Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-15
LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH
OUR STOMACHS
The Intimate Relation Between Gastric
Juice and u Bright Outlook for tie
Future,

The Intimate Relation Between Gastric
Juice and u Bright Outlook for tie
Future.
kansas City Saturday Journall
Carlyle relates how at the outset of
his career he had a 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.
bor launches out on gloomy TRADE
against the times, and despairs of man.
kind in general, and of himself in par.
ticuiar, in nine cases out of ten he is 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 a
congress of dyspeptics. When 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 croakers system. Let the
full tide of health and vigor go 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
sound. This is the rule, with, perhaps
just sufficient exceptions to serve fol
vouchers.
People who are always eulogizine
good old times" to the disparagemen'
of the present, demonstrate that they
know a 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 life-like sense realize the
feelings, the conditions, the discomfort:
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 persons had lived il
that blissful period, upon which they 81
often dwell in fancy, they would have
been among its loudest denouncers. Il
this age is worth anything to anybody
it is because it possesses a greater amount
of means of increasing the well-being anC
happiness of mankind than any of it!
predecessors had. The theory that tht
more blessings man has the mort
miserable he is, will find no supporter
among people healthy in mind and body
The fact is, there always has been ant
always will be discontented class
But no one can calmly and intelligent,
compare 1881 with 1871, or 1851, ant
not come to the conclusion that tn,
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
rnoIs fhara rn,1rn,I ,nasla,t -
but who for moment would have steam
ears abolished ana the tracks torn VI
with the notion that the blessings of thi
invention to mankind have not out
weighed a thousand times to one all tn,
miseries it may have caused.
Take away the railroad and the tele
graph for one year, and then see how
much of the business of the world woulc
come almost to stand-still and miserie
worthy of the name would ensue. w,
have reached point where all such i'm
provements are Indispensable to tn,
daily life of the community. They eacl
bring some things to be regretted, bu
! the good invariably far overbalances tn,
evil.
Worry and excitement" do fine
destroying agencies did 100 years ago, a
we'll as in the palmy days of New Eng
land puritanism, and the physicians ar
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 tha
the limitations under which men livet
then were productive of more disconten
and unhappiness than this age eve
dreamed of.
We are fortunate to live in thes,
times, so teeming with philanthropy
good government, general intelligence
and the almost limitless command maj
has acquired over nature in the interest,"
of his material, intellectual aud spisitua
happiness. The world is not perfect
suffering is not unknown. The discon
tented still hold a place among us, case
similar to that which Carlyle desert bee
as his own may occasionally be found
and it is pity men, who for any reason
are forced to keep company with suci
people and get views of life amid sucl
| unfayorabie conditions