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Rh 7. — When you wash your face and hands, do not splash water about the room.

8. — Rinsing the mouth with water each morning and rubbing the teeth with the fingers serves to preserve the teeth.

9. — In combing your hair do not stand in the middle of the room, but in a corner.

10. — Your morning prayer should be said, not as a matter of an indifferent habit, but in fervent gratitude to God, who has guarded you during the night; pray him humbly to bless your actions this day; neither forget to sing, and to read the Bible.

11. — Do not eat your breakfast on the street or in school; but ask your parents to give it to you at home.

12. — Then gather up your books and come to school in proper time.

13. — After supper do not sit down in a corner to sleep, but attend to your evening devotions — song, prayer and reading, before retiring.

14. — Undress in a private place; or if it must be done in the presence of others, be modest and retiring.

15. — Examine occasionally the clothing you take off, for possible rents, that they may be mended betimes.

16. — Do not scatter your clothes about the room, but lay them together in a definite place, that you may readily find them in the morning.