nd here let us interpose one word. If we wish to spare
ourselves that most wearying of all sensations, that fatal sense of
boredom and disgust for our daily task which sometimes creeps in upon
us, we must try with all our hearts to take an interest in what our
hands find to do. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do that do with thy
might." It is not only right to think and act up to this; it is the
greatest wisdom also; for our own comfort and happiness. Work done with
a will only takes half the time in doing. The hours fly, and the sense
of weariness has no time to creep in. This is a spirit, it will be
found, which can be easily cultivated, and will, after a little effort,
come quite naturally, much to our benefit in every way.

It has seemed to us, in spite of the great advance that has been made in
the teaching of hygiene, and the possession by many of a fair knowledge
of the laws which govern it, that there is still a lamentable want of
practicability in its application; that is to say, the theories we
learn, and to which we subscribe, are rarely, and then very imperfectly,
carried out in actual individual life. We grant that great improvements
are visible on all sides, in what we might term general hygiene; but
where we perceive a great deficiency still, is in that personal
application of the laws of health which must and can only be properly
applied by individuals to themselves, so as to make them fit into the
circumstances under which they exist.

It will not help our girls much, for instance, to have learnt the number
of cubic feet of oxygen that is necessary for turning the purple blood
into scarlet--the amount of nitrogenous, phosphatic, carbonaceous, and
other elements which are requisite for building up new tissue, etc.,
etc., and many other dry facts of a kindred nature, if she does not put
this knowledge to practical use. There is a wide division between facts
thus learnt off glibly at school and the practical application of them
to our daily wants.

The human body, if it is to be maintained in but a fair state of health,
requires a certain amount of fresh air--a certain amount of
flesh-forming, bone-forming, brain-forming, and warmth-giving nutriment.
Our girls require to have a tolerable, if not exactly a faultless,
circulation, in order that these various foodstuffs may be digested,
_i.e._, converted into these flesh, bone, and brain-forming tissues. In
order to have a tolerable circulation, the body mu