The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-28

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Of meeting temptation and error Win
fair expectation Of success than can
the ,ame over-xtimulated body BE-
looked for to meet and lo1g sustain
great physical c1e-tiol. In the moral
A. well as the physical emergencies %
life. the stunted Or abnormal bod*
mean a fight agains odds
We are thus far influenced BY fhe
recent admirable address delivered 70
the Greensboro schools by DR. huber
Register. a young Raleigh surgeon OF
wide reputation and t~houghtfuI chaF-
acter. The title 81 his lecture was the
phrase or Herbert spencer Physical
Morality. In a large sense. II may DC
considered { Discourse on MORALITY
Itself. Although making an arnes
plea for exercise Of a rational and m
teiligent character and d~eploring the
truth thar 50 little attention Is pald o.
the generality Of people 70 that bod4i>
strength which. a. a preventive. - the
only hope Of conquest over disease Or
Register properly devoted the larger
part or his address 10 the hygiene q
80 III aAA0 ~
children. especially girls. 1t IS char
acteristic Of people that the U IN
his respect should be only less the
subject OF effort TO remedy IL than y
is generally recognized. The hoy Is I
great fighter against the evils OF civil
zation. Along with a breakneck I'M
petuosity for cigarettes. he combines
the Alternative Of baseball, OF hunting.
Of hardy. muscle making game. As
a heritage Of long he has q reVcT-
ence and an ambition for strength tina
is the salvation of many a man who
in after years is slipping along the
easy path to inyalidism. h girl. on
the other hand, % much more depend
en- on health for happiness;-so mucn
more open To diseases restricted, re-
pressed and dwarfed. Her every pc
Rod of life is lived out Of sympathy
with nature. Her muscles are unGe-
veloped, her lungs are CONSTRUCTED. her
dict seems 10 be designed TO vitiate
appetite and to destroy digestion. Yet
it IS the girls to whom the future ooks
for the men, on whom it relies for
800
system in vogue would seem 10 con-
template a race suicide more thorough
and more Inevitable and remorseless
than that which the term has come to
eXpress-a suicide by starvation.
Eight out Of ten adult patients %
physicians. women Apart from the
duty to posterity, it would seem that
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very selfish desire for happiness, would
make for a more rational regime in
this realm of basic Importance.
AlInos at the same time President
Roosevelt was delivering a trenchant
address TO the youngsters at the school
attended by his son, Archie, in which
ne counseled them 20 play hard and
to work hard; not to be afraid of
knocks or of being rude; not to neg
lcct the training for battle. so that N
it after life they might put the wrong
doer out of the way and make the
man who does wrong feel that YOU are
his superior in strength and charac-
ter. If YOU cannot hold your own. then
YOU Will be a curse in any environ
ment."
There is a lesson for all the people
in these two strong speeches to chill
dre1, 4 lesson for men in their habit
with themselves, in their watchfulness
I'VE their own. Says the President
that If one has not the character
study, he Won have character to
play To a great degree conversely.
who does not give his muscles righr
work. cannot make the best of his
mind or, at need depend With equal
certainty on his moral sense. 1T IS
trite to say and hard to practice the
that does not procrastinate and that
imposes certain penalty for delay.
Every man needs the simple life in
his Dusiness-SimpIe food. simple cx-
erclse, natural sleep; needs to get out
in the air and breath deep; needs t.
know something of wood and stream
needs a strong. manly body that can
become tired without being exhausted
Unless he have it-and there is no 9TH
er wayne is spending capital where
he might be drawing interest, and he
end is bankruptcy. Men. it is true.
seem to have inherited in great meas.
ure the store Of vitality laid up for
them by strenuous forefathers They
great drivers of their minds. and
patrons of the drug stores.
The end may be deferred. but until
the debt is paid to Nature. the insol-
lency of their strength draws on apace.
But, however that may be. the chill
dren should have a chance The nat
ural tendency to regular sleep should
be fostered instead of defeated. PLAY
should be free, and work made q habit
Diet should be conformed to the
wholesome appetites with which chill
1ren are born and which they lose mix
through pernicious experiment.. Above
all the body should be left to grow
and to expand, and the muscles should
find every day their work. And. also.
should the brain get its proper daily
exercise, neither ~Over-excited nor per
to become lethargic. The ques-
Of a child are Natures kinder
garten and hOuld be encouraged and
But the child should not