Page:Advice to the Indian Aristocracy.djvu/96

58 yourselves always cheerful and untroubled in those hours of relaxation.

Smoking is considered to be not altogether a good habit. It is objectionable also from a religious point of view, whether of Hinduism, Mahommedanism or Christianity. If you anyhow get into that habit, be careful to keep the habit under restraint. Never become a slave to it, and never allow your children to smoke before 25 or at least 21 years of age. It affects the growth of children to a certain extent. It is a very objectionable thing for females to smoke.

I regret very much to mention here that it is a general practice with Hindu and Mahommedan physicians to persuade people to have recourse to aphrodisiacs. My advice is not to listen to such quacks, but to consult an honest thoroughly quali- fied physician, and, if there should be weakness, to follow his advice, and to pay strict