ne which is
in line with the child's interest is also the instruction which is most
effective.

The effort throughout has been to make scientific truths simple and
concrete, and so captivating that the young pupil will at once find
interest in them. The early years of child-life are the most
impressionable; it is, therefore, especially important that we stress
during these years that which means more to the conservation of life
than any other one thing, viz., hygiene.

Lessons of personal cleanliness, the necessity for good food, fresh air
and exercise are the truths which are the underlying principles of these
stories. With these as suggestions, the teacher may easily develop
further.

The mother as well as the teacher will find them helpful as she gathers
her little ones around her knee at the evening hour, in response to the
request for "a story."

The questions following each story, a kind of catechism, supply more
information than it was thought best to give in the story itself.

The illustrations have been prepared especially for this work and make
the lessons of the story more impressive.

The Author desires to acknowledge her obligations to Mr. Charles Jerome
for permission to use "The Sand Bed"; to the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union for "The White Ship," and "Clovis, The Boy King," by
Miss Christine Tinling. To Misses Marion Chafee and Bessie McCann,
students of the Hygiene Department of the Mississippi Normal College for
the "Hygiene Song" and "Little Fairies": also to Miss M. Larsen for "One
Little Girl" and the poem, "Jack Frost"; to Mr. O. S. Hoffman for the
poem, "The Five Best Doctors," to Messrs. Flanagan and Company, for
permission to use the anonymous poem, "Merry Sunshine," and to Miss
Virginia R. Grundy for "A Child's Calendar."

M. F. J.

JULY, 1916.

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE WONDERFUL ENGINE 1
TWO LITTLE PLANTS 6
THE STORY OF A FLY 11
SWAT THE FLY 18
THE STORY OF THE RAIN BARREL 19
MALARIA 24
JACK FROST 29
JACK FROST, A POEM 34
A STORY OF TUBERCUL