The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-26
DUMAS GOLDEN RULES.
The Authors Prescription for Health
Wealth and Wisdom.
From the Figar

rom the flBarO.
walk two hours every day; sleep seven
hours every night go to bed always alone
If you need to sleep: get up as soon as
you wake: work as soon as you get up;
eat only when you are hungry, and drink
only when you are thirsty; and eat and
drink always slowly.
Never speak except when II is neccesa-
rs. and never say more than half OF what
you think. Never write anything that
| you cannot sign, and never do anything
that you cannot avow. Never forget that
others will count upon you. and that you
must never count upon them. Value mon
ey at its real worth. neither more nor
less. 1t is a good servant, but bad mas
ter.
Keep away from women until you are
20. and avoid them when you are 10.
Never attempt to produce anything with
out a thorough understanding OF that
which you undertake. and destroy as lit
tie as possible. Pardon everybody before
hand, to be on the safe side. DO not de-
spise men: do not hate them, and do not
laugh a. them beyond measure. Pity
them.
Think Of death every morning when
you see the light, and every evening on the
approach OF darkness. When your suffer-
ings are great look your grief in the face;
1t Will console you itself and teach you
something. Try to be simple, to become
useful, to remain free, and before denying
God wait until somebody proves to you
that He does not exist.
For a man and for a woman there il
a succession of duties to be fulfilled which
enables them to look always ahead and to
become accustomed to the absence of the
objects of their most dear affections The
world would finish too quickly II the first
child was not able to survive the death of
the first mother.
'Misfortunes and trials attack nobla
souls without hurting them They are
like the rocks of granite that the sea
covers in times OF tempest with its flu
rious waves, fancying that II is drown
ing them, while 1t is merely washing
them, so that they reappear again in the
sunlight more polished and more shining
than ever. Adversely embellishes those
that 1t cannot cast down. BY the law
OF nature a man should have many chill
dren lie should raise them well so that
they may be useful: and he should love
them so that they may be happy To get
married when a man is young Is healthy:
TO choose, In no matter what class a good.
honest girl; to love her with all his heart
and soul, and to make her a reliable com
panion. and prolific mother; to work
10 raise his children. and to leave them
when dying the example of his Ife-that
Is the true meaning and object of life;
the rest is only error, crime, or folly.
In truth, the average man is only
above ambient humanity on one single
plane, virtue; and, as there can be no
virtue without humility, those alone have
the right to consider themselves the su-
periors Of others to whom the knowl-
edge that they are superior is denied.
Talent, and especially its higher form
called genius, is involuntary It is not
the result of the efforts Of man; II is.
like beauty. the gift of God. That is why
1t Is OF secondary order; and posterity
Will only remember it for it's virtue. its
sincerity, and its communion in univer-
sal progress. Glory for glory's sake is
a shameful speculation.
1.-THE men who rejoice in their celebrity
are simpletons; the men who are proud
Of their genius are fools.
There is one thing that is especially
beautiful in great and pure affections.
and that Is that after the pleasure which
they afford has passed away, there re-
mains the happiness Of their recolIec-
ton.
Very often an unexpected grief or an
unmerited misfol tune gives to a man an
energy and a perseverance which he
could never find in happiness. And after
such trialA man often becomes superior
who would have remained simple and
vulgar II he had always been happy. He
who Is without energy when young will
never have it, Grit is not a winter fruit;
II never grows IA the snow.
zone may expect everything from a
man Of energy TO whom misfortune haa
given courage and ambition.
Alexandra Dumas nls."