The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-09
AVOID EXTREMES.
The Efforts to Reach Them
Recorded in Wrinkles
and Lines.
THREEGREAT HEALTH REsT0RERs
The Age Of Love - Fashionable
Basques and C~ollars-To
Freshen the Table.

We are probably unaware of ever going
70 extremes ourselves. yet are quick to
notice and condemn the many extremists
that are all about us. How common they
are. after all-these people who go to ex-
tremes-you tell them that fasting and
dieting is good for the health, and
straightway they fast to the verge of
starvation at the approach of any fancied
ailnlent. if they are told that exercise
is good. they accordingly exercise to
exhaustion, never seeming to real
ize that moderation in all things is
wisest.
We meet those who are extremists in
tho matter of fasting from meat, and
others who are equally opposed to vege-
tables, or sugar, and still others who
the fact hat these knew. personaliy,,
many people addicted to all these things,
yet enjoying an unusual degree of good
EXERCISE BRAIN AND MUSCLE.
some against the con-
slant use OF the brain, go to the other
sibie, and the body to the full extent Of
its powers Now, to exercise the mus
ercise the brain is quite as dangerous as
the reverse. AS the brain governs every
motion Of the body. it WI be readily
overworks the body and negiects the
brain is not wise. because the brain I'M
der such circumstances will become weak
and other Important functions OF the
body.
One has only, to observe the certain
classes of people to learn the result of
extremes in this direction. Take the
average farm people who toll in the fields
and worn out by muscular activity, re-
with the birds and to bed with the birds,
having neither time nor inclination for
rational amusement or reading, much
less for study. 1t will be noted that they
age early, the women looking really old
at thirty. and the men venerable at
fifty; bowed in form, wrinkled in yisage.
had long passed their three score years
and ten. Similar conditions exist among
certain classes in great. cities and in
smaller towns, people .devoting them
selves entirely to muscular laborS grow
ing old in about the same time as ordin-
airy farm folk. A different state of af-
fairs is observable where farmers en-
pioy the modern labor-saying inventions,
and the careful study and reading SO inn
Of this class usually present the ideal
life of combining culture and enjoyment
with heaithful pursuits and surround
youth and vigor even beyond the allotted
time in many instances.
As a proof that brain activity COM
carried to excess. keeps one youthful
and vigorous even beyond the allotted
time, one need only observe the numer-
BUS cases known in the ranks of the
literary world, where both men and
women are bright and active, n cap
able of producing good work beyond
seventy and even up to eighty years of
age. 1t would be difficult to find many
instances in the ranks of the muscular
workers such as these. It should be
noted. however. that these hale, hearty
old brain workers nave not been such
as have prodded and goaded their brains
to extra efforts by means of nervous
stimulants, the use of which is growing
siona people. and even among hard
workers of other classes. Just so soon
as one feels the necessity of artificial
stimulation to enable one to keep up
with the usual work, the discovery has
been made, whether consciously or not,
use of either body or brain. To such he
importance of rest should be understand
as a first means of r~ecuperation, and
pure, fresh air, in other words y 6
which can be taken h~abitually with
safety.
Sunshine, sleep and fresh air are the
three great restorerS and vitalizerS of the
human frame; as such they are neces-
stiles to existence; yet many people tax
night. and without realizing that they
are extremists in this direction, they
wonder why they become victims to ner-
vous prostration, paralysis, st. Vitus'
dance, hysteria and kindred disorders.
Exercise ranks almost equal in import
ance to these three restorers; with a due
amount of these four, almost any human
being born of healthful parents may en-
joy good health, but it is of the greatest
Importance. to add to these, and above
things if we would enjoy Me very best
that life holds in store for uA