Twelve health rules for the business man

Don't allow your business to become your master.

Don't discuss business at home, or in social life.

Immediately on rising, take a cool shower bath, followed by vigorous exercise before an open window.

Eat a very light breakfast an hour after rising, eliminating tea, coffee, white bread and meat.

Walk to your business, if possible; breathe deeply.

Eliminate woolen underwear; dress as lightly as possible.

Take an hour for luncheon. Omit tea, coffee, tobacco, beer, and sweets.

Keep your office well ventilated.

Secure competent help and trust them.

Love some one or some thing—a dog will do.

Leave your office early enough to walk home, or at least a part of the way.

Masticate your food infinitely fine, and by all means do not overeat. This is the crowning sin of the civilized table.

Take from ten to fifteen minutes exercise before retiring; sleep in a cold, thoroughly ventilated room. Spend as much time as possible in the sunshine and open air. Drive an automobile, play golf, join a gymnasium, dance, sing, kick and play with the boys, for it is infinitely better to dig in the ditch for your dinner and be able to digest and enjoy it, than to lie invalid in your self-made prison, and perhaps die. (Probably if the truth were written on your tombstone, it would read:

There was a fool who made a fortune, but he died;

The world called him great, but it lied.)


Lesson XXIII

EXERCISE AND RE-CREATION