencil up to a large vein\\nnear the neck, and from there to the heart, where the\\nstream is changed to blood, and is ready for use in the\\nbody. Part of the food takes another way to get to the\\nheart. It goes first to the liver, which takes the part it\\nneeds, and the rest goes on to the heart.\\nHelen Then all we eat finally gets into the blood.\\nMother: No; there is always some part that can not\\nbe used. Passing through the eating room the waste is\\ncarried into a garbage box, called the colon, which should\\nbe emptied every day.\\nNow let us see if we can give the names of the differ-\\nent rooms a slice of bread passes through before it reaches\\nthe heart and becomes blood.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 The House We Live In.\\nElmer: First, the passage, which is the mouth, down\\nthe steep stairs or gullet, through the stomach kitchen,\\nthrough the serving room, the eating room, or small intes-\\ntine, and from there straight to the heart, or else by another\\nroad through the liver to the same place.\\nMother Very good. Now what juices make the bread\\nready to become blood.\\nPercy: First, the saliva in the mouth.\\nAmy: And gastric juice in the stomach.\\nHelen: Then bile from the liver, and pan-cre-at ic\\njuice from the pancreas.\\nElmer: The last was the in-tes tin-al juice.\\nMother: That is right, and let me tell you that in\\nour bodies about twenty pounds of juices are made every\\nday. Now I think we can remember that the food passes\\nthrough five rooms, and it takes five juices to make it into\\nblood. Two of the juice family, which have the long\\nnames, in-tes tin-al and pan-cre-at ic, are willing to work\\non all parts of the food. The others work chiefly on one\\npart only. Saliva digests starch. Bile works on fats.\\nGastric juice takes the part which is called al-bu men.\\nBehind the bread, the snowy flour;\\nBehind the flour, the mill;\\nBehind the mill, the growing- wheat\\nNods on the breezy hill;\\nOver the wheat is the glowing sun,\\nRipening the heart of the grain;\\nAbove the sun is the gracious God,\\nSending the sunlight and the rain.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "rOOD AND FUEL\\nOTHER: See that engine. Can you tell me\\nwhat gives it the power or strength to draw\\nits heavy load\\nHelen: Steam gives it power.\\nMother: And what makes the steam?\\nElmer: The fire in the furnace makes the\\nwater boil, and steam comes from the boiling water.\\nMother: Then the engine can do nothing unless it\\nhas fuel to burn and water to boil. It might be the best\\never made, and yet do no work and have no power even\\nto move itself. Do you suppose the engineer is careful to\\ntake plenty of the best fuel he can get, and to have a\\ngood supply of water, when he has a long journey and\\na heavy train\\nPercy I am sure he would be. I have read that it\\nis counted one of the worst things an engineer can do to\\nlet his boiler get dry.\\nMother: Well, in some ways our bodies are like the\\nengine. Can you guess what the fuel is we must have.\\nAmy: Oh, I know! It is the food we eat.\\nElmer: And we must have water to drink, too.\\n(89)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90\\nThe House We Live In.\\nMother: Yes; but what would you think of an engine\\ndriver who would fill the furnace of his engine with stones\\nor sand, and fill the boiler with beer or whisky\\nPercy: I think he wouldn t have much steam, and his\\nengine would soon be ruined.\\nMother: Then what shall we say about food and drink\\nfor the b.ody, which is a hundred times more perfect in all\\nits parts than the best engine men ever built, and so is\\nmuch more apt to be injured?\\nHelen: We ought to give it the very\\nbest food and drink we can get.\\nMother: I think so, too. You know an\\nengine works several hours, and is then sent\\nto an engine house to be made ready for\\nanother trip, and, while it is running, the\\ndriver steps out at every station, almost,\\nwith his oil-can in one hand and something\\nto clean with in the other, and he keeps\\ncleaning it, oiling it, feeding it, and let-\\nting it drink till he comes to the end\\nof his journey. Can you think how the\\nbody is different from this\\nElmer: When the body-machine\\nstarts running in the journey of life,\\nit never stops to rest till it is worn\\nout and can work no more.\\nMother Yes, and we must\\nremember that some parts work\\nnight and day, summer and winter,", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Food mid Fuel.\\n91\\nas long as we live. Yet they are wearing out all the time,\\nand must be fed and cleaned and cared for while they are\\nworking. There are some railroads made with tanks or\\nditches between the rails, and the engine takes water with-\\nout stopping. So our bodies must take food, drink, and all\\nthey need without stopping the living machinery.\\nIt is true some parts must rest every day; but fl\\nothers never stop working till we die. We\\nshould study, then, to know\\nwhat we ought to eat and drink\\nto make up the waste and keep\\nthe body well. Some kinds of\\nbirds and animals live on flesh.\\nOthers eat only grass and grains.\\nThe squirrel and the monkey eat\\nnuts and fruits. Can you tell\\nme some of the different things that men use as food\\nAmy: They eat flesh, grains, and fruits.\\nElmer: And we eat other things, such as salt, sugar,\\nand milk.\\nMother: Yes, while people can eat all these things, yet\\nall of them are not the very best food, and, like the careful\\nengineer, we should learn just what is good for the human\\nmachine, and give it only the best of what it can use.\\nWhat do you think was given to men to eat at first\\nAmy: Where can we find out, mother?\\nMother: In the first chapter of the Bible. Perhaps\\nHelen will read it for us.\\nHelen: **And God said, Behold, I have given you", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 The House We Live In.\\nevery herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the\\nearth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree\\nyielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.\\nMother: The word meat means food. This was\\nspoken before God had cursed the earth on account of sin,\\nand so everything that grew was good, as He had said.\\nWe see from this that all kinds of plants bearing seed, and\\nall kinds of fruit, were good for food. No doubt if God\\nhad thought meat was good for man, He would have had\\na butcher shop somewhere in the garden of Eden, and\\nsome beef or mutton hanging from the limb of a tree.\\nPercy But what made the people begin to eat flesh,\\nmother\\nMother: After a time the flood came and destroyed\\neverything on the earth except what Noah had in the ark\\nwith him, and when he came out of the ark, God told him\\nthat people might eat the flesh of animals, and they have\\nkept on eating it ti 1 the present time.\\nElmer: But is it the best food, mother.\\nMother: No, we can not say it is the very best; for,\\nas time has passed, the animals have become sickly, and\\nmany wise doctors say it is unsafe to eat their flesh. Cattle\\nwhich have been killed to eat have been found with dis-\\neased lungs, livers and kidneys. People sometimes become\\nvery ill and many have died from eating their flesh.\\nHelen: I should think if they choose such food it\\nwould be like the engine driver filling his furnace with\\npoor coal when he could get plenty that was better.\\nMother Perhaps so. When we can get good vege-", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel.\\n93\\ntables, grains, and fruits, it is much safer to use them for\\nfuel in the body than to run the risk of giving it anything\\nwhich might put the delicate machine out of order.\\nI saw a poem not long ago, written by Dr. J. H. Kellogg,\\nwhich you might like to have read to you. It is called\\nA VEGETARIAN SONG.\\nYou may talk of mutton-chop,\\nYou may say it is tip-top\\nFor a man who wants to Hve both well and long;\\nBut you re much behind the time,\\nAs ril show you in this rhyme;\\nFor there s better food than flesh to make one\\nwell and strong.\\nChorus\\nOn the glorious trees on the glorious trees\\nThere the fruits and nuts, the fruits and nuts do\\ne\\\\^er grow.\\nThis is heaven s own food,\\nGod pronounced it very good\\nYes, upon the trees, kissed by the breeze, the\\nbest foods grow.\\nThere are pippins rich and rare,\\nThere are plums and peaches fair,\\nThere are huckleberries, raspberries, and pears so sweet\\nThere are grapes upon the vine,\\nNever made for use as wine.\\nAll of which with one accord invite us,\\nCome and eat.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94\\nThe House We Live In.\\nThere s the orange and the Hme,\\nLemons, too, for summer-time,\\nWhich so often do refresh us in the toil and heat\\nThere are nectarines so bright.\\nThere are cherries, red and white,\\nAll of which with one accord invite\\nus, Come and eat.\\nThere are English walnuts rich,\\nAnd delicious almonds, which\\nAll alone supply us cream and milk, how rich a treat\\nThere are coconuts and pine, _^^\\nPecans, hickory-nuts so fine,\\nAll of which with one accord invite f^ *i\\nus, Come and eat.\\nThere s the ox, an honest beast,\\nSee him served up at a feast.\\nNotwithstanding he has been a faithful, true helpmeet\\nTo the farmer in his task\\nYet he never once has asked\\nMore than humblest fare, and now his blood cries, Do\\nnot eat.\\nThere s that scavenger, the pig.\\nGrown to be so fat and big\\nThat he scarce can stand or walk upon his clumsy feet\\nThough he lives a life of ease.\\nHe is full of dire disease.\\nAnd he surely is of all things most unfit to eat.\\nV,\\nr-^-^^-N^ There s the sheep with fleece so warm,\\n^vl 7 Never did a bit of harm.\\n^Pi\\\\AMi^v/lk provides good clothing, warm and neat\\n1 W Kill-. Ere you raise the sharpened knife,\\nCut his throat, and take his life,\\nListen to his sad though mute appeal, Don t slay to eat.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel,\\n95\\n^4:?\\nThere s the oyster in his bed,\\nEating everything that s dead;\\nHe s the scavenger that cleans the bottom of the sea\\nHe lives in the mud and slime,\\nCatching microbes all the time.\\nAnd his occupation surely says, *Oh, don t eat me!\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a01\\\\\\n^^f\\nThere are turkeys, daily fed\\nOn the best of household bread,\\nSo that they 11 be fat and toothsome for Thanksgiving day\\nWhat a sin it is and shame,\\nCrime without a proper name,\\nFor a man these gentle creatures first to feed, then slay!\\nThere are birds that sing a lay\\nFull of joy at break of day,\\nThat will silent be forever at the set of sun.\\nSome will slay the songsters sweet\\nOn pretense that they would eat.\\nWhile a thousand more admit they kill them just for fun.\\nList and hear these creatures all,\\nMighty beasts as well as small,\\nWith a thousand, thousand voices, loud and long repeat.\\nWe beseech you, let us live;\\nTake not life you can not give;\\nOnly kill ferocious creatures; never slay to eat.\\nIt was God s appointed plan,\\nGiven long ago to man,\\nThat no creature of another creature s flesh should eat,\\nBut that all alike should dine\\nOn the fruit of tree and vine\\nAnd the toothsome grains, which heaven has given man\\nfor meat.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96\\nThe House We Live In.\\nBetter far it is to be\\nA vegetarian, don t you see?\\nAs thus we take our daily food direct from heaven s own hand.\\nWhen we eat another s flesh,\\nWe re not taking- food that s fresh,\\nBut are Hving on a diet that is second hand.\\nOh, then, let us all resolve\\nThat, while earth and years revolve.\\nWe will never more pollute our mouths with bloody meat,\\nBut will choose a diet pure,\\nFrom disease and germs secure.\\nAnd of fruits and nuts and grains so wholesome ever eat\\nHelen: I m glad you read it to us, mother. It does\\nseem, when the cattle eat the grass and grain, and then\\nwe eat them, as though we w^ere eating second-hand food.\\nPercy: I don t propose to do that way any longer. I\\nthink I should have what I eat first-hand, as well as the\\nsheep and ox.\\nMother: I am sure if you carry out your resolve you\\nwill have pure blood and a more healthy body. I saw\\nsome pictures of children not long ago who had never\\ntasted meat in their lives, and they were as happy and\\nhearty as you could wish to see. I want you each to act\\nfor yourselves in this matter, and do what you think will\\nbe the best for your health.\\nElmer: Is salt a food, mother.\\nMother: No; salt is a mineral, yet it is found in all\\nparts of the body. It is also found in nearly all our foods.\\nWe add it to some things when cooking to give them\\nflavor, but it is hurtful to eat much of it.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel. 97\\nAmy Are mustard, pepper, spices, ginger, and hot\\nsauces good to eat?\\nMother: No; some people think they taste good, but\\nthey are bad for the body. If you put some mustard on\\nyour skin, it makes it red, and may cause a blister. You\\nknow a very little pepper in your eye makes it smart.\\nThese hot things in the kitchen of our body-house make\\nthe walls red, and the cooks get very cross. When people\\neat such things, they become thirsty, and sometimes, instead\\nof drinking water to cool the heated walls and put out the\\nfire these hot things have made, they pour down beer,\\nwhisky, and other drinks, which makes the mischief worse.\\nWhen once the habit is formed of using such things, they\\nkeep wanting them hotter and stronger, till nothing tastes\\ngood unless it is highly seasoned. Many become ill, and\\nthis is one way drunkards are made.\\nHelen: But how do they make drunkards, mother.-^\\nMother: These hot things which people sometimes\\nput in the stomach make them thirsty, as I have said, and\\nso they think they must have beer or something stronger.\\nSuch drinks do not quench thirst, and so they keep on\\ndrinking more and more. If you want the walls of your\\nbody-kitchen to be a pretty pale pink color, you will keep\\nthe doors shut tight against mustard, spices, pepper, and\\nall hot sauces. You can teach your taste to like the fine\\nflavors which are in our foods already, and which do no\\nharm to the body.\\nAmy But sugar is a good food, isn t It, mother\\nMother: I thought my little girl who is so fond of\\n7", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 The House We Live In.\\nsweet things would ask this question. It is true sugar is\\na food, but to use much of the kind we buy is hurtful to\\nthe body. Nearly all the foods we eat, such as flour, oat-\\nmeal, pease, beets, and milk, have sugar in them. Some\\nfruits, such as figs and grapes, have a large amount. It is\\nnot well to eat food made very sweet with sugar, such as\\nrich cakes, jams, and preserves. It is also harmful to eat\\ncandies and lollies, for many are made from a poor kind\\nof sugar, and the coloring matter used to make them look\\npretty is hurtful. Besides, as the body-house has a sugar\\nfactory of its own, you see it gets too much sugar when\\nwe eat many sweet things.\\nHelen: But where is the sugar factory, mother.\\nMother: The liver, the largest worker in the house we\\nlive in, makes a kind of sugar, as well as the bitter bile.\\nHow it is done I can not tell, but it is true that in the\\nhundreds of little rooms of which the liver is made, all the\\nsweet things we eat are changed to liver sugar before they\\ncan be used in the body. The liver, also, makes starch\\ninto sugar, I mean the starch found in bread, potatoes, and\\nother foods. Now if the fireman on an engine should\\nshovel so much coal into his furnace that it was filled full,\\nwhat would happen\\nElmer: The furnace would be choked up so the fire\\nwould go out, or else it would burn very slowly.\\nMother That is just what takes place in this wonder-\\nful sugar factory. Since the liver makes sugar out of\\nstarch which is found in our foods, if we swallow a big\\npiece of cake, a lot of jam, some syrup, and some candy,", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel.\\n99\\nsuch treatment makes the liver cross. When all those little,\\nliving kettles are full of sugar already, how can they hold\\nany more?\\nPercy: How does the liver show it is cross, mother?\\nMother: It goes to work to punish the master of the\\nhouse. It gives\\nhim a nasty taste in\\nhis mouth, and he\\nfeels so sick that\\nhe thinks he wants\\nnothing to eat.\\nPerhaps the liver\\nsends word to the\\nstomach that it\\nhas struck work,\\nand it will have\\nnothing to do\\nwith such messes\\nas are sent it to\\nwork over. Then\\nthe stomach, not\\nknowing what\\nelse to do, sends\\nall there is in it\\nback upstairs out\\nthrough the passage, and the master of the house tells his\\nfriends who come to visit him, that he is bilious, or that\\nhe has a bilious attack, and you may be sure he has a\\nsorry time. There may be a dreadful aching up in the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0He has a sorry time.**\\nUdfC.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "loo The House We Live In.\\ncupola; perhaps there is pain all over the house, all because\\nthe right kind of food and the right amount were not sent\\nin to build up the body. The same thing is likely to\\nhappen if the master of the house sends a lot of pastry,\\nfat meat, and fried or greasy foods into the kitchen. Bile\\nis the one to care for them all, and he will bear such\\ntreatment awhile without complaining; but when once his\\ntemper is up, he will not be kind to anything the master\\nmay send him. Like other good servants, he makes a bad\\nmaster. Perhaps he will try to do some work in a lazy\\nsort of way; but he keeps grumbling all the time, till he\\nmakes the other servants as cross as himself\\nPercy: I think I will try to keep Bile good-natured,\\nand send the right things and the right amount down to\\nthe sugar factory.\\nMother You may be sure you will not be happy\\nunless you do; for, though strange, yet tis true that when\\nthings go wrong in the stomach and liver, it makes the\\nmaster of the house very cross and unhappy.\\nNot long ago I visited a lady who has a pleasant home\\nand all she could wish to make her comfortable. I found\\nher face gloomy, and she was crying. She said she was\\nnot well; that a skin disease was troubling her; that her\\nchildren did not do right; and that she was very miserable.\\nI think it is my liver, she added; for when my\\nblood is right and my liver works well I am not troubled\\nthis way.\\nPoor woman! She thought she was not a Christian,\\nand she made herself and her friends unhappy by her", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel. loi\\nfault-finding. Her liver was to blame, or rather she was\\nto blame for giving it so much work to do that it made\\nher life hard, when it ought to have been most pleasant.\\nHelen: But, mother, you make us feel as though we\\nhardly ought to eat at all, for fear of making somebody\\nsour down-stairs.\\nMother: Oh, no; I don t want you to feel that way,\\nbut I wish you to use these servants in your body-house\\nso well that it will be a pleasure to them to serve you!\\nWe should eat plenty of good, plain food at proper times.\\nWe are made so we will get hungry and want to eat; and\\nit is well that we do, or we might forget that fuel is needed\\nin the body. Not only should we eat proper kinds of\\nfood, but we should be careful not to eat too much. You\\nremember that Di-ges tion must have plenty of room in\\nwhich to do her work, or she gets peevish and does her\\ntask poorly.\\nAmy: How much should we eat in order not to eat\\ntoo much\\nMother Some persons need more food than others,\\nand no one can tell another just how much he should eat\\nbut it is safe to say that we should not put into the stomach\\nall it will hold, nor eat just for the pleasure of eating. In\\nvery cold countries people can eat more without harm to\\nthemselves than they can in warmer climates. I once read\\nof a traveler in the frozen north who saw an Esquimau eat\\nthirty-five pounds of meat and several tallow candles in one\\nday; but such a story seems almost too big to be true, and\\nwe would certainly hardly feel able to take such an amount", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "I02\\nThe House We Live In.\\nof food in the same time. Children should have plenty of\\ngood, simple food while they are growing.\\nElmer I think I will take a little food at a time, and\\ntake it often. That s the way the fireman feeds his engine.\\nMother: That may do for an engine, but not for a\\nstomach. It must have rest as well as food. We should\\neat what we need, give the stomach time to digest it, let it\\nrest after it has finished its work, and then give it more to\\ndo. One great cause of illness among people now is that\\nthey eat too often and too much. Three meals a day at\\nregular times are enough, and the last should be a light\\none and taken early, to allow the cooks time to do their\\nwork before the master goes to bed. Then all will be\\nquiet in the body-house, and the servants can rest after\\ntheir toil. If treated in this way, the morning will find\\nthem fresh and ready for their duties.\\nHelen: Should our food be cooked or eaten raw?\\nMother I am glad you asked that question. Most\\nkinds of foods are better cooked, but many things are made\\nunfit for food at all by being badly cooked. To be able to\\nprepare healthful food in a neat, tasteful way is the best and\\nmost useful knowledge a\\ngirl can obtain. Every\\none should know how to\\nmake good, light bread,\\nhow to prepare vege-\\ntables, cook grains and\\nfruits, and lay the table\\nin a neat, pleasing way\\n/,a,v the table in a neat, flea^ing ivay", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel.\\nAmy: Will you teach us how, mother?\\nMother: Certainly; we will begin this very\\nday. I think we will form a class of four; for\\nthe boys will wish to learn too. I am sure you\\nwill soon be able to prepare food very nicely.