To Promote Health

lustend of multiplying rulus for prererviftg the henlth of the eedentary, wo sluill recommend to thetn the following general plan, viz: - that every person who follows a Bedentary employment shoukl ouliivate a piece of ground with his -own hands. Tliis he might dig, plant, sow, and weed at leisure liours 80 au to makc it bcih an exercise and o amusement, vvhile t produces many of thö necessaries oí lífo. After workiag an bourin the pardon, a man will return to his employment within door?, with more keenBSS, than if he had been all that time idle. Tilling tho ground is overy way conduciva to health, It not cnly jj;;v. s exereise to every part of the body, but the very ameH of tho earth and frosh hert e revive and cheer tb spirit?, wliilit the perpetual prospect of soroething coming to raaturity delights and entertaint the rnind. We nre so forrned as to be alwaya pleased with somewhat in prospect, however distant or trivial. Heoce the bappiness that most men feel in planting, gowing, building, &:o., These scern to havo boen tbe-empïoyraents of tho more efirly age-s ; and vvhen kings and conqueror oultivnted the ground, Hiere is reaeoD to befieve that they knew as well wherein true happiness consisted as we do - A late Physician.