ise in the open
air, or regular, systematic, simple and vigorous activity of some kind.

The necessity of thoroughly pure air must be emphasized from first to
last. Some think that the dullness felt by many people in the early
morning is due to the impure air of cities, and to the failure to open
windows. A lady once said to me, "When I am in the country I always
sleep out of doors. Then I have not the slightest disinclination to get
up. I do it as naturally and as gladly as the animals."

It is to be hoped that the rapid transit and the automobile will enable
people to live farther out in the country, farther from air poisoned by
smoke and gases. Even in cities, however, one may have open windows and
greater circulation of air than is common.

Some have gone so far as to place exercise over against temperance in
eating, saying that if you take enough exercise you may eat and drink
what you please. While there is some truth in this there is really no
antagonism between them; in fact, they are usually found together.

Another view almost universally advocated, is to avoid drugs. The
importance of this and its union with right exercise have been
demonstrated in the impressive language of fable.

"There is a story in the 'Arabian Nights' Tales'," says Addison, "of a
king who had long languished under an ill habit of body, and had taken
abundance of remedies to no purpose. At length, says the fable, a
physician cured him by the following method: he took a hollow ball of
wood, and filled it with several drugs; after which he closed it up so
carefully that nothing appeared. He likewise took a mallet, and, after
having hollowed the handle and that part which strikes the ball, he
inclosed in them several drugs after the same manner as in the ball
itself. He then ordered the sultan, who was his patient, to exercise
himself early in the morning with these rightly prepared instruments,
till such time as he should sweat; when, as the story goes, the virtue
of the medicaments perspiring through the wood, had so good an influence
on the sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition
which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to
remove.

"This Eastern allegory is finely contrived to show us how beneficial
bodily labor is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual
physic."

Another illustration is furnished us by Sir William Temple:--

"I know not," he says, "whether some despera