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when worries, troubles and misfortunes 

 overtake us, our kidneys give way; the 

 result is early death from Bright 's Dis- 

 ease. 



I ask my intelligent young readers to 

 think about these things. These are only a 

 few examples. I could add others and 

 others. 



You of our Smart Set of New York City 

 of today are just the same as the commer- 

 cial social set of London and if you do not 

 give up your liquors, your cigarettes and 

 your indulgences and devote yourselves to 

 your health and obey the laws of Social Hy- 

 giene, your family name, which your father 

 and your grandfather nearly killed them- 

 selves to preserve, will die forever. The 

 French have a saying that "In the commer- 

 cial social sets, it takes just three genera- 

 tions from the shirt sleeve to the shirt 

 sleeve." That means your children will be 

 weaklings. They will not have the brains 

 and stamina to compete with the rising com- 

 mon blood that has gradually purified itself 

 by open-air work, from lack of time and 

 funds to indulge in high life and by mar- 



