The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-21


ana he began TO resign himself to the death
which seemed inevitable. Once more how
ever, persons were heard approaching, and he
recognized the voice of chattering negress
The hope of being heard was slight, indeed
yet in a moment of silence our poor friend
summoned all his feeble strength to cry. A
slight grunt or groan only escaped him, but
the woman heard 1t. "What's dat?" she ex-
claimed, stopping short.
"Reckon 'tis a drunken man." said her
companion; "come long"
"Whar's he denY" argued the daughter of
Eve. And another minute or two elapsed
while this point was debated the man urging
the woman onward, being ''soared, I" as he told
her. With each effort the PROSTATE man
gained courage, and, in pause of the chatter
ing, he summoned power to cry
''Come-herel'
''Whar is yer" asked the woman.
"Down-here-hurt ~ the poor gentleman
managed to gaspingly calculate.
One of the strange characteristics of negro
nature is that of being terrified at the idea of
an injured or a suffering person; and the man
again urged the woman along, but her curl
osity was unsatisfed, and while she delayed,
the sufferer put forth another effort to cry,
Come down, Pm hurt !" Then she prevailed
on the man to help her down the cutting
guided by the sufferers means. On fndin
him, and so injured, lights and further assist
ried along the level to house, and there laid
upon the floor. A surgeon was sent for, who
discovered that the hip was, by the violence
of the fall, forced into the socket in a very re-
markable manner; and on ascertaining the
spot where the accident occurred, he pro-
nounced it barely short of miracle that the
sufferer had not been killed, affirming that by
using those extraordinary efforts to breathe,
and so preserve consciousness, he had posi-
lively saved his own life.
1t is not all persons who, having studied
the laws of health, and being duly impressed
with their Importance are in position to
obey them as their judgment would dictate.
In the preparation OF their own food, or in the
ventilation of their homes, they map be COM
PEELED to defer to the prejudices of ignorant or
arbitrary elders or superiors. Their ocoupa-
tions may be sedentary, or too prolonged
to permit of sufficient recreative sleep
or exercise. But the attempt to regu
late their own health must not be re-
linquished for all that. There is always a
best,thing to be done under any circumstances
whatever; and a sensible person will con-
slider what that best thing may be. The
seamstress at her sewing machine, for in
stance, the student, or the writer, who sits
bent forward, hour after hour, can, on tenn
porary change of occupation, vary his atti-
tude by leaning well back in his chair, or by
standing erect with well-expanded chest, SO
as not to defraud his lungs of their compile
ment of vital air one moment longer than is
necessary. When, after long sitting the cir
culation becomes torpid and the brain weary,
he can set his window open for few minutes,
even in mid-winter; and if short brisk walk
out of doors during the interval be impracti-
cable, let him 60 through series of gymnas-
tics, or wrestle with imaginary burglars in. his
own sanctum, and he will not find his
minutes thrown away. 1t is better for a
Nfr n1n,,t
ments to walk in the rain, rather than not
walk at all.
"Blue-pill, madam Stuff-a-nonsense,
madam. You can't want more blue-pill; take
exercise, madam, not blue-pill," cried an
honest doctor to a sluggish patient. "Take
exercise. It's only lazy folks who want
much blue-pil. Which reminds us of our
old friend Abernethy, who, after listening to
| long list of ailments detailed by the anxious
mother of a languid daughter, growled out as
he put on his hat and returned shilling of
| the fee, "Buy her skipping rope"
1t has been aptly said "two-thirds of mans
woes begin in his stomach" And perhaps
two-thirds of those are durable by himself.
| To walk off i'll humors is something more than
! a moral feat; such moral ailments in most
cases having root in the actual physical ones.
Lately, in London, DR.. Lancaster held an
inquest over the body of a gentleman who fell
suddenly in Soho Square, and died in convul-
nation showed that the sudden death was
caused by suffocation. Large masses of un-
masticated food were found in the lower part
of the throat, closing the air passage. Give
or three pieces of meat were so large as to
create surprise among the jury as to how the
deceased could have possibly swallowed them.
| The contents of the stomach also displayed
several pieces of equally astonishing size"
The gentleman had dined off steak, pota-
toes, and water. A wholesome enough meal.
But it had been very much hurried, and the
stomach had previously been weak. Had the
poor gentleman been in the habit of observing
his own powers of digestion, or of studying
the laws of health at all, he would have known
that half or one-third of the quantity of food
properly masticated, would have afforded him
twice the nourishment, without risking his
life. And if only on the score of economy
this is worth thinking about in these days O
cattle plague and high-priced provisions
What with fast eating and imperfect digestion
the question suggests itself-HOw many per
sons who consume three plentiful meals a day
derive as much nourshment from their fooC
as it is capable of affording themY
Is not this worth the consideration of thC
wOuld-be philanthropist alsoH So now, hav
ing proposed to myself, in the first place, tn,
honor of addressing intelligent readers, ant
concluding that they are also benevolen
readers who will gladly combine two grea
advantages, / leave them to discover TO
themselves to what extent they can improv
the physical condition of their fellow-creature
by watching more carefully over their own.-
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