The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-12-18
How to Preserve Health.

them sickens with scarlet fever and
another with whooping cough, and
another falls from tree and breaks
an arm or collar bone. Your part
ner in business Is grumpy your best
stenographer announces her engage
ment and the clerk you depended up
on goes to another house. while the
one who was inefficient and incapable
stays on your hands. You don't want
to dismiss him because you have a
soft-hearted feeling that IL he is out
Of work his wife and children will suf
fer. SO 1t goes. At the best OF times
there is occasion for lot Of worry
In this world unless we make up our
mind firmly that worry is both weak
and wicked and that we will not walk
this road carrying it as pilgrim-pack
to crush our strength and bow our
shoulders Take the road cheerfully,
friend. Philosophy and faith and re-
ligion combine to bid you cease use.
less worry.
Gods in His heaven,
Airs right with the world"
In the art of keeping well, the art of
keeping an easy mind takes high
place.
Avoid drugs. Avoid stimulants
Avoid crutches. The habit of resort.
ing to pick-me-up of some sort when
one feels the faintness of exhaustion
is fatal Drugs should never be taken
except by the order of physicians who
have a reason for prescribing them.
| Whether they excite or depress the
| heart, whether they give transient
! sense of increased power or tran.
silent desire to sleep, they are not for
you and me to NEEDLE with. Especial
ly unwise If you wish to keep well, is
the yielding to temptation in the mat.
ter Of bitters, cordials or other liquors
and syrups having an alcoholic basis
Tea and coffee are the only stimulants
in ordinary use that may be taken
with safety, and it is an open question
whether or not nine-tenths of us
would not be much better If we used
them sparingly. The effect on the
nervous system of too much indul
gence in either tea or coffee is mark
ed. Nobody can be called well who
acknowledges slavery to any article
of food or drink. We should rule oui
diet, not let 1t rule us.
In order to keep well, we must cal
regularly, Three meals day is a good
rule for some; others may need -four
or FIVE, and others may do better and
be more comfortable If they limit
themselves to two good deal de
ponds on ones tendency to leanness
or to flesh, and a good deal also de
ponds on the work one has to do
Dyspepsia is due to eating too much
or eating when one is over-tired, SO
that the brain cannot supply enough
nervous fluid to aid digestion. For
our national tendency to dyspepsia
there is not the slightest excuse. II
is always a blunder and often crime
Violation of Gods laws written sc
plainly that we may read them with
out spectacles, is at the bottom of the
anguish and irritation OF dyspepsia.
II you would keep we'll do not for
get that the wasted tissues of the
body are repaired by sleep. Plenty
of sleep in well ventilated rooms, with
a good conscience viii do much to
make you well If you are i'll, and to
keep you well in ordinary circumstan
ces. Tired natures sweet restorer
balmy sleep" sleep that knits III
the raveled sleeve of care is the hand
maid to perfect health"
Copyright 1906. by Joseph b. Bowles)