The Cincinnati Daily Star

Some Money Sanitary Advice.

[Game Keeper at Home.]

"It's indoors, sir, as kills half the people; being indoors three parts of the day, and next to that taking too much drink and victuals. Eating's bad as drinking, and there ain't nothing like fresh air and the smell of the woods. You should come out here in spring, when the oak timber is throwed (because, you see, the sap be rising, and the bark strips them), and just sit down on a stick fresh peeled—I mean a trunk, you know—and sniff up the scent of that there oak bark. It goes right down your throat and preserves your lungs as the tan do leather. And I've heard say as folk who work in the tanyards never have no illness. There's always a smell from trees, dead or living; I could tell what wood a log was in the dark by my nose, and the air is better where the woods be."

"The ladies up in the great houses sometimes goes out into the fir plantations—the turpentine scents strong, you see—and they say its good for the chest; but, bless you, you must live in it. People go abroad, I'm told, to live in pine forests to cure 'em; I say these here oaks have got every bit as much good in that way. I never eat but two meals a day—breakfast and supper, what you call dinner—and maybe in the middle of the day a lunch of dry bread and an apple. I take a deal for breakfast, and I'm rather lean (hungry) at supper; but you may lay your oath that's why I am what I am in the way of health. People stuff themselves, and by consequence it breaks out, you see.

"It's the same with the cattle; they're overfed, tied up in stalls and stuffed, and never no exercise, and mostly oily food, too. It stands to reason they must get bad: and that's the cause of these rider-pests and pleuro-pneumonia and what-nots. At least, that's my notion. I'm in the woods all day, and never come home till supper—'cept, of course, in breeding time, to fetch the meal and stuff for the birds—so I gets the fresh air, you see; and the fresh air is the life, sir. There's the smell of the earth, too, specially just as the plow turns up, which is a fine thing; and the hedges and the grass are as sweet as sugar after a shower. Anything with a green leaf is the thing, depend upon it, if you want to live healthy."