Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1881-07-21
LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH
OUR STOMAOHS.
Tho Intimate Relation Between Gastric
Juice and 3 Bright Outlook for tie
Future,


Future.
kansas City Saturday Journall
Carlyle relates how at the outset of
his career he had q season of what
might properly be termed theological
delirium tremens. He shut himself
up, and without food or rest fought out
the battle with his doubts and fears;
and, when he once more emerged among
men he was for the first time aware that
he was the owner and possessor of "dia-
bolical arrangement" called stomach.
Notwithstanding that he was aware of
the fact ever afterward, his stomach
rather than his head has dictated many
pages of his doleful jeremiads. The
older he grew and the more rampant his
"diabolical arrangement" waxed, the
more dismal and despairing his social
and political philosophy became.
There seems to be an intimate relation
between gastric juice and mans out
look on the world. When your neigh
Dor launches out on gloomy TRADE
against the times, and despairs of man.
kind in general, and of himself in par.
ticular, in nine cases out of ten he il the
victim of physical disarrangement. He
feels "bilious," consequently things look
bilious to him. 1t may be safe to
| formulate the rule that as a man feels SO
is he.
A sane person would as soon trust the
reformation of the world to one of the
worst wards of lunatic asylum as to
congress of dyspeptics. When a croaker
! comes to the surface, and emits his
cherries note, no other proof is needed
to show that there is at least one un-
healthy organization. The step to be
taken is not to fall in with his tune, and
form a chorus of lamentation, but to
"tone up" the croaker's system. Let the
full tide of health and vigor 60 bound
/ ing through mans veins, and his vision
is clear, his heart hopeful, his prospects
good enough for him, his future bless
ed expectation. His political and social
philosophy is equally wholesome and
4, sound. This is the rule, with, perhaps,
| just sufficient exceptions to serve fer
[ vouchers.
People who are always eulogizing
"good old times" to the disparagement
of the present, demonstrate that they
know great deal more about the age
in which they live than about the cen
turies that are past.
All men are supposed to have the
faculty of Imagination, but few, after
all, can in any 1ife-like sense realize the
feelings, the conditions, the discomforts
and the blessings Of any time or any cir
Gle but their own. To them, the Golden
age is invariably in the far past.
If these same pe1ons had lived IN
that blissful period, upon which they &c
often dwell in fancy, they would haVe
been among its loudest denouncers. II
this age is worth anything to anybody,
it is because it possesses greater amount
of means of increasing the well-being and
happiness of mankind than any of itt
predecessors had. The theory that the
more blessings q man has the more
miserable he ia, will find no supporter,
among people healthy in mind and body
The fact is, there always has been anc
always will be q discontented class
But no one can calmly and inteiligently
compare 1881 with l781, or 1851, ane
not come to the conclusion that th'
world is far better off to-day; the mas
of mankind has more of the condition
of happiness, and are far happier ant
better this very year than ever before
1t is true that before the days OF rail
roads there were no railroad accidents
but who for q moment would have steau
cars abolished and the tracks torn u
with the notion that the blessings of thi
invention to mankind have not out
| k,roau IN ono all <h
miseries it may have caused.
Take away the railroad and the tele
graph for one year, and then see hoy
much of the business of the world woul'
come almost to stand-still and miserie
worthy of the name would ensue. w
have reached point where all such in
provements are indispensable to th
daily life of the community. They eac
bring some things to be regretted, bu
the good invariably far overbalances th
evil.
"Worry and excitement do fin
scores of victims in these days; SO thes
destroying agencies did 100 years ago, 9
we'll as in the palmy days Of New Ent
land puritanism, and the physicians ~
was then powerless, as it is now, to saw
: men from these evils. If we could, fo
one day, one week, step bodily back Int
those good old times, We would find tbs
the limitations under which men live
f then were productive of more disconter
r and unhappiness than this age eve
1 dreamed OF.
We are fortunate to live in thes
times, 80 teeming with philanthrop,
good government, general intelligenc,
> and the almost imitless command me-
has acquired over nature in the Interest
of his material, intellectual aud spiritu'
happiness. The world il not perfec
. suffering is not unknown. The discol
tented still hold place among us, cast
similar to that which Carlyle describe
as his own may occasionally be fount
and it is pity men, who for any reasol
are forced to keep company with sue
people and get views Of life amid sue
unfavorable conditions.
baby Monkeys.
chambers JournalJ
Monkeys are born in almost as bel
less a condition as are human being
For the first fortnight after birth the
Doaa THAR time in heinp nursed in slee