Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-09-12
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uultitudcs Of carth's toiling. mil.
+ ,ons have died while striving toMake
,nourh money TO retro from business,
mi In beautiful cottage on their
own little farm TO spend the remnant
n their days in rest, in having moth
;pg in particular to do. Perhaps one
n a million of the hopers does make
( money enough to enable him to retire
"a his country seat, and for year or
Two. while he is fixing it up to his
botion, all goes on charmingly, but
when everything is completed to his
mind and he has nothing more to take
rp his attention, he eats and sleeps
ana lounges around for few months
longer, falls into disease and dies or,
X n he has unusual force of character
and power of observation, he notices
that both health and happiness are
psssing away from him, and tracing
this to the true cause Of an inactive
body and an unoccupied mind, he
resolves to "sell out" and plunge again
into the vortex Of business.
Recently an old schoolmaster-
younger, graduating in the same class.
thirty-seven years ago-writes that
"both body and mind are worn out.
The slightest physical labor exhausts
him" and "any effort to think or
'study, or even read, so wearies the
brain that life is felt as a burden"
he withdrew from his professional
duties, which he had performed in the
place for twenty-five years with honor
to himself having secured the love
snd confidence and respect Of all who
knew him. he gave up his calling
for the purpose of obtaining rest as
b means of health.
The number of families is increasing
every day, who give up housekeeping
as means of rest from family cares,
and resort to that miserable and most
unwise mode Of life, boarding at a
hotel or in some private family, to
get more dissatisfied than ever in a
few months, meanwhile falling into
bad health and bad habits of various
kinds.
All these classes of persons fail,
miserably fail, in their object because
they mistake the physiological mean
ing of the word crest" Neither
body nor brain are safely, truly and
happily rested by doing nothing. The
only healthful rest, as long as our
physical and mental constitution re-
mains as it is, is to be busy. Men of
force and industry will everywhere
tell you: "It is the hardest thing in
the world to do nothing"
No mortal man was ever made TO
be loafer, to be a miserable drone.
The true idea of rest is recreation, a
making over again, a return to our
accustomed vigor; and this is accom-
plished, not by allowing the machine
to come to stand-still, for inactivity !
is rust and ruin to all mechanical con-
trivances, and death to all physiologi- |
cal structures. The true object of
rest is recuperation, and that is best
brought about as TO the body, by |
exercising a different set of muscles
and as to the brain by calling into
requisition a different set of organs or
powers, causing the mind to act upon |
new objects. A better plan is not to
get into tho unheaIthful conditions
named, and they are avoidable by |
giving two hours daily to the exercise
OF a different class of muscles or to
the investigation and study of objects
Of comparatively trivial importance
and of a wholly different nature. The
student should ride on horseback, or
cultivate fruit and flowers the mer-
chant should employ his mind in lib
eral studies, in active personal and
charities, while the over
taxed and worried wife should pay a
visit daily to some prudent friend,
some CHEEKY neighbor, or suffering
sister or child the main idea in all
cases being TO spend two or three
hours daily in open-air activeness
wholly different from the ordinary
business routine.