The Arizona sentinel., 1886-11-13
NECESSITY OF LARoR.
Training and Exercise of Mind and Body
 Essential to True Happiness.

tralnlng ana Exercise or Mind and Body
 Essential to True Happiness.
 There died in Paris the other day a
 woman ''rich beyond the dreams of ava
 rice. " She tired to keep her table as
 simple as her dignity permitted, but
 that, it seems, was not simple enough for her good. Gout, that follower of ease and high living, tormented her, af- fecting her bronchial tubes so that she could not breathe the night air without torture, and so she was deprived of sleep. "Poor food and hard exercise would probably have relieved her. But what doctor would have told a dOwager rolling in millions that sne was subject to the common law, or that if she did not take out of herself in care and work what she put into, herself in the form of victuals and drink she must be tortured? She was kept on couch when she should have been weeding her garden or fussing around her da'ry."
 To get beyond the necessity of labor is the ideal of happiness with a great many people. And this right in the face of the primal law: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" be- cause ''cursed is the ground for thy sake. A
 There can be no question that it is a | pleasant thing and very desirable to have the command of ones time, and to be able to choose how one shall oceu- py it. But to be able to take charge of one's self intelligently, and so to use one's various faculties, mental and bodily, that they may be developed to the utmost, all kept in harmony with each other and with the Divine law, and all serving the common good, is in the power of but very few. Unless one can do this, the command of his time may prove most disastrous to him. In the present condition of the generality of people, the necessity of daily labor to earn daily bread is most benefcent in all its bearings.
 We are learning by degrees that in the training of the mind the highest de- velopment can not be reached without corresponding training of the body. In other words, that both body and mind must work or the best results can not be alta ned as to mental stature. And the great movement of our working classes toward higher intellectual cul- ture shows that they arc beginning to see that they can do better work with their muscles and more of it if their minds are qu, ckened and informed. Our schools and colleges add gymnasia to the'r outfit for educat.on, and furnish them with apparatus calculated to de- velop every tissue of the body. Exer- else in the gymnasium is as much an inforced habt of the students life in the better class of our schools as study or recitation. We are learning, too, that the training of the hand ought to keep pace with the training of the h'aln, and industrial and technical schools are springing up everywhere. In charity kindergartens and kitchen gardens the little children of the poor are learning the use of the r hands in various occu- pations and industries, learning how to play and how to work, how to apply themselves to the tasks appo nted them to do, and being thus introduced in- telligently to the harder tasks they will be calledsDn to perform in matUrer life.
 Rest both body and mlnd must have. But to rest one must first labor One must not take out of the body more than is put into it in the form of vict- uals and drink,' but unless so much is taken out, the overfilled body will be- come prey to disorders and diseases that will sooner or later destroy it.
 . While we are writing comes the Cent ayg, in which President Gilman. one of our highest educational authorities, pleads for the promotion of hand craft, thus: kindergarten work should be taught in the nurseries and infant schools of rich and poor. Every girl should learn to sew. and every boy should learn to use domestic tools, the carpenter or the gardeners or both. Well-planned exercises fitted to strengthen arms, fingers, wrists, lungs, etc., should be devised, and where possible, driving, riding, swim ming, rowing, playing ball, and other out-of-door sports should be encouraged. Drawing should be taught as early as writing, and as long as reading, for all, and everywhere. "
 This means hard labor for the little ones; not necessarily disagreeable labor, but labor that brings out the resources of the body and multiplies and develops | them fully.
 The sleep of the laboring man is sweet whether he eat little or much, but | the abundance of the rich will not suf- | fer him to sleep. A good test of ones | condition is ability to sleep well. Foil that does not interfere with sleep can l not be said to be excessive Likeness that prevents sound and refresh 'ng sleep | and takes away the keen appetite for it, rob5 a man of this among other goods | of life, and makes existence empty, ob- | iectless and meaningless.-M Y Tribune.