The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-11-03
Young Peoples Care OF themselves.

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 bat fathers and mothers cannot
be always with their children fathers
and mothers cannot always make their
children remember and obey their iirec-
tons more than all, it is very hard to
make children realize that it is of any
great i'm portance that they should keep
all the lawsof health. know whenI wasa
little girl, when people said to me, You
must not do thus and thus, for If you
do, you will take cold" L used to think,
"Who cares for little cold, supposiDg
[ do catch one2 2" And when L was shut
I'D in tho house for several days with a
bad sore throat, and suffered horrible
pain, / never reproached myself. L
thought that sore thIoats must come now
and then, whether or no, and that must
take my turn. But now i have learned
that if no law of health were ever
broken, we need never have days i'll
ness, might grow old in entire freedom
from suffering, and gradually fall asleep
dL ldSl, lhbltahtl va " Aiib oCAiApAp oSheAis'
from disease and L am all the while
wishing that had known it when | was
young. If l 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. l wish l could see some boy
or girl try il yet ; never to sit up late at
night never 10 have close, bad air in
the room never to sit with wet feet ;
never to wet them, if it were possible to
hello it never to go out in cold weather
without being properly wrapped up
never to go out of hot room into
cold outdoor air without 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 q day pass without at least two
good hours of exercise in the open air
never to read word by twilight, nor III
the cars never 10 let the sun be shut
out of rooms. This Is pretty long list
of "nevers," but "never" is the only
word that conquers. "Once in while y
is the very watch-word of temptation
and defeat. do believe that the "once
ina while" things have ruined more
bodies, and more souls too, than all the
other things put together. Moreover
the "nevey way is easy, and the "once
in-a-whiie way is hard. After you have
once made up your mind "never" to dc
a certain thing, that is the
end Ct it, if you are sensi
BILE person. But IT, you only say, "Thi'
is bad habit" or "This is a danger
GUS indulgence l will be little on my
guard and not do ii too Often" you have
put yourself in the most uncomfortable
of all positions the temptation vii
knock Mt your door twenty times day
and you will have to be fighting thu
same old battle over and over again a
long as you live. This is especially tru,
in regard to the matter of which hav'
been speaking to you, the care of tn
body. When you have once laid dow
to yourself the laws you mean to keep
the things you will always do, and tn
things you will "never do, then you
life arranges itself in system at once
and you are not interrupted and hin
dered, as the undecided people are, b
wondering what is best, or safe, O
wholesome, or too unwholesome, at did
ferent tim H. H., IN 81. Nicholas.