The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-03
TAKE CARE OF TIE CHEST

Take care Of your chest, says Apply
steal culture teacher, ''and the rest o!
your body will take care of itself.
The chest is the chief thing to be re-
membered. Keep it well raised and
your head, spine and shoulders will
involuntarily assume their proper po-
sitions without any effort on your part.
The cry from parents and teachers
used to, Throw your shoulders back.
BIT this mistak n rot n is II W com
plentely exploded. The shoulders
have nothing to do with correct pes
ture. 1t is all the chest, and It's eleva-
ton or depression will regulate the
rest of the body. The chest is the
seat of all things spiritual, elevated
and enrolling. Bring it into prom
inence and you bring into prominence
the best qualities of your nature.
at has been said that whatever psv
Geological attribute is most marked
in a human being is correspondingly
most marked in his physical beng.
If he's a glutton, his stomach is most
in evidence; if a scholar or brain
worker, his head is sure to be thurst
we'll toward; but if he pres rves a pro-
per intellectual balance he walks with
his chest in advance of the rest of his
ody.
81. is curious, too, how one may
really influence lis own mental con
litlon IN this way. just try and &c
how impossible it is to say. 'Oh, how
happy am. with sunken ches' and
spent breath. One iuvoluutarily lifts
his chest and takes a good lorg breath
when he says anything optimistic and
brave, for if he dosent he might as
well say Have mercy on us miserable
sinners. The effect is the same.
There is no surer cure for the blues
like maladies than merely lifting
the chest and taking good, lon-
breath. 1t scares away all the buga-
boos Of pessimism
81 AN GWINE BACK no DE-"
They told me in the dining Car Of a
train on the Louisville and Nashville
road that in the smoking Car was an
old colored man who W S going South
to see his old plantation home again
before death claimed him. By and by
[ went in to have talk with him.
he was wrinkled and VIII te haired
and evidently very old, and when |
expressed wonder that his friends in
Kentucky should have let him set out
on such long Journey, he replied:
'Dey jes' couldn't help derseives,
sab. l tole de cbillun | was boun to
cum, an dey .ies' had ter let me cum"
"And how long since have you left
the old plantation:'
Way back in wah times, sab. |
dun went off wild some Yankee sojers,
an dats de las cher did see Of Mars
Thomas folks. Ize gwine down ter
sprize EN-
Where do they llve?'
"Jes' little outside Selma. Dey
tell me dar am great changes bout
Selma, but | reckon | kin walk right
down de road an fin de old planta-
ion light in de night. Dress de Lawd,
[ dom reckon | Guild hev closed desc
eyes in de'th if dey hadn't let me cum.
Oars bin such il longin' ter see de
ole place ag'in dat | ies' could mt stan
it no longer.
Three or four of us Clipped in to
get HIM his meals and make him com
fortablA, but we Saw that the journey
was telling on the old mans strength.
On the morning of the day we were
to reach Selma, | could see that he
was weak and nervous, and when |
sat down beside him he said:
'I'ze feelin' sor' oskerrt bout my
self dis mawnin.' | had er dream las
night dat | was walkin long de road
an met fun'ral perceshun, an when
[ axed who was gwine to be beried
white mau spoke up an sed: Pom my
soul, Eff dat amt Mars Thomas ole
niger Job what ruined off doorin'
de wah-Heah, boy, femme tole yer
sumthin.' Yer has come to- late ter
see yer ole master; OATS him in de
coffin dar, an he was ies' akin bout
yer jes' de day befo' he died
| told him dreams did not signify
anything, and after a bit had him
quite chirped up. | got him some
tobacco for his pipe, and saw that he
had some Breakfast, and as | left him
he smalled all over with happiness as
he said:
"Only two ours noah tell | get ter
Selma. | mos dun got dah!,'
Thirty minutes later the conductor
beckoned to three or four of us to
come into the smoking car. The old
man sat in his seat, leaning against
the side of the car, and seemed to be
sleeping.
"He's been dead ten minutes"
quietly observed the conductor, "and
he died as peacelly as child falling
asleep
So he had There was a smile on
his old black face--a smile of antici-
pation-and the pipe had not fallen
from his hand. Death had come like