about the period of sunrise. It is so pleasant to sleep on, with the assurance of medical men that it is unhealthy to rise early with the singing birds! Nay, not so. Be up and doing while "the day lasts," for the earth is then filled with the innumerable splendors of the infinite Father.

Physical Strength and Energy.

Physical strength is the primal inheritance. Men could conceive of the principle of power when they could not comprehend the spiritual quality of love. It is natural, therefore, in a certain stage of human development, to believe in giants, heroes, and in gods of boundless powers. Great men, because good and wise, are remembered and venerated only by the cultivated few who appreciate spirit and cherish ideas. But mighty men, because physically ponderous and strong, are the historical companions and crowned gods of the millions. The glory and power of God were revealed long prior to the finer and higher attributes of love and wisdom

It is, consequently, natural for children to enjoy stories of the feats of huge giants-marvellous tales of some great strong man who could carry the earth upon his shoulders, or eat it, as some legends say the first men did. In keeping with this infantile law of growth, the first entertainments and amusements were physical; the first memorable exploits also; and the gods were promoted and adored in proportion to the demonstration which they made of skill, cupidity, and muscular supremacy.

Thus Hermes, or Mercury, represented as a pleasing young man, with bright eyes and a cheerful countenance, became the universal favorite. He was the champion of the physically strong during a considerable era in human history. Believing parents would relate his mighty deeds and crafty exploits to their children. He roguishly purloined the sword of the great

god, Mars; took many ponderous tools from the blacksmith shop of the grizzly Vulcan; stole the girdle of Venus, and the scepter from the mightiest god, Jupiter; killed the hundredeyed Argus; fastened the strong Ixion to a wheel in the infernal world; sold the powerful Hercules to the Queen of Lydia; delivered the mighty Mars from the superior power of Alcides; and for these exhibitions of physical energy and skill, Mercury was appreciated, promoted, and worshiped.

It is natural, we repeat, to believe in gigantic energies, and to admire extraordinary feats of bodily strength. We respect great physical power in man, as we venerate noble mountains in Nature. It is respect and fear; not love. Pigmies are oftentimes both pretty and pitiable; but giants are at once fearful and a refuge of strength; and to this conclusion the intellectual world is rapidly hastening.

Swimming schools and gymnasiums are developing on every hand; ball playing in summer and skating in winter, for the young or adult of either sex; and innocent games or entertainments, not injurious to good morals, but promotive of intellectual power, are multiplying in exact ratio to the invention of labor-saving machinery.

We were encouraged and delighted, as well as astonished, when authentic news came that Dr. Winship, of Boston, had succeeded in lifting the enormous weight of one thousand, one hundred and thirty six pounds, and that he did not doubt his muscular ability, one of these days, to raise a ton from the carth! The extraordinary feat inspired us with unspeakable gratitude. We realized more than ever the omnipotency of truth and mind over the material muscle. It was all attributable to the wellspring of spirit and power within the human soul --for every philosopher knows that matter, of itself, is powerless and dead, depending every instant of time upon the mental

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"I have used less than an ounce of tobacco.

"I have taken, nearly every day, about half an hour's gymnastic exercise in the open air.

"I have conformed to the customs of society only so far as they were not at variance with health.”

Among other important conclusions, we find the following:

"That increase of the muscular power was attended with increase of the digestive.

'That one means of increasing the digestive power was to increase the muscular.

"That many articles of food had formerly proved injurious to me, not because they were unwholesome, but because I was unable to digest them.

"That a person may become possessed of great physical strength without having inherited it.

'That, by increasing the strength, a predisposition to certain diseases may be removed, and diseases already present, removed or mitigated.

"That increase of strength cannot long continue on a diet exclusively vegetable.

"That increasing the strength made excretion take place less from the skin, but more from the lungs and the other emunctories.

That what benefits a part of the body, benefits, more or less, the whole.

"That long before I succeeded in lifting 1,100 pounds with the hands, or in shouldering a barrel of flour from the floor, I had ceased to be troubled with sick headache, nervousness, and indigestion.

That a delicate hoy of seventeen need not despair of becoming i time, a remarkably strong and healthy

Preparation of Healthy Food.

Dr. Kral, in his excellent pamphlet, has expressed numerous valuable thoughts on Dietetic Rules. "After all," he remarks. * the most difficult part of the Hygienic system is the management of the diery. Few persons know anything about İyaronasiar Booking; and so perverted are the appetences of the masses, that u tuk to them of physiological victuals is very much ke uking to a brandy-per of the beauties of 'clear orld water," to to a charco-smoker of the virtues of a pure atmosphere. Bread, which is, or should be, the staff of life, has, by the perversions of furing-mills and the bakers, become a prolific source of disease and death. Much as the Health Reformers declaim against the abominations of pork, ham, sausages, and lard, as articles of human food, I am of opinion that fine flour, in its various forms of bread, short-cake, butter-biscuits, dough-nuts, puddings, and pastry, is quite as productive of disease, as are the grosser swine.

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Nearly all the bread used in civilized society is made of fine, or superfine flour, which is always obstructing and constipating, and which is deficient in some of the most important elements of the grain; and it is still further vitiated by fermentation, or by acids and alkalies, which are employed to render the bread light.

"Pure and wholesome bread can have but three ingredients -meal, water, and atmospheric air. The water is only useful in converting the meal into dough; and the atmospheric air serves to expand its particles, so as to make light and tender