The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-12
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A Few Words of CANTON AMI Advice I
People Who Are Living too Fast.

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"A Few Words Of CANTON AMI Advice to
People Who Are Living too Fast.
In the present state of the Christian
world, the idiotic and imbecile, the
weak-minded. are treated kindly by the
stronger and richer members of society.
This is proper development of Chris
tianity. We have often referred to
, health of mind; end have warned our
readers against excessive exercise of the
brain rs destructive 10 mind and body.
Mental activity, if moderate, conduces
to health and growth. Daily observa-
ton shows that the growth and contin.
uances of mental power may be seriously
harmed by excessive activity. The
mind may bcwcakencd and exhausted by
prolonged and severe exertion. We
have more than limited that the train
ing of children consists in securing
sound minds in sound bodies, and thai
the mind is so dependent on the body,
that parents and teachers should cult
vate the body and develop its various
powers by giving it and its organs
proper nourishment. judicious exercise
and suitable repose. The young and
growing need more nourishiug food,
more regular exercise, and more rest
than the mature and grown.
Many observations show that the
moderate activity of the mind and reg.
ular training of its forces contributes tc
long life. Men and women OF mental
culture live longer and happier than the
ignorant Nearly all the mental giant;
of our race live to be more than three
score years and ten. But to secure this
result, body and mind culture should
be begun at an early period of life and
continued judiciously TO its close. Mer
who cease to practice the activity O
their growing years lose the power:
they once acquired. The active mer
chant who becomes rich and retire:
from business life usually cuts short
his days. Those who disregard hy
gienic laws. and cease to exercise from
day to day their muscles and their in
tellectual powers. soon cease to have
"a sound mind in q sound body
Some men in the prime of life and in
the midst of usefulness disregard hygi
enic laws in some way either by ex.
cessive activity of brain. or by ceasins
to give it proper, moderate exercise
Wealth enables them to fall into sen
sual indulgences and so impair theil
mental and bodily forces. They may
have no family tendency to disease
may have led regular and sober lives
and still be troubled with weaknesses
and infrmities in middle life. Thi.
condition most men could avoid by con
tinuing TO live as they began. Modera
ton in eating, regular business, proper
exercise of mind and body would
have kept their mental and bodily ma
chinery in good condition until they
reached old age. 1t may be true tha
the prime of life may extend from thirty
to fifty years and still, we have known
men who observed strictly the laws Of
health. and so lived to four score years
We gain strength of brain and muscle
by using them; we become weak wher
we cease to use them. After fifty years
an active man should be more moderate
in his exertion than before. but still he
should not cease to act and use his va.
riOus powers. rs the best n :-:s...:..j of pre-
serving them. In the middle period oil
lie, thirty to fifty years men OF
women can safely overtax their brains.
This organ once impaired does not east
ly. if ever, regain its strength. The
mind sympathizes with the brain in al
its sutierings. Many of our scholars
limit themselves in their exertions, anC
so reach Old age. Agassiz forgot that Et
was mortal and so continued to exert
his mental powers during many hours o.
the day and night after he had passed
three score years, and so broke down
and science met with al irreparable
loss. Sir Walter Scott in his middle
life declared that six hours q day IL
brain work was all he could continuous.
" endure. But when he was pecun.
iarialy embarrassed in later years. h
over-taxed his brain to meet his obliga-
tons, he became exhausted and his pro
life mind lost its former strength and
he died an imbecile.
While we object to excessive physical
and intellectual exertion, we also sec
the folly of lazineSs and inactivity. The
business man, who devotes ten hours q
day to his special calling. should have
the remaining fourteen hours for sleep,
social intercourse and improvement OF
the mind. This latter does not make q
man, but it does make him more of a
man than he otherwise would be.
A clergyman called upon Il lady who
within few ve,,rs had lost her children,
her husband and nearly all her proper
ty. He attempted to console her. but
he soon found that she did not need or
seek his services. For on saying tina.
he did not see how she could be so
cheerful. she replied that she made up
her mind great many years ago that
if she did not enjoy herself as she went
along, she never should. So we think
that every man, woman and child
should have hours for pleasure as well
as hours for work. We ought to pro-
vide for the future, but also enjoy the
present. The man who overtaskS his
BODY or.brain. sooner or later pays the
penalty.-C. H. A!iea, H. d., iH Hest-
crn RurGl.
MOSCOW.