The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-06-17

ONES mEi IS NorAzRfs POISON.

ONES mziS g /. ANorasR's POISON.
Some yaluabI6' nints cracernfas tn,
rrainiDs and EdecAtson a Children.
"Of all things" said the family physi-
clan to young married woman of my
acquaintance, solicitous sbout the well
fare Of her ofspring-@of all things,
sse~er take the advice of experienced
mothera In the first place, no two of
them viii agree about anything. and
your mind will be kept unsettled all the
time. Then, if they do agree, what il
true of their children may not be at all
true of yours" "But, she pleaded, fare
not measles, and mumps, and wkooping.
cough, and all those dreadful things very
much the same in all casesr They are
never precisely the same" he insisted,
lin any two cases, either as to origin, or
symptoms, or treatment indicated. Do
not you know" he added, "that what is
one mans meat is another mans
poison!" ..-..- ......s
It sometimes seem as if, instead OF the
old medical methods of cast-iron, we had
come upon a new method of infinite
variation each doctor asks his patient
80 many questions, and consults the in
dividual peculiarities SO much, that he
seems almost to request it as a favor of
each, first to indicate" what medicine
he needs, and then to take it. As civil
zation advances, Municipalities develop,
and science grows more humble; it
studies, instead of debating. On my
cautioning lady at party the other
evening against a second cup of strong
coffee, and advising chocolate as a bet
70 ter sleeping draught, she informed me-
that she was SO constituted as to be kept
awake by chocolate and put to sleep by
coffee. She too has family of young
children. part of whom probably inherit
this trait, and the others the more erdin-
airy habit, and such direct divergence
might well run through the whole
physical structure. How, then, can any
one method of treatment possibly suit
them all?.
1t is really very inconvenient. It would
be much easier il everybody needed the
same thing, was reached by the same
medicine, needed the same advice; but
what are we to do about it? I know a
conscientious mother who had two chill
dren of about the same age, and both in
the high school-a boy and girl. Tho
Boy hated study, and the girl studied
herself i'll; yet they were inseparable
companions at home, and could rarely
be caught apart to lecture them separately
"When I dwell" said the poor
mother, ION the Importance of study,
do it for Eddie's benefit, but he never
needs it, and Emily takes it to heart,
and studies harder than ever. If re-
monstrate with her on the danger Of
overwork, she keeps on just the same,
but Eddie takes that part of the advice
to himself, and assures me that he will
never hurt himself with books" Tbs
meat for one was the poison for the
other. ..-. {.
The the stress laid of late years on
what it is now the fashion to call "hered-
ity" comes in to limit the value of the
best advice that we could give one an
other. In one OF Bret Harte's burlesque
novels he makes Victor Hugo lay it down
as the key 30 human progress, Educate
your grandmother" and we all now rec
ognize the need of adapting the training
of each person to his or her inheritance.
For a young girl whose parents died Of
consumption we prescribe an outdoor
life instead Of indoor needlework.
A young man whose father and grand
died of heart-disease would
fotn,. y against rowing boat
he c,,+;o, principle you can
ro,.s 0N .. in his very
not deal with a boy who Ia. "e
blood the hereditary craving after srsS
drink as you would deal with the scion
OF sober race. The heaven that lies
about us In our infancy does not spread
Its iau heayenliness over the Door. Terri.
bic little Jesse Pomeroys, born with the
mania strong in them. Juse
when the woria, too hastily fancied itseR
what TIE pious Scotch
woman called "the guild atlir, doctrine O.
original SIM" the fact itself looks at US
Unexpectedly in the recorded history OF
he Jukes family, with its 200 criminals
from a single neglected girl.
The observant parent sees, as time goes
N, the strong and weak points of his
wn character, or perhaps those Of some
emoter ancestor reappearing In the
hid, and the questions are countless To
which the situation leads. Are these
Of temper, for instance,
t the kind that must be met outright
nd conquered, or Of the kind that are
My strengthened by resistance, and
aust be borne with in the knowledge
hat they win be outgrown? Is this sud-
en- tendency to disregard the truth the
ign of real laxity, or only Of too
vely imagination How many "a con-
,ientieus parent has lain awake at night
18th anxiety over some fancied moral
epravity that really was a thing a.
'ansient as chicken-pox! And, on the
ther hand, how many a parent has
assed lightly by some dawning ten .
ency that, if disregarded, would end in
terrible moral decline!--T. w. Higgin-'
N in Harper's Bazaar. "
Some Peculiaritfes Of the Ovstar