The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-19
HEART CULTURE.
A New Cure for All the Ills That
Flesh Is Heir To.
Its votaries Believe in the Building Up
and Development of the Spiritual
Together with the Physical
Parts of Man.


Here is another new science. Its vo-
taries call it hearticure, which is under
stood to be a word invented in contra
distinction to manicure. Manicure, or
the culture of the hand physical, is ac-
knowledged to be well enough in its
way. But as heart and hand must
work together to effect any permanent
good, the hearticurists aim to begin at
the beginning with the unseen, the in
ward and the spiritual in contradistinc-
ton to the outward and visible. Since
the hand is powerless to act, unless the
pendulum of the body, the heart, keeps
even stroke and swings in harmonious
time, they propose to open school for
the culture of the heart spiritual.
Physical culture, to which so much
time and attention have been given, is
considered as of but secondary impor-
lance. Why? Because the spirit alone
in man is that which animates.
1t is proposed to open classes for the
heart spiritual, having for u motto:
'Do as you would be done by"
Most of US know this motto by rote,
Just as we learned many of our lessons
at school, when we crammed our brains
with book knowledge of dead past,
which could be of little use to us prac-
tically. The hearticurists point to the
fact that too much brain work, over
study for the cultivation of the brain,
has always been in excess of the Gull
tivation of the heart, as is evidenced by
the heartrending headings of our daily
press news, such as: Suicide of an
only daughter, brought on by over
study" Study of what? they ask.
Book study is the answer, a study which
will be of little value to woman after
she has taken unto herself the duties of
wife, mother and home. Does book
lore, does schoolroom lore, make all
that is required of wife, mother, COM
panion or friend? NO" answers the
hearticulturist; thousand times no!
So they say let book learning be sec
ondary to the culture of the heart. Let
US begin in the kindergarten with the
cultivation of the heart. Then, indeed,
shall we have a new race of men and
women, and our children in the next
generation, at least, will rise up and call
us blessed because we have planted the
seeds of tenderness and loving care for
others, to the exclusion of self and all
that is gross and worldly. 1t is for us
now, in this our day and generation,
when crime stalks boldly in broad day
light, shamelessly defying public veal,
seeking only its own. To what are we
to attribute all this crime, all this wick
edness in high places? Why, to our
own fundamental error-neglectt to Gull
tiyate the heart of the young while in
the nursery.
Let us work together, they cry, Shout |
der to shoulder, to emancipate genera
lions yet unborn. Let us begin now
also to instill principles into the hearts |
of our young men and maidens of mar
riageable age which shall bring forth !
fruit ahundantiy when in the divine |
order of nature they shall become par
ents. Is it not high time to inquire into |
cause, while hitherto we have only been
strain:ng after effect?
In what avails the culture of the |
body of man that shall perish |
and return to the dust whence it came? |
Let us relegate all save heart culture to
the place whence it belongs. Too long
have so-called mental and physical cul-
tlre usurped the first place, the place of
honor. to the exclusion of the cultiva-
ton of the heart spiritual; too long
have we made clean the outside of the
platter, the external, ignoring the Gull
ture of the heart, the motive power of
our existence.
''Do unto others as you would have
them do to you" must be imbibed with
the mothers milk, instilled from
earliest infancy, if we would have q self
racce, if we would have the
brotherhood of man exemplified on
earth. Good will bring peace to man
and glory to God. So let us begin at the
Teach good win and peace
viii follow. Wars and runors of wars
viii cease. Wars domestic, wars social,
wars political and wars physical-in
fact, no war, no cause Of war can exist
when the golden rule becomes living
factor in our daily experience.--Chica
20 News.