The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-26
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

This episffe, addressed to the fahoos
who read tho TELEGRAPH, may be
prefaced with the remark, III the way
of defiance, that il will consist chiefly
of personal observations, and, as a con-
sonal pronoun, first person, singular.
Business of some importance called me
to this point, and for the same reason,
coupled with a steady improvement
in health, have remained here, diver
styling the superintendance Of a small
plantation with occasional incursions
into the adjacent swamps and outlying
hill in search of game, and-what is
more important, though obnoxious TO
the taste of my Jewish friends and not
upheld as a vocation by the fate Of the
Prodigal Son-in gathering together
and tending swine, of which highly
useful animal find the woods pretty
full. Between these two employments,
as an ancient dame once said Of Rome,
Georgia, II little city situated between
two rivers at their confluence, have
found quite as much to- do as II conVa-
lescent ought in reason to undertake,
bearing in mind that II sick man i'll
August is an adomination about the
house. Yet, too much stcarefularity''
in regarding health may run into
"mopins' and confirmed inditfer-
ence as to all else, and the patient be-
come, as some soldiers in the war did
a resolute, whining hospital rat, eating
like a glottoD, sleeping like log,
never we'll and yet never sick, and
punctuaiiy absent at every call of the
roll. / would, allowing that L an not
aphysician, but have some experience,
recommend to invalids, therefore, to
put aside their drugs when about half
exhausted and take to the woods. Go
rough and tumble, and keep going
until we'll fatigued.
AT first it will be found difficult to
mount a rail fence, carrying a gun
and a small elevation, perhaps a dozen
corn rows, will occasion almost 4 loss
of breath. The next day will dawn
with soar limbs and u sulIen, disposi-
ton to stir. Tho twitterings of the
notes of the business-likc Old hen will
make you mad, but you have reached
tho point where the enemy, to be con-
quered, must be engaged. Roll out
again, take Il new course in the forests,
walk lcisureiy, stopping occasionally
the birds and the queer ways of insects,
and quito soon the sireness will be
gone and you will even feel refreshed.
The mind, meanwhile, which, after
all, is the fruitful source of many all
ments, will have found fresh and
enticing subjects for contemplation,
and the day will have passed quickly,
with u large balance, rs you will find,
in favor of both physical and mental
rcsuscitation.
Our Northern friends uudcl stand
this simple and Inexpensive process of
recuperation better than we, and so we
find them, many of them alone, cspcc-
tally literary men, accountants and
those of sedentary habits, annually
bundling up their fishing tackle and
shouIdering their breech- foatters, and
plungiug into the AlirOndaclls, or
striking. out for the lakes OF Wisconsin
or Minnesota, where they spend few
weeks far away from the sound of the
steam whistles, or the reach of q postal
card, returning re-inviGorated and
ready for another seasons hard work
1t is quite common for ladies to join
these excursions, and, no doubt with
beneficial results.
1t is not necessary that we should
have mountains, or breezy lakes, or
large bank accounts to enjoy and even
improve the dull summer months in
Louisiana AS we'll as in N1ainc or Mich
igan. The expense need be no more,
or but little, than living at home the
same length of time. Thare are tents
and there are vacant houses, or any
old soldier, with boards might soon,
with somo help, erect a comfortable
summer palace, having an eye, how
ever, to living Il migratory sort of life
leaving any point first selected so
soon as one affording more pleasure of