Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-21
rake care Of Your Health.

To young man who asked OF Horace Mann
counsel 10 g1lde him towards success in the legal
professions that extraordinary Mann replied terse-
ly, promptly, and definitely. He opens with the
following suggestions touching thea necessity OF
Health:
"First, you need health. An earnest student is
prone TO :uin his health. Hope cheats him with
The belief that, if he can study without cessa-
ton, he can do so always. Because he does not
See the end of his strength, he fooisniy concludes
there is no end. spsndthrilt OF health is one of
the most res onSble of spendthrilts. am Ger
tain could have performed twice the labo:, both
better and with greater ense to myself had kr
as much of the Laws OF Health and Life, at TWEEN
ty-one, 5s do now.
I In college was taught all about the motions
of tile planets, as carefully as though they would
have been i'll danger of getting off the track if
had not known how to trace their orbits; but
about my own organization, aud the conditions in
dlspeEs:ble to the healthul function of my own
body, was left in proonnd ignorance. Nothing
could be more preposterous. ought to have be-
gun athome, and taken the stars whenJit should
have come their turn. The consequence was, /
broke down at the beginning of my second college
year, and have never had a well day since. What
ever labor have been since able 10 do, have
done II all on credit, instead of capital-a most
ruinous way, either in regard TO health or money.
For the last twenty five years, so far it regards
health, have been put, from day to day, on my
good behaVior and during the whole of this period
as Hibernian would say, if had lived as other
folks do for month, should have died in fort
night. ''' E' ~
"Heaith has a great deal to do with what the
world calls talent. Take lawyers life through
and high health is at least ua 10 fifty per cent
more than brain. Endurance, cheerfulness, wit
eloquence, attain force and splendor, with health
often happens that the credit awarded to the INTEL
lect belongs to the digestion. Though do not
believe that genius and eupepsy are convertible
terms vt TIE former can never rise to its Hottest
heights unaided by the latter. nf,
"Again, wise man, with great ENTERPRISE be-
fore him, first look found fol- suitable instruments
wherewith to executeit; and he thinks it all impor-
tantto command these instruments before he begins
his labor Health is an indispensable instrument, for
the best qualities and the highest finish of all
work. Think of the immense advantage Won
would have in a suit IN court, If after week or
iortnlghrs investigation of facts, you conld come
IN for the closing argument, on the last day, fresh
and elastic, with only so much more OF momentum
and teryor for the velocity and the glow you had
acquired, while your wilted opponent had little
more vitality than bag of sand. How long will
our teachers and trainers of youth suffer boxers
and racers to be wiser in their generation than
them selveS?, =. -
Il u The national peculiarities of q, people are
shown as strongly inthe tanning of ships as in
more consequential matters. The Spaniard dis
plays the religious tendency of lis mind by such
titles sf.the Holy Trinity and the sTwelye Apos-
.Prima Donna and M adamei Cetitas.' The indus.
try and love of money of the Dutch shows itself
in such titles as the !. Beaver and Gold Hunter'
John Bulbs sugliness Comes out in the shane of
'Spltfres,' and Boxers, tThunders,' and tDeyas-
tations Jonathan goes his lsngth on speed, pro-
igresson, ami universal dominion, peculiarly
hatshows itselfin such nes as Plying Cloud
Sovereign of tie Seas, sWest Wind, Wild, Pr
geon, Empress of the Deep, and .Fright ened
Lightning. In our opinion, aphilosopher could.
getup guile atruthful history of people without
consulting any other documents than the stems of
their ships.-D itclnaan. IS ~ is,.s ~ "
,GfFprty persons were recently killed in an En-
glish coal nlt. by .sch ke.inmn lelnai. =