The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12
A HOME CURE.
How Thought Can Danish Pain-A Com
nonsense Mind Cure.

How Thought Can Danish Pain-A Com
nonsense Mind Cure.
We do not mean the technical, ex-
pensive sort of mind cures-not at all.
There is variety of mind cures which
every one of us can use and ought to
use very often, if not every day. The
mind exerted in the way we mean has
done just as much good perhaps as the
minds of the doctors who operate upon
one for fee.
Who does not know frail, delicate
women who are working every day
harder than many of their robust,
sound-limbed sisters do or feel able to
dop What gives them the power to
accomplish what, when one considers
their physical condition, seems impos-
siblep 1t is their stout determination
to do it. Their mind has to certain
extent remedied the DEFICIENCIES of their
bodies. And many physician has tes-
tilted that life has been prolonged and
a comparatively healthy state of the
vital organs kept up in such cases,
when, if the weak but resolute worker
had dropped her labor and taken to her
pillow, she would have suffered an inn
mediate relapse.
81 am so glad" said a young
mother recently, .'that when | was
SO miserably i'll three or four years
ago did not give up the care of my
family. My cough was terrible, my
strength seemed all gone. For
months it was necessary for me to in
terrupt my work and to lie down al
most every ten minutes before ] could
60 on; but I saw that my little children
and my husband were going to suffer
intellectually if / gave up, SO | dragged
myself every day through the cooking
and the sweeping and the mending.
They were wretched times, but now
that / am stronger can look back
and thank God that I kept heart
through them.
IF l had laid my work down and
should have died or have been bedrid-
den for life" The poverty which could
exact such sacrifice as was made by
this young mother was, indeed, pitiful,
but her conduct was noble in the ex-
treme. Would it not be a thousand
times better for many invalids in lux
urious homes if they had also some
strong motive for exertion? Who can
doubt that there are far greater num-
Der injured yearly from failure to en-
gage in active pursuits than suffer from
over exertion?
''Mr tooth ached terribly when I
went to school, said an enthusiastic
teacher recently. "But never thought
of it until the session was over. Then
it was paining me much worse than be-
fore. 1t is a frequent experience with
me that pains and aches vanish during
my busy hours, to return when [ am at
leisure
Have you never noticed that when
you are i'll and the doctor or visitors
are admitted you have no i'll feelings
during their stay, though you may have
had many before they came and many
laterp Their conversation engaged
your thoughts and your NERVE CEN
tiers" were left to their own devices for
awhile. And how much worse our
maladies always appear in the dark,
lonely hours of the night. There is
nothing to distract our minds from the
contemplation of our infirmities then,
and we are almost distracted with the
disorders which we bore with equanim-
| ity when our friends were about us.
! In fact, it almost seems, when we
confine ourselves to this phase of the
subject, as if the theory of Burke and
Hume was correct and as though we
lived but in our minds.
Indeed, q stiff will can carry us
through almost any emergency. BY a
violent and determined devotion to
work we may forget for awhile at
least almost any ordinary pain or trou-
BILE. There is mind cure within the
reach of every one of US. -Phitadelphia
| Call.