How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions, page 1 by S.S. Curry
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id The School of Expression To Perform Its Important Function In Education.
QUI TRANSTULIT SUSTINET
As ancient exile at the close of day, Paused on his country's farthest hills to view Those valleys sinking in the distant blue Where all the joys and hopes of childhood lay; So now across the years our thoughts will stray To those whose hearts were ever brave and true, Who gave the hope and faith from which we drew The strength to climb thus far upon our way. As he amid the rocks and twilight gray, Saw rocks and steeps transform to stairs, and knew He wandered not alone; so may we too See this, our tentless crag where wild winds play A Bethel rise, and we here wake to know That down and upward angels come and go.
CONTENTS
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Why and Wherefore 7
I. Significance of Morning 11
II. Supposed Secrets of Health and Long Life 24
III. What is an Exercise? 43
IV. Program of Exercises 54
V. How to Practice the Exercises 84
VI. Actions of Every Day Life 102
VII. Work and Play 109
VIII. Significance of Night and Sleep 122
WHY AND WHEREFORE
When over eighty years of age, the poet Bryant said that he had added more than ten years to his life by taking a simple exercise while dressing in the morning. Those who knew Bryant and the facts of his life never doubted the truth of this statement.
I have made inquiries lately among men who are eighty years of age, as to their method of waking up. Almost without exception, I find that they have been in the habit of taking simple exercise upon rising and also before retiring.
While studying voice in Paris, over thirty years ago, my teacher was so busy that he had to take me before breakfast at an hour which, to a Parisian, was a very early one.
"Vocal exercises may be more difficult at this time," he said, "but it is the best time. If we can start the day with the right exercise of the voice, the use of it all through the day will be additional right