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                                            About Health -CMI&re, lead
and 2   ;Mber
          Life preleag$ by Care.             Dear children, listen while
I tell you some-
               Theo yof the human race is sdily thing which deeply eoncerns
you welfare. The
     The longeviq          of theyHutton  raeubject is the shape of your
bodies. God knew
increasing in civilized nations, if atatistitil the best shape. He oreated
us upright, in Hi
tables can be trusted, and the following item  own imagP
                                              None of the inferior animals
walk upright.
from the ethodiat shows the infuence of good  God fitted all the great vital
organs in your
keeping on long life:                       bodies to an erect spine. Do
your shoulders
                                            ever stoop forward?  If they
do, the lungs,
    "Few men take better care of themselves heart, liver and stomach,
faill down out of their
than the better class of British noblemen. natural places. Of course, they
can't do their
                                            work well.  To show how this
is, I will tell
   They aim to make life as perfect a s possible-you that when you bend forward
you can take
to have se little jarring of the wheels and cogs only about half as mnch
air into the lungs as
as may be. They are, many of them, the hard- you can when you stand utp straight.
As I
                                            have said, God has so arranged
the great or-
eat workers, and the healthiest men in the gans in the body, that. they can't
do their duty
world; and it may be truly said, that while well except when the body is
straight. Oh,
                                            how it distresses me to see the
dear children,
   part of mankind develops muscle at the ex- whom I love so much, bending
over their school
pense of brain, and the other develops brain desks, and walking with their
heads and shoul-
at the expense of muscle, the British nobleman ders drooping.  My dear ones,
if you would
           is the who succeeds in ~have a strong spine and vigorous lungs,
heart,
   is the only man now living  who succeeds in liver and stomach, you nmust
now, while you
cultivating at once brain and muscle. That are young, learn to walk erect.
their efforts are successful, here is pretty good  If a boy were about to
leave this country for
                                             Japan, never to return, and
were to come to me
 proof. Twenty-four members of the British and ask for rules to preserve
his health, I
 peerage died within the year 1860; and these should say-" I am glad
to see you, and will
 twenty-four have exactly completed, on the av- give you four rules, which,
carefully observed,
                                             will be pretty sure to preserve
your health."
 erage, the full measure of the allotted span of He might say to me-"
Four is a good many;
 human life, the threescore years and ten. I fear that I may forget some
of them; give
                                             me one-the most important one,
and I promise
 They were as folows :-Viscount Arbuthnot, not to forget it." I should
reply-" Well, my
 82; Lord Londesborough, 54; Viscount South- dear boy, if I can give you
but one, it is this:
 well, 88; VIscount Germanston, 84; Lord Or- ,Keep yotursef draight, that
is, sit up straight,
                                        $stand up straight, walk up straight;
and when
 anmore, 72; Bishop of Rochester, 84; Earl of in bed at night, don't put
two or three pillows
 Lonford, 42; Baroness Stratheden, 68; Lord under your head, as thoagh intent
on watching
 Fitzgerald, 60; Viscount Guillamore, f7; Bar- your toes all night."
 And I believe that in
                                             this I should give the most
important rule that
 oness Wentworth, 67; Earl of Strafford, 82; can be given for the preservation
of health and
 Lord Helesbury, 80; Archbishop of York, 72; long life. My dear children,
don't forget it.
 Lord Sandys, 68; Lord Elphinstone, 63; Bish- -Dio Lewis, U. D.
 op of Worcester, 77; Earl of Lauderdale, 76;
 Earl of Cawdor, 70; Lord French, 74; Earl of                Oerdoflg.
 Leven and Melville, 75; Duke of Richmond,   Dr. Holmes, in his lecture on
"sCurrents and
 69; Earl of Mlavers, 82; Earl of Dondoland, Counter Currents," uttered
the following whole-
                                              some truths, which startled
some of the facual-
  85. Total of ages, 1,680 years; which being ty:
  divided by 24 gives exactly 70 years to each.  Invalidism Is the normal
state of many or-
  It would be difficult to fnd a parallel to this in ganisms.  It can be
changed to disease, but
          It~ ~ ~ ~  ~~~~rd1                  never to abeolnte hMalth by
medicinal appli-'
  any class of any country in the world.    ances. There are malmy ladies,
ancient and
                                              recent, wh awe "erpetrally
taking remedies
    It is not care, but usselss worry that shortens for irremediable pains
and aches. They ought
  life. Legitimate care Increases the desire and to have headaches and backaches
and stomach-
                                              aches; they are not well if
they do not have
  necessity for life, and thus virtually prolongs them. To expect them to
live without frequent
  it.                                         twinges, is like expecting
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