To make good blood we require good food, pure water, pure air, sunlight and exercise. Either foul air or impure water poisons the blood. If you don’t throw off two pounds and three-quarters of effete matter every twenty-four hours through the lungs and two pounds through the pores you must expect sooner or later to fall. Nothing is more essential than pure air. Impure air is the source of our ship fevers.
Cleanliness has been classed as akin to godliness. It certainly takes high rank in equalizing the circulation. The jockeys appreciate its importance. How regularly and carefully they groom their horses! Is not man as precious as the horse? Every man should groom himself every morning—sponge himself from head to foot with water of the temperature of the room in which he sleeps. The purpose of wetting the surface is merely to make the friction of a rough towel more effective as it is rubbed over the person. You should not sleep in any garment that you wear by day, and the room in which you sleep should be perfectly ventilated by a fireplace and a partly opened window if possible.
PETER J. PANCHOT,
First Winner U. S. Six-day Go-as-you-please Champion Belt; making 480 miles and defeating 40 competitors.
BLOWER BROWN,
Second Winner Six-day Go-as-you-please English Champion Belt, making over 542 miles, April, 1879.
EDWARD PAYSON WESTON,