The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-07-27
Take Care Of Tt

Strength to do and endure il condition
Of success. Good health insures reserv-
ed strength. There are times when
this decides the battle. Ability to do
double work, to carry double load, fits
men for the crisis Of q life. Many q
mar has almost reached a grand success
and failed from lack Of reserved powers.
Health was not quite equal to the de.
mand. Fortune and life often hang
upon this. Debility is a milestone
about our necks, fetters our limbs, is an
enemy to our lifework.
One man excels another because he is
able. bodied, and disposed to do the more
work
VIM. H. Seward stands head aud
shoulders above his compeers because
he has been both strong and industri-
Gus. Charles Sumner has wonderful
power Of endurance, and he taxes It
to the utmost by incessant toll. Had
he injured his health by any means in
youth, the penalty would have been
confinement to obscurity. Cornelius
Vanderbilt has become a railroad king
quite as much from powers Of endu.
rance as from u high order Of talent.
Poor health would have made him a
poor man.
Persons in every condition in life are
blessed when healthy, and hindered
and depressed by debility or weakness.
'Cl,is %roc x,,ort !, -, ro ~ =, y, ~,
stocks or lands, both as means Of gain
ing and condition of enjoying. One
prayer we should offer: Give me pure
heart, sound body and an active mind
These endowments parents should dill.
gently seek for their children. 1t is
worth more to them than any and AL
other estates.
Yet there is general carelessness about
the preservation Of health. The mass
Of people are ignorant and reckless of
the conditions of preserving it. They
violate physical law even more blindly
than they trample on moral law. They
eat and drink and sleep and breathe and
behave as if it was no possible conse-
quence whether they obeyed the laws Of
life or not. They sleep in small, close
rooms, and breathe fetid air, which is
just as poisonous as putrid food. when
an open window would afford ample re.
lief. They seem not TO know that one
person in a few hours will convert the
atmosphere of common bedroom into
poison, which breeds disease of lungs,
liver and brains, causing in due time
consumption, catarrh, fever or apop-
lexy.
Their bodies go unwashed, aud the
pores of the skin become obstructed
with waxy, dead matter, which ought
to be removed to allow free escape of
the daily waste Of cffete matter. They
do not consider that a process Of death
is going forward in their members con-
tinualiy, and passing off through the
skin, and that the retention of this dead
matter is just like the fastening dead,
putrid flesh to the living body. Fre-
Iuent cleansing is the only remedy. II
some enjoy tolerable health without
this, they would be still better and
stronger If only cleansed from their fl
thiness, and their bodies would certain
ly he less offensive.
The Chinese are careful to cleanse the
mouth after every meal. Herein they
teach us n lesson.
Particles of food remaining sticking
between the teeth, acted upon by the
escaping gases Of the stomach, will ordi-
narily become putrid in three or four
hours, converting the mouth into pest
house, a nest of contagion and "open
sepulchre," generator Of poison and
death.
Behold the filthy teeth! Mark the
horrid breath Of the mass Of people! We
are amazed that they endure the vile
infection they do. Their abundant
fevcrs and other various diseases are
legitimate harvests from this inatten-
ton to cleanliness. Poor health, doc
tors bills, poverty, misery and mortifi-
cation follow in the train. Clean water
and brush in daily use would entirely
change the hard fortunes Of tens of thou.
sands.
What excuse can be urged for the use
Of alcohol and tobacco? They excite,
poison and pervert the system, and gen
crate all forms of disease and misery
The nerves, the brain. the stomach, all
suffer from their presence. In this,
RI c1I N,oAi.,o1
They have dashed ten thousand times
ten thousand hopes, caused infinite suf
fering, broken health and depleted cour
age. They have destroyed powers of
endurance, prevented success in busi-
ness, scholarship, the professions, and
moral growth. What is more filthy and
odious than tobacco chewing? We can
not comprehend the mysteries of the
vile habit. How did man come to use
the vile stuff? BY what strange freak
of total depravity did they first incline
to eat it? How do they now manage to
perpetuate its use? How do they man
age to endure the nuisance. and excuse
themselves a nuisance to all c!eanly
people:
Its use causes apoplexy, heart disease,
and is hurtful to the nerves and brain.
Many man has been cut off in the
midst of his career by its fatal Effects
Seek out til , cause Of many bankrupt
cy, many failure of professional life,
the loss of health by multtudes, and
the report will be, tobacco and liquor
did it.
And the curse is visited upon children
and children's children. Thousands of
pOnr invalid neryons suffarinr creo