Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-10-17

THE "ELUES."

more OF HISS. lIOiil IL dtpICSSlOl Oh SDlTiIS.
and the usual term applied to this mental
condition is the Blues" Bat there is a
cause for this, though it is not always appar-
ent to the sufferer. Let us endeavor to indi-
cate the. same.
If one were in perfect health, and all the
organs of the body and brain we've balanced
and in healthy action; if each person were
in right relation to his Maker, himself. and
the world, he would suffer nothing from the
blues" Good digestion. good circulation,
proper food, plenty of sleep, and heathful
occupation would favor uniform good health
and good spirits. But these conditions are
not easily attained. We are not al! harmon
iously organized. One has too much eau
tiolsness, another too little; one has more
ambition and pride than practical good sense
and Judgment, and he is often disappointed.
%chagrined, mortified. and depressed; anoth-
er has strong affections, which not being re-
ciprocated, give rise to his depression of
spirits; another, descending from a sickly or
iniirm parentage, inherits weak or warped
physical conditions, which, like an incubus,
held aim in unhappy bonds, from which it
seemed difficult to tree himself.
A clergyman, shut up in his study, con-
tined to badly ventilated rooms, pumping
blood into his brain day in and out from the
stomach and other parts of his body, to fit
himself for his ministerial duties; indulging,
perhaps i'll strong, hot, tea and coffee, or
other stlmulants; straininy every nerve to
acqnit himself acceptably; preaching twice
or thrice on a Sabbath, and once or twice
during weekday nights; besides attending
on the sick, conducting funerals and mis-
slonary work, listening to the tales of the
poor and afflicted, with wife and children
looking to him for aid and support; with a
salary altogether inadequate, is very likely
under these circumstances, Notwithstanding
Ills christian fortitude and resignation, to be
subject to periods of despondency, if not the
"blues."
A teacher, shut up in the school room all
DAY long, breathing over and over again not
only the breath, but the exhalations of a
hundred human bodies, his nerves kept
strung up to their highest tension, following
4ls several classes in as many different stud
les FEEDING on that which does not proper
~ sustain the body, utterly careless of hy-
gene laws, is it surprising that he should
sometimes feel like sinking, and giving UP
the ghost?
Lake the merchant, with a heavy stock of
goods ON hand, bought at high prices on
rFea'1' to be sold in a declining market, with
'eavy rents, clerk hire, advertising, and
otlef expenses, swallowing up all profits.
anu himself kept in a state of constant anx-
IVY, foreseeing his fate as a northumberland
''''s Is said to be the case with liinty-tive in
o'ery one hundred merchants in New York
:. 'eaSl once Or twice during their exper-
nnee'--ls 1t surprising that lie should have
the "blues?"
lake an ambitious young writer who de-
s'es 70 SHINE IN print. We will suppose the
"'l'ef TO be a lady: She writes poetry and
i'ose' she reads what she writes to her UNI
s'''ea ana very indnlgent circle of acquaint-
"''es, who tlatter her with the idea th,t f.
op-fop," and ought to be printed. They
~ y nef TO submit it at once to the nub-
e' VI Tie most popular magazine or news
npN, oh which suggestion she timidly
w." hopefully acts; but to her grief. it is
.v''rned with the simple remark. mot
,.;peeo 70 our columns She NAV not
h". ". under this revulsion of CT usled homes.
. would throw a sensitive nature. At
40 '"'o a very dubious state of FEELING