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Show Beware of These Poisons Use the Antidotes BT BEATRICE FAIRFAX. HERE are a few poisons to fight shy of, girls. Perhaps you think that you are old enough, and wise enough, to keep away from poisons-, but you're not, my dears. There are isidlous poisons that the oldest and wisest of us don't recognize. There are, for Instance, the poisons of foul air and fatigue. When the poison of foul air gets Into your lungs, it makes you susceptible to all sorts of diseases. It is a poison that sups your life blood and leaves your cheeks pasty and unhealthy looking look-ing and your eyes dull. There is no greater robber of good looks than foul air. Foul air includes- that other poison, fatigue. You can be healthily tired by a long walk in the fresh air or by hard outdoor work; but there is no poison in that fatigue. v The fatigue that poisons is that which comes from working in company with dozens of people in airless rooms. The wise, far-sighted employer knows that fresh air means good work, and he sees that hl workrooms are well ventilated. There are poisonous foods, too fcor'A that you like, perhaps, but that are indigestible. Every girl who snatches a hurried luncheon of soggy pie and coffee is poisoning her digestion diges-tion and making herself a victim of nervous indigestion. Milk, eggs, soup and rice are all as cheap as pie and coffee, and far more wholesome. Try them for a change. Of all the blessings that can be bestowed be-stowed upon you, health is the most precious. A healthy body makes a happy heart. If you are tired and miserable, mis-erable, dragging yourself from one duty to the next, you can not be blamed If you fall to appreciate the blue of the sky and the gold of the SUli. But if you are strong and well, no work seems too hard, and you are happy merely through the joy of existence. ex-istence. By avoiding some of the poisons I have mentioned you may do a lot toward to-ward securing health and happiness. So much for the bodily poisons; now for the mental. The list of mental poisons is so long that it is hopeless to try and enumerate enumer-ate them; a few will do. There are envy, hatred, gossip, bad temper (that's a violent poison), un-charltableness, un-charltableness, sulklness; oh, there are many, many of them. Your heart is like a shell In a chemist's chem-ist's shop, filled with bottles labeled with the names of emotions. The day you take a dose of bad temper tem-per poisons the day for you and every one with whom you come in contact. Bad temper is- a far-reaching poison, for under its influence things are done and said which can not be recalled. A spoonful of gossip may poison the life of some one of your acquaintances. You don't mean harm, nor realize what you are doing, but the poison of gossip is most' insidious. You all know how hatred can poison the head and disfigure the face. And envy; no poison is more biting and corrosive than envy. Uncharltableness is a cold, slow poison pois-on that deadens and paralyzes the heart. There Is another mental poison, the poison that suggests impure and vulgar vul-gar thoughts and puts a wrong meaning mean-ing and conception on things. It is a nauseous and unwholesome poison; keep it out of your hearts, my girls. Don't you think you can try to keep all these mental poisons out of-your mind. Kindness is the great antidote for all hearts. Be on the watch for them; don't let the ugly, insidious poisons creep In unawares. un-awares. Try to keep both mind and body pure and wholesome.. A healthy mind and a healthy body mean happiness; try and get it, and hold it. |