Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
MECHANICAL MASSAGE
BY Which q Person Gets a Thorough
Shaking Up for So an Hour.
EXERCISE WITHOUT ANY EFFORT.
a Big Ball Rolled by Electricity That Re-
duces Girth Eeasure.
SHIRLEY DARE on SEDENTARy LIFE
EXERCISE WITHOUT ANY EFFORT.
SHIRLEY DARE on SEDENTARY LIFE


letters of Cardinal Newman, not with the
slightest curiosity on either side of the
great controversy with which his name is
identified, but as q fresh study in human
nature, and hygiene. To tell the truth my
lsnguid interest was first attracted by
passage in his Italian travels, where he re-
lates of being cured of fever by camomile
tes on which Roman physicians set great
value. Reading the life of a prelate for
points in hygiene may strike you as trav-
ersing the intention of biography, neverthe-
less the points were there and plenty Of
them. The way excellent people Of the
highest character and cultivation have
habitually trampled on every law of health,
human and divine, the morbid feelings and
views which grow out of this neglect, and
the moral overturnings and struggles which
enSue Will invoke a new system of history.
J. II. Newman, Cardinal, is of no more
interest than one of a thousand other his
toricaI personages, but little John New
man, whose father writes him at the mature
age of that ''you will observe that you
must learn something new every day, or
you will no longer be called clever boy"
the child who is sent to the great school of
200 pupils at Ealing when only 4, whom
the master finds crying by himself when
his father and mother have left him, and
who crecpS into our hearts by sweet touches
Of chilGishness, we follow with sympathy
through life. At 9 he iots in his pocket
diary Nav that he "heard the cuckoo for
the first time, and the 25th that he goes
into Ovid and Greek" happily taken TOO
early 10 do his Young mind much mischief
Influence of His Books.
But 1t is with a pitying smile we read
that che devoted to such literary exercises
and such books as came in his way q good
portion of his playtime; and his schooltel-
lows have left on record that they never, or
scarcely ever, saw him taking part in any
came" No wonder that up TO Is he was so
superstitious as he says that he used con-
stantly to cross himself on going into the
dark. That lie lay awake mornings in bed
reading Scott's novels is the most boyish
thing told about him. He was most atiec-
tionate, tender-hearted. dutiful child, forced
bv the dreadful system of the time, which
demanded that an infant of ) be taught 10
repeat Latin declensions at the risk of driv-
ing its mind permanently askew for life.
Telling child that he must learn something
new every day on penalty of losing his
credit as 8 clever bov, is downright immor-
ality, and we NAV thank Scott's novels and
the Arabian Nights, perhaps. that little
&
moral anarch as Auguste Comtc.
1t will not be far into the next century
when people viii ask questions about health
Of men who head moral Innovations and
revolutions 1t is notable that the leading
spirit in the Oxford movement was in col
}e-e so strict that churchmember of to-
dav would consider him bigot. He would
not write letter for his father on Sunday
or read 2 newspaper, would not hunt, shoot,
20 to theater or have game at cards. This |
was matter with his own conscience. To |
follow Its dictates can never be anything |
hut courageous and praiseworthy in a man. |
But whether conscience may not become |
tvrannicai, and what Baxter calls "a sick |
conscience" " by the reflex action of an OPP |
pressed. neglected body, is to be more seri- |
oUsly considered.
His Nerves Torsook Him.
Eptering Oxford when less than 16 he won |
= scholarship in his second year, and settled |
d8yn to read for honors at the rate of to II |
hours study day for % weeks. 1t is |
grim satisfaction to learn that at examina- |
zion ne lost his head, broke down, and after |
vain attempts for several DAYS had to retire |
He writes mis- father simply, INV nerves |
forsook me and [ failed Seven wears |
later, after severe course of reading, a |
similar attack, when he was University ex- |
aminer, obliged MIN to give up his office |
for time and leave Oxford. This sedentarv |
life and toiisome application laid the train |
for that physical susceptibility which was |
the drag upon his life. In his busiest years |
he had constant toothache, suffering like a |
woman, his eyes repeatedly gave way and |
plunged him into dependency. Worse |
than this it must be feared this unnatural |
sort of life gave his normal nature, sweet, |
pure and sunny as II naturally was, q NOR |
bid sharpness and proneness to raise subor- |
dinate points to undue importance.
4 specimen of his recreations is the mu- |
steal party where he was kept playing quar- |
tets on a heavy tenor from Z till j. No |
wonder he cries out. 90, my poor arms and |
head and baclz.' When he goes off for a
vacation with friends, he writes, ''their
lightest reading was Cudworth's sermons"
Penal Seryftude at Study.
The only exercise we hear of these fag-
ging students allowing themselves is walk |
ing. We read of Motley and Wilberforce |
racing each other up the lime groves and |
resting under the fragrant frs but Motley |
and WiIberforce do not seem to be troubled |
With doubts and structures. The picture |
\ Newman gives of walking to Oxford |
through clay field streams and mirv roads |
about Is miles, devising mode of writing |
as he went" is ANYTHING but an |
inspiring one This sort of penal servitude |
lt study cannot produce healthy state of |
soul.
I can recall glimpse of Miles O'Reillv in |
3 newspaper Office, writing editorials with |
vet towel round his head (it was whispered |
liter heavy good time for days), but it
does not seem that the intellectual dissipa-
lion Of Pusey and Newman is far removed |
IN point OF crlminality, with the palliation
hat 1t was a sign of ignorance. That men
IF such keen conscience should be guilty of |
habits gives awful weight to
Newman's memorable sentence: :'No one /
an be too suspicious about himself 'fHu-
manly speaking, says the Cardinal, writ
ng lmpersOnally, ''the tractarian move
nent never would have begun had not New
nan been deprived Of his tutorship" at Ok
ord The removal was on account of diff
erence which a less sensitive man would |
nave adjusted, giving the Provost his
way at first to resume their own afterward, |
nd the great religious movement of the |
lay, which does not seem to have brought /
,aIns to either side, would have taken the
nature of a development of inward life
ather than secession and revolt.
Acerbity of Religious Leaders.
So much of clay mingles with the clear
st springs of human action that one sees
in ecclesiastical difficulties an
cerbity, q rasping disposition, which can
My be accounted for by the very bad state
t temper growing out of the sedentary
ives Of religious persons, unrelieved bv
diversion Of mind or body. How much Of
vii is spiritual and how much nerves. no
ne can decide till he knows himself under
he best conditions as well as imperfect
nes.
Without going farther in this line Of
hought, it may be left to the readers con-