\\nElmer: Then we shall not always need to\\nhave a cook when we go out camping, but we can\\ndo our own cooking and care for ourselves.\\nMother: There is still one other thing that I\\nwish you never to forget, and that is that many\\nmen become drunkards because they do not have\\nthe right kind of food. It may be it is made so\\nhot with pepper, mustard, and spices that it creates\\nthirst, or it may be but half cooked, so they feel\\npoorly fed. Such men are much more apt to go\\nto the bar-room than the man who sits at a neatly-\\nspread table furnished with plain, healthful food.\\nPercy: But isn t alcohol a kind of food, mother.\\nI have seen drinking men who looked so fat and\\nstrong it seems as if it must build up the body.\\nMother: No, my son, it is a great mistake to\\nthink there is any food in alcohol or in any drink\\nthat contains it. A noted doctor in England says\\nthis about it: There is more nourishment in the\\nflour that can be put on the point of a table knife\\nthan in eight quarts ff^\\nof the best beer. s^ ^/^^-^V^\\n,sO\\n3_", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I04\\nThe House We Live In.\\nElmer But why do people who drink beer look so\\nfat, then?\\nMother: It is true many who drink it increase in flesh,\\nand so they think the beer makes them large and strong.\\nFat men are not always strong men. The alcohol in the\\nbeer changes the muscles of the body into\\nfat. It pushes the skin out and makes the\\nface look round and plump.\\nAmy: And red, too.\\nMother: Yes; and all the time the man\\nis growing weaker instead of stronger. His\\nliver changes into a mass of fat, and it crowds\\nother rooms of the body-house so they can\\nnot properly carry on their work. The fleshy\\nbody of the beer-drinker is a diseased body,\\nand you will find that it does not have firm\\nmuscles, a strong heart, or a healthy liver.\\nPercy: But you have not told us what\\nwe should drink, mother.\\nMother: Water, pure water, is the best\\ndrink for every one. Sometimes people be-\\ncome very ill from drinking bad water, so care should be\\ntaken to have it clean and pure. Bad water may be made\\nharmless by boiling it, and this should always be done if\\nit is not known that it is harmless. It may look all right,\\nand yet cause sickness and death.\\nThe well should never be near a pig-sty, barn-yard, or\\nother filthy place. The seeds of sickness, which the doctors\\ncall germs, may tra\\\\ el through the ground a longdistance\\nPeople who drink\\nbeer look fat.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel.\\n\\\\o\\nand so get into the water in the well. This is more likely\\nto be the case if the ground is sandy or slopes toward\\nthe well.\\nElmer: Wouldn t it be better to\\ndrink tea or coffee than bad water?\\nMother: Tea and coffee are not\\nfoods, and both contain poisons which\\nare hurtful to the body. It does not\\nmake bad water better to put poison\\ninto it. Besides, these drinks are often\\ntaken with food, and we have found\\nthat the cook down-stairs can do noth-\\ning while a lot of liquid is pouring\\ndown over her. It is also true that\\nhot drinks weaken the walls of the\\nstomach. It is better to drink pure\\nwater, and to take it before eating or\\nsome time after, and then we shall not\\nbe tempted to swallow our food without\\nproperly chewing it. Alcohol, tea, and coffee are stimulants.\\nHelen: And I think you said once, mother, that a\\nstimulant is like a whip to a tired horse.\\nMother: Yes; to stimulate means to prick, or goad, to\\nexcite, or rouse to action. When a horse is very tired from\\nclimbing a steep hill his driver strikes him with a whip.\\nThat stimulates but it does not strengthen him. At first\\nit takes but one blow to make him go faster, then two or\\nthree, and he finally becomes so weak that he does not\\nrespond to the whip at all.\\nWater, pure water, is the\\nbest drink for every one.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "io6\\nTJie House //V Live In.\\nThat is just what happens when a person uses tea,\\ncoffee, tobacco, beer, or whisky. At first only a little will\\nmake him feel rested and as though he were stronger.\\nBut soon he wants more, and does not feel as strong as\\nbefore he took the stimulant the first time. These drinks\\nstimulate, but do not give strength. When a horse is tired\\nhe does not need a whip, but food and rest. The same is\\ntrue of a man or woman when tired. Instead of putting\\npoison in the stomach they need good food and rest, and\\nthese will make them really stronger.\\nPercy: I am glad that I know why all those things\\nare called stimulants.\\nMother: And I must tell you one more thing about\\nthe liver which will help you understand what a wonderful\\npart of the body-house it is, and why we should treat it", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Food and Fuel. 107\\nkindly. As you already know, it is the largest room in the\\nbody. We might call it the store-room for after the fuel\\nis ready to use, it is stored up in the liver, where it is kept\\ntill needed, just as the tender carries a supply of coal for\\nthe engine.\\nWe can not always be eating, and the body needs fuel\\nwhen we are asleep as well as when we are awake, so the\\nliver stores it away and sends it out when needed. Now\\nif the master of the house sends a lot of alcohol to his\\nliver, at first the little rooms fill up with fat, so they can\\nnot do their work or store up food for the body. If he\\nkeeps sending more and more whisky to his liver, it finally\\nbecomes small and hard, and when he goes to the doctor\\nto find out what disease he has, the wise man tells him he\\nhas the drunkard s liver.\\nHelen: What a pity it is that men should abuse the\\nliver so\\nMother: Yes, it is a pity, but some women are as bad,\\nthough not as many of them as of the men take alcohol.\\nSome of them who would never think of doing that, think\\nthat their liver is too big, and that it makes the waist too\\nlarge, so they gird it up with tight clothing and do not\\ngive it room to work. One doctor found a woman who\\nhad squeezed her waist so long that the liver was cut in\\ntwo; and she died for her folly.\\nWhen Liver finds his room growing smaller, he gets\\ncross, and says, We ll see about this; and he gives the\\nyoung lady a pain in her side. Her skin begins to look\\nyellow and dirty, and the silly girl goes to the doctor for", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io8 The House We Live hi.\\nsome medicine to make her well, when all she needs is to\\ngive Liver room to do his work, and give her body the\\nright kind of fuel. Perhaps she is so foolish that she would\\nrather be ill than let her waist grow as large as God made\\nit; and, if so, she and her friends have a sorry time.\\nAmy: My liver shall never scold because it can t have\\nroom enough in which to work.\\nMother: That s like my sensible girl, and I wish every\\nother in the land would say the same.\\nHelen: But, mother, I have heard girls say that their\\ndresses were not a bit tight, when I am almost sure they\\nwere.\\nMotpier: The only safe way is not to wear corsets or\\ntight bands at all, and the clothing should be so loose that\\nit will not compress the body when one draws a deep, full\\nbreath.\\nPercy: I should think there was enough sickness in the\\nworld without people eating, drinking, and dressing to make\\nthemselves ill.\\nMother: Many people do not know that it is what\\nthey do that makes them ill. They think people must be\\nsick sometimes, and they do not study to know how to\\ncare for themselves in such a way that they may keep well.\\nFor this reason I wish you to learn how to care for the\\nholy temple of your body while you are children, and we\\nmust also do all we can to help others by living rigfht\\nourselves.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "OTHER: When we visited the water-works\\nS fl what did you admire most of all the things\\nI you saw, Elmer\\nElmer The great engines that kept pump-\\ning all the time and never stopped to rest.\\n.^o-\u00c2\u00abc. T\u00c2\u00b0 ^1 How strange it seemed to think that they\\npump enough water for all the people in this\\ngreat city! The houses on the hillsides as well as those on\\nlow ground have all they need.\\nMother But you would hardly think the house we\\nlive in has the most wondrous little pumping engine you\\never saw, would you? Day and night it pumps the river\\nof life, as the blood has been called, to every part of the\\nbody. If it should once stop, we would die, and the body-\\nhouse could never be used again.\\nHelen: Do you mean the heart, mother.^\\nMother Yes. Can you tell me where your heart is\\nAmy: I can. It is on my left side.\\nMother: Not quite right, little girl. The lower point\\nIs felt on the left side, it is true; but most of the heart is\\nhigher up and nearer the center of your body. Who can\\ntell how large it is.\\n(109)", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "no\\nThe House We Live In.\\nPercy: About the size of the fist of the person in\\nwhom it is found.\\nAmy: Then the baby s heart is about as big as his dear\\nHttle hand.\\nMother: Can you describe its shape?\\nHelen: I think it is something like that of a pear or\\na strawberry, with the small end down.\\nMother: Here is a picture that will help us in learn-\\ning its shape. 1 think I have not yet told you that the\\ntrunk of the body is divided into two\\nlarge rooms. There is a partition run-\\nning crosswise, called the di a-phragm\\n(di a-fram). .This gives us a large up-\\nper room, where we find the engine and\\nbath room. The kitchen, eating room,\\nstore room, and waste rooms are in the\\nlower part of the trunk, below the di a-\\nphragm. But we want to talk about the\\nheart now. We have found about how\\nIhe heart.\\nlarge it is and what it is shaped like let us next take a\\npeep inside and learn, if we can, how it does its work.\\nElmer: Didn t you tell us once that the heart was\\nmade of muscles?\\nMother Yes the outside walls are made of little\\nstrong muscles, and the inside is hollow. It is divided into\\nfour rooms. Each has its own name, but we will not try\\nto learn them now. There is a wall reaching from top to\\nbottom, and as it has no door, nothing can pass through\\nfrom one side to the other. Then there are cross walls, or", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "A I^iif)iping Engine. 1 1 1\\npartitions, with folding doors in them, so there is an up-stairs\\nand down-stairs room on each side. There are big pipes,\\nor tubes, leading in or out from each room. They are\\ncalled veins, or ar ter-ies. The veins carry the blood to\\nthe heart, while the arteries carry it away.\\nHelen: But, mother, what makes the heart beat?\\nMother: I thought that would be about the first thing\\nyou would wish to know, and I will explain the best I can.\\nWhen the muscles which make up the heart draw together, the\\nrooms inside become small, and the blood in them is squeezed\\nout. When the muscles slacken, the rooms become larger,\\nand the blood rushes in and fills them again. So the blood\\nkeeps coming in and going out of the heart all the time,\\nand it causes it to make the movement which we call beating.\\nAmy: How fast does it beat?\\nMother: In very little children it beats from one hun-\\ndred and twenty to one hundred and forty times a minute.\\nIn grown people it beats sixty or seventy times, and when\\nthe body-house has grown old and feeble, it beats slower\\nstill. Percy, you may run up and down stairs and then tell\\nus if you see any difference in your heart-beats.\\nPercy: I believe they are twice as many as they were\\nwhen I was sitting still.\\nMother: Hardly as many as that, but the heart beats\\nmuch more quickly. Can you think of anything else that\\nmakes the action of the heart faster?\\nHelen: When I was frightened this morning I could\\nhear my heart go thump, thump, and I am sure it seemed\\nto be in a hurry.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 The House We Live In.\\nMother Yes moving quickly, fright, anger, or joy\\nmakes this busy pump work more quickly. Sadness and\\ngrief cause it to work slowly. It beats faster when we\\nare standing than when we sit still, and the motion is slower\\nwhen we He down than when we are sitting.\\nElmer Why did the doctor put his finger on my wrist\\nwhen I was sick, mother?\\nMother He wanted to know how your heart was\\nworking, so he felt your pulse. Sometimes when people\\nare ill it beats very, very fast, and sometimes it moves\\nmore slowly than it should.\\nAmy What is the pulse\\nMother: If I use any words that you do not under-\\nstand you must ask what they mean. The pulse is the beat-\\ning or throbbing of the arteries caused by the blood flowing\\nthrough them from the heart. Have* you noticed how the\\nwater sometimes goes in jerks as it is pumped through the\\nhose pipe in the gard-en It is that way with the heart.\\nEach beat sends the blood through the arteries in jerks,\\nand when we place our fingers on them, we can tell how\\nfast the heart is beating. That is called the pulse.\\nAmy Sometimes I think that I can hear my heart\\nbeating.\\nMother: Each time it beats it makes two sounds, and\\nthey can be heard if the ear is placed over the heart. The\\ndoctor can tell by these sounds whether the heart is working\\nall right.\\nPercy: But I should think it would get tired out if it\\nkeeps at work all the time.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "A Pumping Engine. 1 1 3\\nMoTiiFj^: So it would if it had no rest. I^^vcry part\\nof the body must rest. Between the heart-beats there is\\njust a Httle rest, and, though the time is very short, yet if it\\nwere all put together it would amount to six or eight hours\\na day.\\nHelen: If the heart beats sixty or seventy times a\\nminute, I wonder how many times it beats in a day.\\nMother You may do a little figuring to\\nfind out. Seventy beats a minute, sixty minutes\\nan hour, and twenty-four hours a day.\\nElmer: I have it. It would be more than\\none hundred thousand.\\nMother: And this means hard work, too;\\nfor if all it does in twenty-four hours were done\\nat once, it would be equal to lifting one hundred and twenty\\ntons of stone one foot from the ground.\\nPercy: Whew! I should think this was a powerful\\nlittle force-pump, sure.\\nMother But what would you think of a man who\\nmade his heart beat six thousand times more in twenty-four\\nhours, which means that it must lift seven tons more than\\nit should.\\nAmy: But I thought the heart kept working of itself.\\nThen how could any one make it do more\\nMother: By taking only two ounces of alcohol in a\\nday the heart would be overworked as I have said. It\\nwould not only have its regular work to do, but it would do\\nthat amount extra to throw out the poison it finds in the\\nblood; for it knows it is an enemy. See, I have taken\\n8", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 The House We Live In.\\nthe pendulum off the clock for a minute. Now what has\\nhappened\\nElmer: It ticks much faster, and will soon run down.\\nMother: It is much the same way with the heart of a\\nperson who takes drink with alcohol in it. His heart beats\\nfaster; his face gets red, and he can think and talk fast. It\\nis like an engineer putting on steam and sending his train\\nat lightning speed down a steep grade. If nothing worse\\nhappens, he will find when he comes where the track is up-\\ngrade that his power is gone and he has wasted his steam.\\nThe clock runs fast with the pendulum off, but it soon\\nruns down, we say, and it is the same with the boy or\\nthe man who drinks. There are nerves which act on the\\nheart as brakes do on the train. They keep it steadily at\\nwork and do not let it beat too fast. There is another way\\nthat alcohol hurts the heart.\\nHelen: Please tell us how.\\nMother: It changes the strong muscle walls into fat.\\nThe heart grows larger than it should be, and becomes so\\nweak that it can not send the blood over the body as it\\nshould. The man has hard work to breathe. He gets\\nthe dropsy and other ailments, and perhaps dies of heart\\nfailure.\\nPercy: Does tobacco affect the heart, mother.\\nMother: Yes; it makes its beat unsteady, and some-\\ntimes causes an illness which doctors call tobacco heart.\\nIt also makes it work harder than it ought.\\nAmv What can we do to keep the heart well and\\nstrong?", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "YOU CAN RUN, JUMP, AND SWING.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "Ii6 The House We Live In.\\nMother Be sure to give It good blood to send over\\nthe body. You need not keep still for fear that you will\\nbreak this curious little pump for, like the engines in ships,\\nit Is made to be tumbled about. Boys and girls can run,\\njump, and swing, yet the little engine keeps on with its\\nsteady hub tub against the walls of the house, and we would\\nhardly know it was there. Good, honest labor makes the\\nheart work better, and sends the blood running swiftly to\\nevery part of the body. We say when we are cold that a\\nbrisk walk will start the blood; that is, the heart beats\\nmore quickly, and soon the whole body becomes warm.\\nWe might say that the heart is like a clock, as well as an\\nengine. If I do not wind the clock, what happens?\\nPercy: It runs down.\\nMother: Does some one need to wind up your heart\\neach day to keep it beating?\\nHelen: Oh, no; it just keeps going itself!\\nMother: God keeps It beating, sometimes for a hun-\\ndred years, without our help. I read a little poem not long\\nago about the heart, which I will repeat for you:\\nTHE CLOCK OF LIFE.\\nOh, did you ever think, my child,\\nThat in your body dwells\\nA tiny clock, that verily\\nAll other clocks excels?\\nIt needs no key to wind it up,\\nNo oiling of the wheels.\\nNo jeweler to make repairs;\\nWith such it never deals.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "A PiDiiping Engme.\\n1 17\\nNear seventy ticks a minute is\\nIts normal race to go;\\nJust place your thumb against your wrist,\\nAnd you will find it so.\\nThis little clock was made to be\\nA faithful sentinel,\\nTo give alarm of any change\\nWithin its prison cell.\\nIf you are healthy, then its ticks\\nAre even, full, and strong;\\nBy this you know that, in its cell,\\nNothing is going wrong.\\nWhen sickness comes, it works so hard.\\nAnd is so feeble, too,\\nIt can not keep the perfect time\\nIts Maker meant it to.\\nNow, would you help this little clock\\nThe best of time to keep\\nThen always mind the rules of health,\\nAnd thus their blessings reap.\\nMrs. Julia Loomis.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "THE CARETAKER\\nMY: Just see, mother! I have cut my\\nfinger. See how fast the blood runs\\nout! Oh-h!\\nMother Suppose we let a drop fall\\non this glass and then try to find out what\\nit is made of, what it does in the body, and about\\nthe different rooms it visits. You may ask questions\\nand I will try to answer them; but first we will bind\\nup the cut finger in this bit of soft cloth. We have\\nalready learned how blood is made, but we want to learn\\nwhat it does for us.\\nBlood is made from the food you eat and the water\\nyou drink. If you eat good food it makes good blood.\\nBad food and drink make bad blood. It might be called\\nthe caretaker, or the housekeeper of the body. Without\\nit your body-house would go to ruin for the Bible says,\\nThe life of all flesh is the blood. After passing through\\nthe kitchen, serving room, and dining room, the blood enters\\na dark tunnel and comes to your heart.\\nHelen: But what makes it such a bright red color?\\nMother: Because it has millions of little red bodies\\ncalled cor pus-cles. Really it is a pale yellow, but there are\\nso many of these tiny folk floating around that they make it\\n(ii8)", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "The Caretaker. 1 1 9\\nlook red, just as a river would if it were packed full of tiny\\nred fishes, or as water would if you should fill a bottle with\\nvery small red beads and then cover them with water.\\nPercy: But are all the cor pus-cles red?\\nMother: No; some are white, but there are many\\nmore red than white.\\nAmy: What do they look like?\\nMother: You can not see them ,r^C^ (n\\\\\\nat all unless you should look through \\\\l){\\na mi cro-scope. The red cor pus-cles z?^\\nare shaped like a little biscuit with a\\ndimple in the middle. The white ones\\nkeep changing their shape in a very wonderful way. First\\nthey are round, then square, then three-cornered, and they\\ntake on ever so many other shapes. There are several\\nmillions of these little red and white fellows in a single drop\\nof blood.\\nElmer: But you said it went through a dark tunnel\\nto get to the heart. Please tell us about that.\\nMother: The tunnel is round, like a tube, and I must\\ntell you that these tubes are in every part of your body.\\nSome are quite large, some are small, and some are so tiny\\nthat you could not see them if you should try. They are like\\na tree with its trunk dividing into large branches, and these\\ninto smaller ones, till at last they become little twigs. The\\nlargest tubes for carrying blood through the body are called\\narteries. The smaller ones are called veins. The arteries\\ncarry fresh, bright, clean blood to every part of your body-\\nhouse. It bounds along with a hop, skip, and jump, as", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I20 The House We Live In.\\nthough it were in a hurry to get to work. The arteries\\nhave very strong walls, and, as I told you, the blood soon\\nfinds itself in the heart.\\nHelen: Which room did it go into first?\\nMother When the blood is fi esh and clean it goes\\ninto the top room on the left side. It keeps coming in\\nuntil the room is filled full. Then the little folding doors\\nopen, and the blood is crowded into the lower left room,\\nthe doors fly back, and\\nAmy: But please tell us about the doors.\\nMother: They are made so that the blood could not get\\nback into the top room if it wished for they never swing\\nbut one way, and some small cords hold them in place.