Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — How to Obtain High Health. [ARTICLE]

How to Obtain High Health.

Walker, in bis "Original,” lays down the following rules for attaining high health. They are worth remembering: "First—Study to acquire a composure of mind and body. Avoid agitation or hurry of one or the other, especially just before and after meals, whilst the piocess of digestion is going on. To this end, govern your temper, endeavA* to look at the bright side of thiugs, keep down, as much as possible the unruly passions: discard envy, hatred and malice, and lay your head upon your pillow in charity with ail mankind. Let not your wants over run your means. Whatever difficulties you have to encounter, be not perplexed, but only think what is right to do in the sight of Him who seeth all tilings, and bear without repining the result. When your meals are solitary let your thoughts be cheerful; when they are social, which i 6 better, avoid disputes or serious arguments on unpleasant topics. ‘Unquiet measl,’ says Shakespeare, 'make ill digestions,’ and the contrary is produced by easy oouversatiou, a pleasant subject, welcome news or a lively companion. I advise wives not to eutertain their husbands with domestic grievances about children or servants, not to ask for money, nor produce unpaid bills, nor propound unseasonable questions; and I advise husbands to keep the cares and vexations of the world to themselves, and to be oommunicative of whatever is oomforting, and cheerful, and amusing."