The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-10-24
DYSPEPSIA AND DESTINY.
Men Who Neglected Their Bodies
Failed When Success Was Nigh

Men Who Neglected Their bodies
Failed When Success Was Nigh.
Man has machine. an apparatus OF
delicate adjustment, but Of great pow.
er-hiS body-but too often he neglects
TO use It, says the Boston Globe. He
lets 1t rest In ease or slumber In soth
He coddles it. He arrays 1t in fine lin
en- and purple, bedizens it with Jewel.
and pampers 1t with indigestible foods
often sparing 1t the arduous labor OF
masticatlon. He permits it to sit awk
wardly with crossed legs or stopped
/ shoulders, as If the trunk was toe
fragile to hold up its limbs, or the
weight of the atmosphere was an Atlai
load for its back.
And what reward hath the mind fol
this indulgence granted the sybarit.
flesh? lngratitude and complaining ac
companied by accusations. The poor
debilitated muscles and nerves Justly
charge that the overseer mind has beer
neSlectful of its duties and. despisine
50 weak and ignorant a foreman desert
or rebel, and leave their should-be boss
impotent to carry out the true work OF
man.
The marvellous mind of Alexander
which ruled a world, had no discipline
for Its body after it became acquainted
with oriental pomp and seriousness
and disregarded the stalwart virilitv
with which in other days it tanned
Bucephalus.
Napoleon, busy with rearrangng the
map Of Europe. did not properly mas
ticate his chicken la Marengo and
allowed ii to pass in the rough into the
spoiled child Of a stomach, trusting to
the liver-a weak one inherited from
his father-to complete the lack of
maSticatiOn.
Probably the great disaster Of Leip-
zig was due to his careless eating.
Notaire has said the fate of a ma.
u"n often depended on the good or bad
digestion of a prime minister, and Mot
Icy declares that the govt of Charles
'. changes the dcstnies of the world.
Balzac Incompatible novelist. died
at 90 when he had planned for n life
OF rural rest. died because he allowed
the craving stomach to have coffee at
all hours and in great quantities: and
while his mind Sauntcrcd in all the
highways, lanes and alleys of human
society, his body. cablned in a monks
robe. took no exercise but stuck to n
garrett, except when sherlTs ap-
proach made flight n thing desired by
the agile mind.
In that delightful essay, Saints and
Their Bodies" Colonel Higginson says:
Three of the four Greek fathers ruin
ed their health early and were invalids
for the rest OF their days. Three only
or the whole eight were abe-bodied
men-Ambrose, Augustine and Athan-
asius-and the permanent influence of
these three has been far greater than
that Of all the others put together"
"He Is born for minister" Neyv
England parents once said of the puny
twigs Of the family tree. while they
dcputed the lusty limbs to bear the
Bullets of secular storms.
Luther scoffed at Juvenals axiom of
"A healthy mind in a healthy body
an axiom commended to the degenerate
Romans-but other religious leaders
have welcomed and needed the warn
ing contained In the saying OF the great
satlrist. If Calvin was an Invalid all
the days Of his life. George, Michael
and Martin were robust. If some noted
prelates have not treated their bodies
as they ought, we have seen even
delicate Leo XIII. illustrate to the let
ter, mems sana in corpore sano."
The longer woman has been mar
rled, the greater her wonder that she
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