\\nThese doors are called valves. When the lower room is\\nfilled, the walls press together, and the blood is forced into\\nthe largest blood tube in the body, the walls of which are\\nso very smooth, that the blood passes along with a merry\\nbound. The tube keeps growing smaller the farther we go\\nfrom the heart, and branches into many smaller tubes.\\nPercy: And how far does the blood go.**\\nMother: Perhaps it first takes a trip through the trunk\\nof your body, down through your right leg, and on to the\\nend of your big toe. The tubes at last become very small,\\nand there are so many of them that they are like a network\\nof the finest lace. A hair would seem like a big rope beside\\nthem. They are so very tiny that you can not see them.\\nTheir walls are thinner than tissue paper, and they are so\\nclose together that you can not touch your skin with the\\npoint of a needle without touching some of them. When", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Caretaker.\\n121\\nVein\\nthe blood comes to these tiny tubes, it does not travel so\\nfast as at first, and as it passes along, the muscles pick\\nit to pieces, take the part they want as food, and load the\\nblood down with waste which they can not use. When\\nthey are so hungry, the blood is glad to feed them and\\ngive them the oxygen, which makes them warm.\\nAmy: Did it stay long in those little tubes\\nMother: No; it went through as quickly as it could,\\nand on its way back found itself in bigger tubes, which keep\\ngrowing larger; for it is now on its\\nway back to the heart. This picture\\nwill help you to see the road it\\ntravels. It is now a dark red color,\\nand unfit to work longer till it is\\nwashed. Back it goes to the heart,\\nthe tubes through which it travels\\ngrowing larger all the way until it\\ntumbles into the right top room of\\nthe heart, which, as you have learned,\\nalways has dirty, worn-out blood in it.\\nto stay there for between this room and the lower right\\nroom there are three folding doors kept in place like the\\ntwo on the left side, and through them it passes. The\\nwalls of the rooms on the right side of the heart are not\\nas thick as those on the left side. I think that must be\\nbecause the left side sends the blood farther than the right.\\nHelen: Does the blood stop to rest in the lower right\\nArtery\\nBut it is not allowed\\nroom\\nMother: Oh, no; it never rests as long as there is", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 The House We Live In.\\nany life in it! The heart squeezes it out into another\\nbig tube, and it soon finds itself in the bath room, where it\\nis washed through and throuo^h, and its color becomes as\\nbriorht red as when new.\\nAmy: And where does the blood then go?\\nMother: Straight back to the left side of the heart,\\nwhere it is pumped out the same as before; and this time\\nwe will say it goes to the kitchen of the house you live in,\\nand helps the cook get the dinner you have eaten ready to\\nbe made into more blood. The old blood eats some of the\\ngood things, and again it is sent to the right side of the\\nheart and back through the bath room.\\nPercy: And what then?\\nMother: Its next trip may be taken to the brain, to\\nhelp a little girl learn her lessons in school. The brain\\ntakes what it can use, and back the blood goes to the right\\nheart, around through the bath room again, and the next\\ntime it may be sent to the liver, where it finds sugar and\\nbile-making going on, as usual.\\nElmer But how can the blood be of any use there\\nMother: I think you would not ask such a question if\\nyou could go there to see. It takes all the starch out of\\nit, as you sometimes say, and some other things besides, to\\nmake into sugar. It also uses part of it to make into bitter\\nbile, so you may well believe that when it goes back to the\\nheart there is not much left that is of value. But after a\\ngood wash in the bath room the blood goes back to the\\nheart, and this time may be sent to the bones in your fin-\\ngers, and they take what lime it has. This drop was just", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "The Caretaker. 123\\nmaking its way back to the heart again when Amy cut her\\nfinger and let it out.\\nPercy: But I should have thought the blood would\\nhave been worn out making so many trips.\\nMother So it would if it was not made new by the\\nfood you eat. It keeps taking as well as giving as it goes\\nround and round through the body. You would not expect\\na housekeeper to keep everything tidy and clean in a house,\\nand not give her what she needed to make her strong and\\nable to work and so the master of the house gives the\\nblood plenty to eat; and it makes no complaint as long as\\nit can do its work well. It is a very busy person, we might\\nsay, and, as there is no end of things to do in the house\\nin which you live, the blood works night and day.\\nElmer But I don t see how the blood can take with it\\nall that is needed to mend the different parts of the house.\\nMother: It is supposed to carry with it a supply of\\neverything that is needed to keep the house in order as it\\ngoes, so that when a bone says, I want some lime, or a\\nmuscle says, Please give me some al-bumen, each part\\ngets what it calls for if it is in the blood. Whether it has\\nwhat every part needs depends on what the master of the\\nhouse sends into the kitchen to make blood. Have I told\\nyou about the filters in the body.\\nAmy: I m sure you have not. Please tell us now.\\nMother: There are two of them in the lower part of\\nthe trunk close to the back, one on each side. They are\\nthe shape of a bean, and are called the kidneys. The\\nblood passes through them, and some of the poisons it has", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124\\nTlie Hott.se IVe Live In.\\nA kidney.\\npicked up are strained out and sent to a storeroom, called\\nthe bladder, where they are kept till the brain gives an\\norder to send them away.\\nHelen: But there is one thing\\nI would like to know. I can see\\nhow blood can run down-hill into\\nour fingers and toes, but I can t\\nsee how it can climb back up to\\nthe heart again. Will you please\\ntell me\\nMother: The heart is the\\npower that sends it through the\\narteries to every part of the body, whether it is up-hill or\\ndown. Now when the blood has come to the end of its\\njourney, and has reached the tiny hair-like veins of which\\nI told you, more blood keeps coming down and pushes it\\non till it starts back through the larger veins.\\nThe blood keeps crowding behind, and the veins\\nare made in such a way as to help it climb up.\\nPercy But how are they different from the\\narteries\\nMother: Did you ever see little watch-\\npockets hung in bedrooms in which to put\\nwatches? Well, the veins have tiny pockets in\\nthem, as you see in the picture.\\nAmy But I don t see how that helps the blood in\\nclimbing.\\nMother: It is this way: If you had a tube with little\\npockets and should hold it so the top of the pockets was\\nVeins have tiny\\npockets in them.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "The Caretaker, 125\\ndown, you could pour anything through it and they would\\nnot stop it from passing. But turn the tube the other way,\\nwith the pockets up, as you see in the picture, and they\\nwould catch and hold anything you tried to pour through\\nthe tube. It is the same way with the veins and the blood.\\nIf the blood should try to go back, the pockets would fill\\nfull and hold it, but when it is passing up toward the heart,\\nthey let it slip by without holding it back.\\nElmer: Then the blood keeps going round and round\\nin the body, and never stops.\\nMother: Yes; and this going round and round, as\\nyou say, is called the cir-cu-la tion. This drop of blood\\nwould have kept going until it was used up in mending\\nyour body and helping keep it alive, if it had not slipped\\nout through the cut in Amy s finger into the world in\\nwhich you live and move.\\nI know you have all enjoyed hearing how the blood\\ntravels through the body. Let me tell you a little story I\\nread of what a boy said in school. His teacher asked him\\nto tell the class how the blood cir cu-lates, or goes round\\nand round.\\nPlease, sir, said the lad, the blood goes down one leg\\nand up the other.\\nVery clever of it, I am sure, said the teacher. How\\ndoes it get across?\\nPerhaps that was something the boy had not thought\\nof, and I am sure you would never give such an answer as\\nthat since you have heard the story of a drop of blood.\\nLet us see the cut finger where it came out.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 The House We Live In.\\nAmy: It doesn t bleed at all now, mother.\\nMother: No; and that makes me think to tell you\\nsomething else about this wonderful caretaker. If we had\\na quart of blood and should let It stand awhile, it would\\nbecome thick like jelly. But if you should take a bundle\\nof twigs and keep stirring it round and round, it would not\\nget thick at all. If you looked at your bundle of twigs\\nafter stirring the blood with it, you would find the twigs\\ncovered with a sticky substance. If you should wash them,\\nyou would wash away the red color, and would have left a\\nsoft, stringy mass all matted together.\\nHelen: But what Is It good for.\\nMother: It is called fibrin, and if it were not in the\\nblood, you would bleed to death If you cut yourself So\\nlong as the blood stays in the body, the fibrin goes quietly\\nwith it wherever it goes but If It begins to run away,\\nas it did from Amy s finger, the fibrin goes to work at\\nonce to cork up the place so it can not get out.\\nPercy: How long does It take the blood to go from the\\nheart through the body and back again, mother?\\nMother I am sure you will be surprised when I tell\\nyou that the heart sends It with such force that it will go\\nto the farthest part and get back in from three to eight\\nminutes, and some say it takes even less time than that.\\nElmer: What! so quickly as that! It does not seem\\npossible.\\nMother And though one-eighth of the body Is blood,\\nyet it will all pass through the heart in about the same time.\\nHelen: How wonderful! But I don t see how all these", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "The Caretaker. iiy\\nlittle things in the blood, called cor pus-cles, can get through\\nthe tiny, hair-like veins, which are so small.\\nMother: We can learn a useful lesson from them, and\\nyou would be pleased, I know, to watch them, if they were\\nonly large enough so you could. They seem to know just\\nwhat they want to do, and where they ought to go. When\\nthe little veins are too small for more than one to go in at\\na time, they do not push or crowd one another. One row\\nwaits as politely as can be till the others have passed in,\\nand then they follow. How wonderful it is to think of this\\nriver of life flowing round and round, and we feel nothing\\nof it but the gentle tap, tap of the heart as it sends it\\nbounding through every part of the body! Should it stop,\\nwe would die; for the blood is the life.\\nPercy: But how did people find out that the blood\\ngoes around as it does?\\nMother: A doctor in England, named Harvey, first\\ndiscovered it. Before his time people thought air went\\naround through the body in the arteries. Men have studied\\nthe subject since Dr. Harvey lived, and they keep learning\\nmore about it all the time.\\nAmy: Does water go into the blood, mother?\\nMother: Yes; it very quickly finds its way there, and\\nit Is the same with strong drinks, such as beer and whisky.\\nIt only takes a very few minutes for anything we drink to\\nget into the blood stream.\\nThe walls of the veins and arteries are governed by\\nthe nerves of our telephone system. They let just the\\nright amount of blood flow through them all the time.", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 The House We Live In.\\nWhen alcohol gets into the blood, it outs the nerves to\\nsleep, and so too much blood goes into the little veins.\\nYou knov^ a man who drinks has a red face. If he drinks\\na long time, his nose gets so red that it is called a rum\\nblossom. This is because so much blood goes to his nose\\nthat it becomes large and red. Alcohol also makes the\\nwalls of the arteries weak, so they sometimes burst open\\nand the person dies.\\nNow that we have learned a few things about the blood,\\nwe must be careful what we give this care-taker of the body\\nto eat. We have learned very little of what there is to\\nknow, and as you grow older I hope you will study and\\nlearn more.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Sii\\\\\\nTHE BATHROOM\\nELEN: I have been thinking of what\\nyou said about the blood being washed\\nevery time it made a trip to any part\\nof the body. Where is the bath room\\nin the body-house, mother?\\nMother: It is a large double room,\\nand it is found in the top part of the\\ntrunk, each side of the heart.\\nPercy: Why, I thought that was\\nwhere the lungs are.\\nMother: So it is; and it is in them\\nthat the blood is made clean after every\\njourney it takes through the body.\\nAmy: But is there water in the\\nlungs in which to wash the blood\\nand the blood could not be washed in\\nIt takes air to wash blood. Let us try\\nto learn how it is done; but first we will take a peep into\\nthe bath room. There are two ways to get in. One is\\nthrough the folding doors, the way that our food goes to\\nthe kitchen; for you remember there are four or five doors\\nback of the pink curtain. In this place the air finds a door\\n9 (129)\\nMother: No\\nwater if there was", "height": "4166", "width": "2853", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "I30\\nThe House We Live In.\\nstanding wide open, and it passes through a passage, called\\nthe windpipe, which is about three-fourths of an inch wide,\\nand about four and one-half inches long in grown people.\\nAfter going through the windpipe it comes to two passages,\\nleading to the two parts of the bath room. While we might\\ncall it a double bath room, yet it is really two rooms.\\nElmer: That must be the right and left lungs.\\nMother: That is right. But I must\\nnot forget to tell you that there is another\\nway to reach the lungs, and that is through\\ntwo little doors, always standing\\nopen, just above the folding doors\\nwhich lead to the kitchen. The\\nair finds a long, curved pas-\\nsage to go through, and this\\nis much the better way to go,\\nbecause if it goes in cold, it\\npasses some places where it\\ngets warm before reaching the\\nbath room. You know it would\\nbe rather hard to wash clothes\\nin cold water, and so it is much I etter to have warm than\\ncold air in which to cleanse the blood.\\nHelen: You mean it passes through the nostrils in\\nthe nose.\\nMother: Yes; and another reason why this is the\\nbest way for it to go is because the air is filtered or strained\\nthrough some little hairs, which do their best to keep any\\ndirt or dust which may be in the air from going further.\\nrhe lungs", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "The Bath Room,\\n13\\nThese passages open back of the pink curtain, and it goes\\ndown through the windpipe the same as though it had\\npassed through the mouth.\\nPercy: But I should think our food would go into the\\nbath room instead of the kitchen.\\nMother: It would, only that, as soon as it starts for\\nthe kitchen, there is a little trap-door which feels it coming,\\nand it shuts down quickly over the air passage, so nothing\\ncan get through. Suppose the trap-door does not do its\\nduty quickly enough, and food goes the wrong way, as\\nwe sometimes say, the person chokes and has a bad time\\ntill the food is out of the way. I once saw a fowl eating\\ncorn, and in some way a kernel got into her windpipe. She\\nbegan hopping about in great distress, and died as quickly\\nas though her head had been cut off. It sometimes happens\\nthat people are choked to death In the same way.\\nHelen: But how does the bath room look.?\\nMother: It Is a pretty pink color and seems much\\nlike a very fine sponge. If we could go Inside we should\\nfind the passages divided again and again, till there are\\nthousands and thousands of tiny air tubes, each ending In\\na little pouch quite like a bunch of grapes,\\nonly you should think of the grapes as being\\nas small as a grain of sand. When\\nthe lungs are full of air, they grow\\nlarger, and when we breathe it out,\\nthey grow small.\\nElmer: That is like a pair\\nof bellows.\\nA pair of belloxvs.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 The House We Live In.\\nMother: Very much the same, and the bellows will\\nhelp us understand how we breathe. Try to think of a\\nlittle tree with its trunk, limbs, and leaves all hollow. If\\nair were blown through the trunk, it would make every leaf\\npuff out, and when no air was blown in, they would fall\\ntogether again. It is the same with our lungs. They keep\\nswelling out and falling together about eighteen times every\\nminute.\\nAmy: But how is the blood washed in air, mother?\\nMother: Perhaps it would be better to say it is aired,\\nthe same as we hang a garment in the sunshine and wind\\nto make it fresh and sweet. You will remember that the\\nblood takes oxygen, which is a part of the air, to every\\npart of the body-house, and this makes it warm. In\\nexchange the muscles give the blood a poison called car-\\nbonic acid gas. This gives the blood a dark, purplish\\ncolor, and it must carry away the gas and get more oxygen\\nbefore it can do any more work in mending the body.\\nPercy: But I would like to know how it gets into the\\nbath room.\\nMother: The right side of the heart, which has noth-\\ning but soiled blood in it all the time, sends it to the lungs\\nin a hurry, and it fills the thousands of hair-like veins which\\nare in every part of the lungs. The walls of the veins are\\nso thin that the oxygen in the lungs soaks through into\\nthe blood, and the poison in the blood goes through into\\nthe air, and is breathed out of the body. Do you under-\\nstand it now?\\nPercy: I think so.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "The Bath Room, 133\\nMother: If I should tie a piece of bladder over a glass\\nof milk and place the glass in a bucket of water, the milk\\nwould come through into the water, and the water would\\npass into the milk, even though they were in separate\\ndishes. Another way to show how the blood is cleansed\\nwould be to say that blood and air keep running near\\ntogether, each in its own room, and as they pass they say,\\nGood-day; air washes blood so it becomes bright and\\nclean, and blood makes air very dirty with its poison gas;\\nand, after trading in this way, both hurry along as fast as\\nthey came in.\\nElmer: It must be that good air is needed more than\\ngood food.\\nMother: Why, yes; for while we need to eat only two\\nor three times a day, we must take in air more than twenty-\\nfive thousand times. If we could not breathe for six or\\nseven minutes, we would die, while we could live without\\nfood quite a number of days. How thankful we ought to\\nbe for pure, fresh air! And there is so much of it that\\nwe can have it without money and without price.\\nHelen: Which is best, to breathe through the nose\\nor the mouth\\nMother: Through the nose; for that was made for\\nthe air to pass through. Serious sickness of the throat\\nand lungs is sometimes caused by breathing through the\\nmouth. When the air goes this way, the person makes a\\nvery strange noise when asleep. The air seems to be\\ntrying to wake somebody up to shut the folding doors so\\nit can go the right way. We call it snoring.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134\\nThe House We Live In,\\nPercy I should think when there are so many people\\nand animals, and all must have air to breathe, that it would\\nsoon become unfit to use.\\nMother: We live in an ocean of air, as fishes live in\\nAs fishes live in the seay\\nthe sea. The winds sweep it round and round, and every-\\nthing that grows helps to make it pure.\\nAmy: How can that be?\\nMother: It may be said that plants breathe, as well\\nas people, only they need the poison gas we breathe out,\\nand they give out the oxygen we need to breathe in.\\nThere is no danger but we can get all the air we need if\\nwe will let it into our rooms.\\nElmer: But isn t night air bad to breathe, mother?\\nMother: No; for when it is night we can get nothing", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "The Bath Room. 135\\nbut night air. It is true that if air is shut up in a room it\\nsoon becomes unfit to breathe, whether it is night or day.\\nPercy On frosty mornings my breath looks like steam\\nas it comes out. Is that the poison gas, mother.\\nMother: No; we can not see the gas, but what you\\nsee is the water we breathe out. We take in about a pint\\nof air at every breath, and it is said that every time we\\nbreathe out we spoil half a barrelful of air, making it unfit\\nto breathe. I will let you find out how many barrelfuls\\nof fresh air we would need in an hour.\\nPercy: Why, that would be over five hundred barrels!\\nWho ever thought that we needed such a lot of fresh air\\nin just one hour!\\nMother And who, then, would think of using only\\none roomful in a whole night! It is no wonder that many\\npeople have a headache when they wake in the morning.\\nHelen But, mother, we can t get clean air always,\\neven when we are not in the house. This very day a man\\npuffed tobacco smoke into my face as I was passing him.\\nAmy: But do you think it is right, mother, for any\\none to poison the pure, fresh air God has given us, with\\ntobacco smoke, and make it unfit to use?\\nMother: No; I do not; and a true gentleman will not do\\nit. It is both rude and wrong. He not only wrongs others\\nbut harms himself. You know how it feels to get smoke\\ninto your eyes, and it is just as bad for the throat and\\nlungs. Bad smells of any kind poison the air, making it\\nunfit to breathe, so we should be careful to keep our rooms\\nand everything about the house sweet and clean.