The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-09

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learning you do in any one day. Now,
if any one of the instruments is
seriously out of order you cannot
do one of these things so we'll as you
know how to do it. When any one of the
instruments is very seriously out of order,
there is always pain. If the pain is Sc.
we're you can't think Of anything else
while it lasts. All your other instru.
ments are OF no use to you, just because
| OF the pain in that one which is out OF
order. If the pain and the disorderel
condition last a great while, the instru.
ment is so injured that it is never again 50
strong as it was in the beginning. All the
doctors in the world cannot make it so.
Then you begin to be what people call an
| invalid; that is, person who does moi
have the full use of any one part of his body
who is never exactly comfortable him
self, and who is likely to make everybody
about him more or less uncomfortable.
do not know anything in this world
half so strange as the way in which peo-
pie neglect their bodies; that is, their set
Of instruments, their one set of instru-
ments, which they can never replace, and
can do very little toward mending. When
i: is too late, when the instruments are
hopelessly out of order, then they do not
neglect them any longer; then they run
about frantically as the poor sculptor did,
trying to find some one to help him; and
this is one of the saddest sights in the
world; man or woman running from
one climate to another climate, and from
one doctor to another doctor, trying to cure
Or patch up body that is out of order.
Now, perhaps, you will say this is
a dismal and unnecessary sermon to
preach to young people; they have
their fathers and mothers to take care of
them; they don't take care of themselves.
Very true; but fathers and mothers cannot
be always with their children; fathers and
mothers cannot always make their
children remember and obey their direc-
tons; more than all, it is very hard to
make children realize that it is of any
great importance that they should keep
all the laws of health. l know when
was little girl, when people said to me,
"You must not do thus and thus, for if
you do you will take cold," I used to
think, "Who cares for a little cold, sup
posing I do catch one?" And when
was shut up in the house for several days
with bad sore throat, and suffered hor-
rible pain, never reproached myself.
thought that sore Threats must come now
and then, whether or no, and that must
take my turn. But now l have learned
that if no law of health were ever broken,
we need never have days illness, might
grow old in entire freedom from suffering,
and gradually fall asleep at last, instead
of dying terrible deaths from disease; and
| am all the while wishing that 1 had
known it when I was young. If I had
known it, I'll tell you what / should have
done. l would have just tried the ex-
pertinent at any rate, Of never doing a
single thing which could by any possibility
get any one of the instruments of my
body out of order. 1 wish l could see
some boy or girl try it yet; never to sit
up late at night; never to have close,
bad air in the room; never to sit with
wet feet; never to wet them if it were
possible to help it; never to 60 out in cold
weather without being properly wrapped
up; never to go out of hot room into a
cold. outdoor air without throwing some
extra wrap on; never to eat or drink an un-
wholesome thing never to touch tea, or COZ
fee, or candy. or pie-crust; never to let a
day pass without at least two good hours
OF exercise in the open air; never to read
word by twilight nor in the cars never
to let the sun be shut out of rooms. This
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"never" is the only word that conquers.
"Once in a while" IS the very watch word
of temptation and defeat. l do be.
lieve that the once-in-a-while' things
have ruined more bodies, and more
put together. Moreover, the never" way
is hard. After you have once made up
mind tpaVyorS5 fO do <oiY
that is the end of it, if you are a sensible
person. But if you only say, This is a
bad habit" or, ''This is dangerous in.
diligence; I will be on my guard and moi
do it too often" you have put yourself in
the most uncomfortable of all positions
the temptation will knock at your dool
twenty times day, and you will have tc
be fighting the same old battle over and
over again as long as you live. This is
especially true in regard to the matter OF
which have been speaking to you, the
care of the body. When you have once
laid down to yourself the laws you mean
to keep, the things you will always do
and the things you will " neper, do, then
your life arranges itself in system al
once, and you are not Interrupted and hin.
dered, as the undecided people are, by
wondering what is best, or safe, or whole.
some, or too unwholesome at different
times.
Don't think it would be sort of slavery
to give up so much for sake of keeping
your body in order. It is the only rea1
freedom, though at first it does not lool
SO much like freedom as the other way
1t is the sort of freedom of which some
poet sang once / never knew who hi
was. / heard the lines only once, anl
have forgotten all except the last three
but think of those every day. He wa.
speaking of the true freedom which ther,
is in keeping the laws of nature, and HI
said it was like the freedom of the tru'
poet, who
| always sings
IN strlctest bonds OF rhyme and rule,
And finds in them not bonds, but WINGS
l think the difference between person
who has kept all the laws of health, ant
thereby has a good, strong, sound bod,
that can carry him wherever he wants {.
60, and do whatever he wants to do, and
person who has let his body get all out o
order so that he has to lie in bed half hi
time and suffer, is quite as great differ
ence as there is between creature witt
wings and a creature without wings. Dom
you?
And this is the end of the moral.-St
Nicholas for Nooenaber. FT2
/ lit was the desire of the late Franci
p. Blair that the bearers at his funera
should be chosen from among his grand
sons. In compliance with his wish, eigh
sons of the late Gen. F. I. Blair. 81 q
late James Blair. and of the Hon. Mont