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... rest . The lunch- eon - basket probably contains food suited to attract a jaded system and to produce dyspepsia - cake and pie and doughnuts . The child finishes the school- tasks , and goes home with an armful of books and an aching ...
... rest . The lunch- eon - basket probably contains food suited to attract a jaded system and to produce dyspepsia - cake and pie and doughnuts . The child finishes the school- tasks , and goes home with an armful of books and an aching ...
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... . Its Creator has willed it so , and for this life it must be So. To give a body insufficient food , and to exact a full task from the brain , is slow suicide . The nour- ishment goes to the brain , while the rest of FOOD AND SLEEP . 21.
... . Its Creator has willed it so , and for this life it must be So. To give a body insufficient food , and to exact a full task from the brain , is slow suicide . The nour- ishment goes to the brain , while the rest of FOOD AND SLEEP . 21.
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David Francis Lincoln. ishment goes to the brain , while the rest of the body grows puny , and the foundation of slow diseases , such as consumption , is often laid . True , there have been men and women with whom sedentary habits and a ...
David Francis Lincoln. ishment goes to the brain , while the rest of the body grows puny , and the foundation of slow diseases , such as consumption , is often laid . True , there have been men and women with whom sedentary habits and a ...
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... rest on Sundays . Few are really aware of the value of the Sabbath as a physical agent of health . The teacher should so use it as to get a sense of renewed life every Monday , and , unless in most vigorous health , should certainly not ...
... rest on Sundays . Few are really aware of the value of the Sabbath as a physical agent of health . The teacher should so use it as to get a sense of renewed life every Monday , and , unless in most vigorous health , should certainly not ...
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... rest of everything except the brain . " As distant vision represents rest for the eyes , and near vision represents exertion , care should be taken , in reading , not unnecessarily to increase this exertion . by holding the book too ...
... rest of everything except the brain . " As distant vision represents rest for the eyes , and near vision represents exertion , care should be taken , in reading , not unnecessarily to increase this exertion . by holding the book too ...
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Page 134 - A child, young person, or woman, shall not be allowed to work between the fixed and traversing part of any self-acting machine while the machine is in motion by the action of steam, water, or other mechanical power.