The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-07
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complain OF i'll health and volunteer
a remark about overeating, under
sleeping. or excess of some kind.
Often people will frankly admit the
great truth that they do not take care
The habit of disregarding health
rufes when health Is good has many
applications. The athlete often
comes to an early breakdown. quite
as much because he does not take
care Of himself as because he neglects
the exercise that made him strong.
Various deadly diseases overtake men
of powerful frame and strong consti-
buttons because they make no attempt
to control their appetite for food.
Persons who have never been Ill. who
do not know what It is to be SICK"
are often the most likely to expose
themselves to various health hazards
A correspondent OF the Springfield
Republican cites three old sayings
that bear upon the point They are
worth remembering and needing. The
first is from Washington Irving: "A
pitcher lasts longer for having a flaw
in tit is SO much better taken care
Of" The second is the quaint obser-
walton of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
IF you want to live to be 100 years
old. be sure early in Life to contract
an incurable disease" The third II
the anonymous statement that ma
son with latent power of longevity
of which he had no conception" The
recuperative powers of the human
body are wonderful The vitality of
the individual is great beyond belief
How many persona OF our own ac-
Quaintance have successfully fought
or death for years upon years.
though struggling all the time with
one foot in the grave? Why do not
people who are strong and seemingly
healthy take some precaution against
exposure and rash living? Men and
hardship. will actually suffer at
times that they may save money, but
make not the slightest effort to save
their own bodies. People who are
mtserly about money ought to have
sense enough not to be prodigal with
to have over-developed foresight only
In one direction.-Dayton News.
POWERS OF IMAGINATION.
1t was in an old Mc0uffey reader that
was taught the homely little moral Of
THE Friendly Mile Post" The youth
on his nights journey, who, though ia
miliar with the place where the old
post stood. could make nothing out of
those wide stretched arms transf1xed
against the darkness but a hideous
monster to devour him. yet night being
OF him. he saw no means of escape.
The longer he gaxed the wider stretch
ed the arms Summoning at last q false
courage. forth he went to meet his
doom AZ bravely as q country boy
could.
All. well, thought he,
One thing I've learned,
Nor shall soon forget:
Whatever frightens me again.
I'll march straight I'D to It,
But the lesson did not stay with
you, infallibly; you embarked on LIES
journey only to md an enemy In every
other friendly mile post you met. All
along the way these sentinels stand,
pointing the right road, and in your de-
fusion you mistake them and choose thu
opposite way. finding. after you are
worn and wearied and chilled by the
long. dark journey. that what you
thought was your enemy was in really
your friend. the ghostly image being
but the reflection OF your own disor-
dered imaginations. Had you stopped
to consider that where this frighfful
apparitton stood was exactly where. as
you knew, the friendly mile post had
always BEEN you would have scorned
that subconscious suggestion Of fear,
that assumption Of trouble, and gone
straight up to the mark. ImaRination
e great faculty II properly controlled.
Uncontrolled. let loose to run fts
course unframmeled, breeding its kind.
red passions Of prejudice, fear, hate.
malice, 1t becomes q menace, haunt
Ing us with its fantasies and fallaciea.
uniting US for high purpose. Yet IL
owells latent or potent In every human
breast. master or servant, according to
ne sfrength Or weakness Of the WILL
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