The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-09-08
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BY DAVIS e. CREW
HEALTH AND WHAT PROMOTES IT.


injure it. We make few extracts:
STOVES AND FURNACES.
Within few years the air-tight stove
has been substituted for the iron dogs, and
for the first time since men began 20 live
IN houses we have no fire places" The
chrine Of the Lares has been removed and
bur houses have been literally pilaced-
robbed of the domestic heaa,h, toward
which so many associations lave always
sentered, for which the blood Of nations
has been poured, and which in all ages
has been regarded as the symbol Of home
with all its social comforts.
Not content with this these enemies to
our race have still more lately taken away
the stoves which, destitute Of the essence,
Still occupied the places, and still served
to remind us at least Of the ancient fire
places and instead, they have built for us
iron furnaces -1Etnas-undcr ground, SO
that now what Of the oxygen we are not
able TO consume and convert into carboric.
acid, is viliatcd Ly imp urc < 'aping
from its hidden chambers, by invisible
particles Of coal dust, and by other mpuri-
ties which clog up the air cells, and close
the avenues Of life, or stick along the parch
ed sauces rs ii reluctant to convey their
poisons to the lungs.
Stoves have no doubt abridged the sum
of human life, but 10y these suLerrancan
iron furnaces VIC are truncated-cut short
IN the middle. i, is an error TO suppose tllat
hot air furnaces eau ever be SO contructcd
or managed, at least in private houses, rs
not, IN any way, to prove detrimental to
health. We wish we cauld persuade oar
selves that this is not SO, for it is certainly
very agreeable in !. climate like ours to ell
JOY throughout all the rooms and passages
OF the house warm and uniform temper;,-
turc; but it is jus, this even warmth which
Is one OF the sources Of mischief. The in
mates are SO little accustomed to the cold
AMI become so morbilly sensitive, tha,
they shuddcr at the tca Of going out, and
if they ever do venture iuto the air, the
frost enters into their open pores, and they
hasten back to their shelter, chilled, en-
hausted and discouraged. They are no
better able to withstand the storms of win.
ter than plant reared in dollhouse. 1t
was the venerable Bcdc, think, who said,
When men lived in houses Of willow thew
were of oak but when they lived in hou-
scs Of oak they were Of willow"
HORSEBACK EXERCISE.
My friend, a wel-known and very dis
tnG"'shed doctor Of divinity, believes that
also ride hobby, since will prescribe
no medicine fur him but Il horse; and |
frankly confess he has good reason for his
belief 1t is part of the speakers creed
that all religious congregations should build
a barn, and buy Il horse, with saddle and
bride all which should be sufficiently en-.
dowed so as 10 cover every future necessary
expense and :bat rs soon as the horse is
properly installed, and not before, they
may proceed to install pastor. This doc.
trinc, in which we fully believe, has refer
encc no less to the interest ofthe churcl, than
than TO the interest of clcrgymcn. 1t will
secure one original sermon on every Sab
bath morning; it will obviate the necessity
of assistant cilapIains, ard save the cx-
pcnse Of voyage to Europe once in five
years.
The utility Of horseback exercise is not
limited, however, to cIergymen and their
congregations. 1t is in our humble op:n-
ion, the best exercise for both men and
women, whether within or without tile
church ; combining, as it does, the largest
amount o: active and passive emotion, will,
agreeable excitement. The trout may re-
fuse to nibble and the game to start, but
upon the horse there is certain pleasure be.
yound all contingencies. The rider is above
everybody else, he goes faster than any body
else. lie has for the time kind of ideal
and not actual being, and rides his horse
as poet rides his pegasus.
AT one moment lie imagines himself
general at The head of an army; at another
an Emperor making triumplal entry
now lie is knight, returning from con-
quest, and now, perhaps, lie rushes to bat
tie, or he is riding a free race, and he
springs in his saddle as if ten thousand
bright dollars depended upon the result
Not tina; he actually believes all this, but
only that lie feels somewhat as if it were
80, or might be so.
When lie presses the spur into the tender
flank, and his horse pIunges and prances, lie
also plunges and prances ike the horse. lie
feels as if, in riding bin, lie is a part of
the noble animal himself, and that he is
indeed what the Thessalians were reputed
IN ha Iolc man ond I.lc q l,ox..