32 GENERAL SCIENCE 



day or more of suitable exercise is a minimum requisite for 

 attaining and maintaining a high state of bodily health 

 and vigor. Continued neglect of exercise is likely to result 

 in an unhealthful state of the body, and a diminished effi- 

 ciency. Physical exercise should be as congenial to persons 

 living a normal life as play is to children. Persons suf- 

 fering from inability to sleep often find in manual labor, in 

 long walks before going to bed, and in active sports, a degree 

 of physical exhaustion that is conducive to sleep. 



To one who is at all thoughtful it is a marvel how lightly 

 many people regard health, and the freedom and happiness 

 that depend upon it. To be well born, and to have the con- 

 ditions favorable for making the most of one's life, may be 

 considered an inalienable right. To forfeit good health and 

 well-being through lack of enlightenment, or of self control, 

 does not lessen the irreparable loss sustained when strength 

 and vigor have been thrown away, and life's opportunities 

 that wait upon these have been wasted. 



Sickness usually causes more or less of pain, and life it- 

 self is often put in jeopardy. A sick person in seeking to 

 regain health must forego the usual activities of life, and be 

 subject to losses through inability to earn and as expenditures 

 incident to sickness. Sickness imposes more or less of a bur- 

 den upon those who are called upon to care for the patient 

 during his illness. Many times ailments supposed to have 

 been " inherited" are but the results of the same manner of 

 home life that caused impaired health in the parents. At 

 any rate it is a great mistake ever to cease making intelli- 

 gent efforts so to regulate one's manner of life as to overcome 

 by hygienic living all defects and weaknesses whether in- 

 herited or not. 



Disease and serious illness ought to be the exception rather 

 than a common condition. In adults it is often an evidence 

 of a failure to apply ordinary intelligence to the care of the 



