Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-11
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MEMPNIS APPEAL

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SUNDAY. /: JUNE IL, 1857
RECREATION A NECESSITY
Now that the public and private schools
are closing, now that the summer has come
and there is a Iull in business, the pleasure
Of recreation begins. Many business men
commit suicide by overwork-the want OF
relaxation and recuperatien. The crime OF
many business men Of the day is their stead
fastness in toll, and the same crime Is COM
nitted by mothers and wives immersed In
petty cares, and also by many young people
IN their opening, developing life. We are
constituted by nature so as to need change
time TO recuperate the waste produced upon
the system by constant labor. Without these
vitality would soon be destroyed, and we
become mere wrecks OF humanity. In the
VOYAGE of life these wrecks are often seen
scattered along the shore Of time. There are
men and women who have been too busy Tor
recreation-too intent upon money getting
and money-hoarding TO pause even day
far rest. Life is active, and from this aciiv
itv weariuess results There is a continual
necessity in human nature for change and
relief II it be the one supreme duty OF man
to labor and to suppress every instinct and
feeling which causes pleasure, why was the
world made so beautiful? Recreation
amusement, peasure-csll 1t what you
MAYS necessity of human nature. 1t
enables people to climb out Of the old
groves and get view OF new horizon, and
they return to the post OF duty with every
nerve alert. Those who take nc rest be-
come cynical, intellectual dwarfs and bust
ness dyspeptics Men should be forced to
the country occasionally, just az truants are
forced to attend school. This they will do
when inspired by the sentim ent which in
duced southey to sing:
To dwell in the foul city-to secure
The common, hollow, cold hp-interco urse
ar fife. 10 walk abroad and never see
Green field or running brook or setting sun!
Ike some poor myrtle that in the town air
Pines on the parlor wtndowsY"
But how shall we take recreation? is a
question often asked. The impression pre-
wallis that visit to fashion able watering
place is the only source for rest, and to many
this is bore and an abomination. The
most desirable rest is a retreat to the country
farm. 1t is fallacy TO suppose that there
can be no recreation without drinking min
eral waters or witnessing the frivolities OF
fashionable life. Some of the most learned
physicians of the country have pronounced
many of the mineral springs recon-
mended as cure for the ailments
of the body grand humbugs, and assert that
faith and imagination has more to do with
the cure than anything else. A short time
since the Academy of Science held their
regular monthly meeting at the Washington
University, in st. Louis, at which
were present Dr. Engelmann and Messrs.
Holmes, Judd, Potter, Pritchett and Napier,
and the report published in the Republican
says that Prof. Potter exhibited a number of
crystals and mineral specimens that he had
obtained in Colorado, and laid in that way
the foundation for an animated discussion
on the mineral springs of the country, and |
more especially those located in Mexico, |
New Mexico and Arkansas. DR.. Engelmann
said that he had visited the various
springs of Colorado, and had analysed most
OF their waters. Those OF Idaho, town
near Clear Greek, about sixty miles west of
Denver, have a temperature Of 100,
their principal Ingredients being car
Donate Of soda and sulphur. They also
contain salt in small quantities and
a slight amount of magnesia. Their
purgative qualities are insignificant. These
springs are covered by large stone build
ing and are used for bathing purposes. Most
of the Colorado springs, the doctor said
issued from seams where granite rocks and
documentary sandstone connect. The springs
of Middle Park have temperature of 1120,
and are considered by the doctor the most
interesting in Colorado. They run together
and form basin Of considerable magnitude,
and have great future. This spring at
present is forty or fifty miles from the near
est railroad station, Georgetown, and can
only be reached three times week by means
OF stage line. He referred to several other
springs in Colorado, some of which were
cold and others hot. Alkali soils were an
exception In California, and contained mag
nesia and sulphates which were highly in
furious to vegetation, aad how to relieve the
soil OF the different salts n.4y contained was
question of great importance to the citi-
zens OF that State. The springs OF Colorado |
differed from those OF Saratoga, as tie lat
ter possessed a purgative character. lie |
thought that the springs in general were
not possessed Of the healing qualities they
were supposed to possess, and that the
faith that people had in them did more
TO effect cures than the springs themselves.
Ihls opinion was conearred IN by all
the other gentlemen present without single
exception DR.. Potter, who said he had an
alyzed the water of Eureka Springs, Ark,
declared that they contained about four
grains oil mineral substance to every gallon.
The water, he thought, was nothing more
than filtered Mississippi water containing
very slight quantity of medicinal ingredi-
ens' Like DIR. Engelmann, he believed the
supposed healing qualities of most of the
springs OF the country were grand humbugs.
Inc imagination OF the patient did more to
enec' cures than any other cause. DR.. En-
gelnann was certain OF this, for he had anal (
yzed the waters of sprins--fu the Alp0 chat
were frequentsALz~t The noble families OF Eu-
rops--su labored under the delusion that
they possessed rare medicinal qualities, and
had found that they were not impregnated
with any other substance not found in COM
mon well water. Many people came away
from these springs practically cured, but
their good fortune was due rather to change
OF climate and a change in the habits of the
patient, coupled with his faith in the sup
posed cure, than to any medicinal property
IN the water. If these learned and scientific
gentlemen be correct in their opinions
and theories, watering-places are not
necessary for the restoration of health
or to recuperate the system shattered and
broken down BY long and constant labor.
But all must, however, concede that rest and
recuperatIon are necessities, and those who
have no faith in mineral water or desire no
pleasure at fashionable watering-pIsce can
ma repose In the woods and mountains.
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CAPITAL, WAGES AND STRIKES.
Inc existing strikes among the working
PeoPle naturally engages the attention OF
press out IN Perusing the articles written
N"lec' 1t ls almost painful TO see
a. 81" &c" sylnpathlzers the men have in their
i, ,,rices 80 De''er pay now the advance
,,a,, ir.do,,1StN tles has made the former
,,ros,aJ that a. generally regret is ex-
be restricted; then the ~ A''Opie 1-e'
ed that a strike will restI:-4 en arc AeiA'i'-u-
still more and that it ia o.. tNooe
alone. In effect the advioo De''ei ie'
who express compassion actually amounts
to an exhortation to wOrkipy,osr 40 ,ooa,,,
without efectual protest, such wages AZ The
capitalists propose to allow them. F;nanciaI
and commercial papers usually assume Tho
high tone of the master addressing or spe.k,
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