“No,” answered the first one, “I simply get up early and go to bed in good time and take plain food.”
“And why don’t you do it at home instead?” inquired the other.
There was no reply.
CHAPTER IV.
THE VALUE OF HEALTH.
The supreme value of good health is the fact that it is associated with happiness and a greater capacity for good work.
Health and happiness.
It is not our environment but our state of health which handicaps us. Mark Tapley succeeded in ejaculating “jolly” under the most depressing circumstances. I know nothing as to Mark’s medical history, but I should not hesitate to affirm that he did not suffer from a disordered liver.
Everything in this world varies according to the way it is looked at, and we are all liable to develop mental astigmatism when we are not feeling up to the mark. A man will say and do things that are foreign to his nature when he is waiting in impatient hunger for his dinner. Wives who are wise have found this out, and wait until the brute has been fed before they broach the subject of a new hat.