PATTI'S GOSPEL OF HEALTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11825, 30 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

PATTI'S GOSPEL OF HEALTH.

To be healthy is the natural state, and disease is, in nine cases out of ten, our punishment for sumo indiscretion or excess. Even? time we are ill it is part of our remaining youth which we squander. Every recovery, whether from headache or pneumonia, is accomplished by a strenuous effort of vitality, and is therefore a waste of your capital of life. Therefore, don't let yourself be ill. The best plan to avoid illness is to live regularly, simply, with a frugality that stupid persons alone will deem painful or eccentric.

Sleep eight hours in every twenty-four. Ventilate the rooms you work and sleep in. Very few people, even among those who think"they are well up in modern ideas, have any conception of what ventilation means. Even when my voice was the only thing I bac l in the world 1 slept with my windows wide open, summer and winter, and never caught cold in that way. Examine seriously into yoiu list of social obligations, have the good sense to recognise that there is neither pleasure nor profit in most of what you regard as essential in that line, and simplify your social simplify iS all you can. Make your home a pleasant place, cheerful, but well within your means. Drink nothing but water or milk—especially drink lots of water. You never can drink too much of it. On the other hand, remember that alcohol is poison which does untold damage within you; that wine, beer, coffee, and tea are poisons, too. Shun all of them as you would diluted vitriol. Complicated living breeds worry, and worry is the main enemy of health and happiness—the one fiendish microbe that does more to destroy the health and happiness of mankind than any other.