The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-05
HEALTH AND HABIT
By GILBERT HUBBARD.
(copyfisht 1910 by American JournaEmmncr.p

disease have disease, and sometimes
The recipe for good health is this:
| What VIC call diseases are merely
symptoms of mental conditions
Our bodies are automatic, and think
ing about your digestion does not aid
YOU, Ia Their, IT hinders, since the pro-
thinking. robs the stomach of Its
blood, and transfers it TO the head.
II you arc worried enough, digestion
Viii stop absolutely The moral is
obvious: pon'ts worry.
This horse is all right, unless he
gets scared" said a horseback rider
to me tho other day.
And I answered.: so am t.
In public speaking, | have often NO
ticed that when am anxious TO make
a big speech. | grow fearful about my
voice and distrust my memory. The
result is that ] have to push that
speech ahead of me for the whole
blessed hour and half, and am
conscious of my feet and aware of my
hands all the time. The result is a
strictly class Equatorial effect.
That is to say. II was an effort, and
not a pleasure for either the speaker
| happy, the audience is also. And, as
before limited, we are only happy when
we forget ourselves and do not know
| whether we are happy or not.
Those rare times when J make a
| compression on my auditors are
when go upon the stage with GER
tain amount OF indifference, simply
| taking care not TO have overeaten,
Then 1 start in slowly, and soon the
thoughts are coming along just as
fast as can use them. The air is
I full OF reasons, and all have to do
is to reach UP and pick the ones l
want
With good health tits the same--iusst
a few plain rules. and the. whole
matter is automatic and self-lubrica-
ing Health is habit.
We are ruled by habit.
There are three habits, which, with
but one condition added. Will give You
everything in the world worth hav-
ing, and beNond which the imagina-
single addition of Improvement. These
habits are:
THE WORK HABIT.
TILE HEALTH HABIT.
THE STUDY HABIT.
If YOU arc man and have these
habits, and also have the love OF a
woman who has these same habits. Nou
arc in Paradise now ana here, and so Is
she.
Health, books and work, with love
. added, arc a solacc for all the stings
and arrows OF outrageous fort,lnc---a
defense against all the storms that
blow, for through their use you trans
mute sadness into mirth, trouble into
ballast, pain into JOY.
fet men have proclaimed labor a
curse, They have said that sickness
was sent from God, and they have
, whipped andSScorned tho human body
as something despicable. and thus have
, placed handicap on health, and made
, the doctor necessity
And they have said that mental at
talnment was vain and frivolous
n thing and that our reason was a.
lure TO lead us on TO the eternal loss
OF our soul'ss salvation.
Now, we deny 1t all. and again nro-
4 claim that these will bring you al
ne good there is Health, Work.
Work means safety for yourself and
! service to mankind Health means
much happiness and potential bower
slNey means knowledge equanimity
: and the evolving mind. Love means
all the rest
man who marries a woman IN
order 10 educate her. falls a victim to
lhe same fallacy that the womnn
does who marr!es a man expecting 10
reform him. "
II you marry woman who lis not on
your mental wire, you'll either 70
unWh 10 her level or you will live in q
MaefNsht compartment and 20 10 Dur.
salory through mental asphyxiation.
moose ms day the habit you would
~ have rule over you