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Title: Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks

Author: May Farinholt-Jones

Illustrator: Pauline Wright

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Language: English

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KEEP-WELL STORIES FOR LITTLE FOLKS

BY

MAY FARINHOLT-JONES, M.D.

PROFESSOR OF HYGIENE AND SANITATION, AND RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
MISSISSIPPI NORMAL COLLEGE

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
PAULINE WRIGHT
SOPHIE NEWCOMB COLLEGE

[Illustration]

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1916. BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1916
REPRINTED NOVEMBER 23, 1916

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.

FOREWORD

The Author, in her work with young teachers, has frequently noted the
great difficulty they seem to have in presenting hygienic facts to
little children in a manner so attractive as to catch and hold their
attention.

The child's mind dwells constantly in the realm of imagination; dry
facts are too prosaic to enter this realm. The "Land of Story Books" is
the most fascinating of all lands, and therefore the Author has
endeavored to weave hygienic facts into stories that will appeal to the
child's imagination. She believes the truths of hygienic living and
habits in the stories will "creep up on the blind side," so to speak,
and impress themselves upon the young mind.

The child can appreciate only those hygienic facts which can be applied
in every-day living: he has no interest in health as an end in itself.
Furthermore, that instruction in hygiene which is given as an end in
itself, and which does not reach beyond the school-room in its
influence, is a failure. Therefore, that instruction in hygie