Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1830-02-13

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system Of actions fcs life. The
should nsver. therefore, be adopted 4
the exclsyion Of those species Of ex
cise Which engage The mind, at tI'
same time that they call the limbs in.
action.
Task exercises under which demon
ination may be included al those viii. h
are resp,ted tn merely for the sake %
muscut execiion, are pronounced ~
authek< De1pys on Hygeis' to bear
pretty much the same relaxation 10
health. as the castigations Of the peni-
tent do to piety or virtue. Neither
have they at tie time ,sthat salutary ef-
feet which employment, connected with
Interesting or pleasurable ideas, liza.
within certain limits. 1t has been my
LOT, adds the same writer. to see many
young ladies' who have welded the
rope with great assiduity; but have
seen fo,one Of a uch delicacy Of habit
who has skipped herself into good
health.
1t has frequently been remarked that
females, in the middIing classes of 50
ciety, who are under the necessity of
busying themselves about their house.
hold concerns, are, 10 general, blessed
with better health than those whom
wealth enables to command tho labour
and attendance of numerous servants.
So well convinced ofthis Was DR. Iron
chin, sn eminent physician Of Geneva,
hat WIEN visiting England in the ear
y part Of the eighteenth eeatury. and
found q great number Of females, be-
longing to the more opulent classes,
sunk into state sf'langsur, Iassitude,
and melancholy, in consequence Of
their indolent and luxurious mode of
life, he directed his patients Of this
class, as one of their most sffectuai
remedies, to occupy themselves in rub
oing their furniture, sweeping cut their
rooms, &c or when this was object
ID to, to cultivate flower garden ; e.
,uch was his success. says one Of his
that "had his stay with
US been longer, he would have ruined
The faculty. by removiag the cause
from which most Of onr fashionable
8 nervous complaints' had arisen"
Many persons are rery apt to con-
found occupation or industry, with
exercise. 1t is this error, we are per
suaded, which has fixed many female
to her piano, her nesdle-wOrk, her
books or drawing, sduring those ve'y
hours which proper regard for her
health ought to have induced her to de
vote to active exercise.
The above occupations, togetl er
with the fashionable manufacture Of
scrap books. scrap tables, and other
Ioys, are doubtless very innocent oc-
;upations for part Of that time not
demanded by other more important
iuties, but they can never supply the
place Of even indoor exercise. They
are all Of sedsntary character, and
produce the very effects exercise is in
tended to obviate.
1t will be perceived, frem the fore
yonig observations, that. with very few
exceptions, we place but little reliance
,psn those exercises which are carried
,n within doors. az means Of preserv
ing health.
When however. the inclemency Of
The weather. or any othsr cause, will
not permit a portion ofthe day to be
spent in the open air, various means
will readily occur by which active exer
else may be procured at home. Any
species If innocent exercise being. IN
fact, preferable to a state Of absolute
inactivity, or what is LITTLE better. 70
depotine. by way Of relaxation. enehalf
the day to what Beddos has very aptly.
termed Lazy Lteratare'-in other
words, to the psrusal Of those tritling
and insipid works, Of which the press
has been Of late so prolific. These be
ing calculated to relieve listlessness
but for the moment, and prompting to
no species Of sxertion tend invariably
to increaseI the languor both Of mind
ard body.-[J Journal Of Health.
CUSTOM.-A,Nantuckst, and some
other places, it 10 customary for all the
males to 60 cut Of church first. In