The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-12
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| any oho Oi WHICH Is Sumclenb 10 employ tho
whole force which an ordinary constitution
can generate. Thus we find men who.are ait,
thors and Students practical business men
and great Travellers They are in their Office
by day, they make addresses ia the evening,
and travel all night, often writing on tho cars.
Every popular man is in great danger Of exs
cess. He becomes heated By bis own work
be works with delight 10 himself his friends
love to hear him ambition spurs him It'd
cause he advocates becomes III his eygs alls
important he Assumed feaponsibilities and
contracts engagements whicl, tax him 10 thS
utmost and when his powers need rest hd
feels that he cannot take it, aud either breaks
down, or compelled to give up, Of dies: And
the more sevious man is, the more likely he
is to overdo and destroy himself. There are
certain errors into which most intellectual and
sedentary men are prone to fall.
/. Neglect Of exercise. Many do nothing
but walk 4 few hundred yards per day, which,
they dispense with in storms or when the
walking is bad, which in the case of ministers,
with Sundays added, is, in this climate, about
two-thirds of the time.
Q: An attempt to cheat nature by such sub,
| n
man, who needs light, afr, rest and change of
scenery for his eyes, and fancies that he can
keep at books or study all day and in ten min
utes lifting of heavy weights set his system
/ right, must be classed with the people who
expect 10 get rid of the consequences of life
| long violation Of the laws of health by few
doses of patent medicine. Aud man who
can believe that men whose professional life
makes them liable to heart or lung disease can
safely practice lifting heavy weights is possess
ed of great faith.' A strong, vigorous mani
may not be injured BY fitting land may ENJOY
it much1 while some weak men may have been
benefited but to rely wholly or chiefly on ten
minutes lifting is the greatest hygcnic abb
surdity of modern times.
8. Over feeding is q great error, especially
when connected with inactivity. The Arabs
have prosorb that e Fat aud inactiot are the
cause of the principal diseasts and vices of
horses.n And dyspeptic minister gorging
the system with rich food and taking no exer-
else, is Il spectacle to make only infidels anil
undertakers rejoice. 1t was gravefy proposed
to irIscribe on tho tombstone Of a gluttonoiis
young minister, who WAS cut off by disease
indicted in this way; Died of going out to
} tea.''
} 4. Forgetting the DANGER of exposure or IS
strain after forty-fiye years of age causes
many failures. The farmer, sailor, and me-
: chanic is, if well TO begin with; and tcmperl
ate through life, as strofig at fifty-fve and
J often ut sixty, as he ever was But not so the
} sedehtary man whose rebuilding has gone on
under facilitating influences He may outlive
J the former, but he must begin to be careful,
physically long before such care is nc ,essary
for the outdoor laborer. And many by for
getting this have in day broken themselves
down who might have lived to fourseores In
contrast with these errors place the following
hints
4 1. Night travel and day work should not
follow each other. God does not command it,
nature is incensed and outraged by Il, and
nothing is to be gained by HI
8. Students, teachers ministers, lawyers,
editors and physicians should exercise the
arms and chest Mt least half an hour day,
and spend three times as long id the open air.
o. They should sleep all that the system can
endure without injury, and If they lose sleep
in the night should chase it when possible all
: that day. till tho balance is adjusted.
4. For some weeks in every year they should
return to life of nature The man who takes
cold from the motion of a fan can, after he
} has camped out three days, sleep on rock in
} shower and only feel little stir when he
wakes.
g. Keep one day in seven as total cessai
! ton from ofdfhify thoughts aud work.
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