Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-14

How TO LIVE LoNG.-To lay the
foundation for long life, both body
and mind must practice industrious
activities. The hod-carrier works the
body hard, the brain almost none; the
power Of one is used up, that of the
other is not used at all, and he dies Of
some speedily fatal disease. The mere
student exhausts the brain the body
is not worked at all, and he too dies
early with some acute malady. The
farmer works his body hard -; it is in
the open air all the time; eats plain
food retires early rises with the sun
INDUCES in no irregular habits but
his mind, beyond a certain routine,
which soon becomes mechanical, as to
prices, crops, and weather, has no
waking-up activities, and he too dies
before his time, or vegetables in an asy-
lum. 81
But the hunter, without the advan-
tages Of the regularity, and abundance,
and comfort of farmers home, in
spite Of sleeping on the ground, and
going whole days without food ; in spite
Of winters SHOWS and summers suns,
and the cold, raw rains Of spring and
fall, lives to the utmost verge Of mans
allotted time; and why? His bodily
activities are steady, but they are mod
crate in the main, while the almost in
cessant look for game, and the
multitude of devices necessary to out
maneuver the instincts of the animal
creation, keep his wits alive, and they
all become as keen and agile as his own
restless and piercing eye. a.
The agencies Of long life to the no.
bility of Great Britain are their love
Of travel, and hunting, and the saddle
in earlier years while ill later life
they avoid exposures, and loss of rest,
and sleep, and food; they, in the fullest
sense Of the phrase, stake things
easy" They know that they are pro-
vided for beyond a peradventure, and
quietly and securely pass along the
stream Of life till it emptics into eter-
nity's ocean.
As to great scholars and thinkers,
such as Newton, Of past age, and
of the present, their love of
study so took away their love of eat
ing, that it was rather a mechanical
necessity than an animal delight ; so
hey ate but little, and in such proper
ion had less need for exercise; while
t is a physiological law that mental la
Dor increases our hold on life by its de-
7eloping, enlarging-as all physicali-
les enlarge by exercise-the capacities
If the brain. p
Up to forty-fve the bodily constitu-
ion is knit, is built up, is consolidated
" wise labors, if the mind also is kept
n the exercise of healthful activities.
The same hard labor after forty-fve,
10 far from building up, destroys, but
While that is the case, mental toll builds
lp the body its effect is to increase
he capab;lity of living. Hence, man
Who works his body pretty hard and
mind rather more moderately up to
has done most toward secur-
ng lasting constitution; and if. then
le begins to work the body less. and the
mind more, he adds to that lastingness,
nd bids fairest to live to eighty or q
lundred years. This article merits the
nature reflection of every reader, for it
) true literally that "out of it are the
,sues Of ife.''-H1lz's Jour. Health.
n@The German calender of the
ear makes the summer begin with the
wentieth of June and close on the
rentieth of September. This is
lore rational division of the year than
Frs. The first half of June herea-
outs, properly belongs to the spring !;
,r it is the season of termination, and
1r summer cannot be said to conclude
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