. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . THE first wealth ishealth; sickness ispoorSpirited; it musthusband its resources tolive. But health an-swers its own ends andhas to spare; runs overand inundates the creepsand meadow - lands ofother mens necessity. —Emerson. PREVENTION of disease is good economy, both ofstrength and money. Broken health, though mended,usually carries a sear. We are not quite what we were,after a serious illness. From overwork or unwise livingthe n
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . THE first wealth ishealth; sickness ispoorSpirited; it musthusband its resources tolive. But health an-swers its own ends andhas to spare; runs overand inundates the creepsand meadow - lands ofother mens necessity. —Emerson. PREVENTION of disease is good economy, both ofstrength and money. Broken health, though mended,usually carries a sear. We are not quite what we were,after a serious illness. From overwork or unwise livingthe nerve force breaks down and vital organs are weakened;then follows enforced rest, heavy expense, and a life-longstruggle with a broken constitution. It is reported that a man of wealth has offered a milliondollars for a new stomach. It can not be supplied, evenat that price. If it were possible, it would be poor economyfor the man to spoil a good stomach by bad living, and thenpay such a price for a new one. A lecturer, pale and thin, was urging upon a conventionthe importance of certain dietetic reforms. A doubtinglistener, who thought the speaker a poor representativeof his theory, asked him how the reform he Mas advocatingagreed with his constitution. My constitution! repliedthe witty speaker, I havent any constitution. I havebeen living on my by-laws for thirty years. The grea
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