St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-04
NATURES sAN1rARIuM.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
was interested in your description OF the
typical American business man in your last
Sundays issue. which | recognized as cor
rect, but would like to ask you to prescribe
aremedy for removing that dyspeptic appear
ance of nearly all of our business men. How
are they to DE made fat and jolly like the typ
zeal English man of affairs, and how is their
digestion to be Kept IN good repair 1 will be
glad TO hear from you on this point. N.
st. Paul, March 8.
1t is easy enough to give the prescrip-
ton, but the difficulty is in getting the
patient to take the medicine. 1t is next
to impossible for man to be successful
in business in this country unless he
hustIes; and when his hand is once laid
to the pillow it is very hard to find a let
tIng-go place. 1t is the continuous
grind and the constant pressure which
wear our business men out. They real
ize it well enough, but you can't con-
vince them of the duty of letting go in
time to preserve health or to save life.
And in nine cases out of ten, where the
American business man breaks off from
work and starts out for recreation, he
that is harder on him than attention to
business. If he doesn't go off for
months fishing or hunting. and there is
no harder work than either, he will
gather up his family and 20 Europe
and will come back SIX months
later completely worn out with
the strain of travel and the perpetual
worry of looking after his family and
their baggage, What they want is rest
for the nerves. and not excitement.
They want to let nature try its hand as
cure for tired man. A recent letter to
the Boston Herald written from pleas
ant little town down in Mexico tells the
experience of Boston merchant which
will aptIy illustrate the prescription we
have given. The Boston man was per-
Suaded by friend to 90 to Mexico to
look into some investments. When he
left home he was like the rest of the
Boston business men, all nerves and
living cerebral life, with every nerve
OH edge and his eyes resting on himself
alone. His head was full of enter
prises, aud his stomach the victim of
dyspepsia. He was "aIl business" but
what a WretChed existence he had with
that impaired digestion, and with those
Tacking nerves. He got down to Mex
leo, and had TO stop for a week at
an interior tropical town without a
first-class hotel. He cursed his luck at
first, but before the week had ended he
concluded that the accommodations at
the quiet little inn were tolerable. An
other week passed by and he was still
there. l0unging every day in the sunny,
fiower-planted alameda, and was really
enjoying himself. The nervousness
had all gone, the appetite had improved,
and those business plans and enter
priseS had all vanished, while the tired
brain was taking rest. The sky had
sent down healing influences, and this
| weary American man of affairs had
gradually been magnetiZcd by the sun
and air, until he became as child in
the enjoyment of it all. At the end of
the third week his friend wrote to the
Herald: "He can now sit and look at
poems leading patient donkey for half
an hour; he enjoys the singing of the
birds; he dozes like tired laborer on
hard stone benches in the shade; he
listens cOntentedIy to the evening con-
certs by the military band; he watches
with interest the pretty Mexican girls
promenading in the little park of
February evening under the wide and
tranquil skies, and he sleeps the sleep
of the just"
There is your prescription, If you will
take it; neither is it necessary to go to
Mexico to find the medicine. The best
sanitarium and the wisest doctor. the
sun, shines in Minnesota with healing
OH its wings. But you want to give
Dame Nature the chance to cure you,
and it is necessary to submit to her