THE WAY OF HEALTH.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 6

THE WAY OF HEALTH.

" I have never, like some folk, regarded the way of health as a " sort of tight-rope, along which we make a slow and trepidating proi gress — the leagt bias to this or that side not immediately oorrected, i or oorrected too slowly, and we plunge headlong into the abyss," said Lord Horder, physician to the King, in a recent broadcast. "Health is a broad and well-paved road. Now and again there are bends that call for some care. There are cross-roads where we must slow down. There is a good sprinkling of fools travelling. Pace carries risks of a special kind. But the amount of negotiation needed i isn't great. The whole business lies in keeping eontrol of the car. There is really no mystery about health. It isn't masonic. The" man who talks about the 'seerets of good health' is either a crank or he has something to sell. Of course, we must have some zest for life. We must be convinced that it is better being well than ill. And in j the midst of so many temptations these days to let our health drift we must take a few pains to be fit, and more pains than our fathers had to talie. But it is really worth doing; it is a duty that we owe to our country and to ourselves."