The Archive · 1920

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THE HABIT OF HEALTH — Use of Cheerfulness

Health is largely a habit. Chronic illness is frequently a blunder. Acute attacks of illness are not always avoidable since the incursion of germs may prostrate one whose habit is health: but i with the elimination of bodily fatigue many germs can be held at bay. By bodily fatigue I mean anything that uses one up unnecessarily—anything that destroys cheerfulness. If cheerfulness is maintained under tedium bodily' fatigue is greatly reduced. Women who retain their good spirits in diffculd situations are usually those who have the health habit.

Almost any woman can be well if she will take plenty of happy exercise, consult common sense with regard to sleep and diet, and give proper attention to ventilation and bathing.

Any normal, healthy _wouian accepts mishaps in the fashion of a good comrade. She does not allow her troubles to make everyone else unhappy.

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