The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-06-10
GOOD HEALTH.
A Very Desirable, But Worry Raro,
blessing.
Nature Intended That We should Be Wen
and strong why Many o. Us Are
Not so-A Lesson from
the Past.

II cannot be denied, we suppose, that
health, next 70 godliness, IS worthy Of
the first 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 Of
blood, are worth great deal more 70
the happy possessor than bank stocks.
government bonds and interests In
blocks Of brown stone.
II. as q writer Of prominence asserts,
spirituous liquors arc the cause of nine
tenths of the murders committed, then
It Is safe to say that torpid livers and
bad digestions are the cause Of the re-
mainder; for ill-hcalth sours the dis
position, and destroys the sweetest
temper in the world
As 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 a race Americans are physically
degenerating
Go where we may, We find every body
complaining OF some ache or pain No
! body is well. Every body is taking
medicine. Pill makers become mil
lionaires in few years; the man Of
bitters drives his four-in-hand and rears
his family ina palace Of brown stone.
Why Is it2
Is the air less pure and health giving
than it was In the days of orr fore
fathers2 Does the sun scorch ont 81 the
atmosphere the subtle principle Of vi
tally. or the moon drop down malarial
influences along with her rain OF silver
light? Does the earth send forth pois-
onous mlasmas, and the clear rivers en-.
gender more deadly fogs and vapors
than Of old?
Many Of our men, nearly MI Of our
women, are delicate" 1t Is headache,
or neuralgia, or dyspepsia, or indiges-
ton, or weakness In the limbs, or back,
and the least exertion wearies, and la
Dor Of any kind is simply inpossiblei
Now, all this is not as 1t 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 Is it2
Well, then, In the first place, we are
afraid OF the kind OF labor known as
manual We work with our brains,
and our wits, but we don't like ID bring
our hands to II
From somewhere and somebody we
have got the idea that manual labor is
not so digniaed as counting room and
Office drudgery, and men who might be
good carpenters and masons are con-
tent to become poor lawyers and book
keepers
hundred years ago our grandpa
theirs and grandmothers were hale and
hearty and did not dream Of such thing
as weak nerves and neuralgia
The men laid the ak at the root OF the
forest oak, and cleared the smiling
fields which now greet our eyes, and
reared the humble homes were our
parents were born. They had no sery-
ants 70 help them they, struck the
blows with their own strong arms, and
at night they were weary enough to
make their eouches of straw seem to
them soft as down
The women attended to the frugal
household affairs, and carded, spun
and wove the cloth for the clothing Of
their families, and, when this was done,
they went into the fields and welded
the hoe, and the rake, side Nv side with
their husbands or brothers, and did not
have the headache on account 81 ii.
Our own grandmother, who was Il
delicately raised English gill, LEFT her
luxurious Nome at the age 81 sixteen.
TO become the bride Of d Yankee sailor
--all for love and crossed the seas to.
this, then almost uncivilized, New Eng
land, and travelled with her husband,
on horseback. more than hundred
miles inland 70 bowling wilderness,
inhabited only BY bears and Indians,
and forty miles from any white mans
habitation.
Here she took up her life duties in a
hut built Of poles and rooted With bark
Here she reared to an honorable man
hood seven sons, and u a yirtuous woin-
anhpod four daughters, and having
lived to see the desert around her bios.
som like the rose and the smoke Of ciy-i
ilization rise from hundreds 81 firesides
n the thriving village which had
sprung up at their feet, passed quietly
away at the age Of ninety seven, hay-
Ing never consulted the doctor Or made