Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-04
MICROBES WITHIN US--NHY?
Will Carleton, Poet and Athlete, De-
clareS the Healthy Man
The Favorite Of the World His
Sleep That Of the Trusting Child
of Nature-Delights in His Break
fast, Other Meals Incidental
Work and Amusement Always
Welcome.

Work and Amusement Always
Welcome.
The perfectly healthy man-healthy
in body, mind and souls king, in
whatever place he enters; welcome ev-
erywhere, successful everywhere. His
sleep is not an alienation of wakeful
dependency and idotic dreams; but
cradle sweet as any he ever enjoyed in
babyhood; he enters it each night as
the trusting child of nature, and springs
from it every morning better man
than ever before. His breakfast is de-
lightful to him, as is food to a fasting
traveller in the desert; for his stomach
is out of employment, free from all
complications and encumbrances, and
waiting for an engagement. His other
meals are pleasant and beneficial inici-
dents of the day. His work is a useful.
thrifty sort of amusement; for If mind,
soul, and body, contain perfect health,
taheir every action and movement is
thrill OF delight. His amusements are
full of the most delicious enjoyment,
for not one Of the senses with which he
welcomes them, has been blunted.
Whatever his name, he is favorite
of the world. Men respect and honor
him-women love to look at him-child-
rem conflde in him. He is power
among enterprises, star among enter
tainments, a potent help in the midst
of sorrow and pain. He is not restrict
ed to any country-he Is a prisoner of
no weather, and fugitive from no
climate. He is an inhabitant Of the
world.
Changes in the airs temperature,
sudden or gradual, effect upon him only
their legitimate mision-and that is.
to improved he human body by trying
and strengthening different portions Of
it. The drumming rain drops are 10
him a healthy bath; the chilly snow
drifts are merely white yielding car
pets upon the firm floor Of the earth;
the rays of the sun are forge fires hard-
ening his muscles and warming his
blood.
The perfectly healthy man is not all
the time looking forward to death; he
has no foreboding of it; no sense of
what it is like. He never grows old.
He is young 20-at 30-at 50-at 70.
His powers of mind draw compound
interest from the beginning, and the
with
the years in geometrical progression.
He has the new and peculiar advant-
ages from every turn of life. In each
succeeding month, he is capable of
something useful and glorious that he
was never able to do before. In pro-
portion to that Of power and conse-
quent usefulness, his happiness accumu-
lates: barring accident, he approaches
Heaven on roads paved with material
from Heaven, and enters into 1t at the
price of no throbs of earthly physical
pain.
But who is he Do you know him
this man thoroughly healthy in body,
mind and soul. This mortal who does
not cary upon or within his person
some malady more or les concealed
Find himl and then dispatch word
to the museums, that they have not
real. genuine curiosity in all their col
lections.
II.
SICKNESS A LAW-WRECKER: A
MOUTHFUL OF BREAKFAST IN
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ING BLESSINGS INTO CURSES
BUT ILLNESS SOMETIMES EX-
HIBIT GRACE AND HEROISM-
THE INVALID NOT A GENUINE
RESIDENT OF THE WORLD-THE
PREFERENCE OF GODS EXECU-
TIVE OFFICER.
The sick man is an innocent or
guilty aW-breaker-a violator or the
rules of God and Nature. Health is
1.-The fulfilling of the law; it is the law;
Il is the only law. Sickness is the great
law-wrecker-simp an obstruction in
the sublime machinery of the universe.
Physically speaking, sickness Is a
mouthful of breakfast in the Internal
regions; it is a part of them. Heaven,
whether a city, country, or a combi-
nation of feeling and thought, has for
its other name order; and hell is disor-
der in its dingiest glory and at its MUIR
derous best. Very appropriately is
sickness called disorder!
The sick man soon feels that he is
not a genuine resident of this world; ne
cannot fellowlwith his neighbors; he is
an exception-an Instruction. ten
DERBY created outcast. If he has no
friends around him, the world is wiring
ing his heart: if he has friends, he is,
in spite of himself, constantly wringing
their hearts. He looks upon the flash
ing oars of healthy striving yoyagers,
far in advance of him, still forging
ahead; and feels himself in the thorn
upholstered stern-sheets of a tossing,
rudderless boat, drifting he knows not
where, but sure of one thing-that he is
soon TO sink.
With the great majority of its victims
sickness can turn every blessing OF God
into a loathsome curse-the exhilarat-
ing walk into an agonizing struggle
the life-giving food into the hiden thrust
of a steel blade-the friendly visitor in
to a death-laden ghost. 1t creates
wall of pain, the only windows of which
exhibit the world as a country Of mon
sters.
Not but that sickness sometimes
draws out and exhibits heroism-and so
do merciless sieges, unjust wars, fierce
prosecutions, and murderous holocausts;
but that is no recommendation of the
wars. the prosecutions, and the sick
nesses. Those who, in spite of all they
non do must Suffnr main hecauSp Of