is accustomed to ache while exposed to the sun's rays. Always have two or three small holes in the top of your hat. Proper Amount of Sleep. Sleep is of the utmost consequence to the nervous and debilitated. But it should be had at night or before dinner; not afternoon, nor at irregular periods. Henry Ward Beecher hath well said Men vary with regard to the need of sleep. A nervous man can get along with, perhaps, from five to six hours' sleep, while, perhaps, a phlegmatic man requires to sleep from eight to nine hours. The amount of sleep which a man requires depends upon his temperament. It seems strange to some that the most active men sleep the least. Men that work fastest sleep fastest. A nervous man does everything quick; he sees quick, and hears quick, and steps quick, and works quick, and sleeps quick. He does twice as much in an hour as a phlegmatic man, and he only requires half the time in which to do his sleep-work that the phlegmatic man does. Every man ought, from his own experience, or from the advice of a physician-one who knows something-to determine what amount of sleep he needs, and then take that amount. He that steals up necessary sleep from the night, steals from the Lord. He commits a theft for which God will visit him with punishment, in the shape of suffering and premature old age. Sleeplessness-its Cause and Cure. We know a person who presents a wonderful instance of wakefulness. No medicines can cause him to sleep naturally; not even drowsiness comes upon his diseased and tremulous nerves; and he is moved in despair to exclaim: "Oh. Sleep: Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, C D 3EY—The use of ul sleeplessness is insepiralle tem ne vendinen of the ganglionic system. The centers i de ure tempomrly mangei, mi the mind trembles and WILLIES # 18 75, 9 nevar is a planet wind if thrown from IS YOUR TIMES O Le Am The Remely, therefore, cannot be found in inclines, vtates, xe, but in the re-establishment of te verIS A SPĒry notions. This can be accomplished by ne · Iorament ure" n some cases: in others, the result may me on ying he magnetism of a harmonious and healthy operuor. Chronie wikerness may be greatly conTied by sung plentifully of mun soup from twice to thrice per week leiaaras, modnes, and somnolent medicines, — is plum, rpine. Landanum, hasheesh, tobacco, &c.— are at variance with de maruri repose of the sympathetic gangia The Coring and harmonious are invariably the sweetest RECLOS but the stoutest sumberers are they who work much a nink tie. How to Procure Refreshing Sleep. 1 Ar unbalanced sends of the brain and its dependencies Construes De rause of an oppressive fullness" in many 2980%, and 1.80 explains de saree of much mental fatigue and bod y wariness, la avikuning in the morning. Kasoy —Przy gin before retiring, subject the posterior perdens of year head as a thorough rubbing, chafing, and smiting, by the hands of mother. While endeavoring to sleep, do not forget a breathe fally many times. The habit of reading and th (kinger of alking upon any exciting topic, after nightfall, is never premetive of the physical harmonies. Extreme sensitiveness, either physical or mental, should be regarded as a morNd conditione Bad Dreams every Night. We know a truly refined and poetry-loving person who is troubled nightly with dreams, the most grotesque and detestable. The case is not unusual. REMEDY. Do not gratify your appetite with too many kinds of food. When a child, you were injured with affectionate expressions in the shape of candy, raisins, nuts, and rich cake. Yes, you were, good patient-don't deny it. These are the worm-generating "evil spirits" that now beset you in dreams. Sleep with your head toward the North Pole hereafter, and always go to sleep on your right side. Eat or drink nothing after seven o'clock P. M. Origin of Physical Beauty. A family physican (who is a sort of Abernethy in his way,) says: "You may laugh at me as you like, Miss, but, I tell you, it is a positive fact, which you are at liberty to disprove if you can, that, when Venus rose from the sea, the rising took place the very first thing in the morning, or else she never would have been the beauty she was!" Earth's Polarities at Night. In this world, the external body is identified inseparably from the spiritual body; that is, the Motion, Life, and Sensation of the latter are distributed throughout the former, as water through a sponge; so that, whether in sickness or in health, the two bodies are practically and consciously one and the same. The distinction between these dissimilar bodies-is realized in advance of death only by those who enter the trance, or the state of complete clairvoyance. All the earth's electrical currents flow northward. These are cold. The human brain is supplied with more blood than all the body besides. The head is, therefore, warm and magnetic, but sleeping with your head northward is best, because then the earth's cold fluids flow over it, and preserve a healthy state. The feet will be warmer in proportion. While sleeping with the head southward has the effect to deprive the extremi ties of their proper animation, and to fill the brain with extra' heat and uneasy dreams. East and North are healthy; while South and West will produce nervous disease in the sleeper; but these remarks apply only to this latitude and longitude. The Gospel of Self-Healing. As all disease is the opposite of Health, and as all discord is the opposite of Harmony, so is the power of Health and Harmony identical with that by which disease is maintained. We would, therefore, counsel all fathers and mothers to heal their children by laying on of hands;" not in anger, but with the full knowledge that healthful magnetism is the natural medicine for all sick bodies. The nerves convey disease or health in proportion as they are falsely or righteously influenced. Unequal Bodily Development. A correspondent writes a historical statement of his daughter's physical condition, which reveals a sad case of unequal development of the limbs, to which no ordinary treatment is applicable; but it may be possible to bring the motor nerves of such a patient under the control of the will of Indian spirits, in which case there are great probabilities of cure. Under ordinary circumstances, however, we counsel a castor-oil rubbing over the affected parts, every other night, with rapid manipulations on the neck and across the hips. Do not despair, for such a patient may become a light in your home! We would not have you administer any drugopathical preparations. Confidence in Mother Nature. QUESTION." Why is it that poets, philosophers, and men of science, as a general thing, discard revealed religion?" ANSWER.- Minds that think independently and with becoming care-expanding day by day with the out-flowings of facts, beauties, laws, and principles-very soon ascertain that God made Reason, and, therefore, did not make an unreasonable revelation for man's guidance! God's natural revelation is congenial alike to the fool and philosopher, to the Hindoo and Christian, while man's written revealments are suggestive and spiritual, yet invariably egotistic and uncertain. Wordsworth says: "Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, From joy to joy; for she can so inform With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Put confidence in your nature, and you shall be strengthened. The gods of the beautiful Summer World will bless thee. By daily obedience to the Self-Healing principles of life, thy condition will become more attractive to the upper good. The Eternal Father and Mother of "spirits" have written their commandments in the human constitution. Look within and upward. Read such books only as contribute to the sum of practical wisdom. Do not strive to acquire knowledge too rapidly-think, act, enjoy. |