The Arizona sentinel., 1886-07-03
A MOTHERS ADVICE.
In All Your Plans, Don't Neglect to Plan
 for Health.


 In All Your Plans, Don't Neglect to Plan
 for Health.
 My 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 a man. Whatever vocation you have chosen, you intend to be success ful 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 foolish question, but 1 mean it. You have not planned to lose time by sickness, but have you | thought how you may avoid it? You supposed sickness was inevitable, and that we had to put up with it when it came? Oh, no; the most of sickness might be prevented, if we would take the trouble to learn the causes and avoid them. -. I 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 20,000,O00 of people could do in a week, and that would be about what 100000 could do in year, 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, ,OOO people die every year in the United States from preventable diseases, and that 150, 900 are constantly sick from the same causes. Notice he says pre- Uentabte. Now are you going to be 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 health? 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 twirling so gracefully in your fingers. for it will weaken your nerves, impair your digestion, dull your brain, affect your eyes, throat, lungs and 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 thinker is degener- ating physically, and can not endure accident, exposure or severe exer- tion 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. It will require moral courage, but if you've the true manliness, the grit to perseveA in spite of ridicule, your turn to laugh will come, when you, Tn vigorous, useful maturity, look upon your friends who flung health away in the service of pleasure, and see them writhing in pain, or silent in the grave
 Your vitality is like a sum of money put into the bank, at your birth. at compound interest. You can squander it in youth, and enter manhood in physical bankruptcy; or you can use it judiciously, increase It and begin active life with capital of vigor that will be the most important factor in your success. In all your plans, don't neglect to plan for health.-Mary 4. Allen, M D., irs Conqregationatist.