Exercise regularly taken tends to preserve the health. Walk one or two miles a day, regardless df weather, un- less very ted indeed. Even a lady with stout walking boots, a large thick cloak, and an umbrella, may defy ted weather. In taking exercise in very severe weather, keep your mouth close and walk rapidly ; the air can only reach the lungs by a circuit of the nose and head, and becomes warm before reach- ing the lungs, thus causing no derange- ment. Brisk walking throws the blood to the surface of the body, thus keeping up a vigorous circulation, making a cold impossible if you do not get into a cold bed too quickly after reaching home. Neglect of these precautions brings sickness and death to multitudes every year. The amount of exercise necessary for health is variable, depending upon natural constitution, education, sex, and age. For men from twenty to fifty, eight or ten miles a day of walking ex- ercise may be taken as the average; and for women of the same age, about half this quantity will suffice. Less than this will gc a great way, but foe keeping up high health, the above amount, omitted only on thoroughly wet days, may be considered necessary. By all means avoid a morbid des- ponding feeling, for scarcely anything is more injurious to health. Mental as well as bodily exercise is essential to the general health and happiness ; therefore, labour and study should succeed each other. HEA 20Q HEA The plainest food Is the best, taken in quantities so small as not to oppress the stomach. A man should never know that he has a stomach except when he is hungry. To increase muscular power, food should be taken which does not produce fat ; for fat is frequently a sign of dis- ease. A race-horse is brought to his primp condition by a system of training. So with man, if he wishes to see the full development of all his muscular power, he must restrict himself in diet, and exhaust his fat by having a good sweating every day, but not to take cold. Lying too long in bed is injurious to health. The want of expansion of the chest through exercise, will aggravate or create consumptive tendencies, which all more or less have ; and the constant heat of the back or one side, occasioned by cushioning, disturbs healthy action. When food rises in the stomach, the stomach is speaking to us, and we ought to listen to it, or health will suffer. In due time headaches will be the result; the liver is oppressed and cannot fulfil its functions. There has been more introduced into the body than can be conveniently disposed of. Every part receives some of die obtru- sive matter ; it is forced into the ab- sorbents ; the blood is unwillingly com- pelled to take a part of it; the brain feels the effect of the poisonous infusion ; the circulation is impeded ; the heart feels it, and labours hard to do its allotted work. By persisting in the habit, life will be shortened. Too little food has its symptoms as well as too much. The body will flag for want of stimulus ; it will lose warmth and energy; and if it be found that more food restores both, and brings comfort, then more food is wanted. Every one should endeavour to discover his own maximum and minimum allow- ance, and adhere to it.

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Exercise regularly taken tends to preserve the health. Walk one or two miles a day, regardless of weather, unless very ted indeed. Even a lady with stout walking boots, a large thick cloak, and an umbrella, may defy ted weather. In taking exercise in very severe weather, keep your mouth closed and walk rapidly ; the air can only reach the lungs by a circuit of the nose and head, and becomes warm before reaching the lungs, thus causing no derangement. Brisk walking throws the blood to the surface of the body, thus keeping up a vigorous circulation, making a cold impossible if you do not get into a cold bed too quickly after reaching home. Neglect of these precautions brings sickness and death to multitudes every year. The amount of exercise necessary for health is variable, depending upon natural constitution, education, sex, and age. For men from twenty to fifty, eight or ten miles a day of walking exercise may be taken as the average; and for women of the same age, about half this quantity will suffice. Less than this will gc a great way, but foe keeping up high health, the above amount, omitted only on thoroughly wet days, may be considered necessary. By all means avoid a morbid desponding feeling, for scarcely anything is more injurious to health. Mental as well as bodily exercise is essential to the general health and happiness ; therefore, labour and study should succeed each other. HEA 20Q HEA The plainest food Is the best, taken in quantities so small as not to oppress the stomach. A man should never know that he has a stomach except when he is hungry. To increase muscular power, food should be taken which does not produce fat ; for fat is frequently a sign of disease. A race-horse is brought to his primp condition by a system of training. So with man, if he wishes to see the full development of all his muscular power, he must restrict himself in diet, and exhaust his fat by having a good sweating every day, but not to take cold. Lying too long in bed is injurious to health. The want of expansion of the chest through exercise, will aggravate or create consumptive tendencies, which all more or less have ; and the constant heat of the back or one side, occasioned by cushioning, disturbs healthy action. When food rises in the stomach, the stomach is speaking to us, and we ought to listen to it, or health will suffer. In due time headaches will be the result; the liver is oppressed and cannot fulfil its functions. There has been more introduced into the body than can be conveniently disposed of. Every part receives some of die obtrusive matter ; it is forced into the absorbents ; the blood is unwillingly compelled to take a part of it; the brain feels the effect of the poisonous infusion ; the circulation is impeded ; the heart feels it, and labours hard to do its allotted work. By persisting in the habit, life will be shortened. Too little food has its symptoms as well as too much. The body will flag for want of stimulus ; it will lose warmth and energy; and if it be found that more food restores both, and brings comfort, then more food is wanted. Every one should endeavour to discover his own maximum and minimum allowance, and adhere to it.

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