The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-27
Purchasable Health.

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| olpen sad, too, when rich mans health
p le;a' down, that money will not ply.
cnaase health. AS general propositions.
however, both these statements are IN,
sound. When expended at the. riobt
time and in the right wav. 1nlone1 Vii
purchase health and the p1roloncation ~
NE, Money will not, purchase peaches
put OF season, but money will purchase
peaches when they are in the market.
money will not purchase health out OF
season, but health is to be had for money,
under the proper conditions. When a
machine is actually worn out, it is be-
yond the reach ofrepairs. Nothing will
do but complete renewal. So, when a
man IS worn out, money will not renew
MN, but there are always times in his
lie when, by the proper expenditure Of
money and of time, which is its eouiva-
lent, he can buy health and the prolong-
alton of life
There are thousands of men in New
York City, and in every great city, who
are perfectly aware that they are bank
rupting themselves in health-that they
are selling their health for money. The
Tune will surely come, at last, when they
Will be willing to pay all this money
back for the health they have parted
with, but it will be too late. The object
of this article is to induce these men. if
possible, to buy health while it is in the
market, and not to sell it under any
| consideration. Col. Thomas Scott car
RED his burden SO long that the four
millions he had won had no power to
bring back the health he had parted
with; but there were undoubtedly times
In his life when, by the proper expendi-
ture of money and of time, he could
| have bought health enough to last him
a brace of decades longer, and to enable
him to double the number of his millions
for his heirs. A man crowds his powers
through a series of years of excess
sive labor, and, some day, he
drops with paralysis, and from
that day forward he becomes
a powerless child, to be led kindly and
carefully to the grave. The increase of
this disease is undoubtedly the result of
unwisely conducted labor. Money can
do nothing for it when it befalls man,
but it can do everything to prevent it.
NERVOUS prostration' has become too
familiar phrase in these latter years.
Money can not restore shattered nery-
Gus system, but properly expended, at
the proper time, it will preventit, which
is a great deal better. r., ,,s!n ..,.,4
| There are two plans of life, by either
of which money will buy health and pro-
long comfortable existence. The first
is, the setting aside of part of every
| day for recreation. So far as this. can
be done, it ought to be done, but there
seem to be some peculiarities in our
American life that forbid it. Competi-
ton in business is cruelty sharp, and
most men feel obliged to devote them
selves to it, when they are at it at all,
from morning till night. The sleeping
hours are the only ones which give them
release from active care. Now bust
ness, followed in this way, from years
end to years end, is just as certain to
ruin health and shorten life as the recur-
renee of seed-time and harvest is sure.
The alternative of daily recreation is. a
yearly period of rest. There are always
slack seasons in business. and these ev,
cry business man should avail himself
| of, for rest and recreation. Itisin these
seasons that there is health in the mar
ket, to be bought for money. Two
weeks of leisure are not enough for a
man who works like dog all the rest OF
the year. Two months are never too
much, and there is not slave of Wall
! Street who would not only win health
and save life by taking these two months
of leisure every year, and enjoying them,
but he would, in the end, make money
by it. Suppose, however, he loses mon
ey by it; he wins that for which he will
some time be willing to give money,
when money will not buy it. When a
man gives health for money, he makes
the poorest investment in his life. When
he gives money for health, he makes,
from every worldly point of view, the
best. -.tt.... .r,.....tT
There is hallucination, cherished by
a great multitude, that they must be
constantly in their own business, or it
can not go on prosperously. Some of
these men are so unfortunately organ
lied that they can not believe that any
body living can do their work as well
they can do it. 1t takes an enormous
self-conceit to come to such conclusion
as this, and there is great misfortune
i in it. Of course these men are never
able to leave their work for a moment
in other hands, aud SO they become the
bond slaves of their own mistake. Now
there is nothing in which great bust
ness man shows his greatness so signally
as in his ability to find men to do his
work-to find competent instruments to
execute his purpose, The greatest bust
ness man is always man of compare
tive leisure. His own work is always
deliberately done. Tits, asa rule, the
small man who never gets moment,
and who never can find q pair of hands
as good as his own. IT a man can not
| leave his business, or thinks he can not,
he shows that he lacks the highest grade
of business capacity suii'no ~ Pc =
The leisure of Newport, and Long
Branch and Saratoga, with its social ex-
elements and attractions,is not that GER
tainly which buys health in the cheapest
market. Stiffness, rest, freedom Of ac-
ton and of dress in the open air, dis
lance from the marts of trade-these
pay best; and, when these are, properly
and regularly enjoyed, the money that
they cost buys health and the prolonga-
ton of life. 10 Health and a reasonably
| long life can, as a rulepbeI bought by
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