The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-18
Consolation for the Nervous.

ie--shorn OF ~ least poruon OF tnelr poa'
,ible happiness and neutrality-suspicious. of
their own feebeness, with no
rrlain hope of perfect and per-
m,pent liberation. There are those
who come into life thus weighted down, not
1 BY disease, not by transmitted poison 10 the
blood, hut by the tendency to disease. by
/ Iensitiveness 10 evil and enfeebling force.
that seems to make almost every external sin
/ Huence means of torture. As soon as they are
1 born debility puts its terrible bono upon
/ them and will not let them 60 but plays the
4 lyrant with them until they die. Such per-
! sons in infancy are often on the point of
1 dying, though they may not die. In child
1 heed numberless physlcsl ills attack them
4 and hold them down, and, though not cons
fning them 10 home, yet deprive them, per-
1 hsps, of many childish delights. In early
maturity IN army of abnormal nervous SEM
1 sstons Is waiting for them, the gauntlet Of
which they must run if they can; and
/ throughout life every function seems to be
4 On enemy,
1 The compensation Of this type of organi-
zaton ara quite important aud suggestive
and are most consolatory to sufferers. Among
these cJmpensstions, this perhaps ia worthy
\ Of drst meDtion--tbst this very fneness of
temperament, which lie the source Of ner-
ToIsl 'ss, il also the source of exquisite
/ pleasure. Highly sensitive natures respond
/ 10 good ss we'll rs evil factors in their en-
VirOnment; sslutsry as well rs pernicious
stimuli arc ever operating upon them and
their capacity for receivlng,for retaining and
for multiplying the pleasures derived from
I external stimuli is greater than that of cold
and ,tolid organizations. IT they are plung-
A. ed,lnto deeper hell they also rise into a
higher heaven. Their delicately strung
roIves make music to the slightest breeze;
st. literature. travel, social life, and solitude
| pour out on them their selected treasures;
they live not one life but many lives, and all
. piled. To such Compartments the bare
Consciousness of living, when life is not atten-
ded by excessive exhaustion or by pain, or
when ones capacity for mental or muscular
toll is not too closely te!hered, is oftentimes
Supreme felicity. The true psychology of
happiness ia qualification of faculties, and
when the nervous are able to indulge even
moderately and with studied caution and
watchful anxiety their controlling desires of
the nobler order, they may experience an
e1quisteness of enjoyment that serves, in a
| measure, to reward them for their frequent
distress. In lhe human system as in all ma
. ture, everything is in motion, and all motion
Is rhythmicsl, and movement in any one
direction is the more forcible and spontane,
Gus when it follows movement in another
direction, the motions that constitute what
We call healty are most delicious and salts
flying when following quickly after debility
and pain. Perfect health of itself is
not q condition Of positive happiness,
and Is not at all essential to hsppi-
nese. The happiest persons have seen, or
expect TO see, were partial invalids-not
hose who were racked and tortured with
nsmeless agonies or kept PROSTATE by alb
solute exhaustion, but who were so far under
bondage to susceptible nerves as never to
realize even approximate health; even in
Their slavery they were sufficiently free to
indulge some, at least Of their higher facul-
Ties, and TO that degree were capable of en-
loyment all the more intense from contrast
With the restrictions that disease imposed on
The rest Of their organization. / recall the
case of lady who, as an effect of severe
tamno-arur sII ~ ~
Inb" haa paralyAeu, 30 ;na' no1e OF Tue
vsa arna,d pVMeao VI soi a',.. enu 70. suo
tho u p?a,on'y anu really more Joyous tnan
lbsr,w J''''S Vi 'noSe WIN nave iu'i Physica'
Ths ,, , -. /.
I'm, m.,is ye.oiy, ions nIseu Wy pSysc,ans,
mslssv sra o, mu" u,e ISL ou'e' very
foly cnrsd !. avrSIa;roa s'o. 49,, s.o u,s
peed cort,;n a,ae ~ Wv law i law, wa
and bssrabIo s,odnOt of ,a;D w a;,on.e,ss
iokeen ne constsn,Iv ~ mI;n n nv ' cOn,ro..
Of the nlesssntnosa ~ nnr nrasont s,ota 40
oompsreS with ,yha, !, ba, hao, oS 80,
be. TIM nbvs;can who coiiac,s hi. fon ha '
fore hi, pstient has "uite racov.re5 aosS !,
wise thing aimee Il Will bo ns;d 800
promplly ana mora cra,afnllv tban af,ar Nh
recovery IA eomnlste Narvons ornsn;1a.
lions ara rarely without reminders of tron-
bio that thew escape--their occasionsI wsLa.
fulness and Indication. their beadachos and
backaches and neuralgia. their disagreeshls
susceptibility TO all evil influenced that NAV
act on the constitution keep them ever IN
sight of tho possibility Of what thew miphi
have beeu, and suggest TO them Suffering
\ That others endure, but from which they are
spared.
The most exquisite physical pleasure, |,
has been said, Ia sudden relief from violent
pain. This pleasure 10 quite often the expe.