Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-05-17


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and decay henceforvo viu0n.
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disease wjtkio 4 M -
'6ffg{F in the causes Ne HS4e nanEd,
and the effect Of il should be 10 produce
greater moderation. What If The pro-
fits are less! They can be continued
longer and life made happier. There
rs no necessity for this waste Of life-it
is sheer delu-ion. the effect Of fool
ish ambition. Better accept the heri-
tage Of poverty or q moderate success
than the infallible necessity Of an early
disease.-Hunfs Merchants Magazine.
SLEEP THE BEST BRAIN srIMuLANr.
The best possible thing for Q man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any,
thing through, is to 60 to bed and sleep
as long as he can. This is the only re-
cuperation Of brain power, the only &C.
tual recuperation of brain force; because
during sleep the brain is in q state OF
rest, in condition to receive and ap-
propriate PARTICLES of nutr,ment from the
blood, which take the place Of those
which have been consumed BY previ-
Gus labor. since the very act Of think
ing burns up solid particles, as every
turn Of the wheel or screw ofthe steam
er is the result of consumption by FIRE
Of the fuel in the furnace. The supply
Of consumed brain substance can only
be had from the nutritive PARTICLES in
the blood, which were obtained from
the food eaten pre- viously; and the brain
is so constituted that it can best receive
and appropriate to itself those nutritive
particles during state Of rest, Of quiet
and stiffness Of sleep. Mere stimulants
supply nothing in themselves they
goad the brain and force it to a greater
consumption of its substance until it is
so exhausted that there is not power
enough left to receive supply.-Her-
aid Of Health.
NERVOUSNESS AND NERvIHEs.
Nervousness is one of the prices we
have to pay for civilization; the nervous
savage is being unheard of. For this
disorder. which 10 partly OF sqsntal end
partly of bodily nature, reIiefis sought
in various ways, and among these we
may place the employment ofnarcoties.
The temporary relief afforded by these
drugs is very apt to lead those who suf-
fer from nervous sensations to put too
much trust in and resort too frequently
TO them. In the long run they prove
most destructive TO health. Their use
has Of late become so frequent as to
threaten society with a serious evil. 1t
has been boldly contended that choral
is TO be found in the work-boxes and
baskets Of nearly every lady in the west
end Of the metropolis, "to calm her
nerves." No doubt this is an exagger-
alton. but it is fact that New York
choral punch had become an institu-
ton scarcely year after the introduc-
tion of chloral in medical practice, and
now it turns out that Germanv-"so-
ber, orderly, paternally-ruled Germany"
has such thing as morphine disease
spreading among its population. The
symptoms are not unlike those Of opium
eating. Experience suggests that per-
sons suffering from this disease should
at once be deprived of the drug. Their
willfullness and liability to relapse, how
ever, are so great that it is said that
only about 25 per cent. have been seen
to recover in large series Of cases.
CasseTs Magazine.
THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE BRAIN.
There is a close connection between
a healthy brain and a quiet, unirritated
auditory nerve. 1t is not impossible
that the noise in which We live, and
which fools delight in as signs of cos
mopolitan life, is responsible for much of
the paralysis, neur lgia and general ner.
vous irritability characteristic of mod
ern times. 1t is no laughable matter,
but serious one, and useless noises
ought to be abated as nuisances. Letit
be remembered that ofall our Ave senses
two only are intellectual. the instru-
ments OF art culture, seeing and hear
ing. If anything, hearing !. the most
highly and purely intellectual, for artic-
uiate speech, reason and rythmic poe
try and music depend upon this fnnc-
ton. The sensi,iveness Of IN organ is
In proportion to its delicacy, and ex-
4uisite torture can be caused BY the ear.
The eye We can protect, for we can
close it al will, but the ear Is an ever
open portal, and throws US upon the