cise taken to conform with that thought; then add to this, right living.
If I were asked as to the indications of health I would answer:
- Correct position of the body.
- Correct carriage of the body.
- A light and elastic step.
- A clear complexion.
- A bright eye.
- A sweet breath.
- An odorless body.
These, all of these, may be obtained and then retained until long after passing three-score-and-ten.
If I were asked how to get and how to keep health (health is wholeness, so there is no modification or qualification of that term; no good health nor poor health nor tolerable health—just health), I would call attention to seven more important factors, viz.:
- We eat and drink to make blood.
- We should exercise to circulate it,
- We should breathe deeply to oxygenate (purify) it. Then keep normally and naturally active the four eliminating agents:
- The bowels.
- The skin.
- The lungs.
- The kidneys.
To do this we should eat wholesome food (eating no more than the system requires), bathe daily (the temperature of the bath being suited more to the needs of the body than to the whims of the mind), exercise regularly (not spasmodically), and be temperate in all things.
Any one can theorize, but to live up to one's theory is quite another question. I am willing to be measured by the same standard wherewith I measure; therefore to encourage any that "may have come tardy off" I submit the following figures, which plainly indicate that I take my own medicine:
