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at any time should serve as a remedy for the evil effects of hard work
of any kind.

The exercises give the best preparation for work and because many of
them are taken lying down they do not exhaust but accumulate energy.
They also stimulate and develop a harmony and activity of man's whole
being.

The shortest and best answer that can be made to the question "How to
work" is, to work rhythmically. This is the way Nature works. There is
action and reaction.

The law of rhythm, which has already been explained, must be obeyed in
our every-day tasks. It applies to every step we take.

One of the best results of these exercises is that they develop a sense
of rhythm.

There are many violations of rhythm. One is continuing along one line
too long. Work can be so arranged as to be varied. We can work at one
thing several hours and then we can deliberately drop it until the next
day and take up some other phase of work.

Without rhythm, work becomes drudgery. A more specific violation of
rhythm is a failure to relax and to use force only when needed.

The greatest effect of force comes through action and reaction.
Sometimes a man uses unnecessary parts and uses them continually. That,
of course, will cause weariness.

There are hundreds of questions regarding such discussions in as many
books in our day. Mr. Nathaniel J. Fowler, Jr., in "The Boy," a careful
book which is a treasure house of information, has gathered answers to
leading questions from two hundred and eighty-three prominent men. Many
of these, in fact, most of them, advise a boy, when he is not satisfied
with his work and is pretty sure that he is not adapted to it, to change
his occupation.

It is a difficult point upon which to give advice, but other things
being equal, work should be enjoyed. When not enjoyed there should be a
serious study of the man himself, a study of his attitude toward life, a
study of his possibilities, a study of his opportunities, and also a
study of what he is best fitted for, and an endeavor to find this.

It is surprising, however, how far men can adapt themselves, even change
their very nature in accomplishing a work which is laid upon them as a
duty. One of the greatest artists of New England took care of his
brothers and sisters and his father's farm, at a crisis, and kept a
little shed outside the house where he painted at odd moments. He had an
avocation as well as a vocation. He gave up his trip to study in E