methods, one must begin, not by neglect of the little every-day things, but by assiduous attention to them. Thus the hour of rising is important, and its regularity significant; as also are the time of retiring to rest, and the number of hours given to sleep. Between the regularity and irregularity of meals, and the care and carelessness with which they are eaten, is all the difference between a good and bad digestion (with all that this implies) and an irritable or comfortable frame of mind, with its train of good or bad consequences, for, attaching to these meal-times and meal-ways are matters of both physiological and psychological significance. The due division of hours for business and for play, not confusing the two, the orderly fitting in of all the details of one’s business, times for solitude, for silent thought and for effective action, for eating and for abstinence—all these things must have their lawful place in the life of him whose “daily round” is to proceed with
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