The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-19


roptic meat ratio.s, and the young
stcrs grammar lesson after dinner.
Open The bedroom window and the
back door, and allow the children to
romp in the garden. Send them to
the country to spend the day with an
uncle who has good orchard or send
for barre. Of apples. Send for car
rcn!cr and let HIM turn the nursery
or the woodshcd into gymnasium
For the baby, spread a couple Of rugs
in comfortable corner and give the
poor little martyr chance to move
his crampcd limbs. Let him roll, e,
tumble and kick to his heart content
and complete his happiness By throw
ing the parcgorc bottle out of the
window.
Fatigue is a warning that the physi-
cal organism is being ovcrtaxcd, and
it is sad day for anyone who finds
out that he can rally the activity Of
the vital powers by means Of stimulat-
ing beverages. He mistakes the cf.
feet as sign of returning vigor, per-
sstcntly ignoring the circumstance
that the excitement is invariably fol-
lowed By prostration worse than that
from which relief was originally
sought. Feeling the approach Of q re-
lapse, the stiInulator again resorts to
his old remedy, thus inducing another
revival to be followed by increased
prostration and so on. Before long
the dose has to bc increased and the
stimulation becomes slave to his
poison. The stimulant habit in all it's
forms is dire dclusion. Playing
with these poisons is o losing game.
The sweetness Of the excitement is al
ways more than discounted in the in
cvitablc reaction.
The influence Of anti naturalism is
most strikingly illustrated in our su-
pcrstitious dread Of fresh mir. The
air Of tho outdoor world, the woods
and hills, is par excellence product
of naturc-of wild, free and untama-
bic naturc-and, therefore, the pre-
sumptivc source Of innumcrablc cy;' 5.
Cold air is the general scapcgoat of all
sinners against nature. If an old
glutton has cramp in the stomach,
he ascribcs it to an incautious expos
urc Oh coming home from late sup
per. Children are forced 10 sleep in
an unvcntilatcd bedroom till their
lungs purify with their own cxhala-
tions, and then the mother reproaches
herself for the most sensible thing
she has ever done, 'opening tho win
dows."
The old dyspeptic, with his closet
full of patent nostrums. can hrncstly
acquit himself of having yiel..d to
y natural impulse. After :. sIter-
,nv all summer behind herme really
:" ed windows, wearing flannel Ii
.days, abstaining from colo water
s'rn his stomach craved it, and swal-
living drugs until his appetite has
gl.en way to nausea, his conscience
bears witness that he has done VII
he could to suppress the original de-
pravity Of nature. Only once did the
enemy get n chance at him and that
was when the window was left up for
half minute. To that half minute
he attributes his rheumatism. The
truth is, that cold air often reveals
the existence of disease. Itinitiates
tho re-constructive process, and thus,
apparently, the disease itself; but
there is wide difference between
proximate and an original cause. The
only objection to draught through n
defective window is that the draught
is generally not strong enough. An
influx of fresh air into musty sick
room is a ray of light into darkness
messenger of Vishnu visiting an
abode Of the damned. Cold is dis
infectant to great extent, and under
the pressure of high wind modicum
of oxygen will penetrate house in
spite Of closed windows. This circum-
stance alone has preserved the lives
of thousands whom no cough
syrup or cod liver oil could have
saved.
This war against Nature is the pen
dulum 8 struggle against tho law of
gravitation; it is the school-boy's at
tempt to obstruct mighty river.
Swinging right, swinging left, the pen
dulum must return to the middle; tho
stream will find its way to the valley
athwart all dams, in spite of all OBJ
structions. We cannot suppress the
source Of natural instinct. All We
can achieve by such an attempt is to
divert The stream from its natural