Man was made for the Weather, not the Weather for man. * * * * * A long drink often makes a short walk. * * * * * You may bring a man to the Sea, but you cannot make him think. * * * * * A tanned face doesn't make a healthy body. * * * * * Dew paddling should be done in the dark. * * * * * The only things that bathing machines make are cowards. * * * * * It is better to board yourself than let others be bored by you. * * * * * "A bore is one who thinks his opinions of greater importance than your own." * * * * * People who throw pebbles into the sea shouldn't dive near shore. * * * * * A toothbrush is what many forget but few should need. * * * * * Scotland Yard is not in the Grampians. * * * * * Cheap food is often dearly bought. * * * * * Lyons have no depots in Skye. * * * * * Orange-trees never yet sprang from scattered peel. * * * * * A pear in the hand is worth two in the can. PETER PIPER. THE HEALTHY LIFE The Independent Health Magazine. 3 AMEN CORNER LONDON E.C. VOL. V SEPTEMBER No. 26. 1913 _There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and philosophers will all speak the same language and understand one another._--CLAUDE BERNARD. AN INDICATION. Food reformers sometimes forget that "man does not live by bread alone," not even when supplemented by an ample supply of fresh air and physical exercise. It has been pointed out by psychologists that the more highly organised and highly developed the creature, the less it depends on nervous energy obtained via the stomach and the more it depends on energy generated by the brain. True, the brain must be healthy for this, and one poisoned by impure blood, due to wrong feeding, cannot be healthy. But something more than clean blood is necessary. For, as change of physical posture is necessary to avoid cramped limbs, so periodic reversal of mental attitude (consideration from other than the one view-point) is necessary to the brain's health. Again, change of air is often prescribed when the patient's real need is a change of the personalities surrounding him. While for the lonely country dweller a bath in the magnetism of a city crowd may be a far more efficacious remedy than the medicinal baths prescribed by his physician.