ure us, then we can study,
with interest, to fulfill other necessary conditions. We can give
ourselves the right amount of fresh air, of nourishment, of bathing,
and the right sort of medicine, if any is needed.

Thus, instead of interfering with nature, we are doing all in our power
to aid her; and when nature and the invalid work in harmony, health
comes on apace.

When illness brings much pain and discomfort with it, the endeavor to
relax out of the contractions caused by the pain, are of the same
service as dropping contractions caused by the fretting.

If one can find a truly wise doctor, or nurse, in such an illness as I
refer to, get full instructions in just one visit, and then follow
those directions explicitly, only one visit will be needed, probably,
and the gain from that will pay for it many times over.

This article is addressed especially to those who are now in health.

It is perhaps too much to expect one in the midst of an illness to
start at once with what we may call the curative attitude, although it
could be done, but if those who are now well and strong will read and
get a good understanding of this healthy way of facing an illness, and
get it into their subconscious minds, they will find that if at any
time they should be unfortunate enough to be attacked with illness,
they can use the knowledge to very real advantage, and--what is
more--they can, with the right tact, help others to use it also.

To see the common sense of a process and, when we have not the
opportunity to use the laws ourselves, to help others by means of our
knowledge, impresses our own brains more thoroughly with the truth,
especially if our advice is taken and acted upon and thus proved to be
true.

It must not be forgotten, however, that to help another man or woman to
a healthy process of getting well requires gentle patience and quiet,
steady, unremitting tact.

CHAPTER X

_Is Physical Culture good for Girls?_

A NUMBER of women were watching a game of basket-ball played by some
high-school girls. In the interim for rest one woman said to her
neighbor: "Do you see that girl flat on her back, looking like a very
heavy bag of sand?"

"Yes," the answer was; "what under the sun is she doing that for? She
looks heavy and lazy and logy, while the other girls are talking and
laughing and having a good time."

"You wait and watch her play," responded the first woman. And so they
waited and watched, and to t