Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-17

,.5fu prevented a large attendance at the |
sunday evening temperance meeting. II. |
Iuse presided, and Rev Mr.. Brown |
offered prayer. DR.. P. D. Bradford of
Northfeld was then introduced and adj
dressed the meeting.
The doctor thought that 1874 would |
mark the beginning of new era in the |
+.nperance movement; that it was year
.funusual awakening to the evils of rum
drinking and rum-selling, and it was the
dirty Of each one to forward the work by
n-inrhis personal efforts. He said that
m, world is full of invalids. The diseases,
or the liability to them, rather, is inherited.
Parents transmit their own type to their
children. For instance, seeing people
with q certain build physicians can say
they inherit a cOn5umptive tendency.
Opposite to this class of people are those
whose great danger is cancer, and never
have these two dreaded diseases been
found together. They affiict opposite
types. The tendency to disease may be
kent in allowance but that is about all that
can be done.
The balance of diseases, those not inner
tied. come from a violation or disregard
of natures laws 1t is appointed for man
TO die 0ilce but he fulflls the appointment
fine does it Mt the close of a long life.
While man is prone to die a natural death,
he is simply liable to accidental death or
81 lo-icrnaH a child
a middle-aged man to die, and yet % per
cent of the human race are dead before
one wear of age, and 81 per cent before
five The greatest expectation of life is
between and Is and 60 and 60 years.
Nine twentieths die before reaching -
wears of are. and before % one half are
dead. The average of human life is SO or
81 wears.
But notwithstanding that man was made
To- live. we hear ministers talking of the
wise dispensation of providence" 1t is
H.. unnatural for a child to die as for a but
ta he blasted, OF for Il middle-aged man to
Il. Us for a leaf to fall in midsummer. Il
Is q libel on the Being who gave life to
talk of his striking the innocent child fol
the sake of hitting an unrepentant father
Il IS the high pressure life that sweep:
away so many before their time, and life is
- has been said like the burning ola candle
stuck in a hot candlestck. Paralysis anC
auoplexv are becoming alarmingly fire.
eucnt Young America begins on tobacco
sleeps himself in it, visits perhaps the
worst haunts in the cities, goes on regula
or intermittent sprees and keeps imprope
hours. The result is disease, of course.
Women are also to blame. Too man
Of them neglect the physical culture c
their Girls. Low necked dresses shol
sleeves and tight waists are everywher
to be seen. and at the dictate of fashio
our streets have little monstrosities, it
mere artificial products, instead of health
girl,. who grow into mere apologies fC
women.
The air and the food must be attendC
to also The Importance of pure air is nj
realized and needs to be urged upon Il
raaple. Air is free while for our food "
have to labor. but we get full better foe
,hln we do air. y man needs about 1
pound, Of food Il day, while his year
supply of water is some 1900 poun
anil of oxygen 800 pounds. What Ii
+, we don't know, but the air that V
breathe and by which life exists is cor
posed of 20.31 parts oxygen to 1910 par
NITROGEN But it is often impure from t
aImixture Of poisonous gases. And
air thus poisoned we accustom Ourselv
lust a a man who makes a tobacco wOr
Of himself, will endure a quantity OF t
weed that would kill n man in his natul
state. People will 90 to sleep in a
room. and take every precaution lest
hit of air can get in, and in the mornil
& will thank God for their preservation, a.
4 they have reason, for if He had not be
kinder than they were 10 themselves tt
would have suffocated. Yet as ii physics
the doctor said he had been called to
q tend cases of typhoid where the patti
was shut in these boxes of bedrooms, z
where very often the bad air was the ca
s. ot the disease. As pure air is necessary
th. health of man and has been furnish
b so water Is the natural beverage and Is
b hest that has ever been made. The natU
81 appetite is for water, and men lose gres
B the Qualification of it by debasing the ap
ti'e No concoction, bitter beer, sour w
e orciderrum distilled or manufactured
q liquor drug shop, no one of the whole is
COOL for the health of man as natu
beverage. water. Man was designed
live temperate, pure and long life,
4 hy following the laws of health may dc
Z Let him in striving to follow these Ii
4 remember the Importance of pure air
natures drink, water