New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-07
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FOR great many years great uauy Pr'Pic'
particularly in this great country, have been asking
what they should do 10 be physcally saved Tbs
answers, which, in their dire dysPeptic distress,
there seekers after sound digestion have received,
ts7e been as numerous as they have been various.
Sometime, they have been recommends 70 abstain
from flesh and to 1--we upon particular aud patent
crscker Sometimes they have been advised
TO resort 20 the purely Vegetable Bitters OF the
venerable DR. E.culapius Jones, who discovered
this III tasting medical marvel just st the moment
when he was about to go to Heaven, IN conse-
quence Of total inability to relish his breakfast
but who tas since been enabled to eat about
twenty THOUSAND morning mesls By taking aoou!
sixty thousand doses of bis own discovery, and VINO
believes that be shall es. about sixty thousand
breslf.st. more Sometimes the victims have been
advised to stsrve aud, sometimes, to sstiste thelr
stomachs Unfortunately, the AIT of Preserving
Health has rarely advanced beyond theory, and
eye,ywhere-in colleges aid countiug-room', IN
the Office Of the lawyer snd in the study OF the
preacher, the grosns Of gentlemen unable 10
swallow their dinners, have resOunded-to say
notbirg of the panss Of those who could bolt
diately after lspsed into frighnu sbdo@i'
mel torments. That the general intellect
ofthe country was active enough was evident-the
fact wss proved, if in 10 other way, by the marvel
Gus frcundty of Theory. Ii never seemed to occur
TO these Spectators that We have decidedly
dus ustuIe that of thesetwo, the physical requires
sensible culture just SIS much a. the Intellectual;
AID that TIE body does no more relish snuobng,
modification. starvation and routine drill than the
mind. 1t was taken for granted, if a man walked
before breakfast, elk miles out and Fix miles in
took a cold, dismal, solitary, painful regulation
tramp. or resorted to What Jeremy Benthan called
bis post prandial vibration that be must be-
come We'll if sanitary unsound, or remain so II hap
PLY healthy already. The tresome walk, the bltters
and the coarse crackers were to keep everything
right from tie pineal gland to the tendon Achilles
The 81 stem has been tried and has failed. DyS-
p,ysid Regina declined 10 abdicate, but ruled
supreme from hesd TO toe.
We are happy to believe that sounder views are
already generally receised. The pale, contempla-
tive students of the colleges are, with or without!
TIE aid of the academica spectacles, discovering
that exercise is at east the less effective, though
It NAV chance 10 be spOrtiye AID not solemn. In
.eyersl of our Institutions Of learning, it is be-
coming apparent TO the taught: and IN some OF
them, at least, to the teachers. that all work and
no play makes Jack dull boy-dull in spite of the
deceptive brlliarcy of morning recitatons, aud Of
Exhibition Day. In Yale College, as well as Har-
yaId, we notice that gymnastics have been INTRO
duced: aud in several colleges boatcluSs have been
established. Jumping, rowing, riiiog-sll athletic
gsmes in fact are coming into high fashion; so
that there is reasonable hope that 10 time students
viii become as capsule Of dgestDg the dreadtui
yiands Of Com mon. Ii sl ostrich is of managing
his luncheon of tenpenny nails. We trust that the
L" Dop,," so far from discouragiDg, will promote
with their whole force this laudable tendency
Because We DO most sincerely declare It to be bet
ter for young man to leave college with a sound
stomach than With knowledge Of Greek worthy OF
Dr. Person. What, we should Ike to know, is =
man good for, who would be capable Of the noblest
intellectual labor if be could bu. eat h. so vance
without Undesirable bodily sacrifices, but
bong Incapable, is compelled 70 desert his
work, 70 take tours, TO cross oceans, to ask
leave of lopg absence Ii may, perhaps,
be highly sslutsry for man TO live 10 continual an
tcpation of death. But taat question concerns not
himself alone lie has duties 10 others-to his con-
eregsticn lis clients, bis family. He has no more
ght TO commit suicide by under-fredlog under
exercising and oyer-working his brain, than he has
to do il By rope or rstsbsne. We remember very
we'll how, during the prevalence of Puseyi'm, q
theological student told bis President that the Viz
gin had appeared TO him aud commanded him to
90 70 Rome" He received the radically sonnd
answer: Go dig, my son 90 dig" lie did not
heed, the poor young man this excellent advice,
and be is Low dead-at least TO the world and to
friends who loved him well. He might haye
Joined criclet club, and been saved. He is no "
where We think 10 ki1d-hesrted, intelligent Catho-
lie could wish hiu-he is where he was warmly ad-
vsed no, to go even By those OF his new faith.
We are pretty sure that the mania for cricket,
! which has followed the bsseba adness vii not
be without its blessings. We say this without any
particular knowledge Of the mysteries Of bowling,
wicke.s batting, 1.-TWO threes TO leg innings, etc.
We only know that cricket is capital exercise very
entertaining TO those engaging 10 il, and without a
trace Of the brutality Of the Rlog. Whether /. be
necessary for eleven stout men - giSe up ali other
business, brave the pers Of the sea, and come here
to teach US the noble game, and to inspire US with
o. euthusis,m for it, we do not pretend to decide.
II their affair, and not ours. We recognize them
ss IN ssior aries OF musce and We wish their calling
60 well that We hope soon to hear that ~lckets have
been SET up throughout the land. II is quite as
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