St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-06
TO LIVE LONG.
Practical Suggestions by Halls
journal of Health.

Practical Suggestions by Halls
journal of Health.
tits likely that tendency to longevity
is frequently inherited-that 1t runs in
families. We know that lack of vital
| ity, weakness of constitution. and the
tendency to certain diseases are trans
! missible. Promising that nature never
indicates any physiological preference
| for individuals, we can account for this
| principle of preservation by the fact
| that in all large families the weakest
! and diseased die out, leaving only the
healthy and most hearty to propagate.
| With such sound stock long life through
| successive generations is the result.
If the truth be plainly told, death is
usually but species of suicide. People
seem set upon the very mode of life that
will kill them quickest. Too much eat
ing and too little sleeping, stimulants,
excitement and reckless dissipation,
brains overburdened with business.
hearts narrowed with the cares and re-
SponSibilitleS of life-such are some of
the things that are taking people off.
Worry and nervous excitement kill
folks faster than hard work. Steady,
honest, hard-handed labor never hurt
anybody. The placid, patient, plodding
person, other conditions being the same,
lives the longest.
Much depends upon the conservation
of the physical force in youth. The an
cient physlologist pointed out the fact
that in early life there is great deal of
this force in reserve. as a sort of stock
to meet the demands of advancing
years. With the increasing cares and
strain of Sterner duties in later life, this
stock is cOrreSpondingly diminished.
1t becomes prematurely exhausted, and
existence ends in bankruptcy. So the
proper way to prOlong life is to make
the body sort of savings bank for this
stock of strength in youth and
early manhood. Nothing so destroys
the vigor of life as excessive
emotions. Worry will waste the most
robust body, care will corrode, and even
an excess of joy prove deadly. The
wise will avoid everything that over
tasks the feelings. The man who can
continually maintain his equanimity
has the best chance, all things consld-
cred. of living long and happy life
So, from merely physiological point of
view, we should exercise composure
under all circumstances; love nothing
too passionately, hate nothing too
violently, fear nothing too strongly,
lament nothing too sOrrowfully, and
TRANQUILITY anu truSJIully accept the
order of things as we find them.
To person who has preserved him
self, the period between fOrty-fve and
sixty will be the prime of life. Expert
ence has ripened his judgment. and ma
tured strength of constitution will en-
able him to Withstand an attack of dis
ease. He has triumphed over the
storms and struggles that threatened
his early manhood, mastered his bust
ness, secured competence and rest
from wearing work, and safely crossed
the viaduct called the "turn of life"
He is now at his best, all his faculties
having attained their fullest expansion.
There is no natural death but old age,
which, if death may ever be called
pleasant, is the only pleasant one.
Th ere is wish for rest, and the tired
traveller sinks to slumber. in a silent
valley at the close of well-spent day.