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Show I HEALTH MAXIMS. (By Georsro Wharton James, In Physical Uultare) SUNSHINE. Got plenty of sunshine. Shut up a dog in a cellar and ho will dio of consumption in six ' months or less. Rcfuso to work m in a room that docs not get tho '" ' direct rays of tho sun, or, if your work cpmpols you to remain re-main in such a place for awhile, use overy free moment to bo ( out iu the sunshine. Walk out in tho sunsniuo on overy possible possi-ble chance, exeroise, breathe j deep, breathe long, play, lot , your childron play, eat, tako a . nap, do anything and overy- :J thing you can out in tho sun- shine, and you will bo that j , much nearer perfect health. I ! BAD TKHEPR. Never get angry. Auger geu-( geu-( i Grates poisons that produce I disease. A nursing mother thrown into a violent fit of anger has often beeu kuown to poison her nursing baby. Anger An-ger is a sign of weakness. It shows that you don't have self-control. self-control. And moro than that it is a playing into the hands of your enemy. What sight can please him moro than to see you allow what ho has said or ilouo to throw you oil your balance, bal-ance, to take away your solf-ontralf solf-ontralf Be a man, bo n wo-tian, wo-tian, and say: No person liv-ug liv-ug shall control me but myself. 1 will not be made angry by anyone DI8COUBAOEMENT. Never be discouraged. The man who loses heart never wins a fight. If your disease clings to you, all tho more reason why I you should be full of hope that I the methods you are now following fol-lowing will lead to a cure. Bot-tor Bot-tor dio with your face up than livo a little louger with your oyos, your whole body, your very soul, cast down. Keep your eyes starward, for in the I stars thero is courage and in the sun life. Kobcrt Browning's Brown-ing's last word to the world was against slothfulness, un-manliness un-manliness aud mawkishness. NEVEIt TU11N YOUR HACK. March breast forward. Don't doubt tho sunshine. It is bound to como soon. Right must triumph. If you fall, riso up, press forward with renewed energy. Tho baftliug in your fight should be aud is an incitement incite-ment to harder fighting. You sleep merely to awake tho moro alert, the stronger, the bettor. FAITH. Begin every day with faith. Faith in God, faith in man, faith in womon, faith iu the healing power of sunshine, fresh air, oxerciso, earnest good thoughts, endeavor, faith that it is moro natural to be healthy than to be sick, faith that men would rather bo good than evil, faith in tho Ultimato good of all things. It is better than a cup of coffee, a glass of champagne, a drink of whisky to have faith. Begin the day with faith, and keep it up all day. Then ronow your faith before you go to bed, aud sleep tho sleep of faith, trust, rest and health. LAUGHTER. Laugh every chauce you get. Laughter is better than medicine. medi-cine. Throw physic to the dogs, take a laugh instead of a pill. Swallow a pun instead of a dose, and writo down a good joko in your noto book instead of the name of a now nostrum, or tho address of a clover physician. phy-sician. Laugh and grow fat. RE TEMPERATE. Be temperate in all things. But remember that you cau't be temperate in evil things. There is no temperate liar, or thief, or adulterer, or self-polluter, or murderer, or backbiter. Imagine a man cominitting suicide sui-cide temperately, or wrecking a passenger train with temperance. temper-ance. Temporance refers to the moderate and proper use of right things; never to make any use whatever of wrong things. Whisky, wine, tobacco, drugs, wo classify with wrong things. Don't uso them at all. You can't be temperate with them, any moro than you can be a temperate liar or thief. Abstain, for that is tho only temperance. But eat good food tomponitely. Drink good dri ilcs temperately. Exercise temperately. Dance temperately. temperate-ly. Walk temperately. Read, write, talk, do everything good with temperance. fashion's follies. "Fools of fashion." This sentence comes to my mind ever time I see a woman with a miniature mattress on the back of her head, a hat like a coal-scuttle, or a cover for a hogshead, a good-form corset, a slim waist, a pair of high-heeled high-heeled or tight shoes, or a hobble-skirt. And just tho same when 1 see a man with a cuff around nis uect, a padded coat, a dress suit, ttio bottoms of his pantaioous turned up on a lino clay, or sucking the head of a cano no does not need to walk wit n. wo are tools or lasuion in diet in tuougnt, in religion, m pontics, iu uverytniug. It wo are to bo fools, at least lot us do our own tninkiug, and be wilful, deliberate fools, In folly of our own euoosiug, instead of blindly jumping through the hole in the fashionable way just as all tho other fool sheep have boen doing for a couplo of thousand years or more. If I am to be a fool, I'll be my own fool. To be a fool in some peoplo's estimation is ono of the first long stops towards health. FRESH air. Windows up! Doors open! Let in the fresh air whenover and whore ver you can. You can't get too much fresh air or sunshino. If the air sooms cold, thon breathe deeper, put on more clothes, but lot it in. Don't be afraid of it. Treat it as your good friend. It certainly cer-tainly means nothing but good to you. So up with the windows; win-dows; throw wido open the doors. |