The moment any child has learned to save, that moment such 
a child is rendered safe for life ; safe from the penitentiary, safe 
from the poor-house, safe from her whose chambers go down to 
death. 
i Said a gentleman to us, the other day, “I came to New York at. the age, of fif- 
toon. I soon became costive ; eight and te.n days would pass without any action of 
the bowels : I knew nothing about health and disease ; soon after, I became dys- 
peptic, and for thirty years I have been going down hill steadily. I made a fortune, 
lost my health, and the coming spring 1 expect to die. All I have would I freely 
give for the health of my childhood ; and yet a little knowledge as to the laws of my 
body would have prevented (his great calamity — a lifetime wasted l" 
