wded, dusty, or damp
rooms. Breathe deep.

4. Hold shoulders up.

5. Use your own individual drinking cup.

6. Remember that consumption is spread by careless spitting. Do not spit
on the floor of rooms, halls, or cars.

7. Keep clean and bathe frequently, at least twice a week.

8. Always wash your hands before eating.

9. Brush your teeth after each meal.

10. Never put money, pencils, pens, or anything that another person has
handled, in your mouth.

11. Do not bite off fruit that other people have bitten.

12. Do not kiss babies or sick persons.

QUESTIONS

1. What do you call the little plants that cause
tuberculosis or consumption? How big are these
plants or germs?

2. What part of garden plants are these germs
like? Why do you think so?

3. Big plants in the garden get their food from
the water in the soil. I wonder if any of you can
tell me where these little germ-plants get their
food? When we see persons with consumption we know
that these little germ-plants are growing on the
cells of their lungs. This causes their lung cells
and the tissue that binds them together to decay.
Then these people have to cough and spit this
decayed matter up. Every bit of it is often filled
with these little germ-plants, or seed of
consumption.

4. Then what should be done with this spit to keep
any one else from taking the disease?

5. Germs are often carried in little particles of
dust. How may we keep from getting germs in this
way?

6. How else may these little plants get into our
bodies?

7. Can you think of another way by which we might
get these plants into our bodies? (From milk.)
What insect may carry the germs from the sick-room
to our dining-room table?

8. What did Uncle John say was the only cure for
consumption or tuberculosis?

9. What can each of us do to prevent these plants
from getting into our bodies, and to prevent them
from growing if they should happen to get into our
bodies?

IT IS TIME THAT YOU SHOULD STOP

"Whenever you spit, whenever you sneeze,
Whenever your rugs you beat,
When you scatter dust with a feath