Life — February 7, 1918 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Health The world is flooded with advice as to “how to keep well,” “ how to be healthy” and the like, The world has had a sur- plus of advice in all ages. Recently we ran across John Wesley’s ideas of how to be well, or at least how he retained his health, The first was written on his seventy-second birthday, Here it is: “The chief means are (1) my con- stantly rising at four for about fifty years; (2) my generally preaching at five in the morning—one of the most healthy exercises in the world; (3) my never traveling less, by sea or land, than four thousand five hundred miles in a year.” This may be exccllent advice, but it would b difficult for the modern man to follow it, especially preaching at five A.M. every day, as the police and the neighbors might object. Also, how about those who listen and so cannot preach? Wesley continues to dwell upon this at his succeeding birthdays, though at the tieth he adds, “ (3) to my sleeping nt and day, whenever I want it.” That is excellent, but hard to follow by the greater part of mankind. In his cighty- second year he is still a vigorous and able man, but he stops trying to demon- strate the reason, merely saying, “I dare not impute this to natural causes; it is the will of God.” In his eighty and last year his strength and cy failed. He writes, “ nature is exhausted ” and “the weary springs of life stand still at last.” If there be any teaching or any moral in this, the reader must find it. At first Wesley gives the credit for his remark- able health to himself, but later, as age and wisdom increase, to God, and per- haps his last was truer than his first. —Homeopathic Envoy. = CAUTION: LIFE employs no direct travel- ing representatives; it does not offer prizes, college courses or other in- ducements for agents to canvass for subscriptions. Anyone soliciting subscriptions on any such basis should be turned over to the author- ities as a swindler. Be sure to place your order with a reliable bookseller, news agent or solicitor, if you do not mail it to LIFE direct. 9... s (errr onewemamannareconet mona LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street, New York | FRUIT SALT (Derivative Compound) This pleasant aperient, fizzes and bubbles with the agreeable constituents of ripe fruit, as harmless as the fruit-juices from which it is derived. A simple, efficacious and pleasant laxative, well liked by children.. May be used as a corrective by every member of the family in perfect safety and with healthful results. Sold by Druggists Prepared only by J. C. ENO, Ltd., London, S. E., England Speak Up, Marse Henry Following the example of Mississippi and Virginia, Kentucky has now ratified the Prohibition Amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States, And where was Col. Watterson when this re- pudiation of principle took place? Is he too a slacker, or was he overwhelmed by the hordes of heretics abjuring the faith of the Fathers and giving the Nation over to centralization? refuse to reproach Marse Henry until we have heard his side of the case. —N. Y. World. Some Speed A trainload of newly-drafted men reached their cantonment late in the afternoon. By the time they had passed through the Receiving Station and the hands of the doctors, it was nearly mid- night. Several of them were awakened at four o'clock the following morning to assist the cooks in preparing break fast As one well-built, sleepy drafted man got to his feet he stretched and yawned “Tt doesn’t take long to spend a night —Everybody’s, in the army comicbooks.com