HEALTH APHORISMS.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 12 June 1912, Page 3

HEALTH APHORISMS.

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"For the half of life we waste health for fortune; during the other half we expend a fortune for health.' —Voltaire.

"The soul says eat; the body would feast."—Emerson.

"A healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. "—Schopen-

haver

"Good is a good docior, but Bad is sometimes a better." —Emerson.

"Get health. No labor, pains, temperance,' poverty, nor exercise that can l*ain it must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters."—ldem.

A good deal of rheumatism is rum-atism. '

The carving knife is mightier than the sword.

Mustard improves a lobster, but ruins a chicken-salad.

A good digestion is more to be desired than great riches.

It is brutal to drench an oyster with vinegar or pepper-sauce.

He is a fool who indulges to excess either in eating or drinking-

Peace at a. dinner table assists digestion; angry words stir up bile.

The tinkle of the dinner bell is a pleasanter sound than fKe blare of the trumpet.

Praise your housekeeper for her successful dishes, and regard leniently her failures.

Never accept the invitation of a man to take "pot luck" with him. He degrades the name of dinner and also insults you. ;

Nature is a great physician. Don't be afraid to trust her; she looks carefully after the interests of her patients stomachs.

Let an invalid have whatever he calls for to eat; it is not he who craves it, but Nature, and she will not permit him to eat to excess.

A few spoonfuls of soup, possessing bbldy, taken on an empty stomach, gives it tone and prepares it to receive acceptably more. substantial fare. " •

In the progress of civilisation the frying-pan disappears with the advent of ttie gridiron; which in turn has been superseded by the wirebroiler.

' ,The Arab in the desert dividing his last handful of>dried dates and his few remaining drops of water with a wandering brother represents the highest type of hospitality.^