Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-09
If A GRIEF EXIST

absorb itself. 1t a man at this time is
much engaged in outdoor sports
hunting, shooting, fishing, &c--and
lives wholesomely and temporarily, he
is pretty sure to be clear of sedentary
disease. But he may probably have to
his account broken rib or collar bone
or gets heavy fall from his horse.
The last is often owing TO the greater
caution in riding produced by age and
increase in weight; for riding boldly at
fence, as young blood does and light
weights can, frequently saves horse and
man from disaster. For this reason
middle aged men should not ride old
horses. Rheumatism, coughs, and in
Mandatory diseases arising from ex.
posure to wet Or cold man of forty
five will have to contend with, but his
blood will be in good condition for
the struggle. Moderate exposure to
hardships of this kind, like moderate
irregularity of ltieal> times, never harm
ed man yet.
DURING THIS DECADE
a man clearly has in his hands the DOW
err Of deciding of what class of maladies
he will die. Indeed, he may also speci-
fy the precise disease. If he prefers to
perish inch by inch by nervous diseases,
paralysis, softening of the brain, ETC.,
he can do no better than TO have his
house about twenty miles from his of
flee, near to railway station where the
service oftrains is limited. His ankle.
ty catch the morning train will cause
his breakfast to be swallowed in a bur-
ry, and to lie undigested, while the
steady jar and vibrations of the train on
the spine and nerves, endured daily and
without intermission; will not fail to
produce the results referred to, besides
setting up a most unhappy irrita-
bllity of temper. A good many Lon
don men who reside at Brighton, and
do the journey twice in twenty.four
hours, can bear melancholy test :nony
to this truth. Better a thousand
times buy poney every two years
and batter its legs to pieces over the
roads ever twenty months by galloping
ten miles in and out, than adopt such a
suicidal mode Of transit. About this
time age begins to assert Itself; loss OF
repairing power and inroads of decay
are visible; and here skilled aid and ad
vice by way of prevention are invalua-
bic. The periodical attention ola good
dentist Is about as necessary as any
thing can be for the health; the slight
est failure OF the eysIght should be at
tended to, and proper spectacles adop.
ted. Reading by gaslight or without a
properly shaded lamp is simply mad
ness. A man may use his eyes inces
sanity all his life into the small hours oil
the night, and preserve a strong, useful
vision by proper care. Such has been
the case with many old men, and noth-
ing can be imagined finer than::Sir David
Brewster on his dying bed making sci
enti6c notes on the diseases of the eve
peculiar to old age, or the late Sir Hen
ry Holland chronicling the gradual steps
which marked the progress of decayine
vital powers. He knew he was grow
ing old, he says, WHEN he no longer
crossed the street slanting, but made
the full square; the impetuosity ofyouth
had gone. Ifs man has through his
life made point of taking two clear
months ssoiiday every year, he has, SO
to speak, insured his life and health in
definitely, and will assuredly begin to
realize the fact It is now that gener
GUS food and nourishrnent are inipera
lively required to keep up vitality: We
live literally by dying, and perpetually
change every atom one by one. Life
consists in perishing and renewing, and
we are sustained by giving and taking.
Every meal is rescue from death, an
instrument by which we stave off the
ilire ads and waste which heat, cold, at
mospheric effects, and exercise make on
our organic life. DR.. Beard puts it
thus: The golden decade is from thir-
ty to forty; the silver decade, forty to
fifty; the brazen, twenty to thirty; the
iron, fifty to sixty, and from sixty to
seventy we learn whether the iron is
forged or only cast. According to the
doctors estimate we are at our bes
from thirty eight to forty-six, when en-
thusiasm, Judgment and experience are
balanced. After that date enthusiasm
declines, Judgment grows timid, and
though experience enlarges, there comes
a time when it ceases to have any edu
eating powers.-PtsU MI Gazette.
The king Of Persia once ordered Ii
vizier to make out list of all the fools
10 his dominions He did so, and put
his majestys name at the heal. The
king asked him why, to which he i'm
mediately answered because you en-
trusted lac of rupees to men you
don't know, to buy horses for you a
thousand miles off, and who'll never
] come back" ssAye: hut snrnnse thew