Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-05-27

4 ton is the seaside. Give up your bus
f ness for week; take your. wife to som
/, watering place Immediately. Sea ali
) sea bathing and sight Of old ocea
will put new life into her veins"
J "She can't possibly leave home. w
: have too many young children
i ''She'll have to leave home, and he
young children, too, for ever, if 20
Edon't do something to save her.''
! spoke with some feeling, for / was a Iii
Lille provoked at my friends inelinatio
to throw difficulties in the way. Gus
lanake up your mind that the thing ha
to be done, and I'll answer for your wife
! The fact is, it's my opinion that she'l
4 say Yes on the first proposition"
i And so she did. A little manage
| ment was practiced. l accepted anoth
] err invitation to tea, and, during tn,
evening, gave as graphic description
as was in my power, of the novelty, ex
citement, and wonderfully beneficial
effects Of week at the sea shore. My
own experience was quite to the point
having regainea strength almost by
magic after long period OF extreme
nervous exhaustion. lre 81
"You must take your wife to the sea
side. Its just what she wants." SAID
/, alter the way had been fully pre-
pared.
| Wilkins followed up with such q
hearty acquiescence that the point was
carried under scarcely an appearance Of
objection. Difficulties were of course
suggested; but these were pronounced
of such slender importance that they
were waived almostas soon as presented.
Two days afterwards, / had the salts
faction of seeing them off. As shook
hands with them at parting, could see
IN the countenance of Mrs. Wilkins,
some reviving traces of her old girlish
beauty; and a rekindling in her eyes OF
the light of other days.
A year afterwards / made it my bus
mess to visit my old acquaintance He
received me with a warmth of manner
and cheerfulness of spirit, which salts
| fed.me that his state of mind had con-
siderably improved.
'"How is Mrs. Wilkins" I immedi-
ately inquired.
"A broad smile went over his face
as he replied: IA so6to
"a thousand times better than when
you saw her a year ago"
.T Fam delighted to hear you say So
How did the sea side prescription an
swer?" &riH aNa lss v Ya
Admirably. 1t worked like charm.
Mary came back another woman. 1t
was to her almost ike discovering the
fountain of eternal youth. Inever saw
such change in any one"
s'Didn't she fall back into old habits
Of mind and body after her return to
the city" u...
"No." & '''
GLOW did you prevent tnis?'' in
quired. @
SPY acting on the hint you gave.
hired carriage, for an excursion, once
week, while the pleasant weather
| lasted, and it cost me a few shillings
each time; but it was cheaper than
paying the doctor, and the medicine
cured more radically. You can't i'm
agine what change in her feelings
took place. Nothing outside of the
narrow circle of home interested her
before; thought seemed asleep or pal
sled; but now she takes an interest in
everything"
'EWas it not starved into more than in
fantile weakness?"
"Perhaps So" he said, thong httnlly
"The mind must have its appropriate
food as well as the body"
"Nothing is truer than that" l re
piled.
"And, like the body, it must have the
alterations Of shade and sunshine, fresl
air and exercise. 1t must have change
and recreation, as well as seasons OF
!. labor. Without these, mental health is
impossible; and, without mental health
there can be no true bodily health"
Husbands, | fear, are not thoughtful
enough about their wives in this partic
ular. | am very certain if every toilins
house keeper, and worn down, exhaut-
ed mother, whose pale face is hardly
ever seen beyond the portals other owr
door, were forced abroad. occasionally
/ into the social world, if they would not
go willingly, and taken yearly to the
seaside for few weeks, that hundred:
of thousands of wives and mothers, whC
are now sickly. nervous and unhappy
would be in the enjoyment of gooC
health and cheerful spirits, give light t.
their homes and happiness to the heart
of their husbands.
Try the prescription, we men will
siekly, toiling, exhausted wives, whose
pale faces haunt your homes like ghost
of former blessings. Pity them wisely
and hold them back while you may
from the low resting places under tn
1. green turf toward which they are de
scending with rapid feet.
The LARGEST MILL IN THE WoRLI
Richmond can boast ofhaying within
| it's limits, the largest Touring mil in tn
'lworld. The erection of the mill wa
regularly commenced some time IN tn
year 1854. The superstructure rest
upon solid foundation of granite, tn
base of which is seventeen and ha
feet thick. The width tapers to thick