should be more carefully attended to than the feet. Wear good woolen stockings and thick-soled boots and shoes in cold weather. The feet are so far distant from the heart that the circulation may be easily checked, and serious, or even fatal, illness follow. India rubber overshoes should not be worn except in wet weather, as they obstruct the perspiration from the pores of the skin.

The next essential to good health is rest. The body must repair the waste which it suffers, or it will soon wear away. In this high-pressure age, when so intense a strain is put on the nervous system, much sleep is required to repair the waste which the body has undergone during the day. The brain needs rest one-third of the time,-eight hours of sleep against sixteen hours of activity.

The importance of sleep cannot be over-estimated. It is as essential to life and happiness as the air we breathe. Some one has said, that of two men or women, equally healthy, the one who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much toward curing irritability of temper, peevishness and uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an overworked brain, and thus prevent insanity. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It is the best thing to dissipate a fit of the blues, and it is a balm to sorrow.

Cervantes, in his Don Quixote, makes the jovial Sancho Panza to say: "Now, blessings on him that first invented sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts

and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot."

But, suppose the brain is too excited to sleep, how then can this great healer be secured? As sleeplessness is caused by an undue flow of blood to the brain, whatever will draw this away will tend to produce sleep. Toasting the feet at the fire, or taking a foot bath, will draw the blood to the extremities; or, rubbing the body with a rough towel, after taking a warm bath, will restore the usual circulation and relieve the brain. Edward Everett Hale tells of a plan he tried with success, that of fixing the eyes, while in bed, on a fixed object, and looking steadily at it without once winking.

Pure air and good ventilation are indispensable to good health. How many thousands have been carried to the grave by fevers and malarial diseases, which were ignorantly supposed to be beyond human interposition, but which were directly caused by defective. sewerage, or a cellar steaming with rotting vegetables, thus filling the house with deadly poison. How often do men unthinkingly build their houses in unhealthy localities, and thus bring upon themselves and their families the fearful penalties of disease.

It is said that the ancestors of the late Theodore Parker, of Boston, on both his father's and mother's side, were a healthy and long-lived race, and yet nine of his brothers and sisters, including himself, died of consumption, besides many in other branches of the family of the same generation. He attributed this to

the location of the family homestead in the midst of wet ground, and near a peat bed from which dense fogs would often arise and envelop the house, and to this dampness he attributed their loss of health.

The seeds of disease carried from festering masses of filth in sewer or fog, are silent, stealthy and unseen, and they penetrate into the gilded palace as well as the lowly hovel, and find lodgment alike in the forms of the rich and poor.

To keep well requires more than a sound bodythere must also be a happy and contented mind.

Dr. Hall says, that one of the most important promoters of health is the getting along smoothly in the world. No doubt the growing prevalence of diseases of the stomach, heart and the nervous system is mainly caused by the terrible pace at which we drive ourselves. Our days are often full of toil and weariness; our nights of sleepless unrest; we are perplexed with the present; we see portentous clouds in the future, and so life becomes a fitful struggle with care and anxiety. No wonder the delicate organism of our body gets out of order, with such a fearful wear and tear going on,it is often more of a wonder that a few months of such experience do not bring the destruction, which it often requires years to accomplish. With a contented mind and a sound body, as the result of the observance of the laws of health, there will come the reward of a long life, blessed with all the rational enjoyments which the world can bestow.

THE SIN OF WORRY.

HE Duke of Wellington, when asked his secret of winning battles, replied that he had no secret, that he did not know how to win

a battle, nor did any one know. That all a man could do was to look beforehand at all the chances, and lay all possible plans; but from the moment the battle began, no mortal prudence could insure success; a thousand new accidents might spring up and scatter his plans to the winds; and all that man could do was to do his best, and trust in God. In other words, he meant that it was no use to worry about the result, after everything had been done that the utmost caution and watchfulness could dictate. The words of the famous warrior are applicable to every calling in life. One of the sins of the age is this habit of useless worry

this attempt to carry not only the burdens of to-day, but those of to-morrow. Charles Kingsley, a man who performed an immense amount of labor, said, "I know of nothing that cripples a man more, and hinders him working manfully, than anxiety." Men do not die from hard work, so much as from the fret and worry which accompanies it. Of course, much thought is required for the future, but there is a point beyond

which thought becomes wasted, and is merged into anxiety.

It is said that one of Cromwell's officers was so disturbed in mind over the state of the nation, that he could not sleep. His servant noticing it, asked leave to ask him a question. "Do you not think," he inquired, "that God governed the world very well before you came into it?" "Undoubtedly," was the reply. "And do you not think that he will govern it quite as well when you are gone out of it?" "Certainly." "Then, pray sir, excuse me, but do you not think that you may trust Him to govern it as long as you live in it?" This was such a sensible view of the matter that he at once accepted its truth, and soon composure and sleep followed. We vex ourselves often, because we think everything goes wrong and is doomed to destruction; but in spite of our fears, the world moves on the same as before, and the seasons come and go, bringing seedtime and harvest in their appointed times to bless the earth with plenty.

In the wilds of Colorado there are massive red sandstone rocks which have been fashioned into all sorts of grotesque and uncouth shapes by little grains of sand, which the fierce winds have hurled against them for ages; and so there are characters which are being distorted into forms of moral repulsiveness by the storms of fretfulness and petulance which sweep over them day after day.

How the good influence of many parents over their