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Show j M Important trinity l BY MARY HENRY ROSSITER. Goodness,- health, rbeaut-, ' are one. Goodness is the perfection cf character. Health is the perfection of body. "A sound mind in asoun-d body" is a. complete com-plete deMnition of beauty.- Here is a trinity three in one that all may understand un-derstand and believe. . ' ' The homely saying "Be' good and i you'll behand-some," is but a half truth ! if taken at the popular estimate of its j meaning. It Is not enough, to "mean! well," to be ''good" morally or spirit- ) ually alone, if you would be handsome, i In these days it is not enough simply j to have high desires and noble ideals, j simply to live a "blameless. life," if you j would be wholly good; for goodness, j health, beauty, are one, arid hs who ; would have perfection of character and j perfection of body, the glory of true j beauty, must us.e knowledge and wis- dom and strength of will in bringing '. all the physical, the intellectual and the spiritual forces of his whols being-intp perfect harmony with the laws of na- 1 ture, which are the laws of God. Disease and suffering followruncon-scious followruncon-scious sins against nature just as inevitably inev-itably as if the sinner had understood and accepted their consequences. The man who keeps late hours attending religious services, and the . man who keeps late hours drinking and carousing, carous-ing, must pay the same penalty so far as the late hours and loss cf sleep are concerned. The woman who gives her children unsuitable food, and. trains them in unhygienic habits of living, though never ro conscier.tiouslv, i3 sowing the seeds of disease and ugliness ugli-ness just as certainly as if she did it intelligently and purposely. Hence, to be beautiful, we must first have knowledge. knowl-edge. . it. is imperative, in the first place, that the relation between physical habits hab-its and functions, and beauty of person per-son and of mind, be studied and understood. under-stood. Tradition and custom are the natural enemies of improvement. In all ages the doubter, the questioner, the investigator, his been the friend of progress. The person today who . would become beautiful must bring- every habit of his life into the light of present pres-ent knowledge and have it examined by the latest scientific standards of health. He must b? convinced that how to- live is a sacred study, and if any habit is condemned by this study, he must be ready, to carry out the verdict with determination de-termination and comimoni sense.'-" - ' .:.-- |