The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-05
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THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL

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There are few periodicals more truly
valuable as household companions
than this publication, issued by Fowler
q Wells, New York city. We ALWAYS
find it readable throughout, and ALWAYS
up to high standard of instructive
family literature. The specialities arc
health and education, and on these
topics its editorials and selections are
invaluable. We quote a few items from
the number before us as follows:
THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP.
The great Importance of natures
| sweet restorer to the weary frame sbOuld
ever forbid our dissipatinE the time al
lotted Tor rest and repose. Early and
| regular hours should be preserved. and
plenty of refreshing sleep secured. This
Is an indispensable necessity in order
to discharge well the duties and sustain
the fatlgues and hardships of life. We
DO not sleep enough. The reply of Gen,
zachary Taylor, whowas an eminently
practical man, after the battle OF PaIo
Alto, to the many inquiries put by his
officers, what was next to be done? is
significant on this point: "Letthe men
sleep" was his only answer, and, the
victory at Resaca on the morrow pro
claimed that they had slept we'll and
to good purpose.
Insanity sometimes follows n sleep-
less victim. We reeuperate and grow
best when we sleep plentifully and
wei. Mothers should never awake II
their babes-invalids should sleep.
sleep, sleep all they can. No one should
be deprived of the full measure OF nat
uraI sleep. EARLY to bed and early to
rise," etc.
MEATS AND DRINKS.
In order to keep 8he body in a health
tul condition, meat ought to be eaten
at least once day. 1t would be we'll
to vary this programme by taking one
meal OF hsh on every other day.
Fat should be disused as much as
possible.
When weary, cold, warm, or exhaust
ed, we drink in preference to eating
because we feel the effect instantane.
ously; while after eating even the most
substantial food, we do not feel the eff
feet for some time.
When exhausted, and when immedi-
ate relief is necessary, the best drinks
are broth, chocolate, milk, or water
sweetened with sugar. 1t is more than
Il mistake to drink wines or LIQUORS mt
such time; it is really committing
slow suicide.
When thirsty, without exhaustion.
we ought to drink cold water with n
~.
first thing to do is to dip the hands in
cold water, deep enough to cover the
wrists.
ALL PROGRESS MUST GO HAND IN
HAND WITH NATURE.
Let us consider what natural life de-
mands for its complete fulfillment.
1t first demands healthy birth and
childhood devoted mainly TO heaIth-
full bodily developments; children, more
than grOwn-up people, inStinctively
turn to the natural instead of the artifi-
cial. They seek their mothers breast
and protection rather than artificial
food and the strangers care. They are
then more sportive, happier, and natu-
raj than ever thereafter. They lose
much of their naturalness during their
education, when mental and physical
restraint take the place of heaithful,
natural growth.
A natural life demands a naturnl
education. All education should be
founded on the "natural laws of man. "
Halt the secret of SO many artificial
lives among civilized races comes from
not adapting education to the natural
law! 1t is unnatural to require that a
boy or girl shall sit six hours a day in
a close schoolroon with the brain con-
stantly on the strain and the body
quiet. Educators have heretofore mod
elsd their course of instruction more to
meet the demands of society than the
fultillment oftheir manhood. 1t would
be impossible here to mark out course
of education founded on natural law
but such course is earnestly demand
ed by the spirit of the age. But more
than all, to secure a natural life re-
quires good habits.
THE PROCESS OF DEPARTING THIS LIFE.
In the process of dying, one sense or
faculty OF the brain at II time lets 90 of
life. PrOpensities first decline, per-
ceptives next, rehectives next, and the
moral sentiments, which put US in re-
lation with the spiritual, last of all. A
good man, ripe with years, is not afraid
to die. He awaits with perfect trust
and resignatiOn-as when we retire at
night-the call to his heavenly home,
ga house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens" Let us briefly trace
the interesting process Of "de parting
this life."
In natural decay, one of the first in
dications OF waning life is the loss of
appetite. The stomach declines food,
or throws it off, refusing to digest it.
Next week or feeble circulation OF the
blood is noticed. The lower extremi-
ties-hands, feet, etc.,.-becOme numb or
cold for the want ofthOse currents of
the warm, nourishing, liie-sustaining
fluids. Ii we take no food we make
no new blood and like a plant
without water, must soon droop
and cease to live. The next phase
observable in the process is in the respi-
ration, which becomes less and less
copious and free until 1t, too, ceases.
Digestion suspended, the circulation
dtminished-contined chiefly TO the
heart and braln-the ordinary physical
activity and energy departed, the body
is consequently without Yigor, and
rapidly losing its accustomed anima-
ton. We now come to the brain,
AlimentiVeneSs, located nearest the
body, in intimate relations with the
stomach, has ceased to act, and sleeps,
near neighbor to Alimentiveness, hith.
erto occupied in getting property and
counting gains, unIOOses its purse
strings and with open hand divides its
property among surviving kindred.
The tecttons-Amativene Parental
Love, and Adhesiveness-part compa-
ny with the loved ones; the wife saws
''good-b bye" to her husband, the mother
farewell" to her children-consigninG
them to the kind care of some Irusty
friend.
TRAITS OF CHARACTER AS DEVELOPED
IN SHAKING HANDS.
The most agreeable shake of the
hand Is that meaning, welcoming grasp,
warm but not painful in pressure,
which stands guarantee to the sympa-
thetic look and kindly spoken word.
The most abominable hand-shaking is
that lazy, listless Offering, giving no
pressure, and averse to receiving any.
We have shaken hands with such per-
sons, and the memory of it has annoy
ed us tor an hour afterward. 1t was
like touching wet dishclOth, or cold, !,
Quivering frog. An embarrassing
shake of the hand is, when the party
greets you hastily, yet silently, as II he