On some temperaments, a low barometer produces a peculiarly depressing effect. The advice often given them is to make renewed exertion at their customary employments, and combat the disinclination with the Will. My advice would be more agreeable; they should lay aside the customary routine, if possible, and seek in change, recreation, and amusements the cheerfulness which their ordinary employment refuses them. Do not spur the jaded horse, but rather offer repose and variety of motion. The pressure of the atmosphere as indicated by the barometer has a great deal to do directly with health and spirits, and therefore with happiness. Those with a tendency to heart disease should seek a residence at the sea level, while many who have weak lungs will improve where the air is rarefied by a high altitude. What the Swiss call _le mal des montagnes_ is a general sense of discomfort which some feel a few thousand feet above the sea, and which even prolonged residence does not entirely banish. An asthmatic can have no pleasure in life unless he finds the climate where he can breathe with comfort. Worst of all for personal happiness is a malarial climate, and, unfortunately, they are very common in this country. The miasmatic poison is peculiarly depressing to the mind, and is always associated with debility and despondency. Malarial regions cannot be left uninhabited, but those whose evil fortune it is to be condemned to dwell in them have a heavy additional burden laid upon them in life. * * * * * We are all more or less like those lower animals whose colors change with their surroundings. * * * * * Seek the open air; the fruits which grow outdoors are alone those which ripen in season. * * * * * He who loves his country more than he does his kind, loves himself more than either. * * * * * To die for our country is truly noble, when our country is the world and our fellow-citizens all mankind. * * * * * Love of country is sometimes a fine phrase for love of comfort. * * * * * Woman, like the Emperor Tiberius, is smothered with clothes. * * * * * Woman is philocosmic because she is philanthropic. * * * * * Fine clothes are the stilts to individuality. * * * * * A new suit is a new sensation. * * * * * We do not wholly leave our bed-room all day long. * * * * * Make the places you must occupy as pleasure-giving as possible. * * * * * Frugality is never better displayed than in furnishing. * * * * * Outdoors, let Action rule in the ascendant; indoors, Repose. * * * * * Houses used to be built to protect from foes without; the need now is more protection for friends within. III. _Luck and its Laws._