HIGH WAY TO BEGIN THE DAY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 741, 30 January 1915, Page 2

HIGH WAY TO BEGIN THE DAY.

There 13 a right way and a wrong way to begin, the day, and the method you choose may have a decided effect upon the success or failure you will achieve during your waking- hours. Try to plan your activities as far as you can the night before. Five minutes of calm looking ahead in the early evening will go a long way towards lessening the burdens of the morrow. Tliis done, take a bath, not too warm nor too cold, and be careful not to remain in the water. This nightly bath, followed by eight hours sleep in a well-ventilated room, is the best preparation one can have for a successful day. When your alarm clock arouses you, or, better ■ still, the morning sun—don't jump out of bed and rush into your clothes as if the house were afire. Hurry in the early morning interferes with your heart action and your circulation and irritates' your nerve centres. By going slow for the first few minutes you will be able to do more and better work throughout the day.; First of all, remove the pillows from under the head and take a score or more of long, deep breaths. Next, place the hands above the back of the head, separate the feet and stretch the arms and legs to the fullest extent, pushing upward with the left arm and shoulder down and pulling the left leg up. Keep the arms and legs straight. Repeat this six times and rest for a minute. Plnce the hands, palms down, under the small of the back, one hand resting 011 the other. Draw up the knees, placing the feet flat on the bed; and keep them bent. In this position raise and lower the hips as far as possible, using the hands under the small of the back as a fulcrum. Repeat this exercise ten times.

■"With the hands in the same position, brine; the knees as near the chin as possible, then force the hips far down. "With the hands still in the same position rotate the knees upon the hips in a large circle ten times. Then reverse the motion ten times. These exercises limber up some of the most important joints of the body, accelerate the circulation of the blood and cure indigestion. After your bath or a brisk rub-dowr. with a coarse towel, or a; stiff brush, drink one or two g-lasses of cold water. Dross and take a short, brisk walk, with deep breathing, and you will be ready to enioy breakfast.