Breathe pure air by day and by night.

Be in the light and sunshine as much as possible.

Be in bed by nine o'clock in winter time, and by eight o'clock in the summer time.

Be conscientious, truthful and honest in all your dealings, that, as God said to the Israelites, " your days may be long in the land."

Lie down and sleep or rest an hour each day in a comfortable warm room after dinner.

Dress loosely, not binding or compressing any part of the body with corsets, belts, neckties or tight shoes. Cannons and corsets are the slayers of men and women, and so the sexes remain about equal in numbers.

Suspend the garments from the shoulders, and avoid black as much as possible - the nearer white the better. Prof. Hamilton thus denounces black broadcloth in a lecture upon hygiene: "Americans have adopted as a national costume, a thin, tight-fitting black suit of broadcloth. To foreigners we seem always to be in mourning; we travel in black. The priest, the lawyer, the doctor, the literary man, the mechanic, and even the day laborer, choose always the same black broadcloth - a style that never ought to have been adopted out of the drawing-room or the pulpit, because it is a feeble and expensive fabric, and because it is at the North no protection against the cold, nor is it any more suitable at the South. It is too thin to be warm in winter, and too black to be cool in summer; but especially do we object to it, because the wearer is always soiling it by exposure."

Wear a hat light in weight and loosely fitting upon the head. Many of the orientals wear neither hat nor head-dress, and their hair is beautiful.

Large, easy-setting shoes are as comfortable as healthful; wear such. Sandals are preferable in warm weather to shoes of any kind. No great man ever had a small foot, nor a great woman a small hand. Broad nostrils indicate strong lungs and long life, and a peaked, turned up nose tells of a bad temper and a Paul Pry disposition.

Keep the feet warm and dry. If you perspire too freely, change the undergarments and the hose morning and evening, and use quinine and dilute phosphoric acid: two or three grains of quinine and from five to ten drops of the acid in a wine-glassful of water.

Wear woolen stockings, especially in winter time. Children are healthier for going bare-footed when the ground is warm; it draws the blood to the feet and relieves the brain.

Alcoholic liquors, tobacco, coffee, tea, chloral, morphine - all artificial stimulants and narcotics are to be shunned; if not at first injurious, seemingly, they will prove so in the end.

Avoid sausage, mince pie, head cheese, spicy gravies and pork, salt or fresh, fat or lean. Lard nor anything else that comes from swine is fit to eat. The distinguished actor, Kean, "is said to have suited the kind of meat which he ate to the part which he was going to play, and selected mutton for lovers, beef for murderers and pork for tyrants!"

Look at the hog, asleep in the filth of his own making! Scent the odor of the sty; observe the tetter and scurf and mange of his skin; listen to his coarse, swinish grunt; see him fill himself upon some filthy, dead carcase; straighten out his fore leg and examine the open sore or issue a few inches above the foot. This is the outlet of a sewer, a scrofulous sewer, discharging daily a putrid, poisonous mucus. Study the glands, soft, fatty and cheesy, verging upon tuberculous degeneration.

and then, through a microscope, look at the tapeworm sacs and the terrible trichinae often found in swine's flesh, and if from no higher motive than common decency quit eating hogs!

God be thanked for Moses' testimony against feeding upon the unclean brute. The distinguished Methodist commentator, Dr. Adam Clarke, when asked to give thanks at a dinner where pork was conspicuous, used these word: "Lord, bless this bread, these vegetables and this fruit; and if Thou canst bless under the gospel what Thou didst curse under the law, bless this swine's flesh."

Do not say, " The hog will be clean if he has an out-door chance." It is false. Who has not seen hogs wallowing in the foulest mire in a fresh, fragrant clover pasture? They will leave beds of clean straw to revel in dirty, stagnant mud-holes; and if one of their companions dies in the field they wait till putrefaction takes place, and then devour its rotting carcase!

The hog is a scavenger, and no true Jew, practical scientist or trained physician feasts upon its flesh. Frenchmen may eat snails; Africans may relish lizards; Patagonians may devour serpents; the black tribes of Australia may eat lice, which I have seen them do, and Americans may eat hogs if they choose; but I prefer milk and rice and eggs, fruits and home-made bread.

Fried food is difficult of digestion; potatoes fried in lard are unfit to eat. Cheese is constipating; butter, a rather harmless grease compared with lard, makes one bilious.

Pickles contain little or no nourishment; neither does black pepper, horseradish or mustard. The latter will draw a blister upon the surface of the skin; and yet many people put this sinapisn - mustard poultice - spread upon cold bacon right down into their stomachs, and then complain of irritation, indigestion and dyspepsia! And, by the way, I can invariably cure dyspepsia, mucous or nervous, by the administration of appropriate remedies, providing patients will observe rational, hygienic rules of living.

Sugar is an excellent article of diet, especially for children. The taste for it is natural. It does not destroy the teeth. The finest teeth that I ever saw was some 30 years ago, in the South among the negroes, who are very fond of sugar, and during the sugaring season almost live upon it. Those prone to biliousness, a vague term, I confess, for different affections of the liver, should use sweets more sparingly. In those forms of dyspepsia where grease or greasy foods cause distress, some physicians recommend acids and sour cider. I pursue a different treatment, including dieting, bathing and massage.