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CHAPTER XVI.
- "The Leaves are Full of Joy."
- Nobility of the Body.
- Its Possibilities.
- Brain and Heart Dependent on it.
- Physical Culture Imperative in America.
- Our Contempt of Health.
- Easier to be Magnificent than Clean.
- Distilled Water for Every Use.
- Substitute for Stills.
- Vapor and Sulphur Baths.
- Bran Baths.
- Oatmeal for the Hands.
- Frequency of Baths.
- Remedies for Hepatic Spots.
How lusty and delicate the young leaves grow on their stems in their nook of sunshine! What could be lovelier in its way than the three geranium leaves starting from the mould in the window-box where the sun strikes across the corner of the sill? They are so firmly poised, yet glancing; each full of green juice that the sun turns to jewel-light, with spots of darker tint where the feathered edges overlie — a subtle piece of color wrought by sun and soil for no eye to see but by chance, yet ecstatic
