The Ten Health Commandments

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 3

The Ten Health Commandments

1. Thou shalt have no other food that at meal time. 2. Thou shalt not makf unto thee any pies or put into pas.ry the likeness of auythiug that is iv th-- Heavens above or iv the wai ers under the earth. Thou shalt not fall to eatingit or trying to digest it.. For the dyspepsia will he visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations of them tha 1 - eat pin * and long life aud vigour upon those that live prudently and keep tha laws of healh 3. Remember thy bread to --ake it well, for he will uot be kept sound that eateth his bread as dough. 4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or borrow auxiety in vain. 5. Six days shalt thou wash and keep thyself clean, uud the seventh thou shalt take a gieat bath, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and they maidservant, aud the stranger that is within thy gates. For iv six days iran sweats and gathers tilth and bacteria enough for disease ; wherefore the Lord haa blessed the bathtub and hallowed it. 6. Remember thy sitting-room and thy bed-chamber to keep them venii lated, that thy days may be long in the land which "the Lord thy God giveth thee. 7. Thou shalt not eat hot biscuit. 8. Thou shalt uot eat they meat fried. 9. Thou shalt not swallow thy food uachewed, or highly spiced, or just before hard work, or just after it, 10. Thou shalt not keep late hours with thy neighbour's wife,|nor his manservant, Dor his maid servant, nor his cards, nor w th anything that i* thy j neighbour's. — New England Farmer-