The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-09

The BENEFITS OF LAUeHTER.-A good
resource for family amusement is the various
games that are played by children and in
which the joining of older members of the
family is always great advantage to beth
parties. AL medical men unite in deelar-
ing that nothing is more beneficial to health
than heavy laughter; and sure our benev-
olent Creator would not have provided and
made it source of health and enjoyment to
use them, and then have made it sin to do
so. The prevailing temper of the mind
should be cheerful, bat serious: but there
are times when relaxation and laughter are
proper for all. There is nothing better Cor
this end, than that parents and older persons
should join in the sports of childhood
Mature minds can always make such sports
entertaining, and can exert healthfn' NOR
al influence over their minds and at the same
time, can gain exercise and amusement for
themselves. How lamentable that so many
fathers, who could be thus useful and happy
with their children throw away such opper-
tunities and wear out soul and body in the
pursuit of gain or fame! -109a1
The NECESSITY OF RECREATIoN.-Games,
gayeties, sports, spectacles, there will be, as
long as men have limbs, or eyes, or ears
The development here is as natural as i is
in the arts. You might as well talk of ex-
tirpa.ing music and painting, as of driving
the common amusements out of the world.
Now, there are abuses Of these things
What are we to say of the abuses? "Let
them crush down and destroy the things"
do we sayl But they cannot Then let
them be cut of. There is really nothing
else to be done. Elevate, refine, purify the
public amusements. Let religion recognize
and restrain them. Let 1t not, as is too
common, drive them to license and extrav-
agance; but let It throw around them its
gentle and holy bonds, to make them pure,
cheerful, healthful-helpfnl to the great
ends of life What blessed thing for the
world were it, if its amusemerts could thus
be rescued, redeemed, and brought into the
service its virtue and purity. g ra
t4g- We notice the following in some OF
our exchanges, credited to the Scientific
American. We believe there is consider
able seasoning of Arrowsmthism in the
paragraph. The "small parasite worm"
that can exist in the tissues of a live hog,
canno urvive the death of the animal, and
then remain in the boiling caldron, in
which pigs feet are for hours Immersed, and
vet survive. We do not believe it. How
ever, here is the other view: 7ei
PICS FEET AND TAPE WoRM.-The "tape
worm," the fishing of which from the human
stomach we published an illustrated descrip-
ton In vol. X, Scientific American, is desert
bed in the Paris Gazette Medical to have
its origin as follows: "The Hebrews are
never troubled with it, and dogs that are fed
on pork are universally so afflicted; in fact,
it turns out that small parasite worm, call
ed cbyystecersas, (irom two words signitying
a small sect and a tail, which much effects
pork,) no sooner reaches the stomach than
from the change of diet aud position, it is
metamorphosed into the well known Tape
worm; and experiments upon condemed
criminal have established the fact beyond all
Scientific American.
Al