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Show o BEGIN NOW! You're a troglodyte. Your greatest grandfather was a cave dweller. He went into a cave to escape an arctic blizzard. The blizzards and snowy blasts and avalanches from the glaciers kept him shut up so long in the cave that he got the indoor habit. And that is why you live in an air-tight house and breathe dead, polluted air when just outside your door there is a limitless ocean of vitalizing oxygen pure as crystal, laden with power, with health and vim just what a man needs to fill him with snap and ginger and "pep." And the outdoors has healing in its wings. The emaciated, dying consumptive is carried out-of-doors on a cot and comes back with plump and rosy cheeks, with a springy step, and with a song in his heart, instead of a funeral dirge. And the outdoors has health for the dyspeptic, the neurasthenic, the rheumatic, and for the victim of headaches, head-aches, nerves, neuralgias and nearly all the other miseries miser-ies that flesh is heir to. The snow and ice of winter are gone; the trees are budding; the wood flowers are peeping through the leaves; the meadows are greening; the song birds are calling, and the great, beautiful, all-creating, all-healing out-of-doors is ready to greet you with a smile, and to bestow such incomparable gifts of health and joy and efficiency as will open a new era in your life. Learn to walk. Don't ride unless you must. Don't miss a chance for a "hike." Make an opportunity. Get a nature book and study the birds, the bugs, the' trees, the flowers all the live things in the fields and the woods. Watch nature at work. Note what the rushing river does how it builds and destroys. Study the winds and the clouds, the hills and gullies, the swamps and marshes. Explore the fence corners. Peep into thickets and under stones and logs. Note the order in which the trees and shrubs leaf out and the flowers blossom. Pry into nature's secret places and get acquainted with your environment. , Get interested in the great outside world. Get ac- |
