Year: 1871

READER, are you strong and hearty?
Does your system glow with the vigor of
health? Nature intended that it should,
and if you only followed the innumerable
Rules for Health which travel through the
newspapers land which you should always
cut out and paste in your hat), you would
become an ornament to society and nothing
due the doctor. l can give you few sug
gestions which may save you from an un-
timely grave and your personal affairs
from the Probate Office for many years to
come.


First of all, see to it that you start right
1t is vitality important. Avoid all heredi-
tary taints Be continually anxious about
yourself Remember we are fearfully and
wonderfully made, and this curious
mechanism at any moment may get out of
repair 1t may break down altogether.
Thisis death. How much better to sub
scribe to health journal (only four dol
lars per annum, with a beautiful chrome
of Peale's "Court of Death %" and worry
through few years longer.


Be on the lookout for symptoms. They
generally precede disease Consult your
pulse every half hour, and make sure by
frequent personal observation that your
tongue isn't coated. You should weigh
yourself at least once a day, though it is
not necessary to test your lungs more than
twice week. Keep your feet and your
friendships warm. la fr


Food is very important. No man can
live long without it. That Cinnamon sue
ceed in doing it, and laying up money be-
sides, proves nothing. Your food should
be taken in moderation, avoiding over eat
ing, to which one is very prone when din
ing at somebody's else expense and equal
ly cautious not to eat too little, unless you
happen to occupy seat at cheap board
ing-house. A good, plain, nutritious diet
landlady and you'll probably get it.


cannot lay down any special rules as
to what you had better eat. Breadstuffs
are bad. Never eat bread. The process
by which the article is rendered light and
white is very deleterious to the health.
Never eat hot cakes-nor cold ones. Corn
bread is fatal. Take to wheat in grain;
carry some in your pockets, and chew the
food nature designed for you. If your
teeth are bad or you have none, soak the
wheat in castor oil. Acorns are good for
people who read "What l know about
Farming" Their digestions require some
thing of the sort. Eat soup. Never take
four plates of soup. Besides being vulgar,
it undermines the constitution. For break
fast, should say ham and eggs fried; or,
| if fried eggs don't agree with you, drop
them. Don't hurry your meals. Remem-
ber that Rome was not built in day.
Don't be afraid of frittering away time at
breakfast. Eat them with sugar or syrup.
For dinner, you want something substan-
tial-pork, for example. If you choose
pork, stick to it right through the year !;
many man has built himself up in the
pork packing business. And then, abrupt
changes are dangerous.


For tea, something very light should be
! taken, such as Holsters and milk, cucum-
bers and ice cream, or cold mince pie,
pickles and hard cider. Then for lunch
(which is to be eaten, of course, imme-
diately before going to bed), we have
always found plenty of sauer krout, Welsh
rabbit, picked walnuts, saleratus biscuit
hot, with London porter and green tea,
very agreeable and soothing.


Never eat so heartily as to have apo
plexy at the table; it is extremely annoy
ing to the rest of the company Let your
board be the scene of cheerful, animating
and instructive conversation. Mine always
ls-at least when | am there.


You cannot be too particular about your
sleep. No man ever succeeded without
sleep; and many an individual has died