that a "change of scene is the secret of benefit in many cases of nervous prostration. Although there is truth in this impression, yet it is far from divulging the absolute paramount cause of the salutary results that sometimes follow pilgrimizing away from home in quest of health. When once the real secret is intelligently known, and when the knowledge accruing therefrom is promptly applied by the possessors, then may the multitudes of sick ones save themselves the fatigue and expense of journeys. If you wish to travel for recreation, first get a stock of health to sustain you, in the shape of Air, Light, and Electricity.

The shortest route to firm health is through the lungs and pneumogastric nerves. Small lungs-small minds; or, large lungs and bad air-large minds and few thoughts. The oldfashioned orthodox churches were built and kept as tight as drums during service; the effect was manifested in the narrow creeds and doleful doctrines concerning God and man. In this connection we are reminded of FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the noble nurse who voluntarily went to the Crimean war to bind up the bleeding wounds of the soldiers. She says:

"An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Most people prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the disease we suffer from is occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? An open window most nights in the year can never hurt any one. This is not to say that light is not necessary for recovery. In great cities, night air is often the best and purest air to be had in the twenty-four hours. I could better understand shutting the windows in towns during the day than during the night, for the sake of the sick.

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operations. While writing these sentences, we detect a "breathless" silence ever and anon. And why? Simply because, between the appreciation of a thought and the formation of the same into suitable language, the activity of the mind is suspended by a sort of hesitation, and the respiration, as a consequence, is correspondingly suspended. This same result is brought on by an intensified effort to catch and appreciate a fine passage of poetry, or some thrilling and sublime thought evolved by an eloquent speaker. The audience is spell-bound, held “in breathless silence" literally, until the impression is perfectly received. Then respiration is deep and hearty, and, with the augmentation of muscular strength as a result of breathing a large quantity of air, there rolls out the hand-and-foot applause, so common to public assemblies. If an audience be deprived of pure air, the best speaker cannot awaken expressions of enthusiasm.

COMMON LAMENTATIONS.-What is the cry of our fast-going people? 'My food does not perfectly digest!" This is the saying all over America. "My poor head aches half of the time!" So exclaim our young ladies. "My lungs are the best part of me!" Which is, unfortunately, a somewhat common affirmation. "But my liver is diseased and torpid." This is the popular complaint. "And my bowels are slow and sluggish."

Such miserable lamentations ascend from all the most fertile portions of this glorious continent. Hundreds of physicians attribute the prevalence of hepatic disorders to the conditions of the soil, water, and air; others contend that the chief cause is lurking in the constitution of man, and hold that disease is an inevitable part of this existence; but there is, fortunately, a very general interest awakened in the direction of physiological knowledge and universal improvement, and the final fruit will

n a heavy weight, strike a powerful bow.mp Ten a deep uputation is an involuntary ac: de rmed by the intuition of the sympatheta ganga STRUCTURE OF THE STOMACH-The reader is wre hat the magic secretion is designed to accomplish a separatom of the Nu trom the fiuid portions of food. The substantaa matices

. the glutinous, fibrinous, and albuminous portionss of food carefully selected and separated from all the inuit com

vour stomach. But do you suppose that, separate from serve energy of brain-life, the stomach has inherent to carry forward the chemistry of digestion? Do you now that the lining membrane of the stomach is thickly ed with follicles, or pits, or minute waves of the one

involutions of the mucous membrane-by which the batteries of the stomach are many times multiplied in

ower? And do you not also know that, in addition to tho uscular and semi-mechanical activities of the whole organ, the re and life of the lungs and brain are, or should be, incessantly nd fully communicated through the pneumogastric nerve to very particle of fluid and solid consigned to the interior?

RELATION OF LUNGS TO BRAIN.-To our perceptions it is oo clear to require further illustration, that the vivifying fire, he soul-energy of the body, the brain-and-nerve Principle of ife, is absorbed by the lungs from the boundless ocean of mponderable elements. Oxygen, so universal, is but the vehicle of heaven's divine breath. The brain is master of ligestion; so also of the just distribution of strength. The stomach depends upon the brain for a supply of all forces necessary to accomplish digestion; but the brain, in its turn, is equally dependent upon the lungs for a requisite store of electric riches and vital power. The celestial elements of infinity ride straight through the lungs into the blood; thence to the great battery of all energy and digestion, the brain; which immediately distributes to each part of the body the principles of sensation, and life, and motion.

Deprive the lungs of heaven's invisible air-shut off the supply of the vivifying principles of the divine infinitude-and the whole beautiful machinery will immediately stop! The best food in the universe could give no strength, unless first baptized in the spirit of the atmosphere. Air is the universal blessing! It cannot be fenced in by legislative enactments; but it can be kept out by the ignorance or inattention of invalids. Some persons seem afraid to expand their lungs to their utmost capacity, lest something will break and let out the stream of life! Of course, good friend, you know that any sudden and violent conduct is attended with a greater percentage of risk. Begin deliberately and practice daily, therefore, and you will