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anything in modtfation. becausc with a rcasonablc amount of good exercise the digestion is so enormously improced that one need not worry about what to cat and drink. A glass of beer or winę with meals cannot do much harm. but neryone who takes plenty of concentrated spirits daily ought to know that he is breaking down lais health by so doing. and in any case his power of resisting disease.

Of the importance of a daily. rcgular evacuation of the bowels, I need not say much. I should first like to know whether anyone who goes through " My System " every day will be able to wait much morę than twenty four hours. Immcdiately after rising in the morning, just beforc going to bed at mght, and perhaps also once in the course of the day. preferably midway between two meal-times, a glass of fresh, clean water ought to be drunk. In this way, the intestines. and especialh- the kidneys, receire a wholesome bath Hard workers should take tltree meals a day, easy workers only two.

Sensible Underclothing

A gcneration ago most boys and young men went about without wool underclothing. according to the comparatively healthier practice of their fathers. Then thick. tight woollen under cests won thetr way into favour and contributed considerably to the present generations susccptibility to cold. I. too, wore wool for a number of years and tried Jaeger s normal clothing for a long time, but I gained notlung by it except that 1 tnade mysclf tender and nearly always had a cold or cough.

When some years later 1 flung my woollen underclothing aside, my appetite was for a long time twice as large, bccause metabolistn the waste and renewal of lx>dily tissue is impedcd by unduly warm clothing. As a mattcr of course, woollen underclothing ought not lo be left off without some previous hardening of the system by means of the daily bath and rubbing. After having madę use of my rubbing system for some time. you will find that you do not feel the cold so easily, and will yourstif find tight woollen underclothes uncomfortable.

1 think the best plan is to vary the underclothing according to the seasons, in order not to feel chilly in winter, or perspire in summer as soon as we walk a little. lt is not pleasant to perspire freely unless we mean to do it. during strcnuous exercise, when we havc changed our eteryday clothes for a practical costume. The hardened man should not need morę than one layer of underwear, viz., a shirt and pants of a materiał, \arying, according to the temperaturę, from thin linen or cotton mesh in the warmest summer to thick silk or Hannę! in the damp cold of the English Winter. No underrest need be worn exccp>t when wearing a starched front with ecening dress.

The healthiest and most comfortable thing for peoplc working m the open air, such as bricklayers and agricultural labourers. would be to wear no clothes at all at their work m summer u me save short knee-breeches, and to put on their coats only when they went home from their day s work. If wrestlers in a circus can show themselees bare to the waist, there will surely be no one who would forbid workmen doing the same for their healths sake. It ought to be tned In hfty years time it will be universal anyhow, why wait ³ Better far to make short work of it and at once abandon the thick. ugly, woollen vest, heavy with