South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-11-14
PHYSICAL HEALTH
AID To SUCCESS
Dr.. Mary Owen Tells Y. w. C.
A. Members 1t is Necessary
to Make Mark in Any Field.
Is Basis of All Duty.

Explaining the need of physical
health if one is TO become a social
or business success. DR.. Mary Owen
gave a most interesting and helpful
talk before the girls OF the Y. w. G.
A. Friday evening. The talk was the
fourth in the series Of parlor talks
which the association is giving this
season. and was well attended.
"One of the most potent elements
in personality, for business success or
Intellectual achievement, is health.
said Dr. Owen. Not only is il re-
quisite for the power to perform the
work that comes 70 ones hands, but
the individual who radiates health
creates an atmosphere which inn
presses his fellOwmen favorably
Whatever promotes health tends to-
ward reserve power. and reserve
power tends toward everything that
makes life worth while-everything
that either constitutes life or adorls
It, The power TO attract. the power
10 do and be, means life in all its
richness and fullness. 1t has been
truly said, that the building Of a
perfect body. crowned by perfect
( brain i the grandest hope OF the
race.
To preserve health is a moral and
religious duty. for health is the basis
full when We are not well. Nature,
however. is an easy going ruler offer
ing many. alternative courses TO her
subjects There is scarcely any one
of her so-caIled laws which may not
he occasionally or even consistently
dehed, provided that other laws are
obeyed. Teachers of hygiene tell
us that personal cleanliness and well
cooked foods are absolute essential
TO health, and most important they
are-yet many apparently well nOur
ished people seldom indulge in "A bath
and enjoy life in spite of indigestbles
taken three times a day However
this does not afford an excuse for
needlessly defying natures laws II
only proves that il is possible even
for the poorest and worst circum-
stanced among us to be subjects suffi-
GENTLY loyal to maintain a fair degree
of health.
Nature is BOunteous.
Mature has been most bounteous
in her provision of fresh air. but how
loathe the majority of us are to avail
ourselves of her provision. The res
piration OF a very little impure air 1 s
times a minute for seven to ten hours
night does much to mar our activi-
ties for the oncoming day. Let us
pile on the covers If need be but let
the oxygen come to our lungs freely.
Do not wait till natures resources are
exhausted before we take the fresh |
air cure.
THE lurking quality Of disease is
not more mysterious than other mys-
teries. 1t will yield TO explanation II
we address ourselves to the task. !
The majority of the ills of life are
the accumulated consequences Of the
small misdeeds. It was once thought
that polluted air did no danger but
to the lungs, that the effect If bad
teeth began and ended with bad teeth,
that tonsilitis was purely a local con-
dition-but now we know that fresh |
air is natures food for the entire sys-
tenn, that the teeth drop poison into |
the wells OF the stomach that in |
famed tonsils provide an entrance for
poisons which lead to rheumatic con- |
ditions of the joints and serious or
ganic charges of the heart.
our ills may be traced 10 seemingl'
small transgressions. However these !
dolorous facts have an optimistic as
we'll as a pessimistic bearing, for here |
our encouragement lies in the very at |
tribute af man from which these facts !
derive their most sinister significance !
That attribute if Elasticity. If the |
cumulative effects of small abuses can |
destroy a plastic being, the cumulative |
effects of small reform can redeem |
him And for the required small re-
forms we need look no farther than |
the small transgressiOns which are
the real causes of our ills.
Therefore the avoidance of all |
known causes OF disease should, |
through the mysterious unity Of the |
body suffice to prevent in some large
measure, all diseases whatsoever |
Let us then have a determination 20 |
make the best OF our surroundings |
instead of the worst. Seek and utilize |
knowledge Of natures constantly |
abiding gifts and we are all we'll upon |
the road of right living and the en- |
joyment and bliss of health
LOTUS EYE BALM. Soothes and |
strengthens the eyes, Clears the sight |