=Complete Living.=--Numberless people have devoted themselves to an intellectual occupation, and planned to keep their bodies sound by gymnastics and special exercises. Because of the monotony of exercises, they are soon given up in nearly every instance. _The safest way is never to allow all the energies to be devoted to a one-sided occupation, but so to plan one’s life and work that a part of the time is devoted to some physical work_, whether it be in a garden, workshop, or orchard; in walking a long distance to the office; at bookbinding, cooking, wood carving, or any one of various other useful occupations. The result of manual training shows _that not only strength of body, but strength of mind, is promoted by physical labor_. Problems of war and of the chase kept active both the body and mind of the savage. Hence he led a more nearly complete life than his civilized descendants, and his body was strong accordingly. We should admit the hopelessness of having permanent good health without muscular activity and should determine that muscular exertion shall be as much a habit and pleasure as eating and sleeping. =Alcohol and Muscular Strength.=--Benjamin Franklin, one of the wisest and greatest of Americans, was a printer when he was a young man. In his autobiography he gives an account of his experience as a printer in London. He says: “I drank only water; the other workmen, fifteen in number, were great drinkers of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried but one in both hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about 6 o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. I thought it a detestable custom, but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong beer that he might be strong to labor.” EXERCISES IN WRITING.--The Right and the Wrong Way to ride a Bicycle. Pay Day at a Factory. A Graceful Form: how Acquired; how Lost. A Drinking Engineer and a Railway Wreck.