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 The House We Live In.\\nPercy: I met a man in the street, and I could smell the\\nwhisky he had drunk. Did that come from his lungs\\nMother: Yes; just as soon as strong drink is swal-\\nlowed, every part of the body tries to get rid of it. The\\nalcohol in such drinks makes the thin walls of the lungs\\nhard, so they can not make the blood clean, and they try\\nto throw out the poison. Sometimes it causes that dreadful\\ndisease, consumption, which can not be cured.\\nHelen: Don t a great many people die of consumption\\nMother: Yes; it kills more people than any other dis-\\nease; so every one should take good care of their lungs,\\nand give them plenty of room to grow. They should also\\nbreathe pure, fresh air at all times.\\nElmer: But you can t squeeze the lungs. We must\\nhave room to breathe.\\nMother: But we can squeeze the stomach and liver so\\nthat the lungs do not have room, and by stooping over\\nwhen sitting or walking, we get round shoulders and narrow\\nchests, and this causes the lungs to become small and\\ndiseased.\\nAmy: I once read how some people on a ship suffered\\nfor fresh air.\\nMother: Please tell us about it.\\nAmy One night when there was a storm the captain\\ntold the sailors to send the people down into a large room\\nbelow deck so they would not be in the way. After they\\nhad gone, the doors were fastened, so they could not get\\nout. When the storm was over, the sailors took a candle\\nand opened the door, but when they went in, the candle\\nX", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "The Bath Room. 137\\nwent out. At last enough fresh air got in so the candle\\nwould burn. They found the poor people lying on the\\nfloor, and quite a number of them were dead.\\nMother: I suppose they had no air to breathe only\\nthat which had been used over and over again, and as\\nthat was not fresh, it poisoned them so they died. We\\nshould learn from this sad story to keep the lungs well\\nfilled with good air; for the blood can not be well cleansed\\nif it is impure.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "HOUSE 15\\nHEWED\\ni.\\nM\\nOTHlER: If you touch a stone, Amy, how does\\nit feel?\\nAmy: It is cold.\\nMother: Yes, wood, iron, glass, and all the\\nthinofs around us which do not have life, are cold.\\nIf you touch your head, how does it feel?\\nPercy: It is warm.\\nMother: We sometimes see a Uttle glas tube called a\\nthermometer, with figures telling us how warm or how cold\\nthe air is. Here is a smaller one that you may hold in your\\nmouth under your tongue, Elmer, and we will see if it will tell\\nus how warm the house you live in is inside. That will do.\\nThe glass says it is about ninety-eight degrees. How many\\ndegrees will the larger glass record on a hot summer day?\\nElmer: It is very warm when it is over eighty or\\nninety in the shade.\\nMother: Yet you see that inside the body-house it is\\nnearly one hundred degrees, yet you do not feel too warm.\\nAre all animals warm\\nHelen: If they are alive, they are. If their bodies are\\ncold, we say they are dead.\\nMother: Some birds and animals have more heat in\\n(138)\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2li\\n140-\\n1\\n120-\\n100-\\n1\\n80-\\n.1\\nto-\\n10-\\n1\\nh\\nao-\\n1\\n^1", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "How the House Is Heated.\\n139\\nI\\nFever\\ntheV\\nmometer.\\ngood\\ntheir bodies than we do. The horse has one hundred\\ndegrees, the ox one hundred and one, the dog one hun-\\ndred and two, the sheep one hundred and four, and the\\nduck and pigeon have one hundred and eight. The bodies\\nof some creatures, such as fishes and frogs, are much cooler\\nthan our own, and we call them cold-blooded. The frog\\nhas only seventy degrees of heat.\\nHelen: But what makes us warm, mother?\\nMother: Do you remember that we talked\\ndeal about our food as fuel not long ago?\\nPercy: But, mother, fuel is something\\nto burn^ and there Is no fire inside of us.\\nMother: That Is true in one way;\\nbut let us see if we can find out where\\nthe heat in our bodies comes from. It\\nmay be a little hard to understand, but\\nwe will try. Here is a candle. If lighted,\\nit burns brightly. Now I will fasten a\\nwire around it and lower it into this glass\\njar and cover it tightly. Now watch it.\\nWhat is the matter?\\nAmy: It is going out. Now it just flickers and hardly\\nburns at all. Why does it go out, mother?\\nMother: Because all fire must have a part of the air\\ncalled oxygen to make it burn. When the candle can have\\nplenty of air, it burns brightly, but when shut up closely,\\nwhere it soon uses all the oxygen, it will not burn at all.\\nNow our bodies are much like the candle. We eat food,\\nand when it is made into blood, it mixes with the oxygen\\nNow watch it.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "m\\n140 Tke House We Live In.\\nwe breathe, and as it goes round and round in the body, it\\nmakes heat. The difference between us and the candle is\\nthat the burning does not go on as fast in our bodies as\\nin the candle, so there is no flame, and it would take much\\nlonger to make the same amount of heat. If you throw\\na piece of fat into the fire, it will burn. If you eat the\\nfat, it will make just as much heat in your body, but it\\nwill last a long time.\\nPercy: How queer to think we are burning, bit by bit,\\njust like a candle!\\nMother: Yes; just as long as we live, the fire is kept\\ngoing.\\nAmy: But I shouldn t think that blood going around\\nwith oxygen in it would keep us warm.\\nMother: If that was the only way to heat the body,\\nit would not. Where it is very cold, some houses have a\\ngrate there may also be a furnace, and perhaps a stove\\nbesides. So there are three ways of heating the house we\\nlive in. The first, as I have told you, is by the blood\\ncarrying oxygen to every part of the body. That is like\\nthe grate. We will call the liver the furnace. We have\\nfound that all the starch and sweet things we eat are\\nchanged into liver sugar, and it is supposed this is used in\\nthe lungs to keep the body warm.\\nHelen: In what other way is the house heated.^\\nElmer: I think I know. It is by exercise. When I\\nrun or play ball I become very warm.\\nMother: Yes, when we move quickly, we breathe", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "How the House Is Heated.\\n141\\nfaster, and the blood goes bounding through every part\\nof the body, so the fire inside burns brightly. Sawing\\nwood is a good way to warm a cold boy, and a broom\\nis a fine helper to warm a cold girl.\\nAmy: When it is frosty, we can see our\\nbreath. Is that the smoke coming from the\\nfire inside, mother?\\nMother: You may call it that if you\\nike. When a candle burns, it gives off\\nwhat we call carbonic acid gas, and we\\nbreathe out some of the same kind of\\ngas. Water also comes out in the\\nbreath like steam from an engine, half\\na pint or a pint each day.\\nElmer: Do some kinds of food\\nmake more heat than others\\nMother: Yes; all kinds of\\nfatty foods make heat. In very\\ncold countries people can eat\\nmore fat and keep well than in warm cli-\\nmates. Esquimaux eat a great deal of fat.\\nA little Esquimau child would eat a tallow\\ncandle and enjoy it as much as you would an\\norange. I once read of some sailors who\\nmade a Christmas tree for some of those\\nchildren in the frozen north. The tree was\\nmade of walrus bones tied together, and, in-\\nstead of popcorn, fruit, and sweetmeats,\\nthey hung balls of fat on the tree. The\\nfine helper to warm, a cold girl.\\nA good way to warm a\\ncold boyy", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 The House We Live In.\\nchildren thought it a great treat, and ate them as quickly\\nas you would eat peaches.\\nAmy: How funny! But, mother, are not our bodies\\nwarmer in summer than in winter?\\nMother: You feel warmer, it is true; but, no matter\\nhow hot or cold the weather may be, the body has always\\nabout the same warmth. I said always, but I mean when\\nwe are well. Sometimes we put the wrong\\nkind of fuel into the furnace, and it makes\\na big fire, the house gets very hot, and\\nwe say we have a fever.\\nIf we get two or three de-\\nWe have a^everr grees cooler than we should\\nbe, that shows that something is wrong, too.\\nHelen: But what keeps us the same whether it is hot\\nor cold\\nMother: You know some stoves have dampers to gov-\\nern the heat. When the body is in danger of becoming\\ntoo warm, that is, when the body is well, all the little waste-\\npipes in the covering of our house pour out water so the\\nskin is damp or moist, and if very warm it is wet. We\\nmight say we have thousands of little dampers to keep\\nthe heat just right. As the sweat dries, the body becomes\\ncool; so in summer and in hot climates the people sweat\\nmuch. In winter and in cold countries they perspire but\\nlittle, and the tiny waste-pipes close as tightly as they can\\nto keep the cold out and the heat inside.\\nPercy: But when I had a cold my skin was hot and\\ndry. Why did not the litde dampers make me cool, then?", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "How the House Is Heated, 143\\nMother: Because they were clogged so they could not.\\nAfter a warm foot-bath and a hot lemon drink, you began\\nto sweat and soon became well. If nothing had been done\\nto open the waste-pipes, you might have had a serious illness.\\nElmer: Does alcohol make the body warm. I once\\nheard a man say it was so cold that he must take some-\\nthing to keep him from freezing, as he had a long journey\\nbefore him.\\nMother: I am sure he did not know the effect of wine\\nor alcohol or he would not have said that. When first\\ntaken, these stimulants drive the blood to the skin, and we\\nfeel warmer; but soon the blood goes back, after being\\nchilled, and the whole body becomes colder. No, alcohol\\nin any of its forms will not keep out the cold, as people\\nsometimes think. Men in frozen countries endure the cold\\nmuch better when they take no strong drink of any kind.\\nHelen: I once read of a party of twenty-six men who\\nlost their way as night came on. It was very, very cold,\\nand they had no way of making a fire. Each man had\\ntwo blankets and plenty of food and whisky. Their leader\\ntold them to let the whisky alone; to eat supper, and then\\nwrap up in their blankets and lie closely together. But\\nonly two besides himself did as he said, and, though they\\nwere cold, they did not suffer or freeze. The others thought\\nthe whisky would keep them warm. Three drank a very\\nlittle, and they did not freeze. Seven others, who drank\\nmore, had their toes and fingers frozen. Six, who drank\\nstill more, were so badly frozen that they never got over it.\\nFour, who became drunk, were frozen so that they soon", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144\\nThe House We Live In.\\ndied; and three, who drank so much that they became\\ndead drunk, were dead In the morning.\\nMother: That was surely a good test, showing how\\nmuch alcohol can do toward keeping the body warm.\\nPercy: Why do we need clothes to keep us warm?\\nThe birds and animals don t wear any?\\nBirds have a cloak ofjeafhers.\\nMother: I think they do. The birds have a cloak of\\nfeathers, which they puff out to keep them warm when it is\\ncold. The horse and cow have coats of hair. The sheep\\nhas a thick woolen dress. Animals living where it is very\\ncold have warm suits of fur. Our skin is not covered as\\ntheirs is, and our bodies would lose much heat if exposed\\nto the air. Food makes heat, and our clothes keep us from\\nlosing it. We need clothing to keep us warm.\\nHelen: But people do not need clothing in warm\\ncountries.\\nMother: And they do not wear much; but we would\\nneed it if there, to keep the hot sun from scorching the\\nskin. We should never wear heavy clothing, and it should\\nbe made so loose that it will not hinder the growth or", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "How the House Is Heated. 145\\nmovements of the body. The shoulders should carry its\\nweight. When the warm days of spring come, it is not\\nbest to be in a hurry to leave off our warm under-clothing.\\nMany persons have died because of doing so.\\nAxMV Should our clothes be changed often\\nMother: At least those worn next the skin should be,\\nin order that we may keep neat and clean. Clothes worn\\nin the daytime should not be worn at night, and night-\\nclothes and bedclothes should be kept fresh and well aired.\\nIf the clothing we are wearing gets wet, it should be\\nchanged at once. Never wear wet shoes or stockings or\\nwet clothing of any kind. Which part of the body do you\\nthink should have the warmest clothing\\nAmy The part farthest from the heart for that would\\nget colder than any other.\\nMother: Yes, the limbs should be warmly clad; for\\nthe blood often gets chilled before it reaches the fingers\\nand toes, and that is why they get cold sooner than do\\nother parts of the body. Yet I have seen many little boys\\nand girls with warm coats and furs around the chest, where\\nthere is the most heat, and a part of the tender limbs had\\nno clothing. That is like trying to keep the furnace warm,\\nand letting the rooms farther away have no heat at all.\\nPercy I should think children dressed in that way\\nwould be ill.\\nMother Many of them are. They often have bad\\ncolds, and sometimes the lungs get so much blood, because\\nit is chilled away from the parts to which it should go, that\\nthey can not do their work properly; the throat becomes\\n10", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 The House We Live In\\nsore, and the poor child may lose its life because the\\nmother did not know how to dress it. Your father,\\nthough he is a strong man, would suffer if clothed in that\\nway. Let us see if we can not make some good rules for\\nclothing the body.\\nElmer: I will make the first, which is, Wear loose,\\nlight clothing.\\nAmy: Then don t be in a hurry in the spring to change\\nwarm clothes for those that are cooler.\\nHelen: We should keep all our clothing neat and clean.\\nPercy: That which is worn in the daytime should not\\nbe worn at night.\\nAmy: That makes me think of another: Nightclothes\\nand bedclothes should be fresh and well aired.\\nElmer: And we should change our wet clothes for\\ndry ones.\\nPercy: The limbs should be as warmly dressed as any\\npart of the body.\\nMother: Well done. I think these are all good rules.\\nLet us see how well we can keep them.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "TI\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iij.\\nWW^-^\\nVifciatt-\\n?S cJjfeIii\\nM^w^^m^i\\nOTHER: Do you think of any\\nmusical instruments which need air\\nwhen they make a sound?\\nPercy: The cornet, flute, and horn.\\nAmy: And the organ, too.\\nMother: Yes; all of these and others\\nas well must have air to make sound. But\\nI wanted to tell you that in the wonderful\\nhouse we live in there is the most perfect\\norgan you can imagine. I am sure there\\nis none like it, none that can make such\\nsweet music, and I have seen many, and\\nheard the largest pipe-organ in the world.\\nHelen: Where can it be.\\nMother: And it not only makes the\\nfinest, sweetest music, but it can laugh and\\ntalk. Sometimes its tone is soft and sweet,\\nbut it can be made loud and harsh if the\\nmaster wishes. This curious little organ\\nhas a room all to itself, and\\nC147)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148\\nThe House We Live In.\\nElmer: Do you mean the voice?\\nMother: There! you guessed it the first time.\\nAmy: Where is the organ, mother?\\nMother: In the top of the windpipe, in the throat. It\\nis really a part of the windpipe itself, and this curious little\\nroom has walls at the sides,\\nbut no floor. The little trap-\\ndoor which keeps food from\\ngoing to the bath room forms\\nthe top of the music room.\\nComet. Percy: How large is it?\\nMother: It is larger in men than in women, and you\\ncan see the front part in a boy s throat. Sometimes it is\\ncalled Adam s apple. I once read that perhaps the reason\\nit has this name is because when Adam was eating his apple\\nhe was in such a hurry to blame Eve for giving it to him\\nthat a quarter stuck in his throat. We know that he laid\\nthe blame on Eve for his eating the forbidden fruit, but\\nwhether it was apples or some other kind of fruit I do not\\nknow, so you need not believe this story.\\nElmer: But I would like to know what causes all the\\ndifferent sounds which are made by the voice.\\nMother I will try to make it as plain as I can. Near\\nthe top of this room two cords are stretched across from\\nfront to back. These cords stretch like India-rubber, so\\nthey can be made tight or loose. There is an open space\\nbetween them, where the air can pass through, but the\\nother space is filled up. Did you ever see the little piece\\nof brass in an organ called a reed\\nI\\nJ\\nFlute.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "The Music Room.\\n149\\nr^\\nHelen: I saw one when our organ was cleaned.\\nMother: Here is a picture of one. You see it has a\\nlittle tongue, and when air is blown through the opening\\nin the reed, the tongue vibrates, that is, it goes up\\nand down so fast that you can hardly see it, and this\\nmakes the sound. The smaller the tongue, the faster\\nit will vibrate, and the tone will be higher.\\nAmy: But how is it that we can speak and sing\\nlow or high.-*\\nMother: Our lungs are like the bellows of the\\norgan, and the voice cords are like the reeds. When\\nthe master of the body wants to speak\\nlow, he sends an order to some mus-\\ncles in the throat to let the cords\\nhang loose. If he wishes a high\\ntone, he tells them to stretch the cords\\ntight. If he would make no sound, the\\ncords hang loosely, and the air passes\\nbetween them without making any sound.\\nElmer How strange that, with only two cords, we can\\nmake nearly all tones made by the piano, which has so many!\\nMother: That shows how much better God can make\\nanything than men can. Perhaps the violin is more like\\nthe voice for it can make more tones on fewer cords but,\\nthough it can be made to produce very sweet sounds, it can\\nnot be compared to a trained voice, which can speak words\\nand make music at the same time.\\nHelen: I m glad I can talk and sing.\\nMother The voice is a gift of God. How we pity\\nOrgan.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 The House We Live In.\\na person who is dumb Every one should learn to speak in\\na clear, gentle voice. A harsh word wounds the one to\\nwhom it is spoken; and the tone often strikes deeper than\\nthe words. We have all felt soothed and comforted by-\\nkind, pleasant words. All who can should learn to sing.\\nIf you have a pleasant thought,\\nSing it, sing it;\\nLike the birdies in their sport,\\nSing it from the heart.\\nIt is not so much what you say,\\nAs the manner in which you say it;\\nIt is not so much the language you use,\\nAs the tones in which you convey it.\\nCome here, I sharply said,\\nAnd the baby cowered and wept;\\nCome here, I cooed, and he looked and smiled,\\nAnd straight to my lap he crept.\\nThe words may be mild and fair,\\nAnd the tones may pierce like a dart;\\nThe words may be soft as the summer air.\\nAnd the tones may break the heart.\\nFor words but come from the mind,\\nAnd grow by study and art;\\nBut the tones leap forth from the inner self,\\nAnd reveal the state of the heart.\\nWhether you know it or not,\\nWhether you mean or care\\nGentleness, kindness, love, and hate,\\nEnvy, and anger are there.\\nThen, would you quarrels avoid,\\nAnd in peace and love rejoice,\\nKeep anger not only out of your words,\\nBut keep it out of your voice.", "height": "4117", "width": "2978", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "OTHER: While we have but one voice room,\\nwe have two hearing rooms or passages, and\\nthey are the most wonderful of any you ever did\\nsee. One is placed on each side of the head.\\nElmer: Those are the ears, I know. Please let us\\nsend a sound through them, mother, and you tell us what\\nit finds.\\nMother: Very well; and we will suppose this sound\\nhas eyes as well as a tongue, and it will tell us what it\\nsees. Now listen:\\nAll sounds are made of such tiny waves, so very, very\\nsmall, that you can never see them, yet they are something\\nlike those you see when you throw a stone into the pond.\\nThe first thing a sound finds when it wishes to visit the\\nmaster of the body-house, is a pretty porch just\\noutside of the passage made for it to enter.\\nAmy What does it look like\\nMother Something like a shell, and it is\\na pretty, pale pink color. I suppose it was made\\nthis shape so it can catch and hold sound for\\nSomething like\\nI have seen some people living in old houses\\nput up their hand to make the porch larger so they could\\nhear better.\\n(151)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 The House We Live In.\\nPercy I have often seen grandfather do that, but\\nI never knew why before.\\nMother Each sound finds a little door, which always\\nstands open, and, though it is very small, the sound finds no\\ntrouble to get inside. This part of the passage is covered\\nwith sticky yellow wax, which is there to keep out anything\\nwhich should try to go in except different kinds of sounds.\\nElmer: How lo.ng is the passage?\\nMother: Only about an inch, and it seems quite like\\na tunnel dug in a rock, only this is made in bone instead\\nof stone. At the end there is a round curtain, which is\\ndrawn close and tight, like the head of a drum, so nothing\\nbut sound can get through.\\nPercy But what I would like to know is how the\\nsound can get inside.\\nMother: Oh, there is nothing hard about that! It\\nmay seem quite like a fairy story, but all it has to do\\nis to knock, and then it is on the other side.\\nHelen: How strange! And what does\\nit find there?\\nMother Things you would never expect\\nto see, I am sure: First, a hammer, that\\nstrikes with its handle end on the curtain,\\n_ or ear-drum, as soon as sound gives a\\nknock, and with the other end it strikes\\na little anvil, and the anvil kicks against a tiny stirrup.