WALTHAM WATCHES THE Theory of the WALTHAM WATCH Manufacture has always been impregnable. The Hand-made Watch had recommendations as long as machinery was imperfect, and the average of skilled labor low. But good watches. made by hand. were always high-priced; those lower in price were inferior in finish, and almost worthless. The application of MACHINERY got rid of both these drawbacks. It cheapened the cost of the higher grades, and improved the Quality of the lower grades. It thus, for the first time, brought Good Time-Keepers within the reach of ALL. The experimental period of the machine-made Watch is now in the past. There were difficulties to be surmounted, prejudices to be overcome. The attainment of the requisite perfection in machinery involved long delays. The development of the requisite skill was necessarily slow. The Waltham Watch is now an Established Success. It runs with the greatest accuracy. It wears well. The longer it is worn, the more it is liked; and the facility with which, in the event of accident, it is repaired, obviates an objection which is felt toward other watches. American enterprise and SKILL have proved their ability to compete with the finest workmanship of hand-labor in the Old World. The Waltham Watch is the Cheapest Watch in the Market. Comparing quality with quality, it is without a rival as to price. The finer qualities are as good as the best imported, and the price is, on the average, twenty per cent. less. The ordinary qualities so much surpass all ordinary imported Watches as to render comparison of prices impossible. In intrinsic cheapness-that is, estimating price according to value, THE WALTHAM WATCH HAS NO COMPETITOR. Tastes vary, and fashions change. While keeping constantly in view the one essential of a good Watch, THE WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY aims at satisfying the various tastes in respect of size, shape, and finish. New Styles are brought out continually-new as to both movement and exterior. Among the latest novelties are the "Crescent-Street" full-plate Watch, specially recommended to Railway Engineers, and constant travelers, and a 'Small Watch, intended more especially for young persons. The latter is offered at a very low price. The other, THE CRESCENT-STREET" WATCH, is made with or without stem-winding and setting attachment, and is unsurpassed by any maker. It embraces the best results of many years' study and experience, and is commended to the attention of travelers and business men, who have need of a watch that can be relied upon under ALL conditions. A third Novelty is intended more particularly for foreign markets, where it will stand competition with the small English, or the light Swiss Watch. Of these, and all its other grades, The Waltham Company challenges Examination. The demand for its Watches widens with the knowledge of their EXCELLENCE. For sale by all Jewelers. No Watches retailed by the Company. For further information address ROBBINS & APPLETON, GENERAL AGENTS, NO. 1 BOND ST.. NEW YORK. WORDS WITH THE READER.-The New York Evening Mail, a high-toned evening paper of New York City, with a large and increasing circulation, in speaking of THE HER ALD OF HEALTH for February, ends a long notice by saying that the circulation of this magazine is missionary work." We thank the editor of The Mail who said these kind words, and will take occasion here to suggest to our readers the propriety of helping THE HERALD, by circulating it broadcast, as a health document. For instance, we wish every subscriber would endeavor to add at least one new name to our list for 1872. They might make a present of a year's subscription to a friend, a son, or a daughter, a poor invalid, or a minister. We have a large number of ministers on our list, but want more. Most of them renew their subscriptions regularly, and speak highly of our work. 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Friends, try and help to double our list for 1872, by each adding one name to it. THIS NUMBER.-We present this month a paper written by Addison, and published in The Spectator in the year 1711. It will be found full of interest both as a valuable contribution to health, and will also show what was the opinion of one of the first writers of that time regarding exercise and regimen. We also call attention to the very excellent paper by Miss Noa, on two valuable aids to living. Mrs. E. Oakes Smith begins again a second series of papers as a continuation of Kitty Howard's Journal, which produced so pleasant and profitable impressions in 1869. Our Washington Correspondent has given in a valuable paper on The Health Habits of our Rulers, which is full of interest. Next month we shall publish, as one of the eries of Lessons from Old Masters, Lord Bacon's Essay on Health, with the Annotations of Archbishop Whately. The Essay was written about the year 1597. In the next number after this we shall print a paper by John Wesley on Health, written in 1735. These lessons from the old masters are worth the subscription price for a year. WORDS FROM FRIENDS.-"I like THE HERALD very much. It is a magazine that ought to be in every family. A. W. KNOWLTON, P. M." January 8, 1872. Enclosed find for which please send me your valuable journal again this year. I am an invalid, in limited circumstances, and have done some light fancy work, the proceeds of which enables me to send for THE HERALD OF HEALTH, for I feel that I can not do without it. In many things I am forced to deny myself, but THE HERALD is a positive necessity. Its teachings are invaluable to me, having two little girls to raise, and desiring that they shall steer clear of the shoals on which their mother's health has been wrecked. ANN ARBOR, February 2, 1872. "Your February number was handsome and remarkably interesting throughout--so I have heard several persons say. C. H. B." SMITHBURG, MD., January 30, 1872. "The JOURNAL came to me this month full of good things. Yours truly, E. H. S." A RESTING PLACE.-Dr. P. A. Hayes, one of our contributors, who has furnished our journal with several excellent articles, has a Home for invalids, on the hillside at Watkins, N. Y. The building is a large and comfortable one, within ten minutes walk of the famous Glen, and overlooking the beautiful Seneca Lake. DR. SUSAN EVERETT is lecturing with great success to ladies on Health Topics in New York State this season. Her address is Box 136, Syracuse, N. Y. Wherever she goes we speak for her a warm welcome, and those who do not know her can secure a course from her with the assurance that they will be instructed and benefited.