The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-05-06
How to Manage Precocious Chill.
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From Bellows PHILOSOPHY of Eating"
Many OF the most prominent children
are sacrificed TO a desire TO bring them
forward III advance of other children,
and this desire is stimulated by natural
instincts. Every living creature re-
joicss in the use of the faculties which
God has given ii, "aS strong man to
run u race" The boy whose muscles
are we'll developed will never keep still, ,
but is ready for anything, good or bad i,
in which he can stir himself. TO such
| one study Is punishment.
But the boy whose muscles are feeble,
| and whose brain is largely developed
sits still and reads, and the appetite, of
| course, conforms to the kind and
amount Of exercise. If he wastes his
muscle in exercise, his appetite will de-
mand the musclemaking nitrates to
| supply the waste. If he wastes the
| phosphorus OF the brain by study, he
will desire phosphate food to restore it.
| While the fat and stupid boy, who has
neither muscle or brain, will crave car
| bonaceous article, to feed his stupidity;
| and indulgence in these appcttes will,
Of course, increase the popularity.
| have seen the little kingbird, after
an hour of extraordinary eXcrtions in
! driving from the nelghborhoud al in
truding hawk, devote the next hour to
! catching bees apd hornets, which abound
| both in nitratcs and phosphates, "a /,
means of restoring his muscular and
vita! energy. The bird is safe in follow
ing his inclnatious. living as il does ac-
cordinS to natural laws, and having nc
abnormal development Of faculties, and
abnormal appeIltes, it can eat what it
desires, and AS much, with perfect i'm
punity
But the child, changed in its conai-
ton a. it may be by the ignorance and
folly OF its parents, even before its birth
is abnormally developed, and ot course
has abnormal appetites.
INDUCING these appetites in case O
precocity OF the brain, OF course increas.
es the excitement of the brain, and the
result is inflammation and premature
death.
A child with Il precocious brain, o.
who is very forward, to use the common
expression, Is OF course more liable t
dangerous diseases of the brain tha.
other children; but if parents woulC
give the subject thought, and use theiI
reason in this, as in other less importan
matters, these diseases might generally
be warded off.
If our eyes have been overworked, o.
are weak and liable to inflammation
J we avoid over-using them, especially IL
, the strong light, and if so inflamed tina
too much light, and all use of them
gives pain, We shut out light altogether
and give them rest til they recover
, Both light and seeing are pleasant t
the eyes in health, and absolutely neces
. sarv to give them health and strength
but when diseased, are both alike in Il
rious aud We avoid the influence of botl
TIL they recover. And when only
weak, and not absolutely diseased, "
: are careful to have the light or use tn
I eye only moderately and carefully. =
, Of any other organ or faculty, that whicl
[ is necessary 10 it in health must be care
: fully used in tendency to disease.
Apply this principle to precociou
brain. The brain is as dependent o
appropriate exercise and a supply c
phosphorous in health, as is the eye @
e exercise and lint; and as we vitha".a,
l the Exercise and light in weakness an
;, disease. so should we allow the brai
/ from exercise and phosphate food !
= case of disease or premature devclol
: ment.