Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-17
A MOTHERS ADVICE.
I. All Your P1ans, DOM Neglect to PHI
for Healtk.

In All Your Plans, DOM Neglect to Plan
for Health.
Ny boy, you with the bright eye and
springing step, and the slightest shadow
on your upper lip, great plans for the
future are forming in that active brain.
You are going to'do grand things when
you are man. Whatever vocation You
have chosen, you intend to- be success
full in it. And that is right. But, in
all your calculations, have you planned
to have good health? You look as If
you thought that a foolish question: but
mean it. You have not planned to
lose time by sickness, but have you
thought how you may avoid itp You
supposed sickness was inevitable and
that we had to put up with it when 1t
came? Oh, no; the most OF sickness
might be prevented, if. we would take
the trouble to learn, the causes and
avoid them!
l presume you have not read Sir
James Paget's statistics. where he
shows that in England. and Wales as
much labor is lost each year; by illness
of laborers, as 20, 900. Zoo, of people
could do in a week, and that would be
dUOuG WHdt fOOsOOb SouhSA Oo AkA % rSNAbe
and that does not count the cripples-
chronic invalids,or professional people,
or those who live on their incomes.
Buck says, in his Hygiene, that 100, 900
people die every year in, the, United
States from preventable diseases, and
that 10000 are constantly sick. from.
the same causes. Notice he says pre-
Ue7stable. Now are you going to De one
of that number? You will not want to
be laid aside with suffering in the midst
of your grandest schemes. What will
it cost you to have good health2 Will
it compensate for the trouble?
Let us count the cost of keeping
we'll First, you will have to give up
that dainty cigarette which you. are
twirfing so gracefully in. your fingers,
for it will weaken your nerves. impair
your digestion, dull your brain. affect
your eyes, throat, lungsand. heart, and
waste your money. You will have to-
avoid all use of wine. beer and alcoholic
drinks, for science has proven. that
even the moderate drinker'is degener-
ating physically, and cannot endure
accident, exposure or severe exer-
ton as can the temperate man.. You
will have to seek your bed at an early
hour, when others are beginning their
rounds of gayety, and rise when they are
sinking to slumber. You will have to
avoid the luxurious fare of the epicure,
and live on the simple food of the
philosopher. You will have to study
the laws of your body and obey Them
at whatever sacrifice. 1t will require
moral courage, but if you've the true
manliness, the grit to persevere in
spite of ridicule, your turn to laugh
will come, when you, IN. a. vigorous
useful maturity, look upon your
friends who flung health.away in the
service of pleasure, and see them
writhing in pain, orsilent in the grave.
Your vitality is like a,sumi of,money:
put into the bank, at your BIRTH. at
compound interest. You can squander
it in youth, and enter manhood in
physical bankruptcy; oryou can. use it
judiciously, increase 1t and begin
active life with capital of vigon' that
will be the most important factor in
your success. In an your. plans, don't.
neglect to plan for heAlth.-Mary III.
Allen. M. d., IN ConQregati0naIid.