Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-16
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yo1ng
TIE sDeszsr was p.svt-r ttls s-rsut fol.
s1d J "a hin e.. v-r-ies Hs-k.ey HarkeT
in the New E--k WeeET. he was q bit
e ~ bad ten f1r so-1e nioltns q culor.
I cse5 c- hl- ID tls slcE-ru--- and found
hin Ulc1 depressed Es had 11e notion
TIA. ts 1s5 Inherited - s-1-i- 1vsd c1nsti-
t-siC1-T wLs-eTer tLss uar 1e. TIE lie
i1sErs1oe people had asked hl1, il their
c--sCls cats--lsr-- u1st1zr he rssen bed
L-s ta--er O. E-s -11t1e- the more strongly.
and . ei--s-. w1lch- T1ls was reve-s-
t5J1 70 tiu; be had never foouEht q IL De-
fore Re r1-c.-1e1 t1ai be r=ssu5le5 his
fs-1e.. -l1 bed died - thirty years Of age
NJ f-ald BE- already f1-rysiL His p1y-
slc-s- assured D5tn MS wife and ne that
D0-ll-E F-aTelT Threatening was the KAT
ter WIZ hlu- We fouud--is devoted wife
a1c I--i1at ms father had dIad Il fever
c1Et-sc-s- o. t1e Istar1us. BIT II Is 10 use:
TIE poor Ounce has the notion that he is 70
facs away like hls father Of course
-l-s ls De-rC1s fslE1e. nothing more nor
4sss = ls l1clplert nervous pr1strat-5n- But
ne iisI q ners1Ity IL the czse presents 3
c0-ugu deluslUn
Psyple presume o. lo1gsvity ss vel. De-
cs1ss t1ey '-coEs q . l0ng-Eve1 family
s ugu-srlT, 9 gentleman 0oaste5 this other
extreme % ne tue week before last He
was quite sure q advanced age. t-because
his fz-oer, grandfather, and away back al
ms ancestry were lOnE-liTers And yet as
! write, that verT gentleman is dead
an certain that 10Th hope and fear are
inspired, without reason and against res-
son, b. the popular notion. Il may be true
nat .ongevity or short Life is Inherited; but
me trace is % feeble tina; Ia the battle Of life
It is not worth either expect gOr dreadiug
II you get sucn notion into your head II is
famous demon. Your father, for in
stance, died a. sixty years Of age. You
VIII dread the epoch. You viii erect a
stone wal Of fatallsm for yourself right
there. UnConsciOusly % yourself you vii
continually be calculating upon II with aD-
prenenslOn. You viii not talk about Il
even % your wife, til you have approached
your hfty-elgnth year. then. as you get a
trIhs worn, and perhaps SICK, some DAY.
you Will let out your fear. Il viii torture
your loved ones it will bafis your phvsl-
clans as they wonder what can al you, and
you are ashamed 70 tell them. II viii actp-
ally cripple your nervous force, subtract
from your stock q vitality; and there is lit
tie doubt that the pure. uumixed foolish
ness may hasten your death. Your father
viii have had nothing % do With your
death; but you may hasten your own death
by psychic depletion There is far more
evidence that men DO actually cause their
own premature death by apprehension
than that hereditary limit causes II.
To presume that you inherit the longevity
o. grandfather VINO lived % fOgr-scOre is
even more absurd. II may not have been
vitality with the Old gentleman at all He
may have had no more powerful organism
than ordinary men. But quiet, uueveut-
ful life, exceptionally free from any heavy
strain, may have kept his heart throbbug
80 long II you are hard pushed and over
doing II you soiace your alarm by refer
ring your guilty mind back 20 the shadowy
grandsire rather than taking wholesome
rest the probabilities are that you viii
snap your handspring before you know il.
The theory Will make one more victim, and
you are the man. Theory is one thing, but
facts are better. Quite likely your grand
mother will tell you that you look and act
older at fOrty-hye than her husband did at
sixty. You i've IN more exciting ana ex-
acting age. You are a city man; he was a
country man You like fancy dishes; he
homely food. You sleep mornings; he
nights You are fretted by money as by
politics he was fretted by nothing worse
than an unruly OK or shower on his new
mown hay. You are housed in a shop, or
factory, or Office, with the devltalized air Of
modern furnace heat; he, this noble octo-
genarian, lived among mountains, or
breathed the breath Of the wide, wide sea
DO not presume on the venerable fellows
that went before you; there is a temptation
and "a snare Iu 10 every time
Every man must sail his own shin. In
the name Of the kind Creator do not think
you are gong 10 cough your life away be
cause consumption Is hereditary I'm our
family Facts show that the decided major
ity Of victims Of this terrible nalady are the
original cases; no taint can be discovered
10 ancestry. Think Of III The majority Of
consumpuves, reassert, are the rst cases
In the family. 1 have IL on good au
thority In pulmonary maladics that de-
cldedly the vast majority OF the offspring Of
cOnsumptyes finally die OF other diseases.
II Is not 10 DO denied that there is law of
heredlty in disease. But the children pre-
disposed tocOusumption, for instance, being
forewarned, are fOrearmed 10 caution; tax
ing excellent care Of themselves they out
last their more though,less nelghbors
Probably over eighty per cent ofthe insane
are original cases THAI Ii, Iu neither branch
" the family, within three generations, can
be- found an Insane ancestor. will not al.
tempt hguros, but medical authority tells US
that disease OF the heart, the liver, the kid
noy Is almost always original.
Reader, live under no ancestral shadow.
Live In your own sunshine A mercifu
Creator has given US each our day. The
dead can neither hinder nor help us much
We have our chance. Each life is unique
ln It's own individual beauty or deformlty
II Is my tather's good example, which, ad-
miring, | purposcly copy which benefits
me- IL Is the heritage OF his worthy name
that helps me, moro than blood or gold IL
Is tho subtle copying OF his virtues or vices
that no doubt Is a powerful impulse To be
cmy father loo character is quite possible:
but even this l must seek after with reso
Lutte purpose The bughear OF hereditary
brief life is too shocking, lsa cruel fetish uf I
quasi science that 4 would be glad 10 drive /
oatui tuo home OF many sufferer There |
Is, however, this curious discovery that [
have madci Many people seem % actually |
regard such respect for their hereditary I
beuis In tue uat4ro of ullal plety. They /
thinR % sacrelg.ous % die OF any but an in- /
henediIed malady. They insist on IT,
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