THE ART OF ATTAINING HIGH HEALTH
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—The article by " C. A. E." on " The Art of Attaining High Health " is helpful and interesting ; especially so is it to one who, like myself, is following an extremely abstemious life, and who has renewed his health by so doing.
I can almost come up to Mr. Thomas Walker, for it is five years since I have hid a holiday, or even a week-end off ; and that in the midst of the most strenuous conditions and disturbed life altogether. I have a big consulting practice , I scribble a good deal ; I have an immense correspondence,' and often finish up with an hour's extemporary lecture on
such subjects as health, psychology, religion, &c. Perhaps you will consider this not bad at rising seventy-four.
I have two meals a day, and those very -sintiple and light ones ; also a cup of tea and a biscuit in the afternoon. The -whole secret of regaining health and keeping fit is to eat less and to live from a spiritual basis of life. Catarrhs, &c., under these conditions are almost impossible ; anyhow, I myself have no time for such things.—I am; Sir, &c., -
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