Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-09
Health and strength.

HOW - BRING man TO his highest point
OF health and strength is certainly some
thing worth knowing and you, my friend,
1t you value health of body and sigor Of
frame, and happen to have neither, will
naturally wish 90 know the plan. TIE an-
swer is, by little Improvement on Napo-
Icons cnde of health. namely, by early
rising. good air, plain food, exercise and
abutions; these simple methods, properly
carried out, will enable o man to walk up
a mountains side, and laugh at the toll,
who can now scarcely creep into the valley,
coughing he gaes.
But let US give infinitely the rules that
are to be observed, To bring the mind or
the body into good working condition, take
an apperiene the first night. l.. the morn
ing, rise about half past five walk from
bali mile to two miles before breakfast,
but let it be walking as if you meant to
walk, not sauntering or crawling; as soon
as you return home. rub the chest and the
fsont Of the body for about ten minutes
With soft cieth-c cotton is the best sash
the hands and face 10 cold, soft water
Take your breakfast not later than eight
O'Clock, and after time you will think
that hour quite late enough, and not need
many invitations to your meal. Eat chose
things that give strength: plain biscuit.
boiled beef, or, if you prefer is, beef.steak
or a mutton-ehop; only whisper to the
cook to have some nourishment in it when
1t IS cooked, for meat in the shape Of cind-
ers is not streugthening-in other words
let the meat be so cooked as to retain the
gravy. Fat meat you can dispense with
IT will do you no good, for it is strength
you are seaking. not fat.
After breakfast take second walk, as
long as the first; spend the forenoon in
your garden, you have the good fortune
to have one; or chop up wood in the yard,
if you like the work. We knew worthy
magistrate who used to break the stones on
his own estate. At any rate, let it be ex-
ercise in the open air.
At the hour of two lei dinner be ready.
Your breakfast was what the French
call a "dejeuner la .f1urchette," and your
dinner is to be another breakfast, with the
aid OF fork, only at later hour in the
day the food is 20 be the same as in the
morning or boiled meat, to suit your parti-
ality but to vegetables, you must cry, no
to fruit, no to sweets and to pastry, no
| no ;stiil, if you have luxurious habits, and
wish to revel in indulgences, then request
the servant TO bring you well-cooked,
mealy pOtatGe, unless you wis b TO play the
Indian, and refresh yourself on boiled rice.
Now comes the afternoon, and this Dor
ton of the day must not be idled away
| health'seekers must know nothing of idle.
ntss-it is ne friend Of theirs The mind
must be diverted and the body exercised
! conformity; and when you have discharged
this double duty, then think your supper
| for eight O'Clock will be near at hand. IF
| yeu had no tea at breakfast you NAV take
some now but take something solid with
the tea
No eating nor drinking between meals :;
give Your digestive organs their proper
amount of work and rest All irregularity
ImpalFs digestion, and injuries the stomach;
and the stomach, as Abernethey expressed
| 1T. Is the father IF the whole family. When
you have finished your supper, then, my
friend, finish the duties of the day BY an
hours exercise before going to bed On
getting home, rub your skin well, and then
you have done-somethipg to secure good
nights rest; only taking care that you
never hear the clock strike ten at night
except it be in bed.
Adhere to this plan in the pursuit of
bealth-eyen if it be only for few weeks
and you will find yourself, il need be.
qualified to digest the flap of a saddle, and
ready to jump out of your own skin. The
plan IS OF course principally adapted to
those circumstances allow them to regard
perfect healty as of paramount i'm portance,
and to pursue 1T accordingly but all may
gam hints from it, especially those who are
compelled to have recourse to means OF
restoring impaired health