ateness, symmetry and the dependence of parts or persons upon one another-to make everything an embodiment of use, justice and power.

BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

Beautiful faces are those that wear-
It matters little if dark or fair-
Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth-fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.

Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.

Beautiful hands are those that do

Work that is earnest, brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.

Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro-

Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.

Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care,

With patient grace and daily prayer.

Beautiful lives are those that bless

Silent rivers of happiness,

Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.

Beautiful twilight at set of sun,

Beautiful goal with race well won,

Beautiful rest, with work well done.

Beautiful graves, where grasses creep,

Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep

Over worn-out hands-Oh! beautiful sleep.

PART FIFTH.

HYGIENE.

HYGIENE AND DIETETIC SCIENCE MUST FORM OUR

CURRICULUM.

The agent of life and health, next to air, is water. It completely pervades the earth outside of man, and forms over four-fifths of his physical constitution. It forms more than ninety per cent of his blood; is absorbed by every membrane of his body; is the element on which all the particles float from part to part; is essential to all digestion, secretion, breathing, perspiration and purification.

The most blessed friendship an individual can make is a familiar intimacy with water. Let us go to work with water; let us cleanse out our affections, regulate our bodily appetites, discipline our passions, and harmonize the action of all our faculties. Water is an emblem of purity, and suggests the cleansing process. If a man cannot pray, he can wash. From the body's purity, the mind receives a secret, sympathetic aid. When clean and spiritually illuminated, we shall see things in an enlarged sense.

When we are laying the foundation for health, we are improving character. One secret of Greek and Roman self-respect was no doubt in their complete system of bathing. Universal cleanliness and good manners are essential to a Democracy.

Health of body and mind requires daily ablutions. Water acts chemically in and upon the body; and the health and

equilibrium of the system cannot be maintained without this element.

Water, when used externally, is a powerful anodyne, alterative, diaphoretic, tonic, restorative-a true physiological renovative and curative element :

To the days of the aged it addeth length;

To the might of the strong it addeth strength;
It freshens the heart, it brightens the sight;
'Tis like quaffing a goblet of morning light.

We should equalize the circulation in order to promote health. Bathing has this tendency. The daily bath must not be neglected even in cold weather, by either adults or children, if they would always maintain active, vigorous health, and avoid colds, coughs, neuralgia, rheumatism, deafness and torpidity of the liver, with its long train of contingent diseases. The skin is naturally shrunken by the cold; its pores liable to shirk duty and throw too much work upon the other excretory organs of the body; the skin, therefore, must be kept active by suitable bathing.

Judicious

Water is an active agent and cause of action. bathing and a proper observance of hygiene will do much to keep up the equilibrium of the system and a positive state of health. It is the most rational means of securing physiological perfection, physical cleanliness, physical harmony, and immunity from disease.

Mental and physical harmony depend very much upon a baptismal ceremony, practiced religiously every morning. Pray with a clean skin and a pure heart; first pure, then peaceable. The immaculate One put water before spirit, which means, first, bodily purification, then the spiritual.

Much of the soul's serenity is contingent upon the frame in which it dwells. Do you yearn to feel a pure nature? Then feed wisely upon better substances, drink better fluids,

and think habitually better thoughts. One of the bad drinks is alcohol, which is a powerful antagonist to the digestive process. It prevents the natural changes going on in the blood, it impedes the liberation of carbonic acid-a deadly poison-it obstructs the nutritive functions, produces disease of the liver, and is a brain poison. This is one of the impediments to be thrown away, together with base appetites, groveling affections, impure desires, low, mean, petty and contemptible ambitions. Healthy persons desire nothing more stimulating than their own healthy blood.

The new birth begins in the body department. Man needs to grow into the finer attributes of humanity, and to be lifted out of passions, appetites and inversions. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated. Intelligent, careful obedience to the laws of life, always has brought and always will bring its reward of cool brain, clear judgment, a lively conscience and tender heart.

Pure goodness, pure blood, gives pure power. The predisposing causes of disease are bad air, bad food, bad drink, bad clothing, want of cleanliness, want of sunlight, deficient exercise or overwork, tobacco, alcohol and other narcotics, stimulants and tonics. These prepare the system for the exhibition of disease.

When the body externally stands in the same well-balanced and beautiful relation to air, water, vegetables and earth, then health must be the result. This world can never be a delightful place until the great chemico-dynamic laws are clearly understood and obeyed. Nine-tenths of all the crime, sin and iniquity committed on the globe is the effect of chemical, electrical and magnetic conditions.

All crimes, errors and wrong actions result from the flow of blood and nervous-aura into wrong cerebral and other organs.

This comes from a diseased mind, not in harmony with itself, disturbed, or irritable and unbalanced; or perhaps from an impoverished condition of the nerve-fluid, resulting from various causes-too much activity of body or mind, or hereditary debility and congenital disposition, or the violation of some physical law; it may be there is too great an expenditure of the essence of life.

Hygienic agencies and brain nutriment will do much to restore the balance of forces. The curative principle is in nutrition. The difficulty to be overcome is imperfect nutrition. To remove disease and recover health, we must assist in the vital motions, which make nutrition. Perfect nutrition is life, health and strength. The maintenance in their integrity of the natural phenomena of nutrition is the chief condition that can preserve the system from an impermanent or variable condition, and preserve the health intact.

The power and activity of a large proportion of the best minds are impaired or destroyed by a want of latent force in the form of brain food within the substance of the material organ, the brain. Like a steam engine without fuel to supply the waste resulting from the production of power, they exhibit idle but efficient achievement. And, as the chemical elements that nourish the muscular, the adipose and the osseous, are not sufficient for the nervous tissue, consequently there should be a better understanding of the dietetic system. This subject should be discussed and agitated until the public mind becomes convinced of the paramount importance of the topic of physical intelligence and moral life and development. Only in the perfect physical body can the intellectual faculties give a perfect expression to their own divine capabilities; as bone, blood and brain all contribute to the evolution of judgment.