The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-02-24
A HOME CURE.
now Thought Can Danish Psln-A Com.
mOn-Sense Mind Cure.


Now Thought Can Danish Palma Cora
mon-Senss Mind Cure.
We do not mean the technical, CT.
pensive sort Of mind cures-nOt at all.
There is q variety Of mind cures which
every one of US can use and ought to
use very often, IL not every day. The
mind exerted in the way we mean has
done Just as much good perhaps rs the
minds Of the doctors who operate upon
one for fee.
Who does not know frail, deliaate
women who are working every day
harder than many of their robust,
sound limbed sisters do or feel able to
do? What gives them the power TO
accomplish what, when one considers
their physical condition, seems imPOs-
sible! It 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
q comparatively healthy state Of tho
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 i'm
mediate relapse.
II am so glad" said 3 young
mother recently, ''that when l 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
/ go on; but saw that my little children
and my husband were going to suffer
intellectually if l gave up, so ! dragged
myself every day through the cooking
and the sweeping and the mending.
They were wretched times, but now
that I am stronger l can look back
and thank God that l kept heart
through them.
"If1 had laid my work down and
got another woman in to work.
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
IRENE. Would it not be Thousand
times better for many invalids in lux.
urious homes if they had also some
strong motive for exertion? Who car
doubt that there are a far greater mum
Der injured yearly from failure to en-
gage in active pursuits than suffer from
over exertiOn?
"Mr tooth ached terribly when
went to school," said an enthusiastic
teacher recently. "But I never though
of it until the session was over. Thel
it was paining me much worse than be
fore. 1t is frequent experience will
me that pains and aches vanish durini
my busy hours, to return when am a
leisure"
Have you never noticed that whel
you are i'll and the doctor or visitor
are admitted you have no i'll feeling
: during their stay, though you may hav
. had many before they came and man
. later? Their conversation engage
t your thoughts and your ''nerve Gel
ters" were left to their own devices Il
awhile. And how much worse on
maladies always appear in the darl
lonely hours Of the night. There
nothing to distract our minds from Il
, contemplation of our infirmities thel
u and we are almost distracted with Il
!. disorders which we bore with equanin
Q ity when our friends were about US.
al In fact, it almost seems, when v
= confine ourselves to this phase of Il
' subject, as if the theory of Burke an
: Hume was correct and as though
= lived but in our minds.
q Indeed, stiff will can carry
r through almost any emergency. By
!. violent and determined devotion
|. work we may forget for awhile
= least almost any ordinary pain or tro
= BILE. There is . mind cure within Il
D reach Of every one of us.-Philadelph
r Call.