The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-26
HOW TO AVOID PREKATUkE OLD
AGE.

The rules tor the prevention VI sohiAo
diseases are all personal. They should
begin in youth. 1t should be a rnle
among grown up persons never to SUB
iect children to mental shocks and un-
griefs. When, i'll the sur
roundings OF child life, some grave
calamity has occurred, it is best to
make the event as light as possible to
the child and certainly to avoid thrill
ing it with sights and details which
stir it to the utmost, and in the n
only leave upon the mind and heart
incurable wounds and expressions.
Children should never be taken to fu-
nerals, nor to sights that caus a II
of fear and dread combined with grief,
nor to sights which call forth pain and
agony in man or in the lower animals.
To avoid premature old age in ma
ture life. the following are important
points 70 remember.
Grief anticipates age. Dwell on the
inevitable past, forming vain hypothe-
SEES as to what might have been if this
or that had or had not been, acquiring
a craze for %recounting what. occurred
these acts do more harm to future
health and effort than many things
connected with real calamity. Occu-
patton and new pursuits are the best
preventives for mental shock and be-
reavement.
Hate anticipates age. Hate keeps
the heart always at full tension. 1t
gives rise to oppression Of the brain
and senses. 1t %contlses the whole
man. 1t robs the stomach ct nervous
power, and, digestion being impaired,
the failure of life begins at once.
Those. therefore, who are born with
this passion-and il good many, l fear,
should give it up.
Jealousy anticipates age. The ia
cial expression of jealousy is old age,
in however young a face it may be
cast. Jealousy preys upon and kills
the heart. So Jealous men are not only
unhappy, but heart broken, and live
short lives. | have never known a
man of Jealous nature live anything
like a long or a useful life. The pre-
vention of jealousy is diversion Of MIND
toward useful and nmseltish work.
Unchastity anticipates age. Every
thing that interferes with chastity ia
vors vital deterioration, while TIN
grosser~ departures from chastity, Lead
ing to specific and hereditary diseases
are certain causes of organic degener
alton and premature old age. Thu
chastity is preventive of senile decay
IhtcmperaLce anticipates age. TIL
more social causes of mental and ply
steal organic diseases are investigate
the more closely the origin Of degenel
alive organic changes leading to pre-
mature deterioration and decay al
questioned, the more closely does
a Gene out that intemperance, often nc
suspected by the person himself VIII
is implicated in it, so subtle is its il
8 ~fluencc. is at the root of evil.
II When old age has really commenced
it's march toward final decay is be
d delayed by attention to those rules
conservation by which life is sustaint
with the least friction and the lea
II waste.
a. The prime rules for this purpos
N are
~ To subsist on light but nutrition
diet, with milk rs the standard foo
70 but varied according to season.
+ To take food i'll moderate quantit
-. four times in the day, including a lig|
If meal before going to bed.
- To clOthe warmly, but lightly,
a that the body may, in all season
- maintain an equal temperature.
), To keep the body in fair e~xercis
: and the mind active and cheerful.
To maintain an interest in what
going on in the world, and to tai
u. part in reasonable labors and pie
y sures. as though old age were not pr
~ sent.
To take plenty of sleep during slice
Z. ing hours, to spend nine hours in b'
It ut the least, and to take ars duril
"a cold weather that the temperature
\. the bedroom is maintained at GU 4
~ grees Fahrenheit.
a. TO avoid passion, excitement, In
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