INFALLIBLE REMEDIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1285, 3 January 1885, Page 3

INFALLIBLE REMEDIES.

Siys u London correspondent:--In-fallible remedies have always been recommended to the British public when Parliament is not sitting. Years ago I remember whole columns ot advertisements headed " Salt Salt, Salt !" We were told that salt was the sole cause of all the good in the world (or nil the evil, I forget which); and a very preity sum must have been expended in giving publicity to the theury. The truth is all the great medicine men will tell yon ia their hours of conviviality and confidence that what is one roan'a meat is another man's poison, and that general rules ab.mt anything are nonsui sical. It is notorious that a very ancient but still surviving judge attributes his extreme longevity to never having exposed himself unnecessarily to the open air, or swallowed anything that had not , been previously wanned. 'lhe late Canon

Beadon, if we may trust to a writer in the Times, credited his exceptionally good health to " never thinking of anything unpleasant after 4 o'clock in the day"--a truly admirable piece of advice, if oue could only follow it. It is not, however, so difficult a feat, as it app ared to be at first sight. The mind can be made almost as subject to discipline as the bo ly ; and I know men of business, and engaged in great and even perilous speculations, who have trained themselves to leave such matters behind them in the city every evening as completely at their oliice fixtures. _____„_________