TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10659, 12 May 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH.

The other night un honored and successful merchant was entertained to dinner by a number of his intimate friends. Ho is 75 years of age. Ten years ago he retired "from business, and since then lie has spent --much of his time m trying to get back the health which he had expended 100 lavishly m the pursuit of a competency. This old man of business, speaking of the lessons that ho had learned m life, said he had drunk an ocean, of water during those ten years — iron water, salt water, soda water, sulphur water, clean water, and dirty water. Ho had tried steam x buths, hot-air baths, mud baths, had been baked m dry ovens, aud toasted over electricity. One doctor told liiin he did not exercise enough, so he walked. One that ho was not jolted 1 enough,; so he rode horseback; another that he was shaken too much, so ho tried a motor' car ; a fourth that he needed companionship, so he took tip golf. One wipter he tried Cairo, and the next France. One summer he went to 'Norway, and the next to Canada.

He said he hated doctors, abhorred hotels, rebelled against travel, and that the sum of his experience was this — Tluit* success purchased by the loss of 'health, was not worth, while. He said if he had spent one-quarter the time m keeping the health God and his parents gave him that, he had spent -.iu trying to recover the liealth he had thrown-. away, he might havo had a liappv old' agei , Then the old merchant laid down the law to his young associates :' "Don't work any harder any day than yon. can recover by sleep at night. Eat. dimple foods, walk to your business and walk home again. Exercise; and sleep and take plenty of time for your recreation. With what time is left make as much money as you can, and be content -with it. , Dont overdraw your nervous capital. .Yon ought to sleep as H>uudly and be as well when you are seventy as .when yon arc thirty,* And nothing else counfsi, excepting that every day you take euro of your liealth."