Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-06-24
tight Reasons Why~O WaDN Ciiti-
dren ssic.
~ THE LATGHlNn DOCTOR.

/ They arc dressed according to
fashion and custom.
.. They are nurscl every time they
cry, before they are weaned, and have
a piece of sugar, candy, or bread and
butter every time they cry, after they
me weaned In this way they become
dyspep,ics, and dyspepsia is a good
foundation for many fatal diseases.
;. Most of their mothers have come
to be physicians, and have forgotten
that the best physicians give the least
medicine.
4. They are kept 50 much Of the
time from the oxygenated air
D Many OF them sleep with old rco-
pie. The aged use up the oxygen OF
the air within the circle of their intlu-
encc: and their circle of influence is as
much larger than chlld's as they are
larger and older The aged throw
from their lungs, and through the
pores of the skin, carbonic aela gas in
the same proportions The old person
is negatively c'eetlitied, the child is
positively electrified. and the laws OF
electricity must hold good here as else
where Now, we have taken from the
child two essential lite giving qualities,
namely: oxygen and electricity, and
placed in their stead, ONE Of the most
'ite destroying qualities, namely, car
bohic acid gas
6. Since the introduction of super
fine bolts into our Touring mills, much
OF their diet prepared from wheat tlour
is quite too fine for the organismol the
child.
I, They are confined in the school
-oom, and compelled to cultivate mind
at an early age, when they ought to
be ont OF doors, cultivating physical
strength. Parents and teachers are
TOO often agreed in this life destroying
process. Parents, clatel with the idea
that their child is more than ordinarily
intellectual, urge 1t on to early and
high attainments. Each teacher wish
es his or her school to excel all other
chools. and holds out INDUCEMENTS OF
appreciation and rewards to the child
II active brains, to accomplish the
greatest possible amout of mental la
Dor, in the least possible time. BY
this means too much mind has been
cultivated for the body This is like too
much steam for the machinery. 1t
soon tears it all to pieces, and tllat
which was once so full Of promise, is
now useless; and that little child,
whose wonderful intellect was the
'tralse OF every tongue n short time
since, is now only known in memory.
The marble slab marks its resting
place. The little one who reads SO
well, and is often called out t. show
the visitors how ii can dcclalm, read
ieci.c and remember, who is so mucl
praised by all, whose mind is SO con
siantly on the stretch that it talks o
Is lessons while asleep, is in a fair wa.
9 soon be company tor the other
Then viii come again the old aiage
"I'hat death loves shining mark. =
We need not expect death will mis-
he mark, when we thus place on
children in the line of its missiles, O
which Is the same thing, in wrong re
lAtioAs to the laws that govern thei
physical development.
T. NO stimllous or table condimcnt
ever were. or ever can be assimilate
in:o good blood They not onl
weaken the system by its constant CT
forts to throw them off. but they ar
10 the organism in Time of disease, jus
What straw, wood, cotton, coal an,
,lnder are TO the house when al
through its walls and root III time o
tire