The Worthington advance., 1895-04-25

are fully and perfectly we'll. In
the absence Of specific disease,
there is feeling of unrest. Our
energies have been overtaxed, and
a feeling of lassitude is the result.
Our digestion is little impaired,
and we have a ''heartburn." We
INDUCED in a little excess of some
kind on yesterday, or robbed our
selves of little sleep last night,
and as a result, we are little tsoff'
today. But let some one ask con-
corning our health, and We reply,
''quite we'll, thank you!' In fact,
we are not we'll, and yet we are not
what the world calls sick. We
continue in this course, and after
a time, positive and we'll defined
ailment is the result. When we
find that we are confirmed invalids,
and take retrospective view of
the past, we find it difficult to
determine just where, and when,
we became sick; but that we are
in such condition now, there is not
a doubt. The fact is, alas, too
apparent. +
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All that we have said of the body,
may, with great propriety, be said
of the mind. There are few per-
sons who are perfectly sane. The
mind is as suceptible to hurts and
wounds as the body. It suffers
from overwork, and exhaustion, the
same as the body. It is wrought
up to an abnormal tension by an
excess of joy, or grief, or fear, as
is the body by undue physical
exertion; and the depicting effects
are the same. Study, grief, and
disappointment, are all weighing
upon it. Untoward and unfriendly
circumstances are overburdening
and pushing it aside from it's.
natural and accustomed bent.
From these abnormal circum-
stances, it becomes dwarfed; and
if it continues to grow, it will grow
crooked, and become distorted.
Instead Of the beauty, and the A
symetry of proportion which
nature intended, it becomes
gnarled and twisted, in which
condition it naturally gravitates in
the direction of that peculiar
lunacy, known as ''crankism," and
from which there is but a single =
step to insanity. Ask when such
an one became insane, and when
definite and exact'answer is given,
we will disclose the exact period at,
which pig ceases to be pig, and
begins to be hog.
***
The unfortunate suicide is
always said to be insane, but the
extent of his alteration is not
mentioned. That many who were
in comparatively healthy condi-
ton of mind have seen fit to take
their own lives, there is not a
doubt. Instances are frequent,
when victims of the suicide mania
have made reasonable and equit-
able disposition of their worldly
effects even down to the smallest
detail, leaving words of tenderness
and regret for those whom they
had loved, and words of forgiven
Dss to those from whom their
affections had become alienated.
They have given sensible and good
advice concerning the future con-
luct of their families, and tie
raining and education of their
children. The world calls them
insane, but surely they are not so
much so, as many who continue to
i've and are never accused of men,
al trouble. A more sensible view
# the question is, that all such as -.
axe the fatal step have been de-
'ating, in their own mind the 1
question as to whether 'life was
worth living,'' and, Unfortunate ly, +.
he conclusion reached was of a :.
negative character. It is common
o say of a suicide: He had nerve" :" ]
This is not true. at least in any
degree. 1t often requires Il
braver man to live, than to die. #