New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-02-03
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4 Few Words Of CANTON saA Advice to
People Who Arc Living too Fast.

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\ 4 Few words Of CANTON aaA Advice to
People Who Arc Living too East.
In the present state of the Christian
world, the idioic and imbecile, the
weak-minded, are treated kindly by the
stronger and richer members of society.
This is proper development Of Chris
/ tianity. We have often referred to
health of mind; and have warned our
readers against excessive exercise of the
brain as destructive to mind and body.
/ Mental activity, if moderate, conduces
to health and growth. Daily observa-
ton shows that the growth and contin-
uances of mental power may be seriously
! harmed by excessive activity. The
mind may be weakened and exhausted by
prolonged and severe exertion. We
/ have more than limited that the train
ing OF children consists in securing
sound minds in sound bodies, and that
the mind is SO dependent on the body,
that parents and teachers should culti-
vate the body and develop its various
powers by giving it and its organs
proper nourishment, judicious exercise
and suitable repose The young and
growing need more nourishing food,
more regular exercise, and more rest
than the mature and grown.
Many observations show that the
moderate activity of the mind and reg
ular training OF its forces contributes to
/ long life Men and women of mental
culture live longer and happier than the
ignorant. Nearly ali the mental giants
Of our race live to be more than three
score years and ten. But to secure this
result, body and mind culture should
be begun at an early period Of life and
continued judiciously to its close. Men
who cease to practice the activity of
their growing years lose the powers
they once acquired. The active mer-
chant who becomes rich and retires
from a business life usually cuts short
his days. Those who disregard by
g:enic laws. and cease to exercise from
CAY to Cay their muscles and their in
tellectual powers, soon cease to have
ga sound mind in sound body
some men in the prime of life and in
the midst of usefulness disregard hygi-
chic laws in some way either by ex-
cessiye activity Of brain, or by ceasing
to give it proper, moderate exercis5.
Wealth enables them to fail into ser
sual indulgenccs and so i1ipar their
mental and bodily forces. They may
have no family tendency to disease,
may have led regular and sober lives.
and still be troubled with weaknesses
and inArmities in middle life. This
condition most men could avoid by con-
iiEulng to live as they began. Modera-
exercise of mind and body would
have kept their mental and bodily ma
chinery in good condition until they
reached old age. 1t may be true that
the prime of life may extend from thirty
to fifty years and still, we have known
men who observed strictly the laws Of
health, and so lived to four score wears.
We gain strength of brain and muscle
by using them; we become weak when.
we cease to use them. Afser fifty years
an active man should be more moderate
in his exertion than before, but still he
! should not cease to act and use his va
| rious powers, as the best means OF pre-
| serving them In the middle period Of
life, thirty to fifty years-few men or
women can safely overtax their bra,ns
| This organ once, impaired does not east
Is, if ever, regain its strength. The
mind sympathizes with the brain in all
its suderings. Many Of our scholars
limit themselves in their exertions. and
50 reach old age. AgassN forgot that he
was mortal and so continued to exert
his mental powers during many hours of
the day and night after he had passed
three score years, and SO broke down.
and science met with al irreparable
loss. Sir Walter Scott in his middle
life declared that six hours q day in
brain work was all he could oontinuou =
ly endure. But when he was pacui,-
iarialy embarrassed in later years, Ii
over-taxed his brain TO meet his obligi-
tons, he became exhausted and his ,1ro-
litic mind lost it's former strength and
re died an imbccile.
While we object to excessive physical
and Intellectual exertson, we also see
tae folly Of laziness and inactivity. The
business man, who devotes ten hours
day to his special calling, should have
the remaining fourteen hours for sleep,
social intercourse and Improvement of
the mind. This latter does not make a
man, but it does make him more Of
man than he otherwise would be-
A clergyman called upon lady who
within few years had lost her children,
her husband and nearly all her proper
ty. He attempted to console her, but
he soon found that she did not need or
seek his services. For on saying that
he did not see how she could be so
cheerful, she replied that she made up
her mind a great many years ago that
if she did not enjoy herself as she went
along, she never should. So we think
that every man, woman and child
should have hours for pleasure as we'll
as hours for work. We ought to pro-
vide for the future, but also enjoy the
present. The man who ovcrtasks his
body or brain, sooner or later nars the