Smyrna times., 1876-11-15
Young Peoples Care Of Themselves.

Now perhaps you will say this is a dismal
and unnecessary sermon to preach to young |
peopel; they have their fathers and moth |
ers 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 directions; 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. know when
l was little girl, when people said to me,
"You must not do thus and thus, for if you
do you will take cold," used to think,
''who cares for little cold, supposing l do
catch one?' And when l was shut up in
the house for several days with bad sore
throat, and suffered horrible pain, never
reproached myself. I thought that sore
throat 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 a
days illness, might grow old in entire free
dom from suffering and gradually fall
asleep at last, instead of dying terriable
deaths from diseases, and l am all the
while wishing that had known it when |
was young.
If had known it l tell you what should
have done. l would have just tried the
experiment at any rate, of never doing
single thing which could by any possibility
get any of the instruments of my body ou
of order. wish could see some boy Oh
girl try ityet never to sit up late at night
never to have close, bad air in the room
never to sit with wet feet never to we
them, if it were possible to help it; neve
to go out in cold weather without beinj
properly wrapped up; never to 90 out of
hot room into a cold outdoor air withou
throwing some extra wrap on; never to ca
or drink an unwholesome thing; never t
touch tea, or coffee, or candy, or pie-crust
; never to let day pass without at least tw
good hours of exercise in the open air
never to read word by twilight, nor il
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a of rooms. This is pretty long list {
"nevers," but "never is the only word tina
conquers. "Oncs in a while' is the yer
watch-word of temptation and defeat. I d
believe that the" nce-in-a-while"th things hav
/ ruined more bodies, and more souls to
u than all the other things put togethe
II Moreover, the "never" way is easy, and tn
e once-in-a-while" way is hard
After you have onco made up your min
"never" to do certain thing, that is I'll
end of it, if you are a sensible person. Bl
if you only say ''This is bad habit"
"This is a dangerous indulgence; will
a little on my guard and not do it t.
often," you have put yourself in the mo
uncomfortable of all positions; the tenn
=. tation will knock at your door twenty tim
= a day, and you will have to be fighting IL
same old battle over and over again as lol
as you live. This is especially true in
\ gard to the matter of which have be,
= speaking to you, the care of the bod
; When you have once laid down to yol
! self the laws you mean to keep, t
- things you will always do, and the thin
= you will "neUer do, then your life arrang
:. itself in system at once, and you are n
:. interrupted and Kindred as the undecid
If people are, by wondering what is best,
, safe, or too unwholesome at differe
- tiihss.-S. Nicholas for NovemJer.