. The guide-board to health, peace, and competence ; or, the road to happy old age. f women. Death always begins at the head,the heart, or the lungs ; therefore, — 1 Keep the head cool by taking the world easy. 2. Keep the lungs breathing deeply and fully about seven-teen times a minute, by cultivating alacrity in all the bodilymovements. 3. Keep the heart beating about sixty-eight times a minute ;that is, let the pulse beat four times while the lungs breatheonce; by eating temperately, sleeping fully and soundly,exercising moderately, and avoiding all temporary excitants,mental or liquid. DRA
. The guide-board to health, peace, and competence ; or, the road to happy old age. f women. Death always begins at the head,the heart, or the lungs ; therefore, — 1 Keep the head cool by taking the world easy. 2. Keep the lungs breathing deeply and fully about seven-teen times a minute, by cultivating alacrity in all the bodilymovements. 3. Keep the heart beating about sixty-eight times a minute ;that is, let the pulse beat four times while the lungs breatheonce; by eating temperately, sleeping fully and soundly,exercising moderately, and avoiding all temporary excitants,mental or liquid. DRAW THEM UP. You Upper Ten, vho are the aristocracy of humanity, thetnily elevated and refined, are you sure that you are thenoble followers of the glorious old woman, of whom it isrecorded in immortal characters she did what she could forher poorer kindred race ? Would you really like to see everyson and daughter of Adam lifted to a nearer level with your-selves, prudent, industrious, well-to-do; possessed, like you,of that conscious integrity and self-respect, which helps them. DRAW THEM UP. 199 to look upward like men, and is the strongest safeguardagainst acting downward like brutes? If so, allow us to in-quire if you are acting out that theoretical hcnelicence in yourevery-day life. That old blacksmith over the way, all be-grimed with sweat and coal-dust, you have known him welland long, you have paid him many a little bill for tinkering,and you have uniformly noticed that he did his work prompt-ly and w^ell; and you have noticed, too, his tidy wife in thesmall house close by, and that their children are alwaysdressed cleanlily, though not richly. Well, do you alwaysspeak to that hard-working man, with princely yet kindlycourtesy? If you dont, you ought to; and his wife, youknow her well, for she acts as his collector sometimes. Doyou now and then go a block or two out of your way as yougo down to Wall Street of a morning, just to speak to her an en-couraging word ; and wh
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