Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-01

Some one writes at considerable length
asking in substance whether every body
is subject to the blues and whether there
is any cure. To answer positively yes
or no would convey false impression
and yet either answer would not be alb
solutely untrue.
Probably every living thing is more or
less subject to depression of spirits-by
which we mean to include animals and
we are by no means sure that the mala-
dy does not extend to the vegetable
kingdom as well. Transplant a bunch
of ferns, for instance, from the dark
wood where they have grown to beauty
and grace, and set them with all skill in
an apparently congenial place in your
garden. 1t may be that the vital pro-
cesses will go on without interruption,
for there are exceptionally strong and
elastic habits Compartments, that is)
among plants as among animals and
men, but the chances are that in few
hours the green fronds will have become
dull in color, the tips OF the leaves will
begin to curl inward and unless the cir
culation of plant-blood can be quicken
ed death will quickly follow.
The case is exactly parallel in the
higher grades of life. Who has not seen
a dog or a horse, or even chicken in
the blues? 1t is as plain in them as it is
in child, only in the case of the latter
we say it has the sulks, and usually
adopt the worst instead of the best way
to induce change. Perhaps there are
few rare natures that are not subject to
blues. To them Heaven may well be
less attractive than to the rest of human
ity, for having no blues to leave behind
how can they appreciate the exemption
of which we are assured in the better
land? frll
Is there any earthly curep Certainly.
Plenty Of them; just as there are for
chills and fever, but in like manner they
will not always work. We know one
man who walks off an attack, another
who rows it of, another who rides it off
in the saddle. These are all dyspeptics.
The same prescriptions, aided perhaps
by lemon juice or dilute nitromuriatic
acid, often prove effective in the case of
bilious folk.
When the cause is, As it often is, nerv-
Gus exhaustion, good remedy is cessa-
ton of all work, religious and secular,
plenty of sleep, and, if the constitution
can bear il, cold water bathing.
Always an ounce of prevention is
worth q pound of cure, for when the at
tack has once set in it requires strong
effort of the will to take active measures
for relief.
1t is not an easy task to fight off the
blues. Misfortune, sorrow, individual
temperament, and even the accidents of
wind and weather, often combine to
weigh down the soul until, in extreme
instances, insanity may be the result
Probably that which comes nearest to
being panacea is occupation, by which
is meant any thing that will interest the
brain or quicken the circulation. Those
who suffer most from the blues permit
mind and body to relax before the at
tack is fully developed. " .ip'@ fai9l
Nevertheless there is no rule which
can be trusted to cure everyone. Each
must find out what is most effectual in
his own case; and if he prays for aid
from on high, he must rise up and go
right to work helping himself, if he ex-
poets his prayer to be answered.-Chris-
tian Union.