I want and on the very cold nights my room will not get so dreadfully cold that I shall hate to dress in it."

"Miss Hood told us," said Paul, "that before the white men came to America the Indians were very strong and well, because they lived outdoors so much, but that after they began to live in houses they came down with tuberculosis, lots of them.”

"I don't doubt it," nodded Uncle George. "You know, Paul, that there is no medicine to cure tuberculosis. Fresh air, sunshine, good food, right exercise and plenty of sleep are the only remedies. Of course,

there are tuberculosis germs about most of the time; but there is no use in fretting very much about germs. I don't mean that you should be careless and use public cups or towels or put things into your mouth. It is just as important to keep yourself in first-rate condition, after all, as to avoid germs. Then, if a germ should happen along, he would take one look at your red cheeks and bright eyes and straight figure and he would say, 'No use for me to tackle him!" "

"Yes," laughed Paul. "If a germ saw me, I guess he'd move right on until he saw Kid Frost. He's awfully pale and sickly, you know. Then Mr. Germ would just go for poor Kid and finish him."

"Has Kid joined the Health Crusaders?" inquired Uncle George.,

"Yes," said Paul, "but he's having an awful time to remember. Kid's all right, though. He'll get his badge in time."

They sat silent for a time. Then Uncle George said, "Do you know, Paul, I've been thinking about the old Crusaders who went to Palestine

to get the Saviour's tomb away from the heathen. They were brave men and doubtless thought they were doing a fine thing. But how much more worth while your Crusade is not to rescue an empty

CRUSADER

tomb from a lot of other men, but to save your body and others' bodies from sickness and death. While we've been sitting here, I made up some verses about it. Would you like to hear them?"

Paul nodded and Uncle George repeated these

lines:

"In days of old, Crusaders bold,
A glittering cavalcade,

To save the Holy Sepulchre
Rode forth on a crusade.

"Not ours to-day to fight as they
With battle-axe and brand;

'Tis for no sepulchre we strive
And in no far-off land.

"We seek to save God's temple,

In His own image made,

From sickness, suffering and death.
This is our new Crusade!"

THINGS TO DO

Ask your teacher to write to the National Tuberculosis Association, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, and get for your class some score-cards and directions for starting a Modern Health Crusade. When you have learned how to do it, join one of the National Tournaments. How good a score can you make for a month?

THINGS TO REMEMBER

Sickness and disease are nearly always preventable. The way to fight them is by acquiring habits that will make us so healthy that germs can do us no harm. One of the worst of these germs causes tuberculosis. No medicine that we yet know will cure tuberculosis, but it can be prevented by good food, rest, fresh air and clean ways of living. People who have it can be taught how to prevent its spread and how to improve their health by good ways of living.

Some people fear that fresh air will give them colds. Nothing is more untrue. No one was ever hurt by sleeping outdoors or in fresh air, if his body had been warm enough. So protect your head with a cap when you sleep outdoors. Wear warm sleeping garments. Use plenty of covers. Get the habit of sleeping with windows open. Remember that to do a thing once in a while is not so valuable as to do it every day at the same time. Each time we do anything it gets easier to do that thing. Soon what was hard to do becomes a habit. We form health habits as we do any other habits. Our health is no better than our health habits.*

TO THINK ABOUT

Can you give a list of eleven health habits of the Modern Health Crusade? How many of these habits have you?

Can you explain why each one was chosen as a habit worth forming?

Can you keep all eleven habits for one week? Two weeks?

How long has it taken you to become a page? A knight? What arguments will you use to persuade some other boy or girl to join the Modern Health Crusade?

* The Modern Health Crusade is a fight to get good health habits. Read again the list of these habits on the card Paul showed his Uncle George. Every boy or girl should possess these habits before he is fourteen years old.

CHAPTER XIV

SCREENS AND TRAPS

"AND now," said Father, "all that the house needs is a set of good, stout screens at all the windows to keep out the mosquitoes and flies."

"It makes me cross," said Uncle George, "to think that Pleasantville doesn't get rid of its flies and mosquitoes then we should not need screens. I went past Mr. Mullins' stable to-day and I don't believe he has had the manure carted away for weeks. The flies are breeding in it by thousands. It's no wonder that his grocery store is full of them.”

"And every house near that stable is pestered with them, too," said Mother. "It's rather late for a flykilling campaign this summer, but next year, early in the spring, I really think we ought to start one. If all the stables and outhouses are made clean and all the garbage pails covered, so that the flies have no place to lay their eggs and nothing to eat, we may be able, in another year, to do almost without screens."

"It doesn't seem fair, does it?" said Paul. "Just because Mr. Mullins is lazy and careless, we have to buy screens for our house. If he lets the flies lay eggs in his barn, he ought to pay for our screens.

"I quite agree with you, Paul. It isn't fair at all," agreed Mother. "But that is what the Bible means when it says, 'Ye are all members one of another.' If any one of us is selfish and careless it