the stones from a tomb wherewith to kill the living. Nothing is more wearisome than pedantry.

2892. If you feel your intellectual superiority to any one with whom you are conversing, do not seek to bear him down ; it would be an inglorious triumph, and a breach of good

manners.

2893. Beware, too, of speaking lightly of subjects which bear a sacred character.

2894. Witlings occasionally gain a reputation in society; but nothing is more insipid and in worse taste than their conceited harangues and self-sufficient air.

2895. It is a common idea that the art of writing and the art of conversation are one; this is a great mistake. of genius may be a very dull talker.

A man

2896. The two grand modes of making your conversation interesting, are to enliven it by recitals calculated to affect and impress your hearers, and to intersperse it with anecdotes and smart things.

2897. It follows that all matter of offense in conversation should be avoided. The self-love of others is to be respected.

2898. Therefore, no one is tolerated who makes himself the subject of his own commendation, uor who disregards the feelings of those whom he addresses.

2899. There is as much demand for politeness and civility in conversation as in any other department of social inter

course.

2900. One who rudely interrupts another, does much the same thing as though he should, when walking with another, impertinently thrust himself before his companion, and stop his progress.

2901. Rules of Conduct.-The following excellent rules are from the diary of Mrs. Fry :

2902. 1. Never lose any time; I do not think that lost which is spent in amusement or recreation, some time every day; but always be in the habit of being employed.

2903. 2. Never err the least in truth.

2904. 3. Never say any ill thing of a person when thou canst say a good thing of him; not only speak charitably, but feel so.

2905. 4. Never be irritable or unkind to any body.

2906. 5. Never indulge thyself in luxuries that are not necessary.

2907. 6. Do all things with consideration; and, when thy path to act right is most difficult, feel confidence in that Power alone which is able to assist thee, and exert thy own powers as far as they go.

PART XI.

HEALTH AND WEALTH.

How to Preserve Health-Bathing, etc.-Medicine-Ointments-Blisters—Poultices, etc.—Cholera-Domestic Surgery, etc.-Riches-Temperance-Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth.

THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.

2908. In another place (see "Health and Beauty," p. 89, etc.), I have given many useful hints on this subject.

2909. Still more may be told; and new suggestions, cautions, and remedies will be found in the following pages.

2910. These Rules are given to persuade people to take care and preserve their health; not to induce them needlessly to doctor themselves.

2911. The First Rule for those in health is-take no medicine.

2912. The Second Rule.-In sickness, send for the best physicians; viz., those who give least medicine.

2913. Pure atmospheric air is composed of nitrogen, oxygen, and a very small proportion of carbonic acid gas. Air once breathed has lost the chief part of its oxygen, and acquired a proportionate increase of carbonic acid gas.

2914. Therefore, health requires that we breathe the same air once only.

2915. The solid part of our bodies is continually wasting, and requires to be repaired by fresh substances.

2916. Therefore, food, which is to repair the loss, should be taken with due regard to the exercise and waste of the body.

2917. The fluid part of our bodies also wastes constantly; there is but one fluid in animals, which is water.

2918. Therefore, water only is necessary, and no artifice can produce a better drink.

2919. The fluid of our bodies is to the solid in proportion as nine to one.

2920. Therefore, a like proportion should prevail in the total amount of food taken.

2921. Light exercises an important influence upon the growth and vigor of animals and plants.

2922. Therefore, our dwellings should freely admit the solar rays.

2923. Decomposing animal and vegetable substances yield various noxious gases, which enter the lungs and corrupt the blood.

2924. Therefore, all impurities should be kept away from our abodes, and every precaution be observed to secure a pure atmosphere.

2925. Warmth is essential to all the bodily functions.

2926. Therefore, an equal bodily temperature should be maintained by exercise, by clothing, or by fire.

2927. Exercise warms, invigorates, and purifies the body; clothing preserves the warmth the body generates; fire imparts warmth externally.

2928. Therefore, to obtain and preserve warmth, exercise and clothing are preferable to fire.

2929. Fire consumes the oxygen of the air, and produces noxious gases.

2930. Therefore, the air is less pure in the presence of candles, gas, or coal fire, than otherwise; and the deterioration should be repaired by increased ventilation.

2931. The skin is a highly-organized membrane, full of minute pores, cells, blood-vessels, and nerves; it imbibes moisture or throws it off, according to the state of the atmosphere and the temperature of the body, It also "breathes," as do the lungs (though less actively). All the internal organs sympathize with the skin.

2932. Therefore, it should be repeatedly cleansed.

2933. Late hours and anxious pursuits exhaust the nervous system, and produce disease and premature death.

- 2934. Therefore, the hours of labor and study should be short.

2935. Mental and bodily exercise are equally essential to the general health and happiness.

2936. Therefore labor and study should succeed each other.

2937. Man will live most healthily upon simple solids and fluids, of which a sufficient but temperate quantity should be taken.

2938. Therefore, strong drinks, tobacco, snuff, opium, and all mere indulgences should be avoided.

2939. Sudden alternations of heat and cold are dangerous, especially to the young and the aged.

2940. Therefore, clothing, in quantity and quality, should be adapted to the alterations of night and day, and of the seasons.

2941. And therefore, also, drinking cold water when the body is hot, and hot tea and soups when cold, are productive of many evils.

2942. Moderation in eating and drinking, short hours of labor and study, regularity in exercise, recreation, and rest, cleanliness, equanimity of temper and equality of temperature, these are the great essentials to that which surpasses all wealth, health of mind and body.

2943. Bed Clothes. The perfection of dress, for day or night, where warmth is the purpose, is that which confines around the body sufficient of its own warmth, while it allows escape to the exhalations of the skin.

2944. Where the body is allowed to bathe protractedly in its own vapors, we must expect an unhealthy effect upon the skin.

2945. Where there is too little ventilating escape, insensible perspiration is checked, and something analogous to fever supervenes; foul tongue, ill taste, and lack of morning appetite betray the evil.

2946. Early Rising-Dr. Wilson Philip, in his "Treatise on Indigestion," says: Although it is of consequence to the debilitated to go early to bed, there are few things more hurtful to them than remaining in it too long."