Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-12-20
WIS r. PROrIDEyrCEs
Br MISS sEDowlcK.

BIZ MISS sEDGwlcK.
Take, for example. yovng girl, bred
lelica,eIy in town, shut up in a nursery
in her childhood-in boarding schooi
through her youlh--never accustomed 70
air or exercise, two things that the law OF
God makes essential 10 health. She mar
ries her strength is inadequate to the de-
mands upon it. Her beauty fades early.
She ,ahguishes through her hard offices OF
giving birth 10 her children, sucking and
watching over them, and dies early
+" What strange Providence, that mo-
Their should be taken in the midst OF lie
from her children!'' Was it Providence !!
No! Providence had assigned her three.
score years and ten-a term long enough
to rear her children. and see her children's
children ; but she did not obey the laws
on which life depends, and Of course she
lost it.
A father, too, il cut off in the midst Of
his days. He 10 useful and distinguish
ed citizen. and eminent in his profession.
A general buzz rises on every eide, OF
/" What striking Providence!" This
man has been in The habit Of studying
half the night, Of passing his days in his
office and the courts, of eating luxurious
dinners and drinking various wines. He
| has every day violated the laws on which
health depends. Did Providence cut him
off? The evil rarely ends here, The
diseases of the father are often transmits
ted and feeble mother rarely leaves BE-
hind her, vigorous children. oa
1t has been customary in some Of our
cities for young ladies' to walk in Thin
shoes and delicate stockings in mid-win-
YER. A healthy. blooming young girl,
thus dressed in violation Of Heavens
laws, pays the penalsy-a checked circu-
lation, cold, fever and death. What a
sad Providence j. sxclaim her friends.-
Stop! Was il Providence, or her own
folly!
4 beautiful young bride goes night af-
ter night to parties made in honor Of her
marriage. She has slightly sore throat,
perhaps, and tho weather 10 inclemeni !;
but she must wear her neck and aYms
bare-for who ever saw bride in close
evening dress She 10 consequently
seized with an inflammation Of the luDge,
and the grave receives her before her bfi.
dal days are over. What = pvovidence,'
exclaisns the world Cut off in the mid-
die Of happiness and hope!' Alss did
she not cut the brittle thread Of life her
self
A girl in the country, expoeed to our
changeful climate, gets a new bonnet, in-
etead of getting flannel garment. A
rheumatism is the consequence. Should
the girl sis down TRANQUILITY with the idea
that Providence has cen. the rheumatism
upon her, or should she charge it on her
own vanity, aud avoid she folly in tho fu-
ture!
Look, my young friends, at tho mass
Of diseeses that are incurred by in.emper-
anee in eating or drinking, or in study, OF
in business also being cansed often by
neglect Of exercise, cleanliness OF impure
air-by indiscree. dressing, sigh. lacing,
&C.; end are quietly imputed to Provi-
dence Is there no. impe.y as we'll a
ignorance in this Were the physical
laws strictly observed from generation to
generation, there would be an end to the
frighsful diseases that cut life short, and
0: the long list Of maladies that make life
a torment or trial. l, is the opinion OIL
those who best understand the physica
system. that this wonderful machine, the
body-,,his 'goodly temple would grad.
uslly decay, and men would die a. If fall.
inA asleep.