Arizona republican., 1892-08-27
, tenn or hygiene wnicn to many persons
 would be very disagreeable and burden

| some. You must through the day keel yourself in an even temperature, avoid ing extremes of heat and cold, current! of air or sudden changes. You must mol engage too much in sedentary pursuits and you must not stand up too much You must not devote yourself to any work that keeps the body bent over { bench or desk, and you must not inhalt 1 dust or metal filings or chemical exhala | tions or the miasma of malarial dis tricts, or allow set bowls and other 1 plumbing in any room you inhabit. 1 You must be sure to take exercise ol 1 you are doomed to all sorts of disease, | and disasters, and you mustn't take toC ! much exercise or you become the victim i of another set of horrors quite as for ! midable; you must not use your brair too much, for the "gray matter" is di unfinished by every thought which regis ters itself upon that mysterious tablet If you economically refrain from all thought you probably come to bitter : grief, financial or otherwise, of which some wiseacre says, What pity he oi | Hllc hftAh tftVhHft d illtlC luOIt dDOul it." You mustn't get angry, for to lei your angry passions rise is to run the risk of apoplexy, heart disease or lesion of the arteries; you mustn't overeat, you mustn't eat in hurry, you mustn't gc too long fasting. You must, in short devote pretty nearly your whole time attention and intellect to keeping the human machine in the best condition and for what? Why, that it may remain alive to be taken care of some more.
 Is life worth the living if to "take care of yourself" is at once the means and the end of living2
 My own advice to persons of average capacity, health and position would be just the reverse of this stupid formality of take care of yourselfr' It would be- Do something! Spend yourself and get something for itl Make your mark and achieve success or, if need be, die in the attempt. But for heavens sake ! don't spend life in taking care of your self.
 Kindred to this axiom is one which is, with the very kindliest intentions, prof fered to me nearly every day of my life, and by friends so really anxious for my welfare that l seldom express the sen timents they never fail to arouse, and that is, ''Now don't get tired, whatever you dol"
 Sometimes do allow myself little fling in this direction, and one day as a friend left my office with these words l jumped up and, taking her by the arm, led her to steam press hard at work turning off sheet after sheet of a popular monthly, the whole process timed so that the magazine should be ready to appear upon the day promised to the news vendors.
 "See that poor machine" said l. "How wearing, and how injurious to it's existence that constant motion must be! Don't you think ought to tell the pressman to shut off the power and let the poor thing rest awhileT'
 Nonsense, dear," replied my friend, tits machine; it can't feel anythingr'
 ''No," replied l, but it can wear out, and it does. This constant action de- stroys any fiber subjected to it, whether of flesh or of iron. That press is slowly but surely wearing out in doing its duty, and so is this font in my head which supplies copy for the press. Both press and brain get tired, of course, and are wearing out and in fact sacrificing their own existence to the work de- manded of them. But suppose they cease doing so?
 Suppose l say to the press, There, dear, don't get tiredl Stop and rest awhile and conserve your strength. How would the magazine get printed?
 Suppose l say to my own brain: Rest a while! Put away all these busy thoughts and cares; lie idle or go to sleep, or amuse yourself in some light and airy fashion, Where would the material be upon which the press should work? Where would my employees bef Where all the business obligations and complications upon which the smooth working of the social and financial ma chine of my life depends?
 1.-The press has got to get tired and wear out and be replaced by another, that its work may be well and promptly done. So have l, so has every man and woman in this world who has anything to do, and does it faithfully. A person who never gets tired is a person who does not work up to his or her capacity, and no really energetic, ambitious and clear sighted worker is satisfied to do less"
 l don't know that said all of this in words to my bewildered, half amused and half offended friend, but thought it all, and then and there resolved to put it on paper, secure of the approval of all my fellow laborers, whether in litera- ture, business or handicraft. The per sons who, when they are told "Now don't get tired" respond, No, won't" and keep that promise are the persons who make no mark and fill no place in the world. And those who achieve a success and help hundreds of others to live by finding them employment must often and often be tired; tired in body and brain; tired of work, tired of them selves, tired of existence; and yet with no more intention of ceasing to tire themselves than the earth has of ceasing to turn over every day and in one weary year after another make its circuit around the sun.
 In some of these newisms and fanciful ideas about the sentiency of matter and the Buddhist ideas of all life reverting to one central life and entering into the karma of infinite and perfect rest, wonder if no theorizer has considered how very tired nature must be. She never ceases to work. while men are @'eep and half the surface of the globe