# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 135, vol. III, July 31, 1886

Author: Various

Genre: Category: Journals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72929

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## Summary

Hygeia, the Goddess of Health, receives many rebuffs. She has numbers of followers, who pretend to listen to her teachings, but who do not quite understand her. She is a very simple and sweet goddess, and it would do us all good to put ourselves under her gentle training for a few of the hot weeks of summer. She would be pleased with our patronage, although she is a reputed Pagan goddess. She is no worse for that, as long as she is practical and poetical and teaches us how to make ourselves comfortable. Oh, these reeking hot days of July! I fear we break the commandments of the goddess by feeding too largely upon them. I am ashamed to own that I have been regaling myself not wisely but to...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-d44c1b4f/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-d44c1b4f/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-d44c1b4f/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-d44c1b4f/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-fifth-d44c1b4f/chapters/5/index.md)