Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-21
FAST LIVING.


Living Morally Only Another Name for
Living Physically.
How to live morally in reality in
aludes how to live physically. Yet it is
to be feared that a great many in this
world forget what it is to be just to the
body. The impositions upon our human
natures are often self-inflicted. The
race OF fast livers is rapidly increasing.
1t is not wonderful that in these DAYS
If rapidly man himself should rush on
and in many ways lose his balance. 1t
is altogether probable that Methuselah
had very little 10 hurry him, and that
the modes of doing business as late as
the Roman Empire had but little of the
hot haste of the present day. When
we are rushed along by steam at the
rate OF fifty or sixty miles per hour, and
can have intelligence from around the
globe in a day. it is inevitable that
business methods will receive like
impetus, and that men and women Will
seek to crowd into day what formerly
took week. The influence extends
into every walk and run of human life.
Just as every mile of speed added to
the locomotive after it has attained
high rate adds tenfold to wear and
tear. so, in this human race, it is the
stress and strain beyond a certain mark
that puts the whole framework into
Il state of tension. 1t is true that, by
early and continued training, method
may be 50 attained and an automatc
response so secured that one does with
eas1 what would exhaust another. But
the measure of the capacity must be
known to the person himself. Rapid
eating is one of the first developments
OF this haste. 1t must be ludicrous to
Il restaurant boy to see COW chewing
the cud, and quietly resting in
placid enjoyment The idea of
rest and recreation and delibera-
ton in eating no longer occupies
the thought of the average American
boy, much less of the business man.
Yet the power of ones life depends a.
much upon this as upon any one con
duct of life. The relation of the chew
ing and the juices of the mouth to the
after digestion, all along the digestive
track, and to that assimilation which i.
to give force and yigor to work. is
such that we can not afford to forget
the essential relationship. The fail1r,
Of this part of the apparatus to do it,
part does not involve immediate loss OF
power or bed-ridden sickness, but is Il
more frequent limitation upon force
iul life than any one disability. A thor.
ouSh digestion not only leaves the
mind clear and the nervous system.
placid, but so provides the physical and
mental machinery with its propc'line
power as to make thought rs natura
as if it were physical function. 1t is
not difficult to see in the work, as well |
rs in the writings of some men, the
traces of bad physical condition. Elm. |
crSon ovcrstated the case when he said |
that sick man is on the road to rascal |
ity; but, nevertheless, did indicate what |
IS true, that man in chronic state
Of embarrassed digestion is out of gear
with himself and the rest of mankind.
We believe that the foundations of
many an incapacity is laid in this want
Of quiet, deliberate eating.
Methods of study, to large degree,
have SIN lar errors. The cramminC
process is still too popular. 1t is not al.
ways that the amount of study assigned
is too great. Oftener the child leaves
the work to be crowded into too small
Il space of time, oil to hours which arr
those of tire and sleepiness. The mind
is with difficulty goaded on to its work.
and what is accomplished is ut much
greater expenditure of vital force. So
as to methods of business. Too much
is done under the pressure and excite
ment of hurry and in order that as few
hours as possible may be occupied.
Irregular meals and irregular sleep
come in for their share of influence.
because the system seeks to some de-
gree to adjust itself to the forced con
dltlons, the person is too apt to con
clude that it is no serious matter. But
observers even on change are noting
the effects. There are fewer middle
aged and old men that continue to do
business than formerly. Young life is
at the head of most mercantile and
banking establishments. The number
that are retiring too early from actual
breakdown or premature old age is
There is need to order
halt as to all this fast living. Most
men are happier not to retire too early
from active life, even if they have a
All are happier with EN-
Dloyment, if the cessation is the result
Of damaged health. One can not cross
the ocean, or tarry summer or win
ter at any great resort, without noting
how many there are who are only par
-ial invaids, and yet whose Network is
restricted by imprudcnce as to the care
Of life. If, now, a man past sixty is
ound in the full enjoyment of business
lctivity. he is looked upon as rather
Wonder Such men as Metternich.
NesSclrode, Palmerston, Gladstone and
Victor Hugo are scarce on this side of
he water. While there are a very few
hat survive fast living, if you will
FATHER the histories of one thousand
PERSONS over sixty-liye years of age, il
viii be found that, both by good inner
lance and careful living the race is
prolonged. The laws of self-control
md self-restraint need to be brought
more thoroughly to bear on each indi-
'idual life. For, next to character.
lcalth is the best capital we have in
his world. He is a spendthrift who
ponds the thrift of good constitution
more than he who is careless as to ac-
wealthy. Y. Indepea-