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THE BEE-KEEPERS' RI,V1EW. 



moruiiig I Avas glad to draw a blanket 

 over me. I lay down about a scori' 

 of nights without anything whatevor 

 on or over me— not even a night shirt. 

 About 2 a. m. I would waken and 

 tind myself nearly as cold as ice as 

 the four large windows were widi- 

 open. Then I would cover up warmlv 

 and go to sleep again. No harm what- 

 ever came of it. I Avas cold, and got 

 over it again— that was all. But my 

 blood was not clogged with waste ma- 

 terial. It was pure, and circulatin<; 

 properly, caused by attention to mat- 

 ters named above. Under these condi- 

 tions I will wear an overcoat a few 

 days, if I wish, and leave it off when 

 an extra cold day comes. I Avill even 

 go without my under-clothes any day 

 in winter, or sit by an open windoAV la 

 a hall Avhere a meeting is held, and 

 let cold air blow directly on me, or 

 do anything else that people general- 

 ly think causes a cold, and no bati 

 effects will follow. I have tried thes-.' 

 things enough to know. But wei'e I 

 overeatitig— eating from haltit when 

 food was not strongl.A' Avanted and 

 relished, and taking insufficient exer- 

 cise, and bi'ealliing impure air largely, 

 then I should not dare to take such 

 chances. By the way, to get fresh 

 air, the other night I got our Mr. Her. 

 ry, Avho carries a scrcAvdriver on pur- 

 pose, to take off the outside storm- 

 sash from my bedroom Avindow. The 

 glass was out of one-fourth of the in- 

 side AvindoAV, and I was glad of it, al- 

 though it Avas zero Aveather. My only 

 fear Avas that they might put it in, 

 as the sash stuck so it could not be 

 raised; but they did not, and I breath- 

 ed in good health nine or ten hours 

 each night. I believe in these matters 

 I advocate, good friends, and use theui 

 to keep in the best health." 



In the magazine. Physical Culture, 

 I ran across a statement, the other 

 day, in A\'hich were given the things 



to be observed in building up a healthy 

 body. Here they are, in the order of 

 their importance. Air, Avater, rest and 

 relaxation, food, exercise, and bathing. 

 Of course, each person must use .ludg- 

 ment in the consideration of these 

 ])oints. While the breathing of pure 

 air is of the tirst importance, yet b; 

 the man Avho lives out of doors most 

 of the time, and Avho has plenty of 

 pure air in his sleeping room, it is not 

 the thing to Avhich his attention must 

 be directed. He already has plenty of 

 that. Rest and relaxation may be the 

 most important thing for him to heed, 

 Avhile the person Avho leads a quiet 

 life, Avith little exercise, might find 

 exercise of the first importance for 

 him to consider, etc. 



MOISTENING SECTIONS. 



The Best way to do it Before Folding Them. 



As a rule, it is necessary, or better, 

 to dampen one-piece sections at the 

 joints before folding them. It would 

 not require the breaking of very many 

 sections to counterbalance the time 

 spent in moistening the joints, if the 

 moistening is done in the right Avay. 

 I knoAV of no better plan than that giv- 

 en by Di-. Miller in his book, "Fortj 

 Years Among the Bees." Here is 

 Avhat the doctor says: 



"If they are crated in such a Avay 

 as to be favorable for it, the Avhole 

 crate of 500 are Avet before being tak- 

 en from the original package, one 

 side of the crate being removed so as 

 to expose the edges of the sections. If 

 the crate is not of the right kind for 

 this, then the sections are taken from 

 the crate and put in the proper posi- 

 tion in an empty crate lying on one 

 side Avitli the top and one end remov- 

 ed. Of course the sections do not lie 

 flat, but ou tUeJi- edges, the grooves 



