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the next year. If that principle was to be adhered to no very great 

 harm would accrue. But if betting debts were to be made recoverable 

 by law, the same as any other debt, the measure would act deterrently 

 upon backers, while it would also influence some of the layers. 



HYGIENIC PRINCIPLES. 

 Chapter XXI. 

 Rheumatism and Lumbago.— For many years before, and up to the 

 time I wrote about rheumatism as I did at p. 271, I was subject, as 1 

 have said, continually to terrible attacks of lumbago, but strange to 

 say I have had only two or three " touches " of it since then. I can t 

 account for this good turn of luck, for I never used any preventive 

 other than those described, except it be that for the last couple of 

 years I have returned to my old practice of using dumb-bells, and, as I 

 did for many a year before I ever knew what rheumatism was, I work 

 with them (14 lbs. each) for five minutes before I go to bed and after 

 my bath in the morning. Whether that exercise has kept away lumbago 

 or not I don't know, but this I know, that I never was in better health 

 than I have been since I began agaia the dumb-bells, and rightly or 

 wrongly to that exercise I accredit the cause. 



Good Recipes.— To the receipt for making a mutton hash, which I 

 give at p. 350, may be added the following for making a curry, and it 

 will be found to be equally valuable. It was given to me recently 

 by the lady whose portrait, with those of her sons, is given at page 1. 

 For about a pound and a half of meat, cut in small dice two large 

 onions, a carrot and a turnip, and fry them in butter : cut up the meat 

 to be used in dice, which add to the vegetables with one tablespoonful 

 of curry powder and a little sweet chutney ; add flour to thicken, with 

 salt to taste, and simmer until cooked. 



But what can beat a properly grilled British mutton chop, served 

 without gravy or anything to give it relish except mustard, pepper, 

 salt, and a crisped potato ? Surely cutlets smothered in sauce are not 

 more toothsome and certainly not so wholesome. Outside its own 

 town we don't often find what is called a " Barnsley chop," which is 

 the two centre chops cut out of the saddle, and served double. If 

 the mutton be prime, sufficiently long hung, and properly cooked, in 

 my opinion this homely Yorkshire dish, for taste and nourishment, 

 takes a lot of beating. 



Correction. — The printer added 7 lbs. to the weight I consider an 

 average man should be ; therefore, in the fifth paragraph of p. 353, the 

 weight should read " 12 st.," and not 12 st. 7 lbs. 



