Chapter X: Letter X: The Preservation of Health, 129

Connection of Health and Usefulness, 129
Duty of Preserving Health, 130
Physiology. Habits, 131
Influence of Ladies, 131

_Rules for Preserving Health_, 131

1. Make Conscience of it, 131
2. Be Cheerful, 132
3. Be Regular in your Habits, 133
4. Exercise, 134
Delicate Training of Young Ladies, 135
5. Practise frequent Ablutions, 135
6. Pay Attention to the Quantity and Quality of Food, 136
Effects of bad or excessive Diet, 137
How to glorify God in Eating and Drinking, 138
7. Taking Medicine, 139

LETTER XI.

_Mental Cultivation. Reading_, 141

Object of Education, 141
Written Exercises, 142
Discipline. Perseverance, 143
Reading, 144
Hints on Reading History, 144
Biography, 147
Doctrinal and Miscellaneous Reading, 148
Newspapers and Periodicals, 148
Light Reading. English Classics, 150

LETTER XII.

_Improvement of Time. Present Obligation_, 151

Value of Moments, 151
How to redeem Time, 152
Systematic Arrangements, 153
Motives for being Systematic, 153
Nature of Obligation, 154