Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-02-19
STRENGTH AN INCOME.
Prevent Nervous Prostration by Taxi,
''- Care OF Your Physical Resources. d

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Prevent Nervous ProstratIon by Taking
r. Care Of Your Physical Resources.
There are women whose strength
would only suffice for their own homes,
and the demands in them, If a reserve
is to be left for the future when the
strength-producing powers are gone and
physical life is pauperized, who give
more strength outside than inside their
homes. Men and women shrink from
financial poverty in old age, but the
wealth Of nations can not save from
physical poverty If strength has not
been administered wisely. =
Every man and woman has right to
spiritual, q mental, life that will min
lister to tAe future. 1t is the reserve
fund on which they must draw when the
world forgets them on its onward march;
when enfeebled vision and hating step
leave them at the roadside for
the chariot of death. How many
men and women who are busily
boarding money for that future
are boarding the strength that will
make it doubly rich? 1t is appalling,
the rate at which we live, using every
day every ounce of strength we make
and drawing on future strength. 1t saps
life of pleasure. The grandest music
fails to wake the souls of many who
listen, ''because they were too tired to
hear it." The noblest picture is but
half seen because of q mind cluttered
with worthless cares more often than
by those that are truly worth bearing.
Faces grow old and wrinkled and voice
shrill and dissonant, not in service, but
worry. We do live in a busy world.
And who would rather not wear out
than rust out? But let US live to pur-
pose; let US wear out evenly, not in
holes that require patching. What
service we render, let it be given in
health, not disease; in joy, not in
pain; and we can give this serv.
ice only as we administer our strength
with wisdom, not .dissipate it in
extravagant waste. AS there are men
and women who watch the outlay OF
every penny, SO there are men and won.
en- who must watch the outlay of every
physical and mental effort. The value
OF the individual to himself and the
world depends on the nicely of his ad.
]ustment OF his relations to its demands
upon him. We should develop whole
some shame for disease; we should see
In it the result of transgression; and
when so seen, it leads to repentance and
conversion. Two women were over
heard conversing recently. The con.
versation ran something like this:
"You do not seem very we'll, Carrie
what is the matter?"
'pm not we'll at all. have all the
symptoms of nervous prostration, just az
l had them two years ago. Charlie is
worried to DEATH
"Why do you try to do so much?
Why do you not give up some things?'
II just can't. must keep doing al
the time, or 1 am unhappy"
The woman was an efficient worke,
in a number of charities; but poor
Charlie!
An earnest-looking man about FORTY,
and unmarried, was talking to group
of his friends, men and women. The
subject OF the nervous, not to say il.
rltable, condition in which so MANY
men and women were living had been
the subject of conversation, when with
strong emphasis, he said: II would not
allow my wife, if had one, to belong
to DIR. Is church. Every woman in
1t is filled with an evil spirit she calls
work, and every woman in the church
is suffering from nervous prostra ton.
Is that the rest religion gives? tell
you that church is a woman-killer.''
All men and women should study
their own natures enough to know VIII ere
to call, Halt!-to place the legend,
''Thus far, and no farther" and live uu
to it. Then, when the emergencies
make large demands, the exchequer
will not be empty; poverty will not be
added to the other burdens,
Treat your strength as you do your
lncome-getting the best results for the
amount expended, and leavi ng mar.
gin for use in the non-productive DAYS.
Christian Union.