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health-preserver for women than any drugs or stimulants. 

 Breathing affects nutrition in several ways. It hastens the peris- 

 taltic movements of the stomach and intestines, it oxydises the 

 blood, then removes from the body through the lungs certain 

 poisonous waste matters, the retention of which weakens the 

 organism. Sleep has an important part in increasing vitality. 

 Better sleep is needed in some cases, more in others, more and 

 better in still others. If we reform our diet, sleep in well-venti- 

 lated bed-chambers, breathe well, and practice muscular relaxa- 

 tion, that is, let go of ourselves and allow the bed to hold us, 

 instead of trying to hold ourselves, with a fairly good conscience, 

 we shall sleep the sleep of childhood. 



Article third is as important as the other two. It is : To 

 labor everv day with the muscles, with the mind and with the 

 moral powers. To labor more is not a general need with agri- 

 cultural people. To labor less and recreate more would be far 

 better for hard workers. Farmers' families have physical exer- 

 cise enough for growth and strength. Those of other vocations 

 have had to invent something in exercise equivalent to work. 

 He who does out of door work is sure to breathe more nearly 

 correct than any other. If he is not always judicious in food 

 selection and combination, he will take better care of it than aiiy 

 other class and is less likely to suffer from it. Sometimes we 

 workers wonder if our burden of work is not heavier than others' 

 burdens. We frequently feel that our cares are more numerous 

 and annoying than those of the other half of the world. Do not 

 allow such ideas to find resting place in your minds for an hour, 

 it is not the truth. It has been my privilege to know both sides 

 of the question. Providence has used some of us better than 

 we should have used ourselves if we had control of circum- 

 stances. There are many people of wealth who would give a 

 part of their gold and all of their dull days, miserable feelings and 

 idle hours for the ability to do physical work, digest their food, 

 sleep w^ell, following it by still more work. There is as much 

 comfort and satisfaction coming to men and women as they look 

 upon their goodly herds and crops, gather around them their 

 broods of birds and watch the peculiar workings of their 

 families of bees as comes to any people living. The breadth of 

 living that comes to one who appreciates the country for all there 

 is in it, has not its equal in any city or town. At one and the 



