1. Don’t go into closets with a lighted match to look for clothing. Why?
2. Don’t use kerosene oil to kindle fires in stoves.
3. Don’t put hot ashes into wooden boxes. Why?
4. Don’t allow lace curtains near gas brackets.
5. Don’t allow oily rags near stoves or about the house.
6. Don’t keep matches in paper boxes or lying about carelessly. Use a covered metal box.
7. Don’t forget that matches are the beginning of many fires.
8. Don’t hang clothing near open fires or stoves.
9. Don’t fill lamps after dark, and never when lighted.
10. Don’t allow rubbish to collect in hallways or on fire escapes.
11. Don’t burn leaves and dead grass on windy days.
12. Don’t fail to look twice at everything that looks like fire. Every day is fire prevention day.
QUESTIONS
Have you ever visited a fire house? Tell about it.
When a fire occurs out in the country where there is no fire department, what has to be done?
Why is it necessary to have a fire department in the cities?
Can you think of some way in which fires start?
How can we prevent fires?
If you discovered a fire, what would you do?
What do you think of a person who would turn in a false alarm?
Do you have a fire drill in your school?
Every boy and girl is saved many a long tramp by the faithful services of the postmen. How?
Did you ever stop to think that we may help the postmen:
by addressing letters properly;
by writing plainly in addressing letters;
by placing the stamp in the upper right-hand corner;
by answering the bell promptly for the postman; or, better,
by saving time for the postman by having a mail-box.