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Dew paddling should be done in the dark.

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The only things that bathing machines make are cowards.

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It is better to board yourself than let others be bored by you.

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"A bore is one who thinks his opinions of greater importance than your
own."

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People who throw pebbles into the sea shouldn't dive near shore.

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A toothbrush is what many forget but few should need.

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Scotland Yard is not in the Grampians.

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Cheap food is often dearly bought.

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Lyons have no depots in Skye.

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Orange-trees never yet sprang from scattered peel.

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A pear in the hand is worth two in the can.

PETER PIPER.

THE

HEALTHY

LIFE

The Independent
Health Magazine.

3 AMEN CORNER LONDON E.C.

VOL. V SEPTEMBER
No. 26. 1913

_There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and
philosophers will all speak the same language and understand one
another._--CLAUDE BERNARD.

AN INDICATION.

Food reformers sometimes forget that "man does not live by bread
alone," not even when supplemented by an ample supply of fresh air and
physical exercise.

It has been pointed out by psychologists that the more highly
organised and highly developed the creature, the less it depends on
nervous energy obtained via the stomach and the more it depends on
energy generated by the brain. True, the brain must be healthy for
this, and one poisoned by impure blood, due to wrong feeding, cannot
be healthy. But something more than clean blood is necessary. For, as
change of physical posture is necessary to avoid cramped limbs, so
periodic reversal of mental attitude (consideration from other than
the one view-point) is necessary to the brain's health.

Again, change of air is often prescribed when the patient's real need
is a change of the person