\\nHere is a picture of them. They are all made of bone.\\nElmer: Well, this beats anything we have heard yet.\\nMother I don t wonder you say so; for the wisest", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "The Hearing Passage. 153\\nmen, who have studied the body-house for years, say the\\near is one of the most wonderful parts of the body.\\nWhen boys or girls have two drums, two hammers, two\\nanvils, and two stirrups in their heads, it is no wonder\\nthat it takes plenty of noise to make them happy.\\nIt makes me think of two little fellows I saw playing\\nwith a toy engine a few days ago. They had their\\nmother s knitting-needles in the smoke-stack, and as they\\ndragged the toy over the floor, it made a fine jingle. The\\nmother, however, wished to talk with a lady friend, and\\nasked them to take out the needles, so they would not\\ndisturb her. But it won t make any n-o-i-s-e then, said\\nthe older boy in a whining tone. I suppose the noise was\\na delight to all the tiny hammers and anvils in his ears\\nand it is much the same with every boy.\\nBut I forgot to tell you that there is a way to reach\\nthe inside of the ear without going through the ear-drum.\\nAmy: Please tell us how.\\nMother: By going the same way that air takes to go\\nto the lungs; you will find a little door just before you\\ncome to the music room, which leads to the ear.\\nPercy: But why should there be two passages to get\\nto the inside.\\nMother: For the very good reason that air is so\\nheavy; if it should press against the ear-drum, it would\\nbreak it, unless there was something to press just as much\\nagainst the other side. So some nice, warm air goes up\\nfrom the throat, and as it is just as heavy as the air out-\\nside, it makes the weight alike on both sides.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154\\nThe House We Live In.\\nDrum of\\nSMI Tuba\\nThroat pA5s^\u00c2\u00a7o\\nI once heard of a girl who was asked how air could\\nget inside of the drum of the ear, and she said, Through\\nthe other ear. Her mates in school all laughed at such\\na thoughtless answer. You will now know better than\\nto make such a statement if the question were asked you.\\nPercy: But I would like to know what else a sound\\nfinds in the ear besides hammers, anvils, and stirrups.\\nMother: I think you can\\nbbon Loops understand what I say better\\nif you look closely at this pic-\\nture. This is very much larger\\nthan the ear inside your own\\nhead. You will see that there\\nare tiny tunnels running every\\nway, some shaped like loops, and one of them very much\\nlike the inside of a shell which winds round and round.\\nHelen: And are all these little tunnels empty?\\nMother: No; they are filled with clear water. If\\nyou had a very strong mi cro-scope you would see some\\nthings in the ear which would fill you with wonder. First\\nof all we find a litde bag floating in the water, made of\\nfine skin, that just fits into all the loops and tunnels.\\nWhat do you suppose is in this tiny bag\\nAmy: I m sure I don t know. Please tell us.\\nMother: It is full of water, too, but it takes only a\\ndrop to fill it. Though this dainty bag is so small, yet\\nthere is room for some little stones in it, which we will call\\near-stones. The picture shows the road sound travels, only\\nthis is much larger than the ear really is.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "The Hearing Passage. 155\\nPercy: I should think it would get lost before it finds\\nthe end of all these winding passages.\\nMother: It has no trouble in finding its way, and find-\\ning it quickly, too. Suppose we start now from the out-\\nside porch again, so you will not forget the road. First,\\nit goes through the ear passage and knocks against the\\near-drum. This makes the handle inside strike the drum,\\nand the other end hits the anvil the anvil makes the\\nstirrup tremble; and as sound passes along, that makes the\\nwater with the little ear-stones in it tremble also.\\nElmer But what I want to know is how the sound\\ngets into the brain so the master knows what it has to\\ntell him. I don t see any use of its going through all\\nthose tunnels and staying there.\\nMother You may be sure it does not stay there\\nunless there is something wrong with the ear. One of the\\nwires from your telephone system, which you call nerves,\\npasses through a little hole in the skull, and it spreads out\\non the inside of the tunnels, and all sounds are carried by\\nthese nerves into the brain. As soon as one goes in, the\\nmaster knows what kind of sound it is.\\nAmy: I don t see why it should go through so many\\ntunnels.\\nMother: I suppose He that formed the ear knows\\nwhy, but I don t. A very high sound goes through the\\nshell tube. A very loud sound travels through the loops.\\nHelen: I suppose sweet sounds please the master of\\nthe house most, such as good music.\\nMother: Yes; he does not often like loud, harsh", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 The House We Live In.\\nsounds. Pleasant tones please him so much that he will\\nsometimes sit for hours listening to them. People talk\\nmuch about the in stru-ments of music they have made;\\nbut they are nothing- when compared with the in stru-ment\\nGod made for hearing them.\\nThis shows us that we should be very careful of our\\nears, that they may not be injured and we lose our hearing.\\nWe should never strike a child on the head or ears; for\\nit may make him deaf. I know a young man whose grand-\\nfather boxed his ears when he was a little child, and\\nfrom that time he began to lose his hearing. When we\\nthink what the world would be to us if we were not able\\nto hear the songs of the birds, the voices of those we\\nlove, and all the other sounds which give us pleasure, it\\nshould cause us to guard our ears from the slightest injury.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "SOME\\nWONDERFUL\\nWliNDOWS\\nMOTHER: I told you some\\ntime ago that the body-\\nhouse has two windows through\\nwhich the master looks at what\\nis going on around him; for he\\nnever goes outside as long as he lives.\\nHelen: Oh, I remember! Those are the eyes.\\nMother: Yes; and you may be sure that the One who\\nmade the house did not forget to make it to enjoy the light.\\nThe Bible says, The light of the body is the eye. Most\\ndwelling-houses have quite a number of windows, but\\nthough ours has but two, they are so made and placed in\\nsuch a way that the master can see in every\\ndirection. Of what shape is the eye?\\nAmy: It is nearly round, like a ball. av^\\nMother: Now see how many ways you\\ncan look without moving your head.\\nElmer: Up and down, to either side, and in a circle.\\nMother: And by turning the body we can look any way\\nwe please. There is a fly which is said to have twenty-five\\nthousand eyes, but even with so many it can not see more\\nthan we can with two, if we turn the head. Another thing\\nwhich shows the wisdom of our heavenly Father is the\\n(157)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "58\\nThe House We Live In.\\nIHJU^ ^.^\\\\lu/,i^A,jj^ti^M I\\nI^w\\n1\\num^mn^sni^mu\\nIt would not be well to have\\neyes shaped like these.\\nposition of our eyes. How strange it\\nwould seem if they were in the palms of\\nour hands, or in the side or back of\\nthe head, or any other place in the body\\nthan just where they are\\nPercy: Just think of it! Why, they\\nwould get hurt, and how strange we\\nwould look\\nMother: But we can see only the\\nfront part of the eye. Why would it\\nnot be as well to have eyes shaped like\\nthese?\\nPercy: We could not roll them every\\nway, as we can now, and they would\\nnot look well.\\nMother Then you think they have\\nthe very best shape they could have. I\\nthink so, too. Now you may each feel\\naround your eyes and tell what you find.\\nAmy: There is hard bone all around\\nthem.\\nHelen: They seem to be in a hol-\\nlow place in the skull.\\nMother: Yes; and this hollow place\\nis called a socket. They are placed this\\nway to protect them from harm, as we\\nwould place precious jewels in a strong\\ncasket. The eye, like a round ball, fills\\nthe socket or cave in which it lives", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Some Wonderful Windows. 159\\nand moves, and behind and around it is a soft cushion\\nof fat.\\nElmer A ball hit my eye to-day, and it just seemed\\nto go in, so it didn t hurt much. This must be because it\\nwas resting on such a soft cushion.\\nMother: And we see how the eyes are kept from\\nin ju-ry, too, by the little porches, or eyebrows, above. The\\nstiff hairs, like a hairy arch, keep the sweat from running\\ninto them, and they also add beauty to the face. Then\\nthere is a pair of curtains for each one.\\nAmy: I know what they are, the eyelids.\\nMother: And like a double curtain, or shutter, ihey\\nclose to keep the eyes from harm whenever danger is near.\\nQuick as thought they shut tightly together; and each one\\nhas a hairy fringe to keep out dust or other objects hurtful\\nto the eyes. Each of these curtains, or awnings, is placed\\nin charge of two servant muscles, one to raise, the other to\\nlower it, and they play up and down without noise or a\\nhitch anywhere.\\nHelen: And when we go to sleep, they softly close the\\nwindow until we wake again.\\nMother: These windows in our house\\nalso wash and keep themselves clean. There\\nis a tiny factory above the eye, where tears\\nare made. Perhaps you have often wondered\\nwhere tears came from, and now you know. As the eye-\\nlids move up and down, the tears keep running over the\\neye, which makes it move so easily in the socket that it\\ndoes not ache or wear out, and they keep it clean and", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "i6o\\nThe House We Live In.\\nbright. There is a little drain-pipe opening on the inner\\nside of each lower eyelid, which carries away the tears into\\nthe nose after\\nthey are used.\\nIf we are sad\\nor unhappy,\\nsometimes so\\nmany tears\\nare made that\\nthey can not\\npass through\\nthese drains,\\nand then they\\nrun over the\\neyelids down\\nthe cheeks.\\nThere are al-\\nso some little\\nfactories in\\nthe eyelids\\nwhich make\\nan oil for the\\nedges of the\\nlids, so they\\nwill not stick\\ntogether, and\\nThis little boy s tears have co?ne unfastened.\\nto keep the tears from running over the face.\\nPercy: I never knew before where the tears came from,\\nand that they were being made and used all the time.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Some Wonderful Windows. i6i\\nHelen: Nor I. Not long ago I read about a little girl\\nnamed Margie who never cried when any small mishap\\ncame to her. But one day her best-loved dolly fell and\\ngot a dreadful bruise on her nose. Margie winked hard a\\nfew minutes, and then buried her face in her mother s lap,\\nsobbing, O mama, I don t want to cry, but all my tears\\nhave come unfastened!\\nMother: Poor child! she was nearer the truth than\\nshe thought and no doubt many folks, big and little, would\\nbe glad sometimes if they could keep their tears fastened\\nup better. Have you ever thought why your\\neyes do not fall out when you bend over.-^\\nAmy: They must be fastened in tight.\\nMother That is true for they are\\nheld by six little muscles, whose work it is ^^^^^iy li\\nto keep them in place and move them about.\\nElmer: But what is inside of the eye, mother?\\nMother Let us look at the outside a little longer\\nbefore we talk of the inside. Because the colored part of\\nthe eye is round, it is called the eyeball. It is with this\\npart we see. The white part of the eye is filled with a\\nclear substance, quite like jelly, and it has several strong\\ncoats or coverings outside. What part of the eye do you\\nthink we see through.\\nHelen The black spot in the center.\\nMother What is it called\\nPercy: The pupil.\\nMother: Now look into each other s eyes. What do\\nyou see around the pupil?", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "1 62 The House We Live In.\\nElmer There is a blue ring in Amy s eyes.\\nMother: This is called the iris, which means a rain-\\nbow. You know we all like to see pretty curtains hung\\nbefore windows, and such beautiful curtains you never saw\\nas these in the eye. They are only half an inch wide,\\nbut they open or draw together around the pupil so the\\neye has just the right amount of light. When you are\\nwhere it is very light, this wee round curtain draws up\\nvery small. If you are in a dark room, it opens wide, so\\nthe eye can have all the light there is. Sometimes these\\ncurtains are brown, gray, or blue, just the color which will\\nmatch the outside of the house best.\\nAmy: But won t you please tell us, mother, how we see\\nwith our eyes.\\nMother: I will try, and perhaps we\\ncan find out some things about it. Here\\n(5o\u00c2\u00abcV^)!^^^^^^\\\\^ picture which may help us. You\\nsee the front of the eye bulges out like\\na watch crystal, and it has a strong, glassy covering, called\\nthe cornea, which lets the light through. Passing through\\nthe pupil we come to the lens, which is shaped as you see\\nin the picture. You have seen old persons wear spec ta-cles\\nto help them see. The glasses in the frames are lenses\\nbut you must not think from this that the lens in your\\neye is made of glass. It is because of the shape that it is\\ncalled a lens. A picture of people, houses, trees, or any-\\nthing else you look at, is made by the lens on the inner\\npart of the eye, which is called the ret i-na. It is almost\\nwholly made up of the little branches of the nerve of sight.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Some Wonderful Windows. 163\\nHelen: And is that the way we see?\\nMother: Partly. The picture passes through the clear,\\njelly-like substance of the eye to the back, where it is\\nspread out, and the nerves of sight carry it into the brain,\\nfor the master to see. We may have perfect eyes, but if\\nanything is wrong with the eye nerve, we can not see; so\\nwe really see and hear with our brain instead of our eyes\\nand ears.\\nElmer: Isn t the eye something like the camera used\\nto take photographs\\nMother: Yes, in some ways. One curious thing about\\nit is that it turns its pictures upside down before they\\nstrike the nerves of sight, and in this\\nit is like the camera.\\nHelen: I am so glad that we\\nPictures upside down.\\nall have good eyes.\\nMother: And well you may be. We should always\\ntake the very best care of our eyes. Alcohol makes them\\nred and bloodshot; for it makes too much blood go into\\nthem, just as it does all over the surface of the body.\\nTobacco injures them by making the nerves weak. It is\\na dreadful thing to be blind or have weak sight, and while\\nwe prize our eyes we will never take such poisons to\\ninjure them.\\nPercy: I wish I could get a peep at the master when\\nhe looks through the windows.\\nMother: You may at any time. We know just how\\nhe feels by the look of his eyes. When he is displeased\\nand angry, they look so hard that it almost seems as", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164 The House We Live In.\\nthough sparks flew from them. When he is pleased, they\\nlight up with kindness and pleasure, and you wish to be\\nnear him, he seems so happy, and it makes you glad, too.\\nWhen he is loving and kind, there is such a tender feeling\\nshines through that it seems like a warm, comforting fire,\\nand you love him better than ever before. So the eyes\\nspeak, though they never say a word.\\nMY TWO WINDOWS.\\nTwo wonderful windows\\nThe Lord gave me\\nAnd through these windows\\nHis wonders I see.\\nThe beautiful flo\\\\^ers,\\nThe grass and the trees,\\nThe hills and the valleys,\\nThe birds and the bees,\\nThe faces of parents\\nSo dear to me,\\nThe stars in the sky.\\nThe fish in the sea,\\nAll these through my windows\\nMost gladly I see,\\nAnd praise my Creator\\nFor giving them me.\\nCM. Snow.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "OTHER: A little boy\\nwas once asked to repeat\\nhis Bible verse, and he\\nsaid, I don t remember just\\nwhat the words are, but it is\\nthe one where Paul said he kept\\nhis soul on topT\\nElmer: I think this must\\nhave been the one he meant,\\nBut I keep under my body,\\nand bring it into sub-jec tion.\\nMother Yes, and the child\\nno doubt thought if his body\\nwas under, his soul must be\\non top I think it means that\\nthe mind should be the master\\nof the body, doing only that\\nwhich will be for its good. The\\nmaster, when he knows what is\\n(165)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "1 66\\nThe House We Live In.\\nbest, will not let one of his servants be master instead of\\nhimself.\\nHelen: I should think every one would want to do\\nwhat is best to keep the body well.\\n.Mother: We would all think so, but there is one of\\nthe servants who often gets control\\nof the master and coaxes him till he\\ngets his own way. But, though he\\nmay be a good servant, he is a very\\nbad master, and the body has a sorry\\ntime when this servant has his own\\nway.\\nAmy: What is the servant s name?\\nMother: He is called Taste. His\\nroom is the passage where we found\\nso many servants dressed in white.\\nHe wears a pink dress, and stays in\\nthe house most of the time, but once\\nin a while he peeps out between the\\nfolding doors.\\nAmy: That is the tongue, I know.\\nMother: Yes, that is where we find Taste at home.\\nSometimes when he has his own way, his dress becomes a\\ndirty yellow or brown color, and if the master finds himself\\nquite ill, he sends for a doctor, who comes, and about the\\nfirst thing he does is to ask the tongue to step outside a\\nmoment, and as soon as the wise man looks at its dress,\\nhe knows whether Taste has been doing his duty or not.\\nPercy: But what is his duty?\\nThe tongue.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "A Good Servant. 167\\nMother: To tell the master what is good to build and\\nmend the body, and to help him enjoy his food. If some\\ngood whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, or some fresh fruit passes\\nthe guards, Taste rolls it over and over and sends word to\\nthe master through some of the little telephone wires: This\\nis very good. I think we will have more of this. Then\\nthe servants in the kitchen are pleased, and all goes well.\\nYou have heard that\\nLittle Jack Horner sat In a corner,\\nEating a Christmas pie,\\nbut 1 have read of another boy, who bore the same name,\\nand this is what is said of him\\nLittle Jack Horner\\nSat in a corner,\\nEating a morsel of nice brown-bread.\\nHave some pie or some cake\\nNay, not I, with a shake\\nAnd a toss of his wise little head;\\nFor this bread will make bone.\\nAnd teeth white as a stone,\\nThat neither grow soft nor decay;\\nBut rich cake and rich pie\\nSure will break by and by\\nMy good health, and that never will pay.\\nHelen: But does Taste not ask for more than the\\nbody needs sometimes\\nMother: Yes, very often; and that is one of the times\\nwhen he needs a firm master. At other times he gets in\\nsuch a hurry that he lets the food go down to the kitchen\\nbefore it is half ready.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 68\\nThe House We Live In.\\nTHEREFORE\\nYE EAT OR\\nDRINK OR\\nWHATSO-\\nEVER YE\\nDO, DO ALL\\nTO THE\\nGLORY OF\\nGOD. I COR 10 31\\nElmer: But does Taste ever want\\nthings which are not good for the body\\nMother Yes, many, many times.\\nHe coaxes so hard that I have seen some\\nboys and girls even cry for that which\\nwould make them ill. If given a good\\npiece of bread, they wanted pie or cake\\nor some other hurtful thing. One thing\\nI must tell you about Taste: If he has\\nnothing at all given him when he gets\\nthe sulks, after a while he is very well\\npleased to get even plain food, and as he\\nrolls it over and over, he says by his\\nactions, It tastes much better than I\\nthought it did.\\nAmy A lady once asked me if I had\\na sugar tooth, mother. What did she\\nmean?\\nMother: When one s taste calls for\\na great many sweet things, people some-\\ntimes say of such a person that they have\\na sugar tooth, but it is Taste, and not\\nthe teeth, who wants to be pleased that\\nway. Candies, lollies, and sweet foods are\\nbad for the teeth as well as the stomach;\\nbut Taste often begs for them, even\\nthough they do harm in the body. He\\nsometimes learns to like what he dislikes\\nvery much at first, so you see it is the", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "A Good Servant.\\n69\\nmaster s duty to give him only that which\\nhe knows is best.\\nHe often does great harm by asking\\nthe master for things to taste when the\\nkitchen is full and the cook does not wish\\nto be disturbed in her work. Really I\\nthink you will agree with me that he is\\na very selfish fellow, and cares more for\\nhis own pleasure than for the comfort of\\nothers or the welfare of his master. If\\nhe has his own way, it makes the master\\ncross, and everything seems to go wrong.\\nHelen: I shall try to teach my Taste\\nto call for only those things that will\\nmake my body well.\\nMother: If you do, you will some-\\ntimes have a quarrel with him, but all\\nthe other servants will be glad that you\\ndo not let him master you. That is one\\nway the Bible means we should keep our\\nbodies under. Sometimes we have to take\\nTaste by the throat, as it were, and when\\nwe have him down, let him know that\\nwe are his master, and that we intend to\\nrule our own house.\\nPercy: Isn t that the way people do\\nwhen they leave off drinking wine and\\nbeer, and stop using tobacco\\nMother: Yes; and sometimes they\\nBlessed\\nART THOU\\nLAMD,\\nWHEN THY\\nKlhQlSTHE\\nson OF\\nN0BLE5. AMD\\nTHY PRinCES\\nEAT IN DUE\\n5E/\\\\50N,F0R\\nSTRENGTH,\\nAND MOT\\nFOR DRUMK-\\nENNE35.\\nECC, 10:17.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "170 The House We Live In.