Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-10

Americans live in spite of their most
determined efforts to kill themselves.
they live under a constant strain. The
brain of the professional man. is worked
in season and out OF season. From early
morning until the clock tolls the hour of
midnight. it is strained to its utmost ca
pacity. Headaches, and the usual warm
ings of approaching nervous prostration.
pass unnoticed in the wild rush for
knowledge or wealth. and when the sun
of life is at its meridian, when it should
be brightest. the evening begins to cast
its shadows, and the gloom of night soon
swallows up the glories of noontide. At
the time when the faculties should be
keenest they are the dullest; when the
nervous should be the most perfect, it is
shattered. The merchant and business
man generally is likewise guilty of thus
everlasting the BRAIN 'e sa
As people we are entirely too busy
for health and comfort. The great ma
jority of active business men are less ia
miliar with their homes than with almost
any other place on earth. Many are
scarcely more than sufficiently familiar
with them to enable them to get into the
house aud get out again. How some men
recognize their own children is beyond
comprehension, so little do they see them.
and one would suppose that they would
forget the features of their wives for the
same reason. There are men who rise
early on Monday morning, before the rest
of the family are awake, take their break
fast, go to the office or counting room,
remain until a late hour in the evening,
go home, read the paper. and go to bed.
Children, and perhaps wife, have retired
before such man returns to his home.
and if his wife has not, she will conclude
that she had better, pretty soon after the
husband gets so much interested in the
newspaper that he does not hear Il word
she says TO him, and is entirely Obliyious
of her presence. This course is pursued
every day except Sunday. OH which the
faculties and bodies having been COM
pletely exhausted. the man shuts himself
up from his prattIing little ones, and the
music of their sweet voices and the sun
shine of their smiles. are entirely lost to
him. Such Il man was the father OF the
boy who, when he happened accidently
to meet his father one morning at the
breakfast table. and was jestingiv intro
duced 10 him by the mother. said Il am
glad TO have met you, father have fire.
quently heard mother speak OF you"
Well. such continued tension OF the
mental faculties-such ceaSele>s stralD
upon the brain. must sooner or later end
in serious disaster to The nervous. system,
and in death.
Men play too little-laugh too little
and sleep too little. They work too
much and mourn too much. 1t requires
but triile to start !; man ; tears, after all,
especially if that trifie relates 10 the de-
probation OF his bank stock, or the
shrinkage fhis pocketboOk. The loss
of few hundred dollars will cause a
man to weep away five years OF his life
most amy time. Play is thought by
many to be below their dignity. Such
an idea is a capital one for the doctors.
A good rolnp with the children over the
snow. or on the green. and Il hearty
laugh, will do more To preserve health
and enliyen the spirits, than Il whole bar
rel OF medicine can do. Men should
play, aud the fireSide in winter and the
beautiful lawn in summer. should he the
frolicking grounds. Those little pets
with their tow heads, all sparkling eyes.
and childish prinks. are the beautiful
roses which Heaven has given Won, faith
ers. to relieve the dull mOnotony of lifes
thorny pathway. 10 draw your weary
minds from the sad to the lively. and to
remind you that the world is not without
adornment. Do not pass them by-do
not forget them. but gaze on their beauty
and be charmed by it into a forgetfulness
of your cares, and bodily ailments. Play
with the children, seek opportunities to
laugh, and never neglect an opportunity
to sleep, and it will be a more satisac-
tory investment than your railroad
shares. or money expended for the best
medicines.