Invalidism

"How have you been this winter?" said one friend to another, whom he iiad not met for many weeks. "Really, now you bring the matter to my attentlon," returned liis friend joculurly, "I believe Í have been very well indeed. I haven't had time to tlnnk of the subject for a good while - have positively been too busy." Happy those beings who have been "too busy" for the past year to tliink about their health. Xobody sliould be too busy to take care of liis health, but when the proper measures have been taken for keeping well, the subject sliould be dropped froui one's inind. Even a perfeclly well person can make hitnsHf ill by dwelllnjr persistently upon a sliglit ailraent, of which he fancies he can deU et the beginni g in himself. It is a good jiiaii to torget uue's self, nol only as a inenns of spiritual grace, but as a protection for physical health. Who are the chronic invaliüs? Generally the rich or the well-to-do, whose daily routine does not force them to the constant activlty demanded of the poorer classes. Is it not proverbial tbat a rich merchant most invariably "breaks down," if he retires from business before bis infirmities compelí it? Why? Simply because bis mind, deprived of its usual ftiinulüs, fulls back upon itself, magn fies the trilles of indigestión and the rest of the usual routine, and naturally devours its own strength. There is plenty of genuine il 1 1 ess and bodily misery. Carelessness, ignorance, wantonness, slay their uiillions every year, from tüe rich and the poor alike; but the fact reiuains that in the blessed refuge of work - congenial work, if posBible, if not, any sort of active exertion - lies the hope of the race for deliverance t mui the inralidisiu in to which so many of our brightest and most cultured ones