\\nhave a terrible fight with Taste before they convince him\\nthat they intend to be master. Sometimes he gets them\\ndown, and again they put him under; many have fought\\nthe battle for weeks, it may be for months, night and\\nday, and at last Taste gives up and the master wins.\\nHelen: Wouldn t it be better if they did not let him\\nhave his own way at first\\nMother: Surely it would. That is why I wish you,\\nwhile children, to train your Taste, or appetite, so he will\\nonly call for the things which are best for your bodies, and\\nso you will form no bad habits of eating and drinking.\\nThen you will not have the battles of which we have been\\nspeaking; for, as I have said, Taste is a good servant. All\\nhe needs is to be taught that he must keep his proper\\nplace, and that he is not to rule the house. If boys and\\ngirls begin to eat between meals; if their Taste calls for\\nrich food and sweetmeats; if they want spices, pepper,\\nmustard, and hot sauces with their food, they are letting\\nTaste become their master, and it will be easy for them to\\nbegin to use cigarettes and to drink beer. When they\\nopen the gate for Taste to become master, they know not\\nwhere they will end. They have entered the path to death\\nand ruin.\\nElmer: I should think that this servant has more power\\nto do harm than any of the others.\\nMother He has. Next to the master himself, he\\nholds the most important position of all. Not only does\\nTaste live in the tongue, but It is with the tongue that we\\ntalk. It Is such an unruly fellow that it is fastened to the", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "A Good Servant,\\n171\\nfloor so that it can not get away; there are strong walls\\nall around it; a double row of servants stand in front to\\nguard it; and the double doors are made to shut closely,\\nto keep out anything that should not\\ngo in, and to keep back anything that\\nshould not come out. Yet for all that\\nit is so unruly that it often puts the\\nmaster to shame, and wounds his best\\nfriends. The Bible says that if any\\none can control the tongue, which\\nmeans, I suppose, their taste and talk,\\nhe can govern his whole body.\\nAmy: Who would think that such\\na little fellow could do so much harm\\nMother: Little things may do\\nmuch good or evil. A bridle is a\\nsmall thing, yet the bits turn the horse any way we wish\\nhim to go. I was once on a great ship at sea. There\\nwas a fearful storm. In the ship there was a little helm,\\nwhich turned it any way the captain wished it to go. So\\nit is with the tongue; life and death\\nare in its power.\\nPercy But isn t it a good thing\\nto taste and talk, mother\\nMother: Yes, indeed.\\nAnimals can taste, but they\\ncan not talk, or laugh. This\\nis one thing that makes us of\\na higher order of beings than\\nA ^real ship at seei:", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172 The House We Live In.\\nthey. What a blessing kind, gentle words are! How thank-\\nful we should be for a keen Taste, which helps us to enjoy\\nour food On the other hand, what pain and sorrow come\\nwhen angry words are spoken, and how much sickness and\\ndeath are the result of letting Taste have his own way\\nWhat we want is that the master of the body-house should\\nkeep this servant as with a bit and bridle for he will obey\\nif he must.\\nHelen I shall be more careful of my tongue after this.\\nMother: But the Bible says again, The tongue can\\nno man tame. We can never master it in our own\\nstrength. We must ask God to help us; for we can never\\ncontrol our Taste or our talk without His aid.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "MY Here are some violets for you, mother.\\nI just gathered them in the garden. See how\\nfragrant they are.\\nMother: They are indeed, and I thank\\nthe little girl who was so kind and thoughtful. Did you\\never think of the sense which makes us enjoy the flowers\\nand all pleasant perfumes?\\nAmy: Why, yes; we smell them, do we not?\\nMother: Yes; and now let us see if we can learn a\\nfew things about this sense which gives us so much\\npleasure. You may each take a few of these violets.\\nHow shall we find out where Smell lives?\\nPercy: He must be in the nose.\\nMother I suppose you think so because you do not\\nput the violets to your ears, eyes, or mouth to enjoy their\\nodor, but hold them near your nose. Now hold them\\nquite close to it and breathe out.\\nElmer: But we can t smell anything when we do that\\nway.\\nMother: No; then when we enjoy the sweet flowers,\\nwe place them near the nostrils and draw a deep breath,\\nand we say, Ah, how sweet! We do this so that more\\nair will touch the nerves of Smell, which are in the uppe**\\n(173)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174\\nThe House We Live In,\\npart of the nose. These little nerves form the tiniest\\nbranches you can think of, and all unite in one large nerve,\\nwhich goes to the brain. They quickly tell us about things\\nwe can neither taste nor see. They are thickly spread\\nover this room of Smell, which is Indeed a wonderful\\nplace. Here is a picture of the\\nnerves of which I have been\\ntelling you.\\nPercy: I think in a dog Smell\\nmust have good nerves.\\nMother: Yes; for some dogs\\nwill follow the footsteps of their\\nmaster, though he has been out\\nof sight for hours, and Smell is\\nso keen that they use him in track-\\ning game while hunting. Some Indians in South America\\ncan tell if a stranger comes near them, even in a dark\\nnight, by the use of Smell alone. They can also tell if\\na stranger is black or white. In some people Smell is\\nmuch keener than in others.\\nElmer When I had a cold last week, I couldn t smell\\nat all.\\nMother Sometimes when one has a very bad cold,\\nthe opening Into Smell s room gets filled up so that odors\\ncan not get in. People having a disease called ca-tarrh\\noften can not smell at all.\\nHelen: But of what use is Smell to us?\\nMother First, he helps us to eat proper food. We\\nare not apt to eat anything which has a bad odor at least", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "A Faithful Watchman.\\n175\\nSmell might be said to be a twin\\nwe should not do so\\nbrother to Taste, and part of his duty is to help Taste in\\nselecting proper food for the body. Sometimes when\\nDogs will follow the footsteps of their master.\\ndinner is cooking, I liear you say: Oh, how good it\\nsmells! It makes me feel hungry.\\nPercy: I have often felt that way, but I didn t know\\nit was Smell giving me an invitation to eat.\\nMother: Another way Smell cares for the body is by\\ngiving us warning against bad air. Sometimes a lot of\\ntiny folk called **germs get into the air and make it unfit\\nto wash the blood. These germs are seeds of sickness,\\nand should never be allowed to get inside the body.\\nSometimes they make the air smell bad, and then Smell", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176 The House We Live In.\\nsends word to the brain: Look out! Don t come here;\\nfor this bad air will make you ill.\\nAmy: And does that mean that the master should take\\nthe body away\\nMother: Yes; or if we go into a room which is close\\nand musty, and the air is full of germs, it means to open\\nthe doors and windows, and let the clean, pure air come\\nin. Sometimes Smell gets so used to bad odors that he\\ndoes not give warning as he should; so we should always\\nheed his counsel at first. Any place or thing which has\\nbad odors should never be near the house.\\nHelen I think Smell must find some sleeping-rooms\\nrather unpleasant places for him to stay in.\\nMother: He cer tain-ly does. Sometimes he gives the\\none who sleeps in such rooms quite a scolding. After he\\nhas been out in the fresh air, and comes back into the\\nroom, I im-ag ine I hear him talking something like this:\\nDon t you know it is a dreadful thing for you to breathe\\nair like this How would you like to drink the water\\nyour face or your clothes had been washed in But you\\nhave done worse than that you have kept washing your\\nblood in the same air, over and over again, all-night. It is\\nno w^onder that you have a headache and feel all tired out\\nthis morning. Now open the windows, and give this room\\na good airing, and if you sleep here another night, see that\\nthere are places where the good air can come in and the bad\\nair go out, and I promise you I will not talk like this again.\\nPercy: If the master of the house knew no better than\\nthat, he ought to have a lecture.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "A Faithful Watchman. 177\\nMother I think so, too. When air costs nothing,\\nand comes whistling around every corner, begging to come\\nin, we should never go without a good supply. There is\\none more way in which Smell is useful to us.\\nElmer: How is that.\\nMother: It gives us pleasure. When God made us,\\nHe desired that we should be happy; so He gave us eyes\\nto see the beautiful things He has made, ears to hear the\\nmusic of the birds, taste to enjoy the fine flavors He\\nplaced in our foods, and smell to breathe in the fragrance\\nof the violet and the rose. We ought to be very thankful\\nfor all these senses, which make us happy.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "A GENTLE NURSE\\nOTHER: You remember I told you\\nthat the body-house is all the time wear-\\ning out. Every time we think, move,\\nplay, or work, some part becomes worn,\\nand must be mended. Blood, the care-taker,\\npasses swiftly around every part, first up,\\nthen down and every trip she makes, the bones take\\nsomething to mend them the flesh takes its part the skin\\nmust have a share; the hair and finger-nails take some-\\nthing to make them grow and so, while we study, work,\\nor play, the mending goes on, and we hardly stop to think\\nthat it is done at all.\\nHelen: This seems to me one of the most wonderful\\nthings about the body.\\nMother: But there is another wonderful thing of\\nwhich we have not yet spoken. When we are tired with\\nthe work of the day, and the sun goes down in the west,\\na gentle nurse steps in and says to the master of the\\nbody-house: Please give me the care of your house\\nawhile. I will rest you, and while I have you in charge\\nBlood can do her work better, and in a few hours you\\nwill feel as good as new.\\nAmy: And does the master do as she says\\nMother: Sometimes he is not willing at first, but at\\nlast he is glad to hand everything over to her. Then she\\n(178)", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "A Gentle Nurse,\\n179\\nquietly draws the curtains down over the windows, shuts\\nthe doors in the hearing passages, and the muscles of the\\narms and legs stop their\\nwork, the engine slows\\ndown, air goes into the\\nbath room more slowly,\\nall becomes quiet in the\\nbody-house, and the first\\nthing the master knows\\nhe knows nothing at all.\\nElmer How strange\\nto think that way of going\\nto sleep\\nAmy: Is Sleep the\\nnurse, mother?\\nMother: Yes, Amy;\\nand a better one never\\nlived. Sometimes when\\nthe house is all out of\\norder, and the father and\\nmother watch over some\\nlittle body moaning with pain\\nand tossing with fever, Sleep comes in and gives the dear\\nchild a long, sweet rest, and the good doctor says I am\\nso glad! She will get better now. He knows that if he\\ncan get Sleep to nurse his sick people, they will all do\\nwell. She is so kind that she comes of herself, takes us\\nin her arms, comforts us, and when we are quite rested,\\nshe leaves us to do as we will till she is needed again.\\nGentle sleep", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "i8o\\nThe House We Live In.\\nShe never asks pay for her services, and the most skilful\\nnurse never had such success as she in taking away care\\nand worry, and in building up the house we live in.\\nPercy: But why must we sleep, mother?\\nMother: Because when we are awake, the body wears\\nout faster than Blood can mend it, but if we go to sleep,\\nshe can mend faster than it wears out. We need sleep\\nas much, and I sometimes think more, than we need food\\nand drink. When we feel tired and drowsy, that is the\\ncall of the nurse for us to give ourselves into her care.\\nAmy: Should we sleep in the daytime.-^\\nMother: Very young children should; for their body-\\nhouses are building fast, and so they\\nneed much sleep. Very old people\\nsometimes need sleep in the daytime,\\nbecause their houses are wearing out\\nfast; but, as a rule, we should sleep\\nduring the night, and keep awake\\nduring the day.\\nElmer: How long should we sleep\\nMother Some need more than\\nothers do. Grown people need seven\\nor eight hours and children should\\nhave still more. When we wake up,\\nwe should get up. The Duke of Wel-\\nlington once said, When it s time to\\nturn over, it s time to turn out.\\nHelen How can we get to sleep\\nif wakeful when we go to bed\\nGood-night,", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "A Gentle Nurse. l8i\\nMother: Those who can not sleep well should spend\\nmuch time out-of-doors during the day. One should not\\neat for several hours before going to bed; for if the stom-\\nach must work, it often keeps the rest of the body awake.\\nEvery one should have a clean bed, and sleep where he\\ncan have plenty of pure air. To work till one is tired, if\\nnot carried too far, will also help. But, even though a\\nperson does all these things, if he tries to sleep when the\\nmind is worried or excited, the gentle nurse will not come.\\nOne of the best helpers to sound sleep is a clear con-\\nscience, and the knowledge that one has done his best in\\neverything.\\nHelen: I heard a lady say that she drank a cup of\\ntea and it kept her awake half the night.\\nMother: It often has this effect. If one has not been\\nusing it, this is more apt to be the case, and this shows\\nthat tea contains poison, and that it is not good for the\\nbody. When a person can not sleep, he should know that\\ndanger is near. The master of the house we live in must\\nhave rest. Sweet sleep is the best rest for a tired brain;\\nfor while Sleep has charge of the body, she cleans the\\nbrain and makes it bright and ready to do more work.\\nIf it does not get rest, it becomes ill, and sometimes\\npeople lose the right use of the mind; then we say they\\nare insane, or crazy. That means that they do not know\\nwhat they are doing. They may try to kill themselves or\\nother people, and they must be locked up in strong rooms,\\nso they can not get away and do themselves or others\\nharm. Sometimes they get well, but many live for years", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "1 82 The Ho2ise We Live In.\\nin this sad con-di tion. It often comes because people\\ninjure their brains with strong drink.\\nPercy: Do not people who sell such drinks often stay-\\nup late at night\\nMother: I think they nearly always do. The people\\nwho are at the saloons should be in their beds, letting\\ntheir brains and bodies rest. When at last they go to\\nbed, the brain is stupid because of the strong drink they\\nhave taken. They lie in bed long after the sun is up,\\nand when they rise, they feel worn out instead of rested.\\nThe poor brain bears such treatment for a time, but at\\nlast reason is gone, and the person is ruined for life.\\nElmer: What a shame! I know one lad who will\\nnever go where beer and whisky are sold, and who will\\nhave his sleep at night if he can get it.\\nPercy And I know another.\\nMother: I trust that my boys will never do anything\\nto hurt the brain and drive sleep away.\\nGo to bed early wake up with joy;\\nGo to bed late cross girl or boy.\\nGo to bed early ready for play;\\nGo to bed late moping all day.\\nGo to bed early no pains or ills;\\nGo to bed late doctors and pills.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Nicholas.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "A WICKED THIEF\\nMOTHER: You know all houses are In danorer\\nfrom thieves. When no one is watching, in\\nthe dark night, they come and steal our\\nmoney and the most precious things we\\nhave. There is also a bold thief who takes\\ndelight in robbing the body-house.\\nElmer: But who can it be. I m sure no one would\\nwant to steal me.\\nAmy: Nor me.\\nMother: You know thieves always try to find some\\nway to get into a house when they wish to steal, and\\nthis robber is just like the rest. It is a little over three\\nhundred years old, and it grows more bold and cunning\\nevery year.\\nPercy: Please tell us its name, mother.\\nMother: It is called Tobacco. It was first found in\\nAmerica when the country was discovered, but it did not\\nbegin to steal from white men for nearly one hundred years.\\nSir Walter Raleigh, of whom you will learn in your history,\\ntook it from America to England. It is said that Sir\\nWalter one day sent his servant for some beer, and he\\n(183)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "i84\\nThe House We Live In.\\ncame back sooner than was expected. He was greatly\\nfrightened to see smoke coming out of the mouth and\\nnose of his master, and at once threw the beer into his\\nface to put the fire out, calHng\\nloudly for help, and saying that\\nhis master was on fire inside, and\\nwould surely burn up.\\nHelen: It is a pity there are\\nnot more such servants now, for\\nthey might cure some people of\\nthis filthy habit.\\nElmer: But why do you call\\ntobacco a thief, mother\\nMother: Because it steals.\\nPercy: But what does it\\nsteal I thought people just\\nchewed, smoked, and snuffed it,\\nand I can not see how that is\\nstealing.\\nMother: It steals health. Its first efTect Is to cause sick-\\nness and vomiting. Every servant in the body-house rises\\nup in arms against it, and there is a great uproar as they\\ntry to defend their master from the deadly poison. The\\nservants in the kitchen throw all there is in that room out\\nat the front door. The lungs throw It out headlong in the\\nbreath. All the little waste-pipes in the skin work as hard\\nas ever they can to push it out that way. The kidneys,\\nbowels, and. In fact, every servant In the house, shows It\\nthe door, and will not let It stay inside If he can help It\\nTobacco.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "A Wicked Thief. 185\\nElmer: But can t the master keep it out?\\nMother: Yes, if he would. That is the trouble. But\\ntobacco pretends to be such a good friend, and makes so\\nmany good promises, that the master believes its lies, and\\nlets it in. Boys think they are almost men if they can\\nonly smoke cigarettes. Some men say *a good smoke\\nrests them when they feel tired. Others say they must\\nhave it **to keep their food down. Many smoke or chew\\nbecause others do. And so tobacco deceives them all.\\nPercy: But doesn t tobacco do some good, mother?\\nMother: I have never heard of it if it does. The\\nnicotin of tobacco is such a deadly poison that one drop\\nwill kill a cat in about three minutes. It does not take a\\nlarge amount to kill a man in five minutes. If a tea is\\nmade from it, it will cause death in three hours. Some-\\ntimes soldiers who do not wish to do their duty will put\\na leaf of tobacco under the arm or over the stomach to\\nmake them sick.\\nAmy I should think if it is such a poison it would\\nkill people to use it.\\nMother: It would if they took enough of it. You\\nknow arsenic is a deadly poison, yet some people take it\\nin small doses and live a long time. When the servants\\nof the body-house find that their master will use it whether\\nit hurts them or not, they give up making so much trouble\\nas they did at first; but they still keep turning it out as\\nquietly as they can, and say but little about it.\\nPercy But I heard an old man say he had used\\ntobacco for fifty years, and it never did him any harm.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 86 The House We Live In.\\nMother: Perhaps he did not know how much it had\\nharmed him. Alcohol does not seem to hurt some people,\\nand yet we have learned that it works mischief in every\\npart of the body; and it is the same with tobacco. If\\nsuch men do not suffer themselves, their children often\\nsuffer in their stead. Because a few can use these poisons\\nwithout seeming injury, it does not make it safe for\\nothers to do so. While we are learning how to care for\\nthe body, we should not ask, Will this do me harm?^\\nbut, Will this habit do me diny good? Let us see what\\ngood tobacco does.\\nPercy: It is good to kill sheep-ticks and plant-lice.\\nMother: That shows how deadly it is, and how unfit\\nfor any human being to use in his body.\\nHelen: I do not think there are many persons who\\nwould say it does them good.\\nMother: We find that its first effect is to take away\\nthe appetite; and it hurts the stomach. Second, it does\\nharm in the throat, making the voice coarse and husky,\\nand men sometimes have a disease known as smoker s sore\\nthroat. Third, it hurts the nerves, the wonderful telephone\\nsystem; the tobacco-user is nervous, cross, and hard to please.\\nFourth, it weakens the eyes, and causes buzzing sounds in\\nthe ears. Fifth, it makes the heart weak, so a doctor can\\ntell by feeling a man s pulse whether he uses tobacco or\\nnot. His hands become unsteady, and they tremble, and\\nhis heart trembles just as his hands do.\\nPercy: I think that is enough, mother, to show that\\ntobacco does no good, but a great deal of harm.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "A Wicked Thief. 187\\nMother: There is one more thing- I wish you to know\\nabout this poison, and that is that it makes the master of\\nthe house weak. He feels so happy and rested while he\\nis taking his smoke, that he thinks surely tobacco does\\nhim good and not evil. But the reason he feels rested\\nis because his nerves have been put to sleep by the poison.\\nOur nerves are like a faithful watch-dog. The first thing\\ntobacco does is to put the nerves to sleep, just as a thief\\nwould kill a dog that would warn its master of his\\ncoming. You can see, I think, what a foolish thing it is\\nfor a boy or man to do anything which would put the\\nfaithful nerves to sleep so they can not warn him of\\ndanger.\\nElmer But, mother, do not the nerves wake up after\\na time?