y in expression, I have studied training from a different
point of view from that of most men.

I have discovered that the voice cannot be adequately trained without
also improving the body; that the improvement of the voice can be doubly
accelerated if the body is considered a factor.

I have also found, what is more important, that true exercises are all
mental and emotional and not physical, and that both body and voice can
never be truly improved except by right thinking and feeling.

I, therefore, long ago came to certain conclusions which are not in
accordance with common views. My convictions, however, have been the
result, not only of experience, but of wide study and investigation.

This book embodies a few points about health; without going deeply into
the principles involved, a short programme is given, the practice of
which has already accomplished marvelous results. The book embodies my
own experiences, and obeys the scientific principles involved in
training.

It is meant to be a guide for home study and practice. The principles
are applicable to everyone. It requires at first, patience,
perseverance, and resolution at that moment in the day when we are most
liable to be indifferent and negative, if not irresolute and
discouraged. Whoever resolutely undertakes to obey the suggestions will
never regret doing so. In fact, it is not too much to claim that he will
not only lengthen his life but double its satisfactions.

Every reader of the book is requested to become a member of the Morning
League, and whosoever does so and makes a report or writes to me fully
about special weaknesses, habits, "besetting sins," or conditions will
receive a letter of suggestions.

This book and its companion, "The Smile," are published as a part of the
great work undertaken by the friends of the School of Expression; the
net receipts from the sale will go to the Endowment Fund of the
institution.

HOW TO ADD TEN YEARS TO YOUR LIFE

I

SIGNIFICANCE OF MORNING

"The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven--
All's right with the world!"

Song from "Pippa Passes"
Robert Browning

Browning's "Pippa Passes" is a parable or allegory of human life.

Though called a drama by its author, it embodies, like all plays of the
highest ty