The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-17
Regularity.


Very few persons understand how
greatly health and happiness in this
world depend upon the regularity oi
daily habits-tne constant recurrence
Of those events which we are apt to
refer to as tiresome and monotonous
During the early and later periods oi
! life this 'even tenor" is essential to
our well-being; and though we may
feel like kicking the traces when at
the summit of power and activity,
and sometimes fly off at tangents, or
get rid of our superfuous energies in
odd and eccentric ways, yet we usual
ly come back, or at least try to come
back, to our moorings, and gladly
accept the treadmill path of daily
duty, which, if it brings no ecstatic
pleasures, leaves no remOTse.
To infancy, absolute regularity in
habits of food, sleep, clothing and
cleanliness cure many ills and lay the
foundation Of a useful and honored
life. This is the task of tie intelli-
gent mother, and to no person less
competent should it be delegated.
Feed a child with healthful food,
cooked in precisely the same way,
at exactly recurring intervals; put
it to sleep with faithful minuteness
in regard to time; have its clothes
uniformly protective and comfortable,
not too coCl, and not exhaustive from
warmth; give it fresh air, either in
well-ventilated rooms or outdoors
every day battle it at night in tepid,
in the morning in cold water, and the
child will grow thriving and healthy
and happy
But there must be no cessation by
even so much as the failure to scald
cup or q saucepan in the routine !;
there must be no careless use some
times of warm, sometimes of cold
water, or, again, the omission Of the
bath altogether The lood must be
prepared in the same way, with the
same nicely of proportion, or evil
results will, as they do, most surely
follow Only faithful intelligence
can work itself out by such exact
processes, though we all enjoy more
than we think, being subjected to
them.
Everyone can understand how dis
agreeable it would be not to be able
to make sure of ones dinner to be
deprived of bed and sleep; to lose
the enjoyment of abundance of good
water, a daily bathe and a daily
paper but upon the recurrence Of
how many more and much smaller
miautta DO we depend for our daily
comfort? We ike certain kinds of
bread at every meal, we want meat
always cooked in certain favorite
ways, and we expect to find it as
naturally as we expect the sun to
shine. We get used to seeing certain
things in certain places, and we would
not miss them upon any account. A
tree, a bush, a picture or a chair
which occupies the same place for
years acquires value to our con-
sciousness which only the habit of
seeing it can give it. The world
seems very large in growth and full
of many and varied interests, but it
contracts as we grow older and the
objects of value to US narrow them
selves down to those which we know
to be real and which form our lives.
Naturally, as these grow fewer in
number they grow dearer, and the
more we dislike to miss them from
sight and sense. No lives are so hap
py as those that are so we'll ordered
that there is little to resign, and to
which, therefore, every year brings
added interest and added enjoyment
in the regular discharge of individual
and social duty.-N T. Daily Graph
ic.