Catechism of health : for the use of schools, and for domestic instruction ... : Translated from the last improved German edition of this work, by J.H. Basse / by B.C. Faust.

  • Faust, Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842.
Date:
1794
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    it ought to be different in every refpeft from that of older or grown-up perfons. 104. What other reafon is there for making this diftinftion between the drefs of children and grown up perfons ? ^. To induce children to live with lefs reftraint and greater happinefs in the fociety of each other to imprefs upon their minds an idea of their weak, helplefs condition, in order thereby to check the too early ebulli- tions of that pride which leads children to ape the cuftoms and a6lions of grown-up perfons; a praftice unbecoming at their age, and dangerous, perhaps, to their health and morals. 105. How, and of what materials, ought children's garments to be made ? ^. A child ought to wear a wide linen frock, v/hite, with blue ftripes, having wide fliort fleeves, and a Ihirt of the fame form. Observation.' The fhape of the frock is reprefented in the frontifpiece to this book i it ouo-ht to be without pocket-holes, and not very long, having the fleeves of fuffi- cient length to reach down to the el- bows, and no farther. The collar of the fhirt to fall back over that of the frock,