St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-10-08
GOOD HEALTH.
Nature intended That We ShoolA - Wen
asd etroag-WAy Many u u Aso
Not 6o-A L0oDo0 GrOo
the Past.

It cannot be denied. we suppose, tha
health. next to godliness, 10 worthy o
the 6rst consideration.
No one can be happy without health
and there are no circumstances what
ever which can make one utterly miser
able when his health is perfect
A sound liver, . good. long -winded
pair OF lungs, and . free circulation oi
blood, are worth . great deal more q
the happy possessor than bank stocks,
government bonds and interests IN
blocks of brown stone.
II, as . writer of prominence asserts,
spirituous liquors are the CAUSE IT nine.
tenths Of the murders committed, then
It 10 safe to say that torpid livers and
bad diGestions are the cause Of the re-
msinder; for ill-health sours the dis
position, and destroys the sweetest
temper in the world.
A we live, and the world moves On,
and our habits Of observation have
broader fields over which to roam, We
become painfully aware of the fact
that - race Americans arc physically
degenerating.
Go where we may, We hnd everybody
complaining of some ache or pain. No
body Il we'll. Everybody il taking
medicine. Pill makers become mil
liouaires in . few years; the man Of
bitters drives his four-in-hand and reszs
his family In . palace Of brown stone.
Why Is it?
10 the air less pure and health-Giving
than It was in the days Of our fore
fathers? Does the sun scorch out of the
atmosphere the subtle principle Of Vi
tality, or the moon drop down malarial
influences along with her rain Of silver
hght7 Docs the earth send forth pois-
ouous miasmas, and the clear rivers en-
gender more deadly fogs and vapors
than Of old7
Many of our men. nearly all Of our
women. are ''delicate." It Il headache,
or neuralgia. or dyspepsia, or indiges-
tion, or weakness in the limbs. or back,
and the least excrtion wearies, and h
Dor Of any kind is simply impossible!
Now. all this II mot - it should be.
Nature intended that We should be well
and strong, and able to endure the shal-
ing and rude jostling Of life. without
being laid up in consequence.
And again we ask. why l. it7
Well, then, in the 6rst place, 10 are
afraid Of tho kind OF labor known -
manual We work with our brains,
and our wits, but We don't like to bring
our hands to it.
From somewhere and somebody We
have got the idea that manual labor 10
not 20 dignified Is counting room and
oH3ce drudgery, and men who might Be
good carpenters and masons are con-
tent to become poor lawyers and book
keeper&
A hundred years ago our grandfa-
theirs and Grandmother were hale and
hearty. and did not dream Of such thing
- weak nerves and neuralgia
The men laid the ax 1t the root Of the |
forest oak. and cleared the smiling
fields which now greet our eyes. and
reared tho humble homes were our
parents were born. They had no serv. |
ants to help them - they struck the |
blows with their own strong arms. and
It night they were weary enough TO |
make their couches Of straw seem 70 |
them soft - down.
I0e women 3IIe0OeO 20 tO0 IxUBoA
household affairs and carded spun
md wove the cloth for the clothing Of
their families, and, when THU was done, |
hey went into the fields and welded
The hoe and the rake, side BY side with
heir husbands or brothers. and did not
have the headache on account Of It.
Our own grandmcther. who was .
raised English girl. left her
INJURIOUS home at the ago Of sixteen.
% become the bride Of Yankee sailor
-all for love-snd crossed the seas 70
his, then almost uncivilised, New Eng
and, and travelled with her husband.
n horsehaelG. moro than . hundred
niles inland 20 bowling wilderness.
Inhabited only BY bears and Indiana
nd forty miles from any white mans
. bitatio0.
Here she took up her LIE duties n .
mt built Of poles and rooted with bark
Iere she reared to IN honoeable man
,ood seven sons, and 70 . virtuous wo0r
uhood four daughters. and having
ived to re the desert around her oloe-
ON like the rose and The smoke Of CIV.
liz alton rise from hundEe0s Of 1reeides
a the thriving village which hed
psung up It they Seet passed quietly
way q The sge q ninety.0evea. hov'
r R4veS cpRsultq4 ~ desteg q 0a6o u