Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-02
Rest.

Multitudes of earth's toiling millions
have died while striving to get enough
money to retire from business, and in Il
beautiful cottage on their own little farm,
to spend the remnant OF their days i'll
rest, in having nothing i'll particular to
do. Perhaps one in million of the
hopers does make money en0ugh to ena-
bic him to retire to his country seat,
where all goes on charmingly and every
thing is completed to his mind and he
has nothing more to take up his atten-
tion. He eats and sleeps, and lounges
around for few months longer, falls in
to disease and dies; or, if he has univer-
5al force of character and power of obser-
vation, he notices that both health and
happiness are passing 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 dgain
into the vortex of business.
Recently an old schoolmate-younge
graduating in the same class thirty-sevcn-
years ago-writes that "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 burden,"1T
He withdrew from his professional
duties, which he has performed in the
place for twenty-five years with honor to
himself, having secured the love diih con-
fidence and respect of all who knew him.
He gave up his calling for the purpose of
obtaining rest as means of health.
The number of families is increasing
every day, who give up housekeeping as
Il means of rest from family cares, and
restore to that miserable and most I'M
wise mode of life, boarding at a hotel or
in some private tamily5 to get more dis
satisfied than. ever i'll Il few months,
IN. anwhile falling into bad health and
bad habits of various kinds.
All these classes of persons fail, miser-
ably fail in their object because they mis-
take the physiological meaning of the
word 'rest." Neither body nor brain is
safely, truly; and happily rested by doing
nothing. The only healthtul rest, as
long rs it is, is to be busy. Men of force
and industry will everywhere tell you:
''It is the hardest work in the world TO
do rothing"
No mortal man was ever made to be
toafer, to be miserable drone. The
true idea of rest is recreation, making
over again, return to our accustomed
vigor; and this is accomplished, not by
allowing the machine to come to a stand
still, for inactivity is rust and ruin to all
mechanical contrivances, and death to all
physiological structures. The true OBJ
ject of rest is recuperation, and that is
best brought about rs to the body, by
exercising different set of muscles; and
as to the brain by calling into requisltlon
a different set of organs or powers, caus-
ing the mind to act upon new Objects
A better plan IS not to get into the un-
healthy conditions named, and they are
avoidable by giving two hours daily to
the exercise ola different class Of muscles
or to the investigation and study of
objects of comparatively trivial import
ance and of IL wholly different nature
The student should ride on horseback, or
cultivate fruit and flowers; the merchant
should employ his mind in liberal studies,
i'll active, personal, and efevating chari-
ties, while the overtaEed and worried
wife should pay visit daily to some
prudent friend, some CHEEKY neighbOr, or
suffering sister or child; the main object
in all cases being to spend two or three
hours daily in open air activeness wholly
different from ordinary business routine
boston Wdtchn1da.