the usual efforts of over-exercise will follow. In no case must exercise be carried beyond what the parts are capable of bearing with ease; otherwise, a loss of energy, instead of a gain, will be the consequence.

The waste occasioned by exercise must be duly replaced by food; as, if there be any deficiency in this important requisite, the blood will soon cease to give that invigoration to the parts upon which increased health and strength depend.

-R. CHAMBERS.

Exercise should always be proportioned in amount to the age, strength, state of the constitution, and former habits of the individual.

-ANDREW COMBE, M.D.

A due amount of exercise in India is even more necessary to health than in England. As a rule, the most healthy people are those who take exercise regularly. The circulation of the blood is thus equalised, and the tendency to congestions, particularly of the lever, is often checked; the bowels are excited to healthy action, and effete material no longer required in the system is thereby expelled; while more air being inspired as a result of quickened respiration, more oxygen is introduced into the system, and more carbon expelled.

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Whatever exercise is taken, it should not be sufficient to induce exhaustion. Fatigue carried beyond a moderate stage subjects the blood to a decomposing process through the infiltration into it of substances which act as poisons. Many persons feel fatigued during the day after exercise in the early morning, and this may be accepted as a sign that it does not agree with

them. Weak and delicate persons should avoid exercise before breakfast, especially if they are employed during the day. Extremes of exercise should be avoided during seasons of epidemic, as fatigue tends to predispose the system to epidemic diseases. Children should not be wakened to be sent out. They should go to bed early, and will then wake early. And they should have a little milk and bread before going out.*

As I am a compound of soul and body, I consider myself as obliged to a double scheme of duties; and think I have not fulfilled the business of the day, when I do not thus employ the one in labour and exercise, as well as the other in study and contemplation.

-ADDISON.

There can be no good sleep without good health, and there can be no good health without good exercise. The one cannot exist without the other, any more than the shadow can exist without the substance, or the echo without the sound.f

The Arabs think that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.

The Duke of Wellington when once looking on at the boys engaged in their sports in the play-ground at Eton, where he had spent his own juvenile days, made the pregnant remark-"It was there that the battle of Waterloo was won."t

• From A Manual of Family Medicine and Hygiene for India, by Sir William Moore.

From Ward and Lock's Long Life Series, edited by George "lack, M. B.

In these days of long continued peace, so different from those in which our forefathers lived, all games and exercises are to be valued, not merely for physical training or for preventing deterioration of physique but also because they improve certain qualities of mind and character, and qualities of nerve and courage, and therefore it is, that all physical exercises are worthy of commendation and encouragement.*

-HIS EXCELLENCY LORD LAMINGTON.

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* Reported in the Bombay Gazette of the 29th January 1904.

78. HUMAN BROTHERHOOD.

God hath made mankind one mighty brotherhood,
Himself the Master, and the world their Lodge.

We were all brothers, because we had one work, and one hope, and one All-Father.

Children we are all

-ALTON LOCKE.

Of one Great Father, in whatever clime
His providence hath cast the seed of life;
All tongues, all colours.

-SOUTHEY.

The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the master of them all.

-"BIBLE-PROVERES."

And God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.

-"BIBLE-ACTS 17,"

Men are fellow-members (of one body),

For in (their) creation, they spring from one original.
When fortune afflicts any one member,

Ease for the other members no longer remains.
Thou who art unconcerned at the sufferings of others,
It is not fit that people should give thee the name of man.
-SADI'S GULISTÂN.*

• Translated by Platts.

Search we the secret springs,

And backward trace the principles of things;
There shall we find, that when the world began,
One common mass composed the mould of man ;
One paste of flesh on all degrees bestowed,
And kneaded up alike with moistening blood.
The same Almighty power inspired the frame
With kindled life, and formed the souls the same:
The faculties of intellect and will

Dispensed with equal hand, disposed with equal skill,
Like liberty indulged, with choice of good or ill:
Thus born alike, from virtue first began

The difference that distinguished man from man,
He claimed no title from descent of blood,

But that which made him noble made him good :
Warmed with more particles of heavenly flame,
He winged his upright flight, and soared to fame;
The rest remained below, a tribe without a name.
This law, though custom now diverts the course,
As nature's institute, is yet in force;

Uncancelled, though disused: and he, whose mind
Is virtuous, is alone of noble kind :

Though poor in fortune, of celestial race :

And he commits the crime who calls him base.

-DRYDEN.

Human nature is the same all over the world; but its operations are so varied by education and habit, that one must see it in all its dresses in order to be intimately acquainted with it.

-LORD CHESTERFIELD.

Man is dear to man: the poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life,