Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-29
YOUTHS CoLUE.

YOUNG Peoples Care Of Ihemsetres.-
Now perhaps you will say, this Is
dismal and unnecessary sermon 10
preach to young people; they nave
their fathers and mothers to take care
of them they don't take care OF them
selves. Very true ; but fathers and mo-
theirs cannot be always with their chill
dren; fathers and mothers cannot al
WAYS make their children remem Der ana
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.
I know when l was little girl, when
people said to me, "YOu must not 90
thus and thus, for if you do, You VIII
take cold" | used to think, wv DO cares
for little cold, suppOsing l do eaten
onef- And when l was shut up IN the
house for several days with a bad sore
throat, and suffered horrible pam,
never reprOaehed myself. L thOught
that sore thrOats must come now anu
then, whether or no, and that L must
take my turn. But now have learned
that if no law of health were ever
broken, we need never have days Ill
ness might grow old in entire freedom
from suffering. and gradually fall
asleep at last, instead of dying terrible
deaths from disease and L am all the
while wishing that | had known IL
when I was young. Ii / had known 1t,
I'll tell you what | should have done.
/ would have just tried the experiment
at any rate, of never doing single
thing which could by any possibility
get any one of the instruments OF my
body out of order. / wish | could see
some boy or girl try it yet; never 10
sit up late at night never TO nave a
close, bad air in the room; never TO SIT
with wet feet; never to wet them, III
it were possible to help it; never to go
out in cold weather without being prop
erly wrapped up; never to go out Oh
hot room into a cold outdoor air with
out throwing some extra wrap on |;
never to eat or drink an unwholesome
thing; never to touch tea. or coffee, or
candy, or pie-crust; never to let uay
pass without at least two good hours OF
exercise in the open air; never 10 read
word by twilight, nor In the cars !:
never to let the sun be smut out OF
rooms. This is a pretty long list OF
"nevers,r but ''never" Is the only WORD
that cOnquers. "Once In whlie Is
the very watchwOrd of temptation and
defeat. | do believe that the "oDce-ln-
i a-Wnlle tfllUgs udNc luiuCu hoiV oOu
les, and more souls too, than all the
other things put together. Moreover.
the "never- way is easy, and the ''Once-
In-a-while" way is hard. After yOn
have once made up your mind never
to do a certain thing, that is the end of
it. if you are a sensible person. But If
yOu only say, This is bad habit" or
''This is a dangerous indulgence; l
will be little on my guard and not do
it too often," you have put Yourself IN
the most uncomfortable of all posi-
tons; the temptation will knock at
your door twenty times day, and you
will have to be fighting the same old
battle over and over again as long as
you live. This is especially true in re-
gard 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 "nerer" do, then your
life arranges itself in a system at once.
and you are not interrupted and hin
dered as the undecided people are, by
wondering what is best, or safe, or
wholesome, or too unwhOlesome, at
different times.-St. Nicholas.