The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-04-22
S ON HEALTH.

A Few Remarks Which Apply to Men
Who Work for "Recreation."
1t is easy to tell why a man shouldn't
die, and in point of fact death is almost
always, in public opinion, a curious ac-
cident, though the victim have the age
of Methusaleh. 1t was a bad cold. 1t
was a little over-exercise. 1t was some
overwork. It was the failure to have
work enough. 1t was every thing that
wasn't proper, with a most surprising
failure as to the happening of the every
thing that should have been. No man
dies because he is ready to die and his
appointed time has come. Death is a
perpetual surprise, and when the spirit
of the dead man gets over there
whichever place it may happen to be-
it probably calls with ~unspeakable in
~dignation and much volume of voiceless
malediction for the cause of the sur
prise md the reason of the unprovoked
establishment.
There is great deal of talk as to the
overwork of Daniel Manning and
Grover Cleveland. The latteris a man
of what is called full habit, as was the
former. 1t is alleged that both should
have taken more recreation and that
the lesson of Manning should be taken
to heart by Cleveland. These are wise
words; but, after all, what is recrea-
tionP The late Charles Sumner mar
ried q beautiful woman at q late hour
of his life, and in attending the parties
to which she led him experienced such
acute pain because of his misplace
ment and the absence of his books
that, according to various accounts, he
doomed above the prevailing greatness
and fun and gentility like the awful
| embodiment in small space of an i'm
pending epidemic. MI. Sumner will
ingly submitted to the divorce for which
| his wife sued-and no harm to either
and though he died early he lived
happy.
Now, men are the creatures of birth
as well as the creatures of circum-
stances. Probably Mr.. Manning's best
recreation lay in hard work. Few men
get such satisfaction from any thing as
they get from work well done.
There are men who have never been
used to the effort necessary to atend,
and with them-good fellows, all OF
them, beyond doubt, and men worthy
of, all possible respect-the lighter
pleasures are as necessary to life as the
blood they carry. But MI. Manning
as one of the light cavalry people
would have been as little at home as
the artilleryman or the foot soldier.
He was studious rather than gay, as is
Mr.. Cleveland also. Put either Of
these men under the gay cockade and
give him the small sword and the light
horse, the dashing mustache and the
always uplifted glove, and he would
speedily disgrace himself. Give him
his work and he has his recreation, and
take away his recreation and you take
away his life.
There is an old adage to the effect
that it is better to wear out than to
rust out. There is nothing SO pathetic
as the spectacle of a man in his prime
who has always been used to work try
ing to live without it. There are few
things SO ridiculous as the exertions OF
the man who kills himself in order to
make perpetual the health the Al
mighty has already given him. Their,
is nothing more true than the declara.
ton chat man must earn his life by the
sweat of his browne a never get
SO rich as to escape that necessity
The physicians are well enough, and
rules looking to health are wei
enough; but every wise nan is a law
unto himself, knowing the tempera-
ment that rules his health better than
any physician can; and behold, con-
trary to all rules and all popular belief,
it is life that is the accident and death
that is the rule.-M. y. Graphic.