cept when heated. If heated, refresh the mouth by rinsing, but do not swallow for a time. Of course it is here supposed that you have stopped exercise in a heated condition. Drink at your meals, before, after. Don't gulp ice-water. Don't boil your stomach with hissing hot water. A good drink is composed of rather hot water with milk to color well, and enough salt to taste. Drink water freely before retiring. Rule 8. Make sure of pure air in your sleeping room. Don't sleep in a draft. If possible sleep with head away from open door or window. Place a light screen between yourself and the source of air. See to it, however, that the pure air can get to you. Don't sleep in a hot room. Don't sleep in a freezing atmosphere. Rule 9. Keep your sleeping-room clean. Make it attractive. That room ought to be the best in the house. It is frequently the poorest. If it is a small hired room, sacrifice many things for furniture, pictures, ornaments, articles of toilet. Do not suppose that, because you are a male biped, you are above these suggestions. You are occupied with dirt all day; why not get away from dirt at night? Man is an animal with a soul, and therefore may not wisely "bunk down" like a dog, or "stall in" like a horse or an ox. Rule 10. Keep body and clothing as clean as possible. Labor, in a clean shirt and blouse, can do better work than in garments grimy with dirt and grease. People who do not handle dirt have, of course, no excuse for being unclean. There is also unnoticed benefit in occasional change of the outer garments. It rejuvenates a suit of clothing or a dress to hang it in good air a day The mind of the wearer in turn gets a fresh feeling by donning different clothing, or by varying the com or two. bination. Even a fresh necktie or polished shoes make a man feel new for an hour, and that is eminently worth the while. Few people are dandies or flirts; hence a flower on the person every day would minister to self-respect and a high-toned consciousness, having a direct bearing upon the soul's power of Will. A handkerchief touched with a bit of perfumery, though it be a red bandana in a mechanic's hands, would serve a similar purpose. Let fools laugh! A good Will has no care for asses' braying. A real man need be neither a prig nor a boor. "It is related of Haydn, the musician, that, when he sat down to compose, he always dressed himself with the utmost care, had his hair nicely powdered, and put on his best suit. Frederick II. had given him a diamond ring; and Haydn declared that, if he happened to begin without it, he could not summon a single idea. He could write only on the finest paper; and was as particular in forming his notes, as if he had been engraving them on copperplate." Rule 11. Similarly as to good music. "Take a music-bath once or twice a week for a few seasons," said Dr. O. W. Holmes, "and you will find that is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body." This elevates and tends to maintain the tone of one's mind. Seek, therefore, every clean opportunity for hearing it. Purchase some kind of instrument for the home, and see that its beneficent harmonies are often heard. Let music be as much a part of the day's routine as eating or reading or working. Rule 12. Discard, resolutely and forever everything thought to be injurious to health. Rule 13. Always and everywhere cultivate high mindedness. Maintain the resolute Mood of Will. As sert yourself, for every good influence, against every evil thing. Carry with you in all activities the sense of nobility, of health, of success. Rule 14. It should now be added that beyond dispute personal power for maintaining and securing health is not confined to mere Will as commonly understood. Below all moods of cheerfulness, hope courage and Will— in ordinary thought-hides a dynamic psychic force which is capable even of "miracles," and which will ultimately rid the earth of disease and death. This psychic force is expressed partly in mental thought, but more perfectly and prophetically in a psychic state which is a complex of assumption, assertion, Will or sovereign authority an idea of command in action conquering illness and securing health- and confidence and profound realization - that is, thought-feeling of betterment. The path leading to such state is that of expecting effort to feel the state within the inner centre of person. One should affirm that universal good is pouring in; one should assume and assert the fact; one should assume and assert that the ground of one's existence is the Infinite Reality, that one has deeply imbedded in the deeps of soul the idea of self as whole because the Infinite Ground does not and cannot wish otherwise, and that as the universal good enters from without and the Infinite Self emerges from below up into the subconscious personal self, all inharmonious conditions are necessarily passing away-being expelled. Those who accept the Christian religion are referred to the author's lectures on "The Bible and the New Thought," for a condensed study, which ought to prove helpful. The process above suggested cannot be acquired by brief and haphazard efforts. The soul must essay the process again and again until it discovers the process. Thereafter it must put the process into action incessantly until facility and power in its use are acquired. But observe: In real illness call your physician AND at the same time bring your psychic power into requisition. The notion that the physician and psycho-auto treatment are inconsistent and antagonistic is utterly false. omit either method. Rise to the highest level of a free use of anything under heaven which helps life to health. Make all the above suggestions a perpetual régime of your life. "ATTENTION! I RESOLVE TO WILL!!” THY SELF. I asked of These revealment of my need: The Seas, the Hills, the Starry Vault, and Life. The first cried, "Action! Thou art spirit freed;" The second, "Poise! Defeat is bred of strife;" The third Galactic, "Power in the Deed!" To war I went with sounding drum and fife- But ne'er the thing I urged these Masters taught. How act? How stand? What power-and how gain? Seas, Hills and Stars - War, Faith and World in vain! Then up spoke Life: "Oh, simple soul destraught! "Poise, Action, Powers for thy rule complain : "Thou art the King, thyself the king's domain !" -THE AUTHOR, |