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that you will have to make a great many trials before you will be able to throw off the malady quickly and easily. In the matter of healing. as in everything else, practice makes perfect, and the best time to practice is when you are not sick. That sounds queer, does it not? But what. I mean is that you should build your ark before the flood. Then you can get into it and ride the waters in safety.

As I look back over the ten years which I have spent in getting to my present status, I wonder that I did not give up in despair, for so many of my earlier efforts at self-treatment ended in failure. I will not go over a list of my ailments, but they were many, and neuralgic headache was one of the foremost and most difficult to vanquish. An effort at self-treatment usually ended in a dose of phenacetine or antipyrine.

This was followed by remorse and a promise to myself to be truer to my principles on the next occasion, but when the next occasion came (shall I confess it?) history repeated itself.

Once I sat by the seashore and saw some thoughtless boys throwing sticks into the water and sending their dog after them again and again until the poor thing was so weary that he could hardly get to the shore, and I finally had to interfere in his behalf. The tired creature reminded me so of myself that it