The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08

turned to so i'll an account. To be sure
our land is blessed with many woman,
whose body and brain are consecrated
to "every good word and work" within
the range Of her ability. OF such am
not forgetful, aud would that their num-
Der we're greatly multiplied, that they
could be reinforced from the ranks OF
those who live to eat, dress, and dream.
Little of the reading of our young
ladies is such as tends to beget womanly
wisdom most of il tends TO morbid
excitement, which never makes a
"sound mind in a sound body" have
vet to meet a habitual novel reader, OF
either sex, who enjoys good health.
, 1t begets in many an irritable condi-
ton of the nervous system, a morbid
desire for sympathy, so that the world
to them Is cold, heartless, unfeeling; but
still they have no heart TO mourn over
its faults, and try to mend them, but
merely selfishly to grumble, as IL their
lot had fallen on times and in places
that we're not worthy of such choice
spirits as theirs. To be the friend of
such, requires all ones time, tact and
thought, we'll nigh; they are exacting,
and the first one knows they are in
a worry because nobody appreciates
their sensibility of spirit or pities their
suffering in body. Hearts that are full
of benevolent sympathy for others, have
little trouble az to whether they are
loved and revered in return.
Again, some persons, in lack of any
ennobling employment, nurse every lit
tie ache till it grows to be big pain.
Some medical writer has an ingenious
theory that the belief that certain dis
ease exists will in time beget 1t; that
thought of any given organ as deranged
will so disturb the vital process going
on in it as to soon make it so. But be
this as it may, forgotten aches, espe-
cially nervous ones, are like neglected
guests-likely to take their leave.
Occasionally we meet one who has
great love for being sick, or at least
being thought 50. In the "hearts of
such is an aching void, which naught
but pity for pain can ever fill"
Now we have no more right to keep
the hearts of our friends on the rack, in
pity for us unnecessarily than we have
to ask them to toll for us when not need
full. Yea, more, in proportion as the
spirit is more sacred than the body, is
the former more wicked than the latter.
Some take great care to awaken hus-
bandly solicitude, lest it become dor
mant. Many patient of mine have l
seen grow worse the instant her " other
half" entered the room.
An amusing instance of this type oc-
Cured in Allegany County, NY, where
we formerly resided. An invalid wife,
fearing her husbands feelings we're
becoming rather obtuse, conceived the
idea of giving his sympathetic and
aflectional nature slight jog, and so
colored the entire surface of her body
with indigo, in his absence. But II
seems the scarf skin did not dye well,
for the aflrighted husband, on his return,
called physician, who, when feeling
the pulse, took also the liberty to spit
on his finger and rub her arm, disclosing
to the astonished friends the fact that
the disease, though deep blue, was not
"skin deep"
The first step in cure of many an
invalid is to break up this morbid desire
for sympathy, to cut off all former
resources of this sort, and call out self
reliance. 1t needs a will to find the
way to health.