Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

machine left the painting little runners
behind. this gray haired onlocIier smil
ing sadly remarked: Young America
all over. Nothing too swift for them
to race against" Yes. you couldn't
find filter eXemplification of the IA
miliar saying The child is the father
of the man thon in that group Of chill
dren racing against the train. It's bu>
a preliminary heat of the great race
their parents are engaged in. As Il
physician I realize as perhaps you do
not" he continued. the erroneous
change that 80 years have made in ou.
national life People point back TO
grandmothers and great grandmothers
and say
LOOK AT THEM.
Compare them with the women of to-
day. How straight they We're and how
strong. how hardy and how helpful
they We're. how heartily they ate and
how heartily they laughed. They didn't
smoke cigarettes and sip cordials and
depend on choral for sleep. They We're
a different race from the blOOdlesS.
dragged out. narcotic-and stimulant-
using women of today. Now that's all
true in general and yet it misses the
main point by failing TO consider The
vast difference in the conditions under
which life is being lived by the man
and woman of today. Our ancestry
sauntered through life.
Far from the madding crowds ignoble
strife
Their sober wishes never learned to
stray;
Along the cool seGuestered vale of life
They kept the even tenor of their way.
To-day. as men and women. millions
of US do in earnest what those children
did in play: we run a race daily
against steam. against electricity anil
all the modern appliances for speed.
Is it any wonder men and women take 10
stimulants and narcotics? 1t isn't de-
pravity. 1t isn't because we are less;
of women or less Of men than our an
ceStors It's because were keyed up
to the strainins point all the time, ant,
the nerves won't stand the daily
strains and drains without protest.
They call the effervescent bravery of
the man in liquor Dutch courage.
You might as well name the effervcs-
cent strength gained by stimulanrs
Butch strength 1t is not strength
at all"
There is ton of solid fact to reflect
on. suggested by the statement just
quoted. What are we going TO do:
This is the age of steam, the age ri
electricity. We must keep up in
THE GREAT RACE.
But how long can We keep up whcl.
We are depending on a false strength ,
No longer. relatively. than the chilGren
kept up their race with the train
What we need is more Drawn and less;
brandy. more blood and better blood.
It's as impossible to get strength from
stinlulants as to hatch turtle dove
from the egg of mud turtle. Strength
of body depends on pure and plentl :
full blood current, for science has never
advanced fact beyond the statement
of Moses that THE Blood is The Life. -
But every generation of investigation
shows the statement to be true in 4
wider. deeper and broader sense than
was dreamed of in the past. Bad blood
means bad morals. Foul blood and
foul living go together. The faint in
the blood has an echo in Salac1OGS
speech, a shadow in corrupt conduct.
Side by side with physical break-downs
we see the moral break-downs: de
faulting cashiers. dishonest clerks,
faithless husbands. false wives 1t all
begins with the blood. And any hope
of reform must begin with the blool
TOO. You can't divorce the mental and
moral from the physical. There is no
special food that feeds the intellectual
man. no mama of the mind. Ths,
mind is fed or starved as the body is
fed or starved. Thin blood and weak
nerves shake the throne of reason
Starvation of the blood and nerves
drives men and women to mental.
moral. and physical destruction. 1t l.;
easy to understand in the light of these
facts the reason for the enormous per-
centage Of cures effected by DR.
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. r.
begins at the beginning with the blood.
1t cures practically a wide range Of
diseases because many forms of dis
ease have their origin in the blood. 1t
is a scientific compound based, not
upon theory but upon the practical.