Converts from science, the church, and the world are swelling their ranks. Only still more evidence of depravity, thinks the church; only another swelling toward the flood of the ever turning tide of popular superstition, thinks science. In any case, it is true the tide is rising, whatever be the cause. Scientists, philosophers, physicians, statesmen, novelists, poets, artists, jurists, people of every rank and country, are declaring their conviction that those we call the dead do live, and that they can send back proofs of both their existence and their identity. Robert Buchanan in "Some Memories of Boyhood," says: A young Scotchman some years younger than myself, came to stay with me-Charles Gibbon, since well-known as a story writer. He was an earnest, open-hearted boy, and we lived together in great mutual happiness. We worked hard indeed (for literature is never liberally paid), and more than once sat writing, without going to bed for a fortnight at a stretch. One night he wakened up and found me crying. "What the matter?" he asked. David Gray is dead," I answered, though I had had no word of my friend for over a week. The next post from Scotland brought me the news of David's death. "God has love, and I have faith!" were almost his last words.

A young New York girl enjoying the season in London, writes home; "Of course you have seen a good deal in the papers about Nina Kennedy, the inspirationalist, as people call her. If she keeps on as she has begun she will make all London afraid of her. She seems to know the most wonderful things about your past life and present circumstances, and all that she does is to put her fingers on your pulse and look into your eyes. I went to her the other day with Mrs., who was divorced you know, last year. You have been married?' she said to her the minute she touched her wrist. 'Yes.' 'But you are living apart from your husband?' 'Why do you think so?' 'I don't think so; I know it. Your pulse is not that of a married woman,' We shall have no doubt before long a still further differentiation of pulses. What a field of study is opened up by the pulse of the engaged girl, and what a complicated pulse must be that of the widow about to re-marry!

NATURAL SLEEP.

Neurosine is a never failing remedy in producing sleep without the disagreeable after effects which follow the use of opium. It is the remedy, par excellence, to relieve those addicted to the excessive use of stimulants, removing the desire for same, and toning up the nervous system. Highly recommended in cases of over exertion of mind and body.

BE CHEERFUL.

I give you the precept for just what it is worth, as I would recommend to you to be six feet, or, at least, five feet ten, in stature. You cannot settle that matter for yourself, but you can stand up straight, and give your five feet five its full value. You can help along a little by wearing high-heeled shoes. So you can do something to encourage yourself in serenity of aspect and demeanor, keeping

your infirmities and troubles in the background instead of making them the staple of your conversation. This piece of advice, if followed, may be worth from three to five years of life to you.-DR. O. W. HOLMES.

SUBSTITUTION FRAUDS.

Public attention has recently been brought to bear on substitution by a most excellent address delivered by Mr. A. Frank Richardson, before the National Editorial Convention at St. Paul.

It is charged that all over the country there is a great system of substitution going on. There are many standard articles well known to the public through the efforts of their manufacturers who have spent fabulous sums of money in placing their merits before the masses by advertising. A large number of druggists and dealers have taken advantage of these circumstances and counterfeit the goods just closely enough to escape legal proceedings. There are several establishments which make a business of manufacturing these imitations, making them to resemble the standard article in both name and appearance of the packages. Druggists buy these, frequently having their names printed on the wrappers, and sometimes the words "our own make."

A customer going into one of these drug stores and asking for one of the well known proprietary articles he has seen so much advertised will be told by the proprietor that he has something else “just as good." The druggist then declares that it is a compound of his own and that he can recommend it, at the same time quoting a lower price than of the article asked for. The trick generally works and the purchaser goes away with probably a worthless and dangerous mixture.

HANDLING OF CHILDREN.

It is often painful to observe how little children are handled. It is not an uncommon practice for parents and nurses to catch them suddenly by the hand or arm, and drag or hurl them over some difficult spot, such, for instance, as a mudhole, or over a brook, if in the country; or from the steps of a tramcar to the pavement, or over some broken place in the pavement or street; or over the gutter, if in the town, without a single thought of what the consequences might be from such procedure. If parents and nurses who are guilty of such conduct will, by way of experiment, just allow themselves to be suddenly suspended by the wrist or arm, and at the same time hurled across a given space, they will have taken the first lesson in reference to the impropriety, not to say barbarous and brutal character, of such a practice.

HINTS ON DIET.

Less meat is needed in hot weather. Fruits, vegetables, milk and eggs, all produced on the farm, all fresh each day, should form the principal part of the diet now. A good long rest at noon, and work in the cool of the day, is proper.

