The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-28
THE STRONG MAN
Estate Board of Health Bulletin)

gent watchfulness, but even this
does not take from the value Of the
kind we pay premiums to secure.
OF course, sickness comes to most
OF us sooner or later in spite Of all
precaution, and death is the certain
end that none can escape.
Every normally healthy man has
the firmest faith in his star, or his
luck, that it will bring him un-
scathed through the dangers that
beset all alike. His faith is strength
&c by his experiences which have
brought him few or no lapses from
the vigor or physical, or both. He
has little patience with the constant
complainings of others, and from his
viewpoint of splendid health. it is
difficult to entertain as valid any
excuse that are offered by such COM
planners.
1t is doubtless true that most, or
many, of our physical ills, are large
ly imaginary, matters of habit or Of
laziness. They frequently are tenn
peramental and are INDUCED be-
cause the would-be sufferer has no
urgent occupation or because he, or
she, can afford it financially. With
such persons the busy, vigorous man
has no sympathy, and othen he may
include in his classification some
who honestly have claim on such
sympathy.
tBpt what are a few of the me-
naces that threaten the busy, vigor-
Gus man?
Pride goes before a fall, and the
fall is inevitable to all, though of
ten long delayed. For such a man
the matter of growing old in his
hardest task, or rather the realiza-
ton of the fact that at fifty he has
lost irretrievably some of the ply.
steal strength of twenty.
Florida has some menaces fol
such a man that other cooler
:. climates do not threaten. There /.
= need for him Of rest, or vacatio,
from the urgent, pressing duties o
his life. And how few of this kin,
of men--men to whom the mere col
seriousness of living and being abl
to do things is joy-know how Il
rest. They laugh when the idea I
D. suggested that they go beyond tn
y reach of business responsibilities
4 beyond the reach of mails and tele
" graph wire, and forget for time
their real burdens.
e Inevitably the long continued hea
. Of Florida summer, although
, is rarely excessive "gets on OF,
nerves." The need for most bus
:. Floridians is bit Of cold, touc
~ of invigorating frost in some north
" ern state or in the higher elevation
IL of Southern states.
&c But there are other dangers, tn
. littlethings that at most are mer
- when they are passed. The sudde
vi shower that drenches the ma
~ caught away from shelter, leaves il
ie mark unless dry clothing is put O
CT as soon as possible, and some me
We disdain an umbrella as effeminate.
'e Excessive drinking, even
:" water, especially when it is ice-col
=" is harmful to digestion. Gulping
y big swallows is less satisfaction
a. than absorbing the liquid slowly
~ And in the choice of drinks, wat
80 properly cooled is far preferable
a. the large variety of fountain pre-
'"' arations, which are sweetened
" suit the taste. And though it is b,
NY little appreciated, sweet is thirs
ne creating only in less degrees thf
Ne strong salty solutions.
The things that threaten perfe
:" health, that of the strong as we'll
"o the weak, are around us constant
He escapes longest whose resistil
vi power is strongest, but all of us a
eventually the victims. even If it
'e' the wearing out of the human m
chine by old age that conquers
last. No one, however robust, CT
as afford to ignore the eertainties
human existence.
6 and ending November 5, whi
will enter eighteen States and