The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1854-05-13
VOLUME XV-NO. 1913.
How to be Healthy.

How to be Healthy.
It was well sad by one who had thoroughly
studied the subject, that the highest ambition
of ancient Greek was to be healthy, beauti-
full and rich. We cannot help thinking, says
the Philadelphia Bulletin, that the old the
mans, in this respect, were wiser than ourselves,
much boast Of our wonderful intelligence
we have not yet practically attained to meth
cd of life SO comprehensive as that pursued,
not only by the philosophers, but by the men OF
fashion about town in Africa and the Pelopone-
sus They placed health first and money MAX
ing last, while we invert this order. Yet they
were PagYpss and wet Christians Surely VIC
should cry shame" to ourselves.
In reality the two principal objects sought
by the ancient Greek, health and beauty, were
but and the same. For beauty cannot ex-
st without health. The man who is constantly
confined at the counting desk, soon acquires an
habitual stoop; the one who devotes his whole
soul to money-,nakng becomes wrinklcd before
his time. On the contrary he who indulges IN
proper exercise and recreation, as, for example,
a well-to-do farmer in healthy districts, carries
all erect frame to the verge of seventy, and has
rtiddy cheek even when an Octogenarlan. The
first by neglccting the laws of nature, not only
destroys his own manly bearing but transmits
puny form and weakly constitution to his chill
dren. The last perpetuatcs Il race of hardy
sons and majestic daughters
There is but one way to preserve his health.
and that is to live moderately, take proper
ercise, and be in the fresh air as much posi-
BILE. The man who is always shut up in close
room, whether the apartment be minister's
study, a lawyers Office, a professors laboratory
or u merchants gas light store is defying ma
tare, and must sooner or later, pay the penalty
1t his arocatlon renders such confinement lie
cessary during portion Of the year, he avoid
premature breaking down of the constitution
only by taking due exercise during the long
cations of the summer and winter months. The
o<,f, h.,
and full draughts of mountain and beach
air, by the pursuits of the sportsman, by travel,
or other similar means. Every man who has
felt the recupcrative effects of month or two
of relaxation, knows from his own experience
how general its influence is !; how it sends him
back to business with new flow of spirits how
it almost re-creatcs him. so to speak Between
the lad brought up to physical exercises in the
invigcrating open air, and one kept continually
at school, in the factory, there is an abyss Of
difference, which becomes more perceptiblc
every year, as manhood approached, the
expanding into stawart, full chestcd health
while the other is never more than half com
s.~~-~.
females also All that have said about
preserving health in the man, is true of the
opposite But this is not the whole Tie
true foundation OF beauty in women is exercise
in fresh air No cosmetics are equal to these
The famous Diana Of Pocteers, who maintained
her loveliness until she sixty, owed
this extraordinary result, in her own opinion,
to her daily bath, early rising, and her exercise.
in the saddle. English ladies of rank are celc-
hrated, the world over, for their splendid pei
sons and brilliant compilations ; and they
proverba for their attention to walking and ria
ing, and the hours spent daily out of doors.
The sal iow cheeks, STOPPING figures, sisceptibile
ty to cold and almost constant illhealth, which
prevail among the American wives and daugi-
tcrs generally, to be attributed almost
trely to their excessive scdentaly life, and 10
the nfrmity caused by the life the
part Of their parent. 4 woman more
become beautiful, in the true sense of the term,
remain so, without heaithful exercise i'll tl.c
open air, than plant can thrive without light.
If we put the latter into cellar it either dies
out right, or refuses to bloom. Shall We wilt
our sisters, wives or daughters, by a similar
deprivation Of what is necessary to their haI-
monous development
In another aspect, the Of health is
more important thing than is usually supposed
There is no doubt that, as between city and
country, the population Of the former suffers
most from want Of exercise and fresh air, and
| that consequently the stamina, to speak, Of
Il city population, is inferior to that of rural
one. 1t is said that in cities Paris
for instance, few strictly town-bred families laS !
over IL century, and that if the population was
not continually recruited from the country, j!
would die out. 1t is an equally striking last
and one that lies within the observation Of ali
Of us, that the most energetic merchants gcnor-
alv in New York, Boston and Philadelphia; .
have been originally lads from the rural towns
or countless whose wcll-balanced health has no.
only produced well-balanced, vigorous, cntel
prising minds but enabled them to endure an
! amount Of fatigue which the average Of tlci
! citv-bred competitors could not rival.
TIE public veal, therefore, well as II G
! happiness Of the individual is concerned in this
question of health Yet, we Americans almosl
ignore it, and practically neglect it entirclI
The old Greeks had their gymnasiums for
pby ysical exercise, which were as much state
institutions as common schools are now Were
not the Greeks wiser, after ALL than we arc at
least i'll this partcular?-lUobuc Ne,1s.
F. Il w. PLANK RoAD-The contractor f,j.
constructing this end Of the Plank Road is no,
engaged in grading Main street ofSaem II
greater portion Of the street, we learn will not
be planked but MacadamiZed, according. 10
arrangement made with the authorities 10
this arrangement the citizens of this place viii
most cheerfuly subscribe.
When the road will be completed through tli,
place, distance Of about one mile there vii;
be seven or eight additional miles ready to b;.
put under toll which it is to the interest of tl..
Company to have done soon as possible
Planks have been laid down a distance o.
some seven miles West of Salem, but it seem
| to be somewhat uncertain where the tcrmiuu,
will be. We think the road should by all means
be extended to the hollow road, !" which wour,3
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