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his ordinary daily life; where the mind 

 may not only have a change if the owner 

 will permit it, but where it will be forced 

 to take the change and thereby the rest. 



The mind must be occupied in a pur- 

 suit entirely different from its common 

 course ; it must not be allowed to remain 

 "quite still," for in this state it will surely 

 wander back to the cares and trials of its 

 everyday environment. There must be 

 exhilaration invoked from new excite- 

 ment pleasant, natural excitement, not 

 startling annoyances the brain is so com- 

 monly afflicted with in business details 

 and, at the same time, good bodily exer- 

 cise must be in order in every instance. 



The tired worker, plodding all the 

 week, early to reach his office and late to 

 leave it, finds it an apparent relief to 

 loiter indoors at home on the seventh day 

 the day of rest but, without some 

 gentle pastime in which exercise and 

 natural excitement prevail, his mind is 

 not at ease, though his body be at rest, 



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