Sitting about in the open air evenings, beware of becoming chilled; dangerous colds may be contracted, even in hottest weather by imprudence in this respect. Coats and shawls should always be near. Bathe for health. Cleanliness of body promotes sleep and conduces to a feeling of respectability. But for bos toy loiter about ponds and mill-dams, inhaling damp miasmatic air, may not be well.

A FEW DON'TS FOR GIRLS.

Don't keep the fact that you are corresponding with some man a secret from your mother.

Don't let any man kiss you or put his arm about you unless you are engaged to be married to him, and even then be a little stingy with your favors.

Don't let Tom, Dick, or Harry call you by your first name, or greet you with some slang phrase.

Don't let any man believe that simply for the asking he can get “that pretty Smith girl" to go out driving with him, to accompany him to the concert, or to entertain him for an hour when he can't find any body else.

Don't write foolish letters to any body, men or women; you never know who may see them.

Don't think that you can go untidy all day and then look very fine at night, for fine feathers do not always make fine birds.

Don't believe that you can be careless in speech or manner without its absolutely having a bad moral effect upon you.

My dear girl, it's in your own hand as to what you will be. An intelligent, charming woman or a foolish, ignorant one, and certainly if a few "don'ts" will save you from being the last, you ought not only to read and learn, but inwardly digest and practice.-Ladies' Journal.

SOMETHING NEW.

The COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS of Chicago has inaugurated a non-resident course, covering the first year of the full course. This will doubtless be largely availed of. Send for Prospectus to Dr. Bayard Holmes, Secretary, 240 Wabash Avenue.

JOURNAL OF HEALTH

TRUTH DEMANDS NO SACRIFICE; ERROR CAN MAKE NONE.

Vol. 38.

DECEMBER, 1891.

No. 12.

SPECIAL.

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THE NEXT VOLUME.

The 39th volume of our JOURNAL will begin with the new year. Those who have paid their dollar for it in the past, will not be likely to give it up now, for truth to say, the dollar has been saved over and over again by following some course of preventive or cure recommended in its columns. But credit is seldom awarded to the publication whose forewarnings operate as a defense against the inroads of disease, there are so many ways of shifting and avoiding such a confession. It is nevertheless true that very many diseases that "flesh is heir to" may be avoided by a reasonably correct system of living. This includes pure air, wholesome food, open air exercise and temperance in all things. Very many who condemn in unmeasured terms the habitual wine bibber, are slowly undermining their health by over eating. Indeed, it is a grave question which of the two evils is responsible for the greater number of premature deaths.

It is only necessary to review the pages of HALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH to learn with what persistency it has enforced upon its readers the absolute necessity of avoiding either extreme. But in spite of every precaution disease will make frequent inroads upon the best appointed

homes, owing in great measure to the prevalence of various corrupting influences which pervade the atmosphere, against which it is ordinarily impossible to guard. In such instances the assistance of a skillful physician becomes clearly necessary, and this, too, in the very first stages of the malady. Although this JOURNAL does not advocate the free use of drugs, especially such as are extracted of mineral substances, there may be occasions when their employment amounts to a saving necessity. Of such, we do not assume to judge. Our aim has been to impart such information as may be specially valuable to the household in its several departments, and to keep its advertising columns not only clean of objectionable matters, but so served as to furnish something of a guarantee of the value of the articles to which attention is thus directed. If others of a questionable nature, by any trick or artifice, have been admitted, on being discovered they have been summarily ejected, with an invitation not to call again.

In a word, we mean to deal justly and uprightly with our patrons of whatever class or degree.

To such of our subscribers, old and new, as remit their one dollar subscription directly to this office, we offer a selection of premiums which ought to induce a liberal patronage, many of them being equal in value to the whole remittance. Our limited space will not admit of publishing a complete list of works available to subscribers for this purpose, but one can scarcely go amiss in ordering as a premium almost any miscellaneous work of well known authors contained in a single volume.

HABITS OF EATING.

A common cause of indigestion is irregularity respecting the time. of meals. The human system seems to form habits, and to be in a degree dependent upon the performance of its function in accordance with the habits formed. In respect to digestion this is especially observable. If a meal is taken at a regular hour, the stomach becomes accustomed to receiving food at that hour, and is prepared for it. If meals are taken irregularly, the stomach is taken by surprise, so to speak, and is never in that state of readiness in which it should be for the prompt and perfect performance of its work.

The habit which many professional and business men have of allowing their business to intrude upon their meal hours, quite frequently either wholly depriving them of a meal or obliging them to take it