\\nMother: Indeed they do, and then if the man can\\nnot get his tobacco, you will see how unhappy he can be;\\nall his good nature and rested feelings have passed away.\\nHe soon finds this out if he tries to leave off the poison.\\nHe feels all gone, and thinks that he must have some-\\nthing to brace him up. He becomes thirsty, and so the\\ntemptation comes to use strong drink. A doctor who\\nknows, has said, Nine out of ten of the boys and young\\nmen who become drunkards, have first learned to smoke\\nor chew tobacco.\\nTobacco makes that part of the mind which is called\\nthe will so weak that thousands who use it have no\\nstrength to resist the temptation to drink when it comes\\nto them. Besides, the mind is so weakened that they", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "I \u00c2\u00a78 The House We Live In.\\ncan not stop using tobacco even when they know it is\\nhurtful to them, but they say\\n**For thy sake, tobacco, I\\nWould do anything but die.\\nAnd many even die because they have no strength to let\\nit alone. Boys think it makes them manly to smoke and\\nchew. Manly, indeed I wish I could speak to every\\nboy in every land to whom tobacco comes, and tell them\\nthat if they wish to grow up clean, noble, unselfish, manly\\nmen, they will never taste tobacco. It does more to harm\\nboys than men. One doctor has said, Boys and young\\nmen who use tobacco lose one-fifth of the enjoyment and\\nvalue, and at least one-tenth of the length of their lives.\\nPercy: But cigarettes are not very bad, are they,\\nmother? I know many of the boys in school smoke them.\\nMother: Bad! Indeed, they are very bad! They are\\nmade of the stumps of old cigars picked up in the streets,\\nand from other vile, filthy things. Even the paper they\\nare wrapped in, which seems so harmless, is steeped in\\ndeadly drugs, which makes them still worse. They are\\nmade and sold by millions, and thousands of boys are\\nbeing ruined in mind and body because of using them.\\nI often read in the papers of the death of some boy,\\ncaused by smoking cigarettes. I have no words to tell\\nyou the mischief they do; and yet thousands of people\\nthink them harmless.\\nAmy: I wish Uncle John wouldn t kiss me, for he\\nuses tobacco.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "A Wicked Thief. 189\\nHelen: You are like the little girl it tells about in\\nthe verses I learned. I will repeat them for you:\\nWhat ails papa, mother said a sweet little girl,\\nHer bright laugh revealing her teeth white as pearl;\\nI love him and kiss him and sit on his knee,\\nBut tlie kisses don t smell good when he kisses me.\\nBut, mama her eyes opened wide as she spoke\\nDo yo2i like his nasty kisses of bacco and smoke\\nThey might do for boys, but for ladies and girls\\nI don t think them nice, and she tossed her bright curls.\\nDon t somebody s papas have moufs nice and clean,\\nWith kisses like yours, mama that s what I mean?\\nI want to kiss papa, I love him so well,\\nBut kisses don t taste good that have such a smell.\\nIt s nasty to drink, and smoke bacco, and chew;\\nThe kisses ain t good and ain t sweet, ma, like you.\\nAnd her blossom-like face wore a look of disgust,\\nAs she gave out her verdict, so earnest and just.\\nYes, yes, Httle darling, your wisdom has seen\\nThat kisses for daughters and wives should be clean;\\nFor kisses lose something of nectar and bliss\\nFrom mouths that are stained and unfit for a kiss.\\nMother: Yes, I read this poem in the last number of\\nthe Prohibitionist, and I think every girl, big and little,\\nshould feel just as this one has expressed it. When\\nHorace Mann was asked where gentlemen should smoke,\\nhe said, Gentlemen never smoke. Billy Bray said, If\\nGod had intended man to smoke, he would have put a\\nchimney at the top of his head to let the smoke out.\\nBy giving up every bad habit we may help others to\\ndo the same. I must tell you a short story about a friend\\nof mine who helped a young man stop using tobacco.\\nAmy: Please tell it now, mother.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190 The House We Live hi:\\nMother: She had often asked him not to use tobacco,\\nbut the habit was so strong that he felt that he could not\\ngive it up. At last he said one day I think you are\\nas much a slave to tea as I am to tobacco. If you will\\nstop drinking tea, I will use no more tobacco. That put\\nthe matter in a new light, and she told him she would\\nthink about it. She knew that tea contained a poison, and\\nthat it did her no real good, but only harm so she finally\\ndecided to drink it no more. When she next met her\\nfriend, she told him that she would use no more tea, and\\nin a short time he left off using tobacco.\\nElmer: That must be what the Bible means when it\\nsays that we should provoke one another to good works.\\nMother: Yes, that is one way. You know I said\\nwhen we began talking that tobacco was a thief. I will\\nnow tell you of something it steals from the master of the\\nhouse besides his health.\\nPercy: I wonder if it is money. I know that is what\\nthieves almost always try to get.\\nMother: You guessed it at once. Let us see how\\nmuch this robber will take from a man if he once lets it\\ninto the house. One who is a very moderate smoker will\\nspend about forty dollars a year for cigars. People in\\nEngland would call that sum seven or eight pounds. Sup-\\npose a man should smoke thirty years. Here\\nis an example for you. Amy.\\nAmy: Twelve hundred dollars. How much\\nwould that be in English money\\nMother: About two hundred and forty-six", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "A Wicked Thief. 191\\npounds. That would buy him a nice little home, would it\\nnot? Or if he was a lover of books, he could get a good\\nlibrary for that sum. And you must remember that this\\nis for a inoderate smoker. A merchant said that by saving\\nthe money he would have spent for cigars, he laid up\\ntwenty-nine thousand dollars, or nearly six thousand pounds.\\nIf he had spent it for tobacco, what would he have had\\nfor his money? _\\nPercy: Smoke.\\nAmy A dirty mouth and bad breath.\\nElmer: A weak heart and weak nerves.\\nHelen: He might not have lived to smoke so long,\\nand he might have been a drunkard.\\nMother: Not very much that is good, for spending\\nsuch a large sum of money, I must say.\\nPercy: I once heard grandmother say that when she\\nsaw a man with a lighted cigar, the thought came into her\\nmind, A fire at one end and a fool at the other. It\\ndoes seem foolish to waste money that way, I wish I had\\nsome of it that goes up in smoke to send me to college\\nwhen I am ready to go.\\nMother: Here is a picture which I think shows this\\nmatter in about the right light.\\nHelen: Why, what are those people burning in that\\nbig fire?\\nMother: Money, money nothing but money. Here\\nis a rich man; he is throwing in one thousand dollars;\\nand here is another, who is bringing one hundred pounds.\\nOthers are throwing in different sums, some less, some", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192\\nThe House We Live In,\\nmore. See how many young men there are who need\\nthat money for something else.\\nElmer: And see the workingmen, too.\\nMother: Yes; and\\nmany of them have no\\nhomes, and they wear poor\\nclothes, and eat very plain\\nfood. They need many things. It\\nmay be the wife at home has not had\\na new dress for years, and the children\\nhave no shoes.\\nAmy: And just see the little boys\\nburning up their money, too\\nMother: How very sad! They ^re only\\nchildren, and yet they throw away their pen-\\nnies and dimes. What are all these people\\ngetting for their money?", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "A Wicked Thief. 193\\nHelen: Smoke nothing but smoke.\\nMother: They get smoke, it is true, but they also get\\npains and aches. Tobacco laughs as it takes their money,\\nand grows larger and stronger every day.\\nPercy: But, mother, can nothing be done to stop their\\nburning up money like that\\nMother: You think some one should call out, Stop,\\nthief! do you.-* Perhaps that was what King James, of\\nEngland, thought; for when people began using it in that\\ncountry, he wrote a book, in which he said that smoking\\nwas loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful\\nto the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. The Russian\\nGovernment tried to put a stop to smoking by saying that\\nif a person were caught using tobacco, his nose should be\\ncut off. Perhaps it was thought that people who abuse\\nsmelling that way had no right to have a nose. The sul-\\ntan of Turkey once put to death those who smoked, or\\nused snuff.\\nPercy: I should think such laws would have stopped\\nits use in a little while.\\nMother: They did not; for people can not be made to\\ndo right in that way. They used it more than they had\\nbefore. I think the best way is for the master of every\\nbody-house to say, I will never, no, never, touch it; and\\nI will do my best to let others know how hurtful it is,\\nso they will not use it. Many, very many, do not know\\nhow much harm tobacco does in the body, nor what a sin-\\nful waste of money it causes. They spend it a few pen-\\nnies at a time, and do not stop to think how much it\\n13", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194 House We Live In.\\namounts to in a year or a lifetime. More money is spent\\nfor tobacco than for bread. One hundred times as much\\nmoney goes up in tobacco smoke as is given to missions.\\nLet us do all that we can to prevent this waste. No bird\\nor animal would ever be guilty of taking into its body any-\\n*thing so harmful.\\nMINNIE AND HER CANARY.\\nMinnie s rebuke.\\nYou were a naughty bird to-day;\\nIt shocked me, do you know,\\nTo see you fly from brother Frank,\\nAnd pick at cousin Joe.\\nNow tell me why you acted so;\\nThere, don t begin to sing.\\nBut tell me why you were so rude,\\nYou saucy little thing!\\nTHE bird s reply.\\nI had to leave your brother Frank,\\nOr else to stay and choke;\\nHe had a nasty cigarette;\\nI could not stand the smoke.\\nAnd with your cousin Joe oh, dear!\\nHe put his mouth to mine,\\nAnd, oh! I thought I d faint away,\\nFor he d been drinking wine.\\nThe little birds don t do such things;\\nNo crow, or paroquet.\\nOr other bird, would swallow wine\\nOr smoke a cigarette.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "CRUEL\\nMURDERER\\nOTHER: Bad as it is to steal, it is worse to\\nkill. Dreadful as it may seem, yet it is true\\nthat a murderer watches to get into the body-\\nMl. house; and unless it is kept out, sooner or later\\nt i:fc^ it will ruin the house and kill the master. It has\\n#/h different names, but the most common are Cider,\\nBeer, Wine, Ale, Brandy, and Whisky; but its real name\\nis Alcohol. I have some here in this bottle.\\nElmer: Why, it looks like clear water!\\nMother: So it does. Let us see if we can find out\\nhow it is different from water. I will pour a little into this\\nsaucer. Percy, you may light a match and hold close to it.\\nAmy Oh, it burns\\nMother: Will water burn.\\nHelen: No, water puts out fire.\\nMother: Here is a tester. I will pour a little whisky\\nin it and boil it over this spirit lamp. Now the steam\\ncomes out. Percy, you may light a match and hold it\\nclose to the steam.\\nPercy: Oh, see it burn!\\nMother: Will steam from the teakettle burn.\\nAmy: No, mother.\\n(195)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196\\nThe House We Live In.\\nMother: So you see the American Indians gave it a\\nvery good name when they called it fire-water. Another\\ndifference between water and alcohol is that water\\nwill freeze, but alcohol never freezes. I will show\\nyou one thing more. Here is some oil in this bottle.\\nIf I should pour in some water, would it mix with\\nthe oil?\\nPercy: No; the oil would stay on top.\\nMother But alcohol will mix with oil.\\nLet us try again. Here is a fresh g^\\nbroken into a glass. If I should pour some\\nwater over it and stir them together, it would\\nnot change the looks of the ^gg. Instead of water, I will\\npour in some alcohol. Now watch the mixture as I stir\\nthem together.\\nElmer: Why, the g g looks as though it were cooked!\\nIt is getting hard.\\nMother: Yes, and if I should put a little piece of lean\\nmeat in alcohol, it also would become hard. Now the\\nreason that the gg or a piece of meat becomes hard is\\nbecause alcohol has such a liking for water that it draws\\nthe water out, leaving the ^g g or meat hard and dry.\\nAlcohol does the very same thing in our bodies that is,\\nit takes up the moisture in the nerves, muscles, and other\\nparts; and I think that must be why it creates such a\\nterrible thirst, which can not be satisfied. The poor man\\nwho drinks, thinks that he wants more alcohol, when it is\\nreally for water, water, that every part of his body is call-\\ning. I think you already see that alcohol is so different", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "A Cruel Murderer.\\n197\\nfrom water, the drink that God made for man, that it was\\nnever intended that we should drink it.\\nPercy: But how is alcohol made?\\nMother Alcohol comes from death. Something must\\ndecay and die to produce it. We do not find it in wheat\\nor any other grain. Peaches, plums, pears, apples, and\\ngrapes say, It is not in me, yet it can be made from all\\nof them. Do you remember when I was canning fruit\\nhow I put it boiling hot into glass jars, and put the cover\\non as quickly as I could, to keep the air out\\nHelen: But why did you do that?\\nMother: Because there are little\\ngerms, or ferments, in the air, and if\\nthey should get into the fruit, it would\\ndecay, ferment. I once had a jar of fruit\\nspoil, and before I noticed it, it had\\nturned to wine. In wine and cider the\\nferments are not shut out, and they make\\nit work, ferment, or turn to alcohol.\\nAmy: Is beer made in the same way?\\nMother: Very much the same. When a brewer\\nmakes beer, he takes some corn, wheat, rye, or barley,\\nputs it in a dark place, and wets it. Soon it begins to\\nsprout, or grow. The grain is dead. He dries it in an\\noven to stop its growing, and the grain is then called malt.\\nAfter this he mashes the malt, soaks it in water, and\\ndrains off the liquid, boils it, and puts in some yeast,\\nwhich you know is made of millions of little ferments.\\nThey are like seed; and millions more grow from them.\\n^Ferments.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198\\nThe House We Live In.\\nA dirty scum rises to the top, and alcohol has come to\\nstay in the liquid. It is the alcohol that makes it taste\\ngood to those who like beer.\\nElmer But where does alcohol like this you have\\nshown us come from\\nMother By dis-til ling wine or\\nbeer.\\nAmv: What does distil mean?\\nMother To distil means to fall\\nin drops. See the drops of water gather\\nand fall as I hold this glass of ice-water\\nin the steam coming from the teakettle.\\nThe drops are distilled water.\\nHelen: Is that the way they distil\\nwine and beer?\\nMother: They could hardly do it in this way, but men\\nfound that by boiling beer or any liquid having alcohol in\\nit, and letting the steam pass through a long tube called\\na worm, they got stronger alcohol. You see the alcohol\\ncomes out in the steam, and as it passes through the long\\ntube, or coil, it is cooled, and drops into a cask. The\\noftener it is distilled, the stronger it grows, that is, the\\nmore pure alcohol there is in it.\\nElmer But why do you call alcohol a murderer\\nMother Because it kills. Strong alcohol will kill\\nany living thing. Dr. Richardson, of England, has said:\\n**There is no animal that may not be affected by alcohol.\\nA pigeon will take opium enough to kill several men, and\\nreceive no harm; but alcohol will poison it. A goat can\\nSee the drops fall.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "A Cruel Murderer.\\nt99\\ntake enough tobacco to kill several men, but it can not\\ntake alcohol.\\nHelen: I once read of a minister in Wales who was\\ndrinking in an ale-house,\\nand he gave some of the \\\\^c^^^^^^-^^ i i^ \\\\\\\\m\\\\ m\\\\ r^ -^^/^^^^a\\ndrink to a tame goat.\\nThe animal drank until\\nit became drunk and fell\\ndown. The minister,\\ntoo, became so drunk\\nthat he had to be car-\\nried to his home. He\\nwas very sick the next\\nday, but the third day\\nhe again went to the\\nale-house and began\\ndrinking. The goat was\\nthere, and he offered it\\nmore ale, but it would\\nnot touch it. When the\\nminister saw that a goat\\nwas wiser than himself,\\nhe was so ashamed that he gave up drinking.\\nMother That was a sensible goat surely. There are\\nmany stories which might be told about animals that have\\ndrunk alcohol, but, having learned its effect, would never\\ntouch it again. It is a pity men are not as wise.\\nAmy I do like stories, mother. Won t you tell us\\none, please?\\nThe goat would not touch it.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200\\nThe House We Live In,\\nMother: Here is a picture taken from life. This coon\\nis trying to get a drink of beer. A coon, like a man who\\ngets an appetite for strong drink, will do almost anything\\nto satisfy his taste. I once read\\nof a man who had two tame\\ncoons. One, I am glad to say,\\nwas a temperance coon, and,\\nthough his owner had barrels\\nof beer, he never tried to get\\na drink. The other by tasting\\nlearned to like beer, and he\\nwould do many strange tricks\\nto get it. One of his tricks\\nwas to go to a beer barrel, and\\nwhen he had partly unscrewed\\nthe tap, he would lie on his\\nback under it and drink till he was dead drunk.\\nElmer: I should think that was bad enouo^h for a\\ncoon; he did not have as much sense as the goat; but\\nI think it is very much worse when a man fills himself\\nwith beer.\\nPercy: But, mother, how do we know that alcohol is\\na poison?\\nMother: By the results which come from using it.\\nIts first effect is to make the body feel warm, and the\\nextra blood sent to a man s brain makes him sing, talk,\\nand feel very gay. He says things he would be ashamed\\nto say if sober. He thinks he is rich when he is poor,\\nand that he is very strong when he is really weaker than\\nThis coon is trying to get a\\ndrink of beer.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "A Cruel Murderer.\\n20I\\nbefore. If he drinks still\\nmore, his feet begin to go\\nwrong; but I need not\\ntell you how a drunken\\nman walks.\\nAmy: He staggers.\\nMother: Now let us\\nsee why he staggers. The\\npoison in the drink he has\\ntaken has put his small\\nbrain and the cord in his\\nspinal column to sleep.\\nAs they control the legs\\nand the feet, he stumbles\\nalong, and wonders why\\nthe sidewalk is so narrow\\nand crooked, and why\\nhe can not go where he\\nwishes to. This is the\\nsecond effect.\\nIf you should hold\\na little alcohol in your\\nmouth a few minutes, it\\nwould feel numb. That\\nis because the nerves in\\nthe mouth and tongue\\nare put to sleep so they\\ncan not taste or feel. If\\nthe man takes still more", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "202 The House We Live In.\\ndrink, all his brain goes to sleep. When men are drunk.,\\nthe nerves all over the body are asleep, so they do not\\nknow when they are in danger. A man may fall down\\non a railroad track, and he will not hear the train coming\\nwhich will crush him to death. He may walk off into\\na river from a bridge; but he sees no danger in taking\\nthe step. He does terrible things that he would never\\nthink of doing if he had not taken this poison. He will\\nbeat his wife, kill his children, or he may commit other\\ncrimes that will cause him to be taken to prison. When\\nthe effect of the poison has passed, sometimes he remem-\\nbers nothing that he has done, and knows not when he\\ncame or why he is there.\\nElmer: I should think men would know better than\\nto take so much drink.\\nMother: There is no safety in even tasting it. When\\nonce this murderer has them in its grasp, they have no\\npower to help themselves. One glass calls for two; two\\nmust be followed by four. The awful craving can not be\\nsatisfied till the man can drink no more.\\nHelen: But proper food and drink do not make us\\nfeel that way. If I eat two potatoes to-day, I don t want\\nsix to-morrow or if I take two glasses of milk or water,\\nit does not make me thirsty so I want four more.\\nMother: That is true; and it shows that alcohol is\\nneither food nor drink. It is only such poisons as alcohol,\\ntobacco, opium, and those related to them, that create such an\\nappetite. Alcohol finally brings its victim to the last stage.\\nAmy: What is that?", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "A Cruel Murderer. 203\\nMother: The man becomes dead drunk. He is\\nnot quite dead, but he is next door to it. He can not\\nfeel, hear, or see. His body is cold, much like a corpse.\\nIf it were not for his heavy breathing, we would say he is\\ndead. Every part of the man he himself can control, has\\nbeen handed over to the murderer, alcohol. But his faith-\\nful heart stands by him still. It suffers, too, but with pain-\\nful effort it slowly beats, and the air comes and goes in\\ngasps.\\nAmy: And does he gets well.^\\nMother: Sometimes, and at other times he really\\ndies. It is an awful sight when a man by his own act\\nbrings himself so near to death. Not long ago I read of\\na young man in this town who drank until he became\\ndead drunk. His friends who were with him put him in\\nan old shed, and in the morning he was found dead. This\\nmurderer alcohol had gained one more victim. But there\\nare other things this murderer brings to men. A doctor\\nwas talking not long ago to a crowd of school-children,\\nand he asked them what would finally come to a man\\nif he kept on drinking.\\nHe will have the D. T. s, shouted one boy.\\nPercy: What did he mean by D. T. s, mother.?\\nMother He meant de-lir i-um tre mens.\\nHelen: What is that?\\nMother: It is a sickness caused by alcohol. You have\\nsometimes had bad dreams when asleep; but in this disease\\nthe man has dreadful dreams when he is awake. He\\nthinks snakes and other creatures are crawling over him.