Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-07-14
NATURES POINTERS.
THE DANGER SIGNALS THAT TELL
OF TROUBLE AHEAD.

Weary HeArt-Gray Uairs--Other Warm
ings.
Nature Is one Of tho kindest OF mothers
She Is ever on the affectionate alert to let her
million children know of the ills that mennce
them and to hoist the danger signal that tells
Of trouble ahead. For years you have been
accustomed to read an hour or two or three
hours at night without your sight being in
tue least affected. You can still see the de
tails Of the Oakland hills and make ou,
where the few redwoods are lett back of San
Mateo No type bothers you and you have
no particular focus Of vision. l.atterly, how
ever, you have begun to notice that toward tn,
end Of your seances your eyes become triae
blurred, that the black Of tho ink grows
grayer and that you require another gas jet
or the lamp little nearer to your elbow
There is your warning, and he alone IL
wise who heeds IL. You have received
pointer Of the most valuable description. |,
means that you are wearing out your eyes
and that the blessed gift Of good sight is be
ing trified with. To lot this warning go by
unhecded is criminal. both in intent and
action
The trouble with us Is that we will not
prepare for the tornado until it Is upon us.
that we want Il clubbing to find out that OH,
skull can he cracked. We are loath to bring
ourselves face to face with the fact that th,
machine is wearing ont, and we almost take
it as an insult when told that we are not a.
young as we might be. So it happens tha,
We find we cannot run up a hill with the
same degree of elasticity that we were wont
to have, and that when we arrive at the to,
Nya I'm va nsal tr,
facts to heavy dinner, the state OF the at
mosphere, tight boots, or to any other cause
except the right one-increasing years.
BETTER AVOID RUSH.
That heavily beating heart that thunp.
against your ribs when the run is over is on,
Of natures pointers, and one given with 1,
good deal Of seriousness, too. It indicate
that the heart stock is weakening that ther,
is too much fatty debris in the cardiac dis
trict, and that unless you want smash il
the market you had better avoid anythin:
like a rush. Physiologically, the hear
is only a big muscle, but It is ais.
| tho great clock Of the human system
Its tick tick goes on from the cradl
| to the coffin, and it beats of the seconds G
our lives, tangibly, audibly and ceaselessly
so long as our horoscope permits. But mos
of oil should we remember that 1t Ia an alar,,
clock, its warnings being varied but unmis
taxable. There is the intermittent beat, tn
1utter, the rattle and tho wild throb-al
pointers offered us by nature Something
wrong. Perhaps 1t is only case of ind
gest;on, or the lack of little iron in th
blood, or the presence of an extra amount o
stimulant, but whatever it il, we are her
afforded an opportunity Of finding OH
whether the trouble is temporary or perma
nent The one with care can be removed
the other with care can be alleviated. Fa
to heed the warning, and some time whe
you are making an after dinner speech yo
will fall forward on tho table and mover rea
your obituary notice.
Your barber one day sends the cold shivef
lown your back by telling you that you
hair Is getting thin on the top Of your hea.
You had known it already; you had notice
for very many weeks past that your brusht
carried of "A sad lot Of yotir crop In II
bristles every time you used theH,, and b
the use Of your hand glass and the miro
you had found out that the scalp on th
crown was beginning to show through, tha
The parting was getting very broad and til
iorchcad very high. All this you had knowr
but you had thought 1t secret betwee
Yourself and your mirror. so that when ii
larber brutally tells you that tho effects {
che thinning out process are plain to ever
,ne. you cannot help being shocked Whe
y)u yes home you put yourself in a stron
light and SO in for regular inspection
Times ravages The result Is deplorabl
There in the temporal locks. cunningly hi.
len away under tho darker hair, are two
.hree threads of gray. while, US though I'll
gentleman with the hour glass had struc
you In the back Of the neck, IN the sho
hairs II the nape two or three more viii
mes are seen
put AWAY FOOLISH THINGS.
It is, perhaps, impossible to imagine m
one of natures pointers that is more unwil
ingl1 received than this UnwillingIy r
ceived because it means that the time h,
,otne when you must put away foolish thing
luit the frivolities-not the pleasures, nece
sarily--of youth; give up the assumption
juvenility and settle down to the serio,
things OF middle age Fortunately midd
ago has its pleasant as sswell as its serio,
things. In fact, it is a question whether thu
;oberer time when the leaves are begiunin
to turn, when the noon heat Is over whe
the passions are subdued and when the qui,
twilight Is coming on is not after all the be-
portion of a mans life and Of woman's, to-
Especially is 1t likely to be SO II we pa
proper attention to natures pointers and /
careful without coddlins ourselves
The schedule of these pointers is by Z
means exhausted however. Tho tailor b,
one or two OF them in store for us Whel
for instance, he tells us that we are adding
our girth below the waistband and not abo,
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