This is the "new" religion; yet it is older than the universe. It is
God's own thought put into practical form.

Common Sense

If you are suffering from physical ills, ask yourself if it is not your
own fault.

There is scarcely one person in one hundred who does not over eat or
drink.

I know an entire family who complain of gastric troubles, yet who keep
the coffee pot continually on the range and drink large quantities of
that beverage at least twice a day.

No one can be well who does that. Almost every human ailment can be
traced to foolish diet.

Eat only two meals in twenty-four hours. If you are not engaged in
active physical labor, make it one meal. Drink two or three or four
quarts of milk at intervals during the day to supply good blood to the
system.

You will thrive upon it, and you will not miss the other two meals
after the first week.

And your ailments will gradually disappear.

Meantime, if you are self-supporting, your bank account will increase.

Think of the waste of money which goes into indigestible food! It is
appalling when you consider it. Heaven speed the time when men and
women find out how little money it requires to sustain the body in good
health and keep the brain clear and the eye bright!

The heavy drinker is to-day looked upon with pity and scorn. The time
will come when the heavy eater will be similarly regarded.

Once find the delight of a simple diet, the benefit to body and mind
and purse, and life will assume new interest, and toil will be robbed
of its drudgery, for it will cease to be a mere matter of toiling for a
bare existence.

Again, are you unhappy? Stop and ask yourself why. If you have a
great sorrow, time will be your consoler. And there is an ennobling
and enriching effect of sorrow well borne.

It is the education of the soul. But if you are unhappy over petty
worries and trials, you are wearing yourself to no avail; and if you
are allowing small things to irritate and harass you and to spoil the
beautiful days for you, take yourself in hand and change your ways.

You can do it if you choose. It is pitiful to observe what sort of
troubles most unhappy people are afflicted with. I have seen a
beautiful young woman grow care lined and faded just from imagining she
was being "slighted" or neglected by her acquaintances.

Some one nodded coldly to her, another one spoke superciliously, a
third failed to invite her, a fourth did no