The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-08-15
About Rules for Health.

IHe observance OF SCrupulOuS Clean- |
illness and the practice of the strictest |
temperance will, other things equal,
give better health at all times, whether
cholera threaten or not. 1t is worse
than useless TO get up scare about
Asiatic cholera. Cholera morbus is
with us always, together with host
of other bowel complications, any one
of which stands ready to carry off the
imprudent, even though the dreaded
plague keep to its own Krishua and
Jumna. Statistics are wanting to
prove whether the imprudent or the
over fearful are most likely to be at
tackled by cholera, but there are indi-
cations that many individuals are both
imprudent and scared, which is seri
Gus combination.
Every man ought to know what is
best for his own well-being. If he
does not know, it must either be be-
cause he is in robust health or from
lack Of observation. 1t is worthy of
notice that great many men and wo-
men 60 on being sick for years without
making any attempt to ascertain wheth-
er any popularity in their diets or their
habits is the cause. Habits are so
strong and false tastes have such firm
hold upon some of US that we refuse to
listen to the warning even of our own
experience. The whiskey drinker will
attribute his sickness to the water, and
the lover of highly seasoned dishes will
charge the queasiness of his stomach
upon anything rather than upon his
fats and sauces. AS rule, children
know what is good for them better
than adults, but the latter will not al
low the wee things to feed as they
like.
All excesses are evil-all. Excess of
food of any kind, even the best; exces-
sive drinking, even cf water excess
i've excitement, whether from worry,
grief or pleasure, and even excessive
rest Though it is a fact that all
heroic deeds have been performed un.
der the pressure of excitement, it does
not follow that excitement makes he
roes. The man whose nerves and di-
gestive powers have been kept in Or
der by judicious use, without abuse,
will probably make better hero when
the occasion demands than will the
man who seeks excitement. Intensity of
mental effort has made many men fa-
nous but it has killed them. Hum
bold, Newton, Titan, Michael Angelo,
Milton and Goethe are great names.
They took life easily and lived long.
Raphael, Byron and Schiller are great
names also, but they burned out their
lamps in comparative youth. Who
dare say that their light would have
been less had it been tended better
| Specific directions ought never to be
given unless the hereditary or acquired
bodily tendencies of the advised indi-
vidual are known. The rule of life,
even in the Antumnal months, for a
man afflicted with costivenes can new
er be the same as that for man with
a tendency in the opposite direction.
Some may abstain entirely from fruit
and retain geod health, but there are
many to whom compliances with the
order "abstain from fruit" would be
the signal of their death warrant. The
man who lives by any set of rigid rules
Of dietary formulated for him by 9th
ers who abjures animal food because
vegetarians seek to prove that it is NO
right for man to eat it; who abandoni
fruit and vegetables through dread Of
diarrhea who forces himself TO a mon
otenous and unvarying dietary, or wht
takes his food by weight, if but foo
, for his pains, and will soon reap his re
ward in sickness. On the other hand
it is impossible to write four letter.
, large enough to express the foolishnes
of the men or women who will contin
/ ne to eat what they know is hurtful I
: them either because they like it, b,
cause others recommend il or beaus
{ they perceive that others take il wit
impunity. The mau who exercise
e largely every day, who lives out {
" doors, who works at hearty manu'
n craft under healthy conditions, will,
,, in good health, probably find himse
Q able to digest and assimilate prett
well any kind of food not taken in g!
d cess, while the man who follows a 8
+ dentary calling must, even if in goc
health, take far more care of himself.
1t 1t is singular that advice to be ter
e perate is often given intemperatel
II and that the most temperate advi'
,r temperately given is likely to be disr
o garded by some and intemperate
+, acted upon and abused by others
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