Show SPENDTHRIFTS OF HEAITH Horace Mann justly remarks A spendthrift of health is one of the most reprehensible of spendthrifts I am certain I could have performed twice the labor both better and with greater ease to myself had I known as much of the laws of health at 20 as I do now In college I was taught all about the motions of the planets as carefully as if they would have been in danger of getting off the track if I had not known how to trace their orbits but about my own organization and the conditions in dispensible to the healthful functions func-tions of my own body I was left in profoundest ignorance Nothing could have been more preposterous L ought to have begun at home and taken the stars when it should cometh come-th ir turn The consequence was I just broke down at the commencement commence-ment of my second college year and have never had a well day since Whatever labor I have been able to do has been done only on credit not on capitala most ruinous way either in regard to health or money For the last twentyfive years I have been put from day to day on my good behavior and during the whole of this period as an Hibernian Hiber-nian would say If I had lived as other people do for a month I should have died in a fortnight IF a |