"IT IS NOT STRENGTH BUT ART OBTAINS THE PRIZE." 



That is to say, it is not brute force or endurance which ensure success t 

 men, but skilled dexterity in playing the game, whatever it may be; in thi 

 case, the game of life. 



Has it never struck you how strange it is that for hundreds of years me 

 have designed and carried out rules for their guidance in commerce, agriculture 

 forestry, navigation, and military tactics; they have devoted time and money t 

 promoting effective methods in the care of crops and stock, even for the wholesal 

 destruction of human beings ; but have given little heed to the protection of thei 

 own health and have framed no rules to improve their own race? 



The art of right living, as we understand it, took its rise barely a centur 

 ago. and it is but slowly assuming its 



POSITION OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE 



in the civilized world of to-day. Nevertheless, great things have been alread 

 achieved by the devoted service of medical officers of health, sanitary rugim-en 

 inspectors, and other expert officials. The death-rate has in many cases bee 

 halved; in others it has been reduced by two-thirds of what it used to be. Th 

 mortality from infectious diseases among young infants is strikingly lowered; tL 

 chances of life, and, what is more, of effective life, are correspondingly increase! 

 and 



THE CONTROL OF ILL-HEALTH 



is more and more firmly established, as a knowledge of its causes is ohtainec 

 Each year sees sounder information at our disposal as to the marvellous mean 

 of self-protection possessed by the human body and of the conditions essenti? 

 to mental and physical well-being. The distribution of diseased and adulterate 

 food is subjected- to penalties of increasing severity; tilth is mo:v rapidly an 

 effectively removed from the neighbourhood of our homes, and more supervisio 

 is exercised over sources of public water-supply. What more, then, is m>ressar; 

 in order that the multitude of 



DISCOMFORTS WHICH HAMPER OUR EFFICIENCY 



and weaken our powers shall also be banished from our homes V 



Much more co-operation from private individuals is called for. if health : 

 to reach the level it could do if all our knowledge were utilized for this art 

 right living. T'ntil precepts are translated into practice, they resemble some va. 

 treasure hidden in the depths of the sea, while its owners starve and die for wai 

 of the necessaries of life. 



No life need be lost to-day for lack of knowledge. That so many lives ai 

 warped, curtailed, and wretched is due rather to 



INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, AND BAD HABITS. 



There is urgent need for every household to study the rules of healthy liviiij 

 for every housekeeper to acquire skill and tact in their practice ; for each individu; 

 to feel it his business to understand the conditions under which he can do tt 

 most and the best work; and then here comes the pinch, for we are so selfis 

 and indolent and conservative in our habits comply with them. 



It is absolutely possible for each one of us to raise our lives to 



SOMETHING HIGHER, MORE HEALTHFUL AND BEAUTIFUL AND 



ADMIRABLE 



than those we have hitherto led. Our work need not so often miscarry, nor li 

 so dull and distasteful. The majority of our daily frets and hindrances are sel: 

 inflicted; and no quantity of drugs, no floods of self-pity, can heal or remov 

 them. The remedy lies in the practice of the art of right living, the outlines t 