-EDITOR HERALD OF HEALTH. fe-5t PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY WOOD & HOLBROOK, 13 & 15 LAIGHT STREET. HEALTH LESSONS FROM OLD WRITERS. T Exercise and Regimen. BY ADDISON, IN 1711. HERE is a short story in The Arabian Nights tales of a King who had long languished under an ill habit of body, and had taken abundance of remedies to no purpose. At length, says the fable, a physician cured him by the following method: He took a hollow ball of wood and filled it with drugs, after which he closed it up so artistically that nothing appeared. He likewise took a mall, and after having hollowed the handle, and that part which strikes the ball, he inclosed in them several drugs after the same manner as in the ball itself. He then ordered the Sultan, who was his patient, to exercise himself early in the morning with these rightly prepared instruments till such time as he should sweat, when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood had so good an influence on the Sultan's constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This Eastern allegory is finely contrived to show us how beneficial bodily labor is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic. I have described in my hundred and fifteenth paper, from the general structure and mechanism of a human body, how absolutely necessary exercise is for its. preservation: I shall in this place recommend another great preservative of health, which in many cases produces the same effects as exercise, and may in some measure supply its place,. where opportunities of exercise are wanting. The preservative I am speaking of is Temperance, which has those particular advantages above all other means of health, that it may be practiced by all ranks and conditions, at any season or in any place. It is a kind of regimen into which every man may put himself, without interruption to business, expense of money, or loss of time. If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them. If exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them. If exercise raises proper ferments in the humors, and promotes the circulation of the blood, temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. If exercise starves it. but did men live in an habitual course of exer dissipates a growing distemper, temperance tions of food do best agree with them. Were I to consider my readers as my patients, and to Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but prescribe such a kind of temperance as is acthe substitute of exercise or temperance. Med-commodated to all persons, and such as is paricines are indeed absolutely necessary in acute ticularly suitable to our climate and way of livdistempers, that can not wait the slow opera- ing, I would copy the following rules of a very tions of these two great instruments of health; eminent physician: "Make your whole repast out of one dish. If you indulge in a second, avoid drinking any thing strong till you have finished your meal; at the same time abstain from all sauces, or at least such as are not the most plain and simple. A man could not be well guilty of gluttony if he stuck to these few obvious and easy rules. In the first case thera would be no variety of tastes to solicit his palate, and occasion excess; nor, in the second, any artificial provocatives to relieve satiety, and create a false appetite. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: "The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies." But because it is impossible for one who lives in the world to diet himself always in so philosophical a manner, I think every man should have his days of abstinence, according as his constitution will permit. These are great reliefs to nature, as they qualify her for struggling with hunger and thirst, whenever any distemper or duty of life may put her upon such difficulties; and at the same time give her an opportunity of extricating herself from her oppressions, and recovering the several tones and springs of her distended vessels. Besides that, abstinence well-timed often kills a sickness in embryo, and destroys the first seeds of an indisposition. It is observed by two or three ancient authors that Socrates, notwithstanding he lived in Athens during that great plague, which has made so much noise through all ages, and has been celebrated at different times by such eminent hands; I say, notwithstanding that he lived in the time of this devouring pestilence, he never caught the least infection-which those writers unanimously ascribe to that uninterrupted temperance which he always observed. cise and temperance, there would be but little occasion for them. Accordingly, we find that those parts of the world are the most healthy where they subsist by the chase, and that men lived longest when their lives were employed in hunting, and when they had little food besides what they caught. Blistering, cupping, bleeding are seldom of use but to the idle and intemperate; as all those inward applications which are so much in practice among us are, for the most part, nothing else but expedients to make luxury consistent with health. The apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the cook and the vintner. It is said of Diogenes, that meeting a young man who was going to a feast, he took him up in the street and carried him home to his friends, as one who was running into imminent danger had not he prevented him. What would that philosopher have said had he been present at the gluttony of a modern meal? Would not he have thought the master of a family mad, and have begged his servants to tie down his hands, had he seen him devour fowl, fish, and flesh, swallow oil and vinegar, wines and spices, throw down salads of twenty different herbs, sauces of a hundred different ingredients, confections and fruits of numberless sweets and flavors? What unnatural motions and counterferments must such a medley of intemperance produce in the body! For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in am buscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, nd flesh of a third. Man falls upon every thing that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. It is impossible to lay down any determinate rule for temperance, because what is luxury in one may be temperance in another; but there are few that have lived any time in the world who are not judges of their own constitutions, so far as to know what kinds and what propor And here 1 can not but mention an observation which I have often made, upon reading the lives of the Philosophers, and comparing them with any series of Kings or great men of the same number. If we consider these ancient sages, a great part of whose philosophy consisted in a temperate and abstemious course of life, one would think the life of a philosopher and the life of a man were of two different dates. For we find that the generality of these wise |