. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . were sold ; one, which was said to contain veryvaluable precepts of health, but which the bidders were not permitted to-open, sold at a high price. When the purchaser got it home he hastilyproceeded to examine it, and was much disappointed at finding that itcontained nothing more than four simple rules. He thought he had money away. But on further consideration he was induced to put therules in practice ; by doing so he was restored to a state of health to which-he had long been a stranger. He often spoke of tl>e ol
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . were sold ; one, which was said to contain veryvaluable precepts of health, but which the bidders were not permitted to-open, sold at a high price. When the purchaser got it home he hastilyproceeded to examine it, and was much disappointed at finding that itcontained nothing more than four simple rules. He thought he had money away. But on further consideration he was induced to put therules in practice ; by doing so he was restored to a state of health to which-he had long been a stranger. He often spoke of tl>e old physicians bookas the cheapest and most valuable purchase he ever made in his life. The-rules were these : Keep the head cool; Kecp the fed warm ; Take a lightSlipper ; Hise early. HE old word for holy in the German language also means healthy, and, in our own, hale, whole, and holy are from the same root. Carlyle says that you could not get any better definition of what holy really is than healthy —completely healthy. Mens saiia in corpore sano. There is-. THE HEALTH OF THE FAMHY. 245 no kind of achievement you could make in the world that i?equal to perfect health. What are nuggets and millions ? TheFrench financier said, Alas! why is there no sleep to besold ? Sleep was not in the market at any quotation. What boots it to have attained wealth, if the wealth is•accompanied by ceaseless ailments ? What is the worth ofdistinction, if it has brought hypochondria with it ? Surely noone needs telling that a good digestion, a bounding pulse, andhigh spirits, are elements of happiness which no external advan-tages can out-balance. Chronic bodily disorder casts a gloomover the brightest prospects ; while the vivacity of strong healthgilds even misfortune. _Health_is not merelyJreejiQnLfrombodily pain;_ it is the capability: of receiving pleasure from alljurrounding things, and from the employment of all our need scarcely be said that without this capabihty evenmarr
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