Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-11-07
MISS sEpGEwicK ON HEALTH.

| Take, for example, young girl bred delicately
in town. shut up in nursery in her childhood-in
n boarding school through her youth--never nc .
custoned either TO air or exercise two things that
| the law Of God makes essential to health. She
nhrries; her strength II inadequate to the demands
| upon it. Her beauty fades early. She languishes
through the hard offices Of giving birth to children.
sucking and watching over them, and dies early;
aud her acqnaintances lamentingly exclaiu,, What
a strange Providence, that a mother should be Ia
KEN in the midst of life, from her children!' Was
it Providence! No! Providence has assigned her
three score years and ten; term long enough IL
rear her children, and to her chdrens CHI drrn
but she did not obey the laws on which life de-
pends and of course she lost it.
A father, too is cut off in the midst of his days
He is useful and distinguished ritizen and prom
inent in his professions. A general buzzing on
every side, of What a striking Provdence!'--
This man has been in The habit of studying half
The night, of passing his days in his office and in
the courts of eating luxurious dinners, and drink
ing various wines. He has every day violated the
laws on which health depends Did Providence
cut him off The evil rarely ends here The
disease of the father is often transmitted; and a
feeble mother rarely leaves behind her vigorous
children. 1t has been customary, in some Of our
cities. for young ladies to walk in thin shoes and
delicate stockings in mid winter. A healthy
Young girl thus dressed. in violation of heavens
laws. pays the penalty; checked circulation cold,
fever and death. what a sad Providence!' ex-
claims her friends. Was it Providence, or her
own folly! beautiful young bride goes night,
after night, to parties made in honor of her mar
| riagc. She has slight sore throat, perhaps, and
the weather is inclement but she must wear her
neck and arms bare; Cor whoever saw bride in a
close evening dress! She is consequently seized
with an Inflammation Of the lungs, and the grave
receives her before her bridal DAYS are over
What PrnviIence!' excams the world, cut off
in the midst of happiness and hOpe.' Alas! did she
not cut the thread of life herself! A girl from the
country exposed TO our changing climate, gets a
new bonnet, instead of getting flannel garment.
A rheumatism is the consequence. Should the girl
sit dow TRANQUILITY wththe idea that Providence has
sent the rheumatism upon her, or should she charge
it TO her vanity md avoid the folly in future! =
Look, my young friends, at the mass Of diseases
that are incurred by intemperance in eating. OF
in drinking. or in study, or in business; by neg
lect of exercise, cleanliness, and pure air; by in
discreet dressing. tight lncing. &c, and all is qni
city imputed to Providence Is there not impiety
as well as ignorance in this! Were the ply sica
laws strictly observed from generation to genera
rion, there would be an end TO the frightfnl dsea
ses that cut short life, and Of the long maladie
that make life torment .rIal. II ia the opin
ion Of those who best understand the physical sys
TEN, that this wonderful machine. the body, rhi,
goodly iemple,' would gradually decay, and mer
would die, as it falling asleep.