[Sidenote: The ancient system declared a failure] HIS physician finally acknowledges a trip, or a sanatorium. It is either this procedure or the fate that befell Messrs. Roberts, Morgan, Colonel Ingersoll, and the uncounted thousands who had no reputation beyond the domain of their own locality, and of whom we never hear. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR A GOOD BUSINESS MAN [Sidenote: 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 PROGRAM FOR DAILY EXERCISE _Every morning, just after arising, take a cup of water, and go through the following deep breathing exercises_: EXERCISE No. 1 [Illustration] Stand erect, feet about 30 inches apart, extend arms above head, clasping hands and holding elbows rigid, inhale deeply. Bend toward the left and try to touch the floor with the clasped hands as far from the foot and to the rear as possible. Exhale while returning to position. Inhale deeply, reversing motion to the right. This movement should be repeated about 24 times. EXERCISE No. 2 [Illustration] Rest the body upon tips of toes and the palms of the hands. Move the body up and down as far as possible, bending only at the waist line. If this position is too strenuous the tension can be reduced by resting on the elbows, knees, or both, while executing the movement. Inhale deeply while taking this exercise, and exhaust the breath suddenly, as if coughing, with the downward motion. This movement should be repeated about 12 times. EXERCISE No. 3 [Illustration]