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204 The House We Live In.\\nI once saw a little boy, not over ten years old, the son\\nof a drunkard, who had had de-lir i-um tre mens. He had\\nhis father s craving for strong drink for a boy s head\\ninside is often like the father s, just as his hair, eyes, and\\nfeatures are like his.\\nElmer: What a dreadful thing alcohol must be!\\nMother: But it is guilty of other wrongs than these.\\nNearly all the people who go to the insane asylums are\\nsent there by it. It fills the prisons with men and women,\\nbecause it makes them unsafe to go free. It sends people\\nto the poor-house, and brings poverty, sickness, distress,\\nand broken hearts to thousands of people. No tongue can\\ntell the misery, sorrow, suffering, and agony it brings,\\nHelen: And isn t more money spent for alcohol than\\nfor tobacco?\\nMother Yes the flames rise higher from the money\\nthrown into this fire than from the other. Nine hundred\\nmillion dollars, or about one hundred and eighty-six million\\npounds, are spent each year for this murderer. Twice\\nas much money is spent for alcohol as is used to buy\\nbread. Just think of it! But we can not even imagine\\nthis great waste in money alone. Then add to that the\\nsickness, tears, broken hearts, ruined homes, the many\\ndeaths caused by it, and we can only wonder that alcohol\\nhas not been banished from the world, never to return.\\nIt is such a monster of evil that we can not understand it.\\nPercy: But, mother, if people only knew how much\\nit costs, and how much harm it does, would they not let\\nit alone", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "A Cruel Murderer. 205\\nMother: Many would, and we must do all that we\\ncan to help and teach them. Every one who suffers from\\nalcohol should have our pity. You have learned in our\\npast talks how it does harm to the stomach, the liver, the\\nmuscles, and the lungs, and, most of all, to the brain and\\nnerves. Just as this alcohol hardened the meat and\\nso alcohol works in our bodies to hurt and destroy the\\nwonderful living rooms of which the body-house is made.\\nAlcohol is a liar. Listen to what the wisest man who\\never lived says about it: Wine is a mocker, strong drink\\nis raging and who-so-ev er is deceived thereby is not wise.\\nAlcohol says, I am a food, and will make your body\\nwarm.\\nTruth says: It s a lie. You do not feed any part of\\nthe body. It is true that you make it feel a little warmer\\nfor a time, because all the servants work so hard to throw\\nyou out; but the whole body is colder afterward than at\\nfirst.\\nAlcohol says, I will make your body so plump and\\nfat that you will look very healthy.\\nTruth says: It is true that you make the body fat.\\nThe liver ought to weigh about four pounds, and you have\\nmade, it sometimes weigh as much as fifty. The fat you\\ngive is disease, not strength.\\nAlcohol says, I will help you digest your food.\\nTruth says, You hinder di-ges tion, and make the food\\nunfit to make good blood.\\nAlcohol says, Let me come in, and I will make you\\nmerry.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "2o6 The House We Live In.\\nTruth says: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? whp\\nhath con-ten tions who hath babbhng [foolish talk] who\\nhath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?\\nThey that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek\\nmixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,\\nwhen it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself\\naright. AT THE LAST IT BITETH LIKE A\\nSERPENT, AND STIN GETH LIKE AN ADDER.\\nTake a drink? No, not I!\\nReason teaches better\\nThan to bind my very soul\\nWith a galHng fetter.\\nWater, sweet and cool and free,\\nHas no cruel chains for me.\\nTake a drink? No, not I!\\nI have seen too many\\nFoolish men by taking drinks\\nStripped of every penny.\\nWater, sweet and cool and clear,\\nCosts me nothing all the year.\\nTake a drink? No, never!\\nBy God s blessing never\\nWill I touch, or taste, or smell,\\nHenceforth and forever!\\nWater, sweet and clear and cool.\\nMakes no man a slave or fool.\\nS. S. Times.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "CHAPACTER\\nor THE MASTER\\nOTHER: We have now taken a hasty look at\\nthe larger rooms In the body-house. I hope\\nthat the short visit we have made to each will\\ncreate in you all a wish to know more about\\nthem. Do not think you have learned it all;\\nj?y^\u00c2\u00b0I^ for we have only begun to study its beauties\\nand wonders.\\nHelen: But why do we need to know so much about it?\\nMother That you may be able to care for it properly,\\nand glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which\\nare God s. We are not our own, and some day we must\\ngive account for the way in which we have treated this holy\\ntemple given into our care. Whether therefore ye eat, or\\ndrink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.\\nThe house we live in was not made for us simply to look\\nat and admire its beauty. It was made to be useful, as well\\nas beautiful. We have brains, to think and plan. We have\\neyes, to see what needs to be done, and ears, to hear what\\nwe are told to do. We have two hands, with ten fingers,\\nwhich makes it easy for us to handle different objects; and\\nthey must be taught to be skilful. We also have two feet,\\nto carry us wherever work needs to be done. A doll may be\\npretty, but it is not very useful, for it can not do anything.\\n(207)", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2o8 The House We Live In.\\nPercy: And there seems to be plenty of work to be\\ndone everywhere.\\nMother: There certainly is! Just think of how many\\nhouses must be built, how many clothes must be made, how\\nmany breakfasts and dinners must be cooked, how many\\nschools there are to teach, how many fields to plow, sow,\\nand reap, how many books and papers to be made that we\\nmay have something to read, and ever so many other kinds\\nof work to be done to make ourselves and others comfortable\\nand happy.\\nAmy Can we children help\\nMother: Yes, indeed; there is something for every boy\\nand girl to do in lifting burdens, and making the world better\\nand brighter because they have lived in it.\\nElmer: What can boys do?\\nMother One of the best things which can be said of\\nany boy is that he is a real help at home. Of course he\\nshould go to school and learn many things there but he\\nshould also learn to work. A boy can learn to drive a team,\\nplow, hoe, plant, rake, and do the different kinds of work\\nto be done on a farm or in a shop. He should learn how\\nto use tools, the hammer, saw, plane, and others for almost\\nevery man at some time in his life needs to have knowledge\\nof this kind.\\nPercy Should boys ever do housework, mother\\nMother: It is no disgrace to them to know how to\\nwash dishes, make a bed, sweep a floor, or to set the table.\\nIf they can do such things they will be a help to mother as\\nwell as to father. They may bring in the wood and coal,", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Character of the Master. 209\\nand so save many steps for mother and sister. Nothing\\nthat a boy can do in the house makes him unmanly. It\\nrather marks as a true gentleman one who is able and\\nwilling to do whatever needs to be done, no matter what\\nit is. There is one other thing that he should not fail\\nto learn.\\nHelen: What is that?\\nMother: To keep his own room in order. He should\\nhang up his clothes, and have a place in which to keep his\\nthings, and see that they are kept there. There is no reason\\nwhy a boy s sister should hang up his coat and hat, put away\\nhis books, or keep his room in order. He can do all these\\nthings for himself. I once went into a boy s room after he\\nhad dressed to go for a visit. It looked as though a small\\ncyclone had passed through it. Soiled clothes were on the\\ntable and under the bed. A muddy boot was on a chair,\\nand his jacket and trousers were thrown in a heap in a\\ncorner. The bed was unmade. Dirty water stood in the\\nwash-basin. The comb was on the floor. All was confusion\\nand disorder. A dis-or der-ly boy makes a dis-or der-ly man.\\nElmer But you haven t told us what the girls should do.\\nMother Some girls seem to think that if they can\\nhave a pale face, white hands, and a slender form, this makes\\nthem ladies. But a girl can be healthy, strong, and useful\\nwithout being rough, coarse, or unladylike. Perhaps you\\nhave seen girls who thought it was all right for their mothers\\nto cook, wash, scrub, and do all that must be done in a home,\\nbut who seemed to think that their own hands were too\\npretty and were not made to do that kind of work. Some\\nL", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2IO\\nThe House We Live In.\\none ought to whisper to such girls that their hands are no\\nbetter than their mother s. Their hands have ten fingers,\\njust as hers have. They were made to work, just as hers\\nwere; and they should\\nbe trained to be so\\nloving and helpful that\\nthose persons for whom\\nthey care most will not\\nstop to ask if they are\\nwhite or brown.\\nHelen I am not\\nafraid to use my hands,\\nmother. What shall\\nthey be taught to do.\\nMother How to\\nwash, to sweep, scrub,\\ncook, and sew how to\\nmake a bed, and sweep\\nin the very best way\\nhow to wash and iron\\nwell. It may be that\\ngirls who do this kind\\nLearning to sew. of WOrk wIU get tired,\\nand their backs and arms will ache, but it will not hurt them.\\nA night s sleep will rest the muscles and make them ready\\nfor another day s work. It Is right for girls to excel at\\nschool; but while studying their books, they should learn\\nto be useful and lighten the burdens at home.\\nAmy: But should girls work out-of-doors, mother", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Character of the Master. 2 1 1\\nMother: If they live where they can, it is well for\\nthem to do so, at least to learn how to do some of the\\nlighter work that comes to father and brothers. They\\nshould be able to milk a cow, harness a horse, make a\\ngarden, and do some of the lighter kinds of farm-work.\\nMiss Frances Willard was taught this when a girl, and it\\nproved to be a lifelong blessing. But in this, our last talk,\\nwe will take just a peep at the rooms in which the master\\nof the body-house lives. In these rooms no one may enter\\nbut the master himself\\nPercy: But where shall we find these rooms?\\nMother They are in the mind. I must tell you before\\nwe go further that they are our thoughts. I can not tell\\nwhat you think about, and you can not tell what is in my\\nmind, only as we put our thoughts into words. I wish I\\ncould help every boy and girl to feel how important it is\\nto have clean, good thoughts. As he thinketh in his heart,\\nso is he; that is, a person is no better than his thoughts\\nare, and he is just as good. If the thoughts are wrong, the\\nperson is all wrong, no matter how good he may appear\\nto be.\\nHelen: I found a little poem about our thoughts and\\nput it in my scrap-book. May I read it, mother?\\nMother: Please do; I know we all want to hear it.\\nHelen: Here it is:\\nThere were idle thoughts came in at the door,\\nAnd warmed their Httle toes,\\nAnd did more mischief about the house\\nThan any one living knows.", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "212 The House We Live In.\\nThey scratched the tables and broke the chairs,\\nAnd soiled the floor and wall\\nFor a motto was written above the door,\\nThere s a welcome here for all.\\nWhen the master saw the mischief done,\\nHe closed it with hope and fear,\\nAnd he wrote above, Let none\\nSave good thoughts enter here.\\nAnd the good little thoughts came trooping in.\\nWhen he drove the others out\\nThey cleaned the walls, they swept the floor.\\nAnd sang as they moved about.\\nAnd last of all an angel came,\\nWith a kindly, shining face,\\nAnd above the door he wrote, Here\\nLove has found a dwelling-place.\\nMother That is very good. Let us all take for our\\nmotto, Let none save good thoughts enter here. Now\\nI think you understand that as we are talking of passing\\nthrough different rooms, we mean that we are in the\\nchambers of the mind, and we imagine that we are\\nlooking at a person s thoughts. We will look inside of just\\na few rooms, and from them we can form an idea of the rest.\\nElmer: Where shall we go first?\\nMother I think you will like to look in here, where\\nthe master keeps his pets. He is fond of birds, cats, dogs,\\nand all kinds of animals; and where this room is large in\\nthe mind, you will find the master kind to them all. He\\nwill not give them pain if he can help it, and takes pleasure\\nin making them happy.", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Character of the Master. 213\\nAmy: I think I should Hke to visit this room often.\\nMother: In this smaller room he keeps his money.\\nSometimes this room is so small, and he cares for it so\\npoorly, that he wastes about all that he gets, and keeps\\nvery little. In some houses this room is very large, and\\nthe master lives here nearly all the time. His greatest\\ndelight is to shut himself in and count his money over and\\nover. He becomes very selfish by doing in this way, and\\nhe will not part with what he has either for his own comfort\\nor that of others. People who have such large rooms, and\\nuse them in this way, are called misers.\\nPercy I don t want to be one.\\nMother: I am glad you do not. It is best to have\\nonly a medium-sized room of this kind. Here is the room\\nwhere Taste sends his messages. If the room is very large,\\nyou may be sure that the master enjoys nothing so much\\nas something good to eat. This is not a good room in\\nwhich to spend much of one s time, though every one should\\nvisit it several times each day. There are quite a number\\nof small rooms not far from this one. In one the master\\ngoes to study his a-rith me-tic. In another, he measures\\nthings. In another, he has a pair of scales to weigh them.\\nIn another, he keeps samples of all shades of colors. But\\nwe can not stop in these small rooms.\\nAh, here is Memory Hall! Many persons like to spend\\nmost of their time here. See what a great number of\\npictures are hanging on the wall.\\nHelen: O mother, let us stop and look at some of them!\\nMother Perhaps I should first tell you that the master", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "214 House We Live In.\\nof every house is all the time making pictures, whether he\\nis an artist or not. His acts, good and bad, make pictures\\nin the mind. When they are finished, he hangs them in this\\nhall. Some are in dark corners, and he hardly ever looks\\nat them after they are made he even forgets that he made\\nthem. The masters of some houses spend many happy\\nhours in this hall. Others do not like to go near it. Their\\npain or pleasure depends on the kind of pictures they have\\nmade. I have seen some who would weep in sorrow of\\nheart as they looked over the different pictures that they\\nhad hung there, and some they would not for anything have\\nany one see. There is only One who can take away these\\nsinful pictures, but He can make them white as snow.\\nElmer Then we ought to have all our actions such\\nthat pleasant pictures will be hung in our hall of memory.\\nMother: I think so; but we will pass on to some of\\nthe higher, more important rooms. Here we find the place\\nwhere the master receives the poor, and where his acts of\\nkindness are done. In some houses this is the smallest room\\nof the whole. In others, it is large and lofty, and the master\\nspends much time there. He is so good and kind that people\\ncan not help loving him when this is the case.\\nAmy: This next room looks like a church.\\nMother We might call it the chapel for it is here\\nthat the master goes to pray, and worship God. Some use\\nthis room a great deal others, very little. It is the highest,\\nbest room in the house, and the master ought to visit it many\\ntimes each day.\\nPercy: And what is this large room?", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Character of the Master. 2 1 5\\nMother: This is where the master thinks things over,\\nand makes up his mind, as we say. This is the will\\nroom; that is, the person decides what he will or will not\\ndo. This is an important room indeed. It is a good thing\\nto have a good, strong will if we only will to do the right\\nthing, for it helps any one in doing right; but if he is\\ndoing wrong, it causes him to do more wrong.\\nTo show what I mean, we will say that a man who has\\nbeen drinking beer or cider learns that the reason he likes\\nthese drinks is because there is alcohol in them, and he sees\\nthat they will do him harm, and that the more he drinks\\nthem, the more he will want them. He doesn t want weak\\nmuscles, a bloated body, a fatty liver, or a weak brain and\\nnerves. He does not wish to go to the insane asylum, to\\nthe jail, to the poor-house, or into a drunkard s grave. But\\nhe likes the alcohol. It is hard to give it up, and his friends\\nwill call him a temperance man, and will jeer at him, and\\nsay that he is a coward. Now what will he do? He goes\\ninto his will room, and he says to himself: I have been\\na slave long enough. From now on I will be master of\\nthis body-house. It makes no difference how loudly Taste\\nmay call, nor how badly I want him to have his own way,\\nI WILL NOT give up, God helping me, and I am going\\nto put my will on the right side of this question.\\nElmer: Couldn t he overcome any other bad habit in\\njust the same way?\\nMother: Yes; whether he wants food that is not good,\\nor too much of that which is good whether he wishes to\\nleave off using tobacco, or other bad habits of any kind,", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "2i6 The House We Live In.\\nwhen he gets his will on the right side, the battle is more\\nthan half over.\\nAmy: Then a person can not have too much will.\\nMother: Not if he wills to do right; but if he places\\nhis will on the wrong side, it is a sad thing. Sometimes\\nhe wills to have his own way, no matter how it may affect\\nhimself or others, and that is bad for him and for his friends.\\nHere is a room where the master measures people.\\nWe can imagine that they stand about like statues, and\\nsome he places high in his esteem, and the others lower\\ndown. I think about the worst thing he could do would\\nbe to place himself higher than any one else. Boys and\\ngirls are sometimes in danger of doing this, even thinking\\nthat they know more than their father and mother. It is\\nwell to have a fair-sized room of this kind, but bad to\\nhave one which is large. We shall not have time to visit\\nmore of the rooms to be found in the mind, though there\\nare many others that we might visit.\\nHelen: I wish we might hear about all of them.\\nMother: You may, as you grow older. You must\\nbe very careful to have the master of your own house live\\nin the best and highest rooms. Strange as it may seem,\\nyet it is true that the rooms he stays in most will grow\\nlarger the more they are used. Some live in the lower,\\npoorer rooms all their lives. The people we love best\\nspend most of their time in the highest rooms.\\nPercy: Is there any way by which we can tell where\\nthe master spends most of his time?\\nMother- Yes; clean, kind thoughts make marks on", "height": "4208", "width": "2954", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Character of the Master. 2 1 7\\nour faces, and wicked, cruel thoughts leave their print also.\\nOur thoughts pull up or draw down the corners of the\\nmouth, and they make little wrinkles under the eyes and in\\nthe forehead. Sometimes they make little holes in the\\ncheeks, which we call dimples. If our thoughts are kind,\\npleasant, happy thoughts, they draw the corners of the\\nmouth upward the wrinkles are smoothed out of the\\nforehead, and there are some merry ones which gather\\nround the eyes and make the face look so pleasant that we\\nwant to get near its owner and become better acquainted.\\nAmy: I didn t know that our thoughts looked out in\\nour faces.\\nMother: If either good or bad thoughts come to live\\nin your mind all the time, they will print themselves on\\nyour face and change your looks. The good thoughts\\nwill make your face beautiful, though your hair may be as\\nstraight as an Indian s, your nose crooked, and your mouth\\nlarge. On the other hand, though your hair may curl,\\nyour skin be as fair as a peach blossom, your features\\nbe perfect, yet if you let bad thoughts live in the mind,\\nyour face will no longer look lovely to others. It is only\\na kind, unselfish heart that can give true beauty.\\nHelen: I have often wished that I might be pretty,\\nlike some of the girls at school, but I know now how to\\nbe lovable if I am not beautiful.\\nMother: There are a few other things which will\\nhelp you to have a good-looking face. First, keep it\\nclean. Then the next thing is to eat good food, that\\nyou may have a clear, healthy skin and bright eyes. You", "height": "4182", "width": "2952", "jp2-path": "houseweliveinorm00farn_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2i8 The House We Live In.\\nshould also be careful to brush your teeth, that these little\\nguards may always be dressed in the cleanest of white\\nuniforms. Then keep your hair in good order. Brush it\\noften, and keep the whole head sweet and clean. If you\\ndo these things, you will always be pleasant to look at.\\nI was reading not long ago about a little girl who was\\ntold of the wrinkles that smiles leave on our faces, and\\nthe wrinkles that scowls leave, as well as those left by\\npain, thought, and care. The child listened, and then said\\nbrightly, My grandma has lots of wrinkles, but they re all\\nsmile wrinkles, every one of themr\\nSo, my children, as the days pass by, see that your\\nmind is pleasant, and your body-temple kept clean and\\npure. 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