Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-12-08
Violent exercise is seldom useful.

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Violent exercise IL seldom useful
1t was noticed by the early Greekl
that no one who In early youth wor
the prize at the Olympic games eve
distinguished himself afterward. =.
The same principle holds good In re
gard to overtasking the mental-pow
ers In early life. An over.worket et
brain Is the source of sorrows In latel
years. The old system of cramming
which used to he in vogue In first
class schools, was often Injurious -
The true policy IL to insist upon
healthful physical development, and
to avoid all evils of excess. ....
| An old lady as far down the de.
cline of life as 70, like people gener.
ally about her age was constantly
worrying about something or other.
She lost her spectacles on one occa-
sion. These were replaced by q new
pair, out of which one Of the glasses
soon followed the missing pair
While the latter were being repair.
ed the other pair were found. Fl.
nally both pair came homo, and hel
indulgent son on the same day pre-.
sentcd her with pair of geld bows.
On receiving the whole three pair ol
specs in good-looking order the old
lady in . subdued voice exclaimed,
with long drawn sigh: "Oh, dear,
what have got to worry about
now.n
The Ledger has the following
report of the spelling exercises at the
Teachers Institute, held at Steam.
boat Rock last week: Sixty-seven
OF the teachers were furnished with
slips Of paper on which to write the
following list of words, viz: parallel,
marvellous, medicine, millinery,
tranquility. moccasin, meter, massa.
ere, forgetting, benefiting, traveller,
shipped, worshiped, cinnamon, sur
cingie, presbytery, plaid, harelip. -
Sixty.seven per cent. of the words
were spelled right. Harelip was
spelled hdirlip by forty-four teach
ers; harlip by two, and hairelip by
one. Twenty spelled 1t right
Three spelled all the words right
Mr., McDaid and Miss Hattie HIg.
gins, eff Ackley, and Miss Hattie M.
Blanchard, OF Alden.-Ackiey Inde.
pendent.
A Galesburg Tllinois) journal
says: "The other day number OF
our women went out collecting for
the Chicago relief, and In their trays
els came across an old farmer who
made 1t point never to read the pa.
pers. For a leng time he declared
the Chicago fire was an abolition lie,
but finally remarked that he had a
lot of potatoes, in the patch, and II
they had a mind to dig 'em, they
could have all they wanted. Moth
ing daunted at the old mans banter,
the ladies procured some shovels. dug
twenty bushels that afternoon, and
the next day came back and finished
the patch, much to the old mans
disgust" .. ... ..,
Mrs. Livermore thinks Horace
Greeley is dumb fool with his idea
of locking his daughters up In clois-
ters out OF the way of men, and said
she couldn't forbear telling him II
was u great pity he was not on hand
when God made the wortd, in order
to hint to Him better way than He
had found out for while the Lord
was making the world He might just
as well have put the men on one
planet and the women on another,
and then we never should have got
together, and there would have been
no troable. Men, she added, need
the assacistions Of women In politics,
and whenever women has the ballot
In her hand 1t will simply signify
that she is on a legal equality with
man,