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Show Health Notes If you would increase your happiness happi-ness and prolong your life, forget your neighbor's faults. Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the temptation. tempta-tion. Forget the peculiarities and fault-finding of your firends and only remember their good points. When you retire for the night, you are not to ask yourself whether the day has been a good day or a bad day. You are not to review the past, or look forward into the futura. You should empty your mind of all conscious con-scious thought. If you wish for health and happiness In old age, regulate your mind and body according to the rules of sweet reasonableness and eat and drink about one-half of what you could eat and drink. The whole secret of remaining young In spite of years Is to cherish enthusiasm In oneself by poetry, by contemplation, by charity that Is, by the maintenance of harmony in the toul. One of the most important adjuncts to proper diet is perfect mastication. Every morsel of food should be so thoroughly chewed and mixed with the saliva that it becomes a liquid before leaving the mouth. This is a high-pressure age, and In trying to "keep up with the procession" proces-sion" many persons do more than they are capable of doing, drain their vital powers and become physical and nervous nerv-ous wrecks. To yield and yield again to the expression ex-pression or every emotion is weak-minded, weak-minded, and leads to weak-mindedness, besides weakening the body and impairing im-pairing the health generally. The world will he to you very much what you make it. The cheerful are its real possessors, for the world belongs be-longs to those who enjoy it. Cheerfulness Is not only power; It is mental progression, and health and happiness and long life to yourelf aDd to your friends and funr" |