Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-27
Home Interests.
THE BEST CURE.

revolts; young men and women in our
colleges overstudy and ruin their health !;
our teachers and professional men in
every department are " wearing out and
" breaking down" under the pressure of
continuous and severe labor. Farmers
and their wives, mechanics and their wives
are growing prematurey old and infrm
under the tremendous presSureS that seem
to compel them to work every day beyond
their strength.
As natural consequence Of this state of
things we find the advertising mediums
full of announcements of tones, stimu
liant, restoratives, curatives, that claim to
knit up the raveiled sleeve of over
work and make the weak strong. the worm
out new, the prematurely old young, the
sick we'll And thousands snatch at these
various nostrums and fancy that they can
take into their stOmachS what will make
their shattered nerves firm again, what
will res ore sounlne1s to honey cOmbed
health, and elasticity to exhausted brains;
that they can wear about their persons
some belt or medal or clothing that will
by some sort of magic or hOcus-pOcus re
| pair the breaches made in their constitu-
tons by outrageous violations of the laws
of health and life written by the Divine
Hand in all their members. Let us con-
slider this matter in the cIlm light of com,
mon sense. The heart, the lungs, the
digestive organs are constantly working.
Day and night, year after year, from birth
to death, they cease not their activities,
Yet they work only two thilds of the time |;
the other third they rest. Between every
two heart beats there is pause; between
every inspiration and expiration of the
breath there is y pause. For eight and
nine hours the brain Is, in normal cond-
tons, hathed in sleep, the muscles reltxed
in sleep. For the labOring man ten hours
| is considered days work the olher four
teen he spends in such care of himself us
will keep him able to work ten hours II
day six days in week. But the man who
works with his brains cannot work ten
hours every day without Injury; every
body knows that brain labor is far more
exhaustng than muscular labor Such
are the demands or seeming demands upon
many men and women that they feel com
PEELED to work all the time; that is, all
the time not absolutely required for sleep
and eating. In order to do this they drink
strong coffee, or strong tea, or beer or bit
ters or brandy, or use tobacco or opium or
quinlne or cocoa, or something that will
keep up muscular and nervous tension.
In all these there is not one particle of
nutrition; they are poisons slow and sure !;
they are spurs and goIds, Or destructive
tranGulizers. They drive the blood to
the brain, they quicken the beaiings OF the
heart, they tighten the nervous tensions or
relax them, as the case may be; for the
moment they give relief, seeming strength,
concentration of mental energy, This is
Just what the whip %ives the horse. Bnr
the master who should rely chiefly on this
agency 20 make his horse 90 would soon
send him TO the happy hunting grounds. ;
By-and-by, under continued application OF
these various stimuli the BRAN breaks
down, the heart be ONES diseased, the ner-
vous system is Frustrated, the digestive
organs mutiny AMI general debility "
takes possession OF the outraged body.
What is the cure? Is any one fool
enough to suppose that some compound
extract Of herbs some wonderful pantcea,
can cure this state of things? Yes, there
are Just such fools by the million, and will
be I'LL the worlds end When the country
is flooded with paper currency and gold
S'tS up W ZJD, IL lIlt cure lOl tlIS SltlG vi
things to be found in TIE issue OF more
paper currency? There are those who
seem to think so. And there are those
who will 90 on trying to stimulate and GAL
vanlze into something like h'nlthiu acuv.
ity the poor remains of II constitution I'M
dermned and ruined by incessant oil OF
mind and body, or W ,sted by dissi p ltiOn.
What is the cure? 1t is REST. Rest of
body, rest of mind, rest till what is left Of
the vital powers begins to gather itself to-
gether again aid accuHulaleS force and
momentum enough TO resume at a mild
rate, if it resumes at all, its former &C
Invites.
We know well enough that if trains are
run ut fifty miles an hour over roads built
TO endure only II speed of thirty miles an
hour, everything in Il short time begins to
give way and to wear out and the whole
road and all the rolling stock gets into II
dangerous condition. Every rail, every
lie, every joint, every ntll, every wheel
and bit of machinery feels the strain and
wear. The human body is not less sens-
tive than are railroads and locomotives.
1t needs Constant rest and replirs u~t as
they do. and thousand fold more, Tor its
mechanism is infinitely more complicated
and delicate Instead of adding moIe fuel
to Il disordered engine TO make it 60 we
would send it to the repair shop, and let it
under skilled workmrn be restored TO
suundness. So when the mind and body
are worn and weary, send them 10 the re-
pair shop for rest. Sleep, quiet, nutritious
food, the absence of all slmuantS and
spurs and whips and goads-thes skilled
positive and negative workmen OF nature's
own will Qf anything CAM restore the
wasted vitality and bring back health and
strength and soundness.
This is happily coming at last to be
the wisdom of even medical practitioners
themselves, and there is no safer test of
the value of your physicians advice than
10 observe his tendency to advise medicine
rs the chief remedy. If his reliance T.,
upon medication, call him only when YOU
must. If, on the other hand. he tells you
freely of the secrets of anatomy and ny,
giene, of the recuperalive powers of the
body, and of the dangers of too great
strain-if he counsels you with a view to
the prevention of disease not less than to
its cure-call him often and pay him lib
orally, and advise with him us with your
architect, your lawyer, your friend. 1t is
far cheaper to pty him the same fees to
tell you how to avoid disease than to suffer
the disease and pay the fees TOO. Is
it not?
Those who have no wise counsellor OF
this kind at hand can easily communicate
with the best of the class by mail, and
when necessary they can find the best Of
treatment in a Home " or Cure
where restoration of vitality with little OF
no use of drugs is scientifically accom-
plished.
EVILS OF JUMPING RoPE.-Now tina
, the jump rope season is at hand, it is wei
to call the attention of parents TO the dan
gers of young girls attending this no
1 sufficiently condemned child's play.
h. does seem strange that sport SO fraugh
t with possible injury and 50 violent in it
i character should be peculiarly a girls
pastime, for boys are much less liable t
Il bodily injury thereby, though the contin
It ued jolt and downward strain on the vita
$ organs of even the strong boy would h
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