The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-10-04
DYSPEPSIA Often
CHANGES DESTINY.
Men Who Neglected Their Bodies
Failed When Success
Was Nigh.

Man has a machine, an apparatus
of delicate adjustment but of great
/ power-his body-but too often he
neglects to use it. He let's it rest in
case or slumber in sloth. He coddles
1t. He arrays it in fine linen and
pampers it with indigestible foods, Of
ten sparing it the arduous labor of
mastication. He permits it to sit awl,.
wardly with crossed legs or. stopped
shoulders, as If the trunk was too
fragile to hold up its limbs, or the
weight of the atmosphere was an
Atlas load for it's back.
And what reward hail: the mind for
this indulgence granted the sybarite
flesh? Ingratitude granted the sybar-
poor, debilitated muscle and nerves
justly charge that the overseer mind
despising so weak and ignorant fore
man, desert or rebel, and leave their
shouldIbe boss impotent to carry out
the true work of man.
The marvellous mind of Alexander,
which ruled a world, had no discipline
for it's body after it became acquaint-
ed with oriental pomp and sensuous-
ness, and disregarded the stalwart viri
lily with which in other days il TAM
ed Bucephalus.
Napolean, busy with rearranging the
map of Europe, did not properly mas
ticate his chicken a la Marengo and
allowed it 10 pass in the rough into
the spoiled child of a stomach, trust
ing 10 the liver-a weak one inherited
from his falher-to complete the di-
gestive process or compensate for the
lack of mastication.
Probably the great disaster of Lcip-
zig was due TO his careless eating.
Votaire has said the fate OF ma
ton often depended on the good or
bad digestion of a prime minister,
and Motley declares that the govt of
Charles V. changed the desjiniCs of
the world.
Balzac, Incompatible novelist, died
at fifty when he had planned for IA
life of rural rest, died because he
allowed the craving stomach TO have
coffee at all hours and in great guam
titles; and while his mind sauntcred
in all the highways, lanes and alleys
of human society. his body, cabined
in a monks robe, took no exercise,
but struck to garnet, except when.
sheriff's approach made flight thing
desired by the agile mind.
In their delightful essay, Saints
and Their Bodies" Col Higginson says
Three of our four Greek fathers ruin
ed their health early and were inval-
ids for the rest of their days. Three
only of the whole eight were able
bodied men-Ambrose, Augustine and
Athanasius-and the permanent in
fluence of these three has been far
greater than that of all the others
put together"
HE is born for minister" New
England parents once said of the puny
twiss of the family tree, while they
deputed the lusty limbs to bear the
buffets of secular storms.
Luther scoffed at Juvenal's axiom
ora healthy mind in healthy body
an axiom commended to the degener
ate Romans-but other religious lead
ers have welcomed and needed the
warning contained in the saying of
the great satirist. If Valvin was an
invalid all the days of his life, George
Michael and Martin were robust. If
some noted prclates have not treated
their bodies as they ought,we have seen
even a delicate Leo XIII illustrate 10
the letter, 'mens sana in eorpore
no."-Boston Globe.