| Show igind I 1 find many golden nuggets among the I 1 lie late dio lewis saying and nave have picked out the following samples NINE WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE 1 wear narrow thin shoes 2 wear a snug fitting corset 3 8 sit up in hot unventilated rooms room 3 till midnight 4 sleep on en feathers in a small close ceol ae room 6 5 eat bat rich food rapidly and at irregular times 6 use coffee tea spirits and tobacco 7 stuff yourself with cake confectionery ana and sweetmeats sweet meats and swallow a few patent medicines boget to aget rid ol of them 8 marry a fashionable wife and live beyond your income 8 9 employ a fashionable and needy doctor to attend you in every slight ailment have you never noticed that the only grapes that become perfectly ripe ana sweet the only peaches that take on those beautiful red cheeks and offer that luscious sweetness are those on the outside entirely uncovered by the leaves and exposed to the sun gods laws are the same in human life I 1 asked an old tra trainer luer who had charge of one of the successful madison square garden pedestrians how much three cigars a day during the three montas of training raining would probably affect his bis man 1 41 I am sure it would beat him was the reply A long experience has taught tue fraternity bernit y of trainers that tobacco is an enemy to muscle and a still gr ater enemy to nerve tone and endurance nothing so expands the minds gives clearness to the ideas elasticity to the form and health to the system as early risi rising n and a walk before breakfast if your sluggard be not a dolt already be ip i in a fair way to become one women would gain rosy cheeks by getting up before or about daybreak and men secure health of body and mind i sl johnny my dear cant you e eat R t some ome S morel no mother 1 am so 80 full I 1 cant swallow another mout mouthful 11 Is johnny you eat a little more of you von were to stand aal up I 1 not only do mothers stuff their children into levers and bowel diseases and numberless other troubles but they lay the foundation tor for that craving appetite which in all their future life leads to so much mischief I 1 dont believe in shoulder braces nature furnishes the needed braces to keep the shoulders in position and when you use the artificial these nat rural ones become weak for want of exercise the best way to cure stooping shoulders is to carry a weight on the head bead a half hour morning and evening make the weight large there is no othet other single exercise so valuable as carrying a weight on thel head bead A bag of sand weighing from 20 to 60 80 pounds is a good weight let the me lay idy down a few rules of elocution these rules are not the result of experience as a teacher or pupil of elocution but bat of observation anti and long loag familiarity with the anatomy and physiology ot the vocal apparatus rule 1 stand erect 2 use a low key 8 speak deliberately A 4 articulate distinctly these four or rules rule would hardly fill a volume but they ar the essential elements of elocution it 16 it is undoubtedly true that many plants in a bedroom especially of the sorts that emit strong odors odor way roay if ventilation be imperfect pro prove m mischievous Is chievous but I 1 should desire no more healthful dorm dormitory atory than a large greenhouse green house bouse litti good ventilation one cannot enter such a place without feeling strengthened exhilarated A f few ew of the ordinary house plants in your bedroom will prove not only agreeable but healthful I 1 walking is the best of exercises and it if spirited und and the arms be allowed to swing freely it brings into play the muscles of tue the upper part of the body as well as the lower halt half walking if well managed is better in one respect than exercise in a gymnasium where you get little sunlight and where you are likely to breathe dust and impure air thousands of persons starve themselves into thinness paleness and nervousness by living on white bread and sweet things and sleeping too little 0 oatmeal cracked wheat graham granata bead and fruit with plenty of sleep would make them plump and ruddy much is said of overwork nowadays and much that is nonsensical gentlemen c came me to consult me almost dally daily full of the notion that overwork if is killing them nineteen times in twenty it is bad food bad hours cigars and other abuses with good food properly eaten plenty of sleep a clean skin and exercise in the open air not noc one in ten of these patients would break down from lover overwork work 11 well I 1 said my friend if YOU yon would save this child and that is the only available sleeping room for it those trees which shade that part ot 01 the house must be cut iowa down trees should never be allowed to shade human dwellings they are very beautiful and noble objects to my own fancy more beautiful and noble objects than i any other productions of our planet and I 1 would have them multiplied but they must not shade our homes if you yon keep to the safe and good in food and drink there is no ao truth in the old saw that what is one mans meat is another mans poison this old saw aw is make to cover a multitude of dietetic sins in the london bedi medial al times appears the following follow inc paragraph dr reath heath of Newcastle has been the last to raise his bis voice against tea but it has long been a fact familiar to us that tea is a most fruitful source of dyspepsia aeng the vast numbers of poor women who frequent the patient booms of our london hospitals we should not be tar wrong in saying that two thirds are suffering from dyspepsia this dyspepsia almost invariably arises from two causes the want of food and the abuse of articles like tea but which a aggravate bravate the consequent conditions of the digestion an old maxim runs thus rise else at six and eat at ten eat at six and bed at ten ten tan gimeli ten years you may live then that means two meals and eight hours sleep dally daily is likely to insure insuik a hundred years ot life there Is more truth than poetry in that old saw |
