_First_—Cleanliness is next to godliness. Practice it in every feature of your daily life. _Second_—Have some purpose to achieve and steadfastly work to attain it. _Third_—Cultivate self-discipline; be master of your passions, under all circumstances. _Fourth_—Study to know the laws of life that yield harmony and good health and obey them. Look on the bright side of life always. _Fifth_—Avoid intemperance in all things. _Sixth_—Cultivate every mental and bodily quality that will make you firm in goodness, strong and physically able to be useful to your kind, generous and broad-minded, self-sacrificing, and you will daily and hourly be lovely and grow into the beautiful. MEMORY RHYMES The Months Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, But February, which has twenty-eight alone. Except in leap-year; then’s the time When February’s days are twenty-nine. Birthdays Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all. He who’s born on the day of rest In health and fortunes has the best. The lines refer to the days of the week as birthdays. They are, in idea, the same as the more familiar lines: Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace; Wednesday’s child is merry and glad, Thursday’s child is sorry and sad; Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child must work for its living; While the child that is born on the Sabbath Day Is blithe and bonny, and good and gay. Short Grammar Three little words you often see Are Articles, a, an and the. A Noun’s the name of anything, As school or garden, hoop or swing. Adjectives tell the kind of noun, As great, small, pretty, white or brown. Instead of nouns, the Pronouns stand— His head, her face, your arm, my hand. Verbs tell something to be done— To read, count, laugh, sing, jump or run. How things are done, the adverbs tell— As slowly, quickly, ill or well. Conjunctions join the words together— As men or women, wind or weather. The Preposition stands before The noun, as in or through the door. The Interjection shows surprise— As, Oh! how pretty; Ah! how wise. The whole are called nine parts of speech, Which reading, writing, speaking teach. To Tell the Age of Horses To tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel. Two middle “nippers” you behold Before the colt is two weeks old, Before eight weeks will two more come; Eight months the “corners” cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two years, from the second pair; In three, the corners, too, are bare.