The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-09-01
GOOD HEALTH.
A Very Desirable, But Very Bare
Blessing.
Nature amended That We Should He Well
and atrong-Why Many of Us Are
hot So-A Lesson from
tho Pasn

tho Past.
II cannot be denied, we suppose. that
health, next to godliness, Is worthy Of
the first consideration
No one can be happy without health,
md there are no circumstances what
ever which can make one utterly miser-
able when his health is perfect.
"A sound liver, good, long wtnded
pair Of lungs, and free circulation Of
blood, are worth a great deal more to
the happy possessor than bank stocks
government bonds and interests in
blocks of brown stone.
II, as writer Of prominence asserts,
spdrituous liquors are the cause Of nine
.enths of the murders committed, then
II is safe to say that torpid livers and
bad digestions are the cause Of the re-
mainder; for ill-health sours the dis
position. and destroys the sweetest
temper In the world
Az 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 as q race Americans are physically
degenerating.
Go where we may, we find everybody
complaining of some ache OF pain. No
body is we'll. Everybody Is taking
medicine. Pill makers become mil
liouaircs in few years; the man of
bitters drives his four-in-hand and rears
his family In a palace of brown stone
Z Why is ii?
r IL the air less pure and henlth-givtng
than it was in the days of our fore
fathers2 Does the sun scorch out of the
atmosphere the subtle principle of VI
tality, or the moon drop down malariA
influences along with her rain of silver
hghta Does the earth send forth pois-
onous miasmas, and the clear rivers en-
gender more deadly fogs and vapors
than Of old?
Many Of our men, nearly all Of our
women. are delicate" Il Is headache.
or neuralgia, or dyspepsia, or indiges-
ton. on weakness in the limbs, or beck.
and the least exertion wearies, and la
bnr Of any kind IS simply impossible!
Now. all this is not as it should be.
Nature intended that we should be we'll
and strong. and able TO endure the shak-
ing and rude jostling Of life. without
being laid up in consequence.
And again we ask, why Is it?
Well. then, in the first place. u'e arc
sfruid of the kind OF labor known as
manual We work with our brains,
and our wins, but We don't like to bring
our hands TO IT.
oErom eaomewhere and somebody We
bsve, got the idea that manual labor In
not, 10 dignified a. counting room and
oface drpdgery, and men who might be
go6d carpenters and masons are con
teht to become poor lswyers and book
keepe1
"a hundred years ago our grandfa-
theirs and grandmothers were hale and
hearty, and did not dream Of such q thing
g weak nerves and neuralgia
The men laid the az at the rootof tho
forest oak. and cleared the smiling
fields wi1tch now greet our eyes, and
reared the humble homes were our
parents were born. They had no serv-
anita to help them - they struck the
blows with their own strong arms, and
at night they were weary enough to
make their couches of straw seem to
them soft a. down.
1uo WOkOcu dtUniEfc0 W tITC iTuSdi
household affairs, and carded, spun
and wove the cloth for the clothing o4
their families, and, when this was done,
they went into the fields and welded
the hoe and the rake, side by side with
their husbands or brothers, and did not
!, have the headache on account of It
y Our own grandmother. who was a
dalicaAely raised English girl, Left her
Injurious home at the age OF sixteen,
to become the bride Of Yankee sailor
ell for love--and crossed the seas t0
this. then almost uncivilized, New Eng
\ land, and Travelled with her husband.
ON horseback more than hundred
miles inland TO bowling wilderness,
iShAbited only BY bears and Indians,
&&0 forty miles from any white mans
habitatiOu.
Here abe took up her life duties In Q
hut built of poles and rooted with barl
Here abe reared to an honorable man
hood seven sons, and TO Q virtuous won,
snhood four daughters, and having
lived TO see the desert around her bios
som like the rose and the smoke OF civ
ilixstion rise from hundreds Of fresidei
4 M The thriving Village which hai
sprung mp at THAR teetu passed quietly
sway ct the sGp Of ninety.seysn. hay
ing n<vss S6aselSs& ~ 1eeeor Of snAdl