The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-31
The Art Of Being Happy.
london Standard


The "Art Of Being Happy" Is a
theme so universally popular that
the lecture which DR.. Benjamin
Richardson delivered before the San
itary congress is pretty sure to draw
| its fair share of attention. But when
a London physician intimates that
this felicity is an object OF sanitary
research, he is apt to disappoint an
audience who would fain have hOped
that they were to he put N possession
of some shorter cut to the secret. Dr..
Richardson reminded them that
happiness is very much a question #
eating and drinkihg-tea, tobacco,
and strong drink, frtsh air, bracing
breezes, soap and water, an active
liver and a sound digestion, and a
course of hygenic house, built upOn
principles still unknown to architects
and on soil less mischievous than the
''melancholic foundatlon'' which
the lecturer, so justly bewailed.
Be virtuous, after the sanitarian code,
and you will be happy, is about ali
the inventor of the city Of hygea had
to bestow on the Glasgow citizens
who expected, perhaps, to hear a dis
course framed on the model of Mr..
Barnum's "art of Making Monev,n
or "Secr+t Of Long Life" with which
the world has been so often tantal;zed.
An unhappy man is more or less
an unhealthy man, even though the
physician is unatleto take cognjzance
ance of his particular malady, or the
pathOgist to detect the peculiar lesion
which has caused the mischief. A
little too much or too little blood is
pressing upon a particular sp Vt, his
digestion is not acting as it ought to
act, and the liver, in which, for all
practical purposes, lies the source of
happiness, is refusing to perform it's
important function in the economy
of the "hypOchondriac's" system.
Lord Campbell, it was remarked hv
a sarcastic philosopher, rose to the
wool sack owing to the fact of his
possessing a sound digestion and
great industry" and if there was a |
lack OF charity in the criticism there
was a great deal of sound physiology. |
The capacity for intellectual work.
the patience with which crosses can |
be borne, good temper and had tenn
per, good work and indifferent. are |
greatly dependent upon that organ.
which, quite as much as the brain |
which it nourishes, is the seat of life.
Temperament, weather, food, exer-
else, worry, and a hundred other ex-
ternal circumstances, may make 1t
more difficult for one man than
another to keep in absolute health.
But when we strip the whole subject
of the verbiage with which it has
been surrounded. We come back to
the fact that q sound body is essential
to a sound mind, and mind in good
working order usually results in it's
owner being reasonably happy, TAX
one day with another, and allow
ing that he has no more than his
fair share of care to bear Rest.
sleep, strength Of body, all tead to
The same end. Pleasure and agrees
able work are equally aids to sound
ness Of body, aud though it may be
perfectly true that when the liver is
'luRgish 1t means physical exhaus.
son, the fact is nevertheless uLdenia.
Die that the organ of ha, pine-s is ut
ault. However,. thousands of people
re born with livers naturally slug
fish, and thousands more who lead a
life are temporarily afflict-
ID in the same way. Yet these peopIe
re moi exhausted physically nor
mentally, although they suff-r from
be depression which Is certain to ,
Dllnw.
Happiness, d.. Richardson tells u.s., I
not in the brain ''the emotion Of ,
-stY," IL "centered in the great