Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-05
DYSPEPSIA AND DESTINY.

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 1t, says the Boston Globe. He
lets 1t rest In ease or slumber In sloth
he coddles it He arrays it in fine lin.
en- and purple, bedizens 1t with jewel,
and pampers 1t with indigestible foods
often sparing 1t the arduous labor OF
mastication. 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 Atlas
load for its back.
And what reward hath the mind for
this indulgence granted the sybarite
flesh? Ingratitude and complaining ac
companied by accusations. The poor,
debilitated muscles and nerves Justly
charge that the overseer mind has been
neglectful of its duties and, despising
so weak and ignorant 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 world, had no discipline
for Its body after 1t became acquainted
with oriental pomp and seriousness,
and disregarded the stalwart virility
with which In other days 1t tanned
Bucephalus.
Napoleon, busy with rearranging the
map of Europe, did not properly mas
ticate his chicken a la Marengo and
allowed it to pass In the rough into the
spoiled child of a stomach, trusting to
the llver-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.
Voltaire has said the fate of a ma
ton often depended on the good or bad
digestion of prime minister. and Mot
ley declares that the govt of Charles
V. changes the destinies of the world.
Balzac, Incompatible novelist. died
at 90 when he had planned for life
or rural rest, died because he allowed
the craving stomach to have coffee at
all hours and in great quantities and
while his mind sauntered in all the
highways, lanes and alleys of human
society, his body, cabined In a monks
robe, took no exercise. but stuck TO a
garrett, except when a sherifns ap-
proach made Fight a thing desired by
the agile mind
In that delightful essay. Saints and
Their Bodies" Colonel Higginson saws.
Three Of the four Greek fathers ruin
ed their health early and were lnvalids
for the rest OF their days. Three only
OF lie whole eight were able-bodIed
men-Ambrose, Augustine and Athsn-
asius-and the permanent influence of
these three has been far greater than
shat of all the others put together.
HE Is born for a minister New
England parents once said of the punv
twigs of the family tree, while they
deputed the lusty limbs to bear the
Bullets of secular storms.
Luther scoffed at JuvenaI's axiom of
4 healthy mind in healthy body
IN 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. II Calvin was an Invalid all
The days OF his life. George, Michael
and Martin were robust II some noted
prelates have not treated their bodies
rs they ought. we have seen even a
delicate Leo MIL illustrate to the let
ter. ~mens sana In corpore sano"