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 TUBERCULOSIS 35 IT IS TIME THAT YOU SHOULD STOP 41 A TRUE STORY 42 TWO LITTLE WINDOWS 46 MERRY SUNSHINE 50 A WONDERFUL STREAM 52 TWO MILLS 57 A CHILD'S CALENDAR 61 THE TOOTHBRUSH BRIGADE 62 MR. FLY AND MRS. MOSQUITO 64 A HYGIENE SONG 70 OUR LITTLE ENEMIES 71 ONE LITTLE GIRL 77 CLOVIS, THE BOY KING 78 WHAT TEMPERANCE BRINGS 85 THE WHITE SHIP 86 A QUEER CASE 94 BREATHE MORE 97 THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE BUTTERFLY 97 LITTLE BAREFOOT 103 THE LITTLE FAIRIES 107 THE RED CROSS SEAL 111 THE SAND BED 119 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 120 A NEW STORY OF THE LION AND THE MOUSE 124 FIRST AID TO THE INJURED AND THE BOY SCOUTS 127 AN INVITATION 131 A GREAT FIGHT 132