The Washington herald., 1916-04-05
DR.. Marden's Uplift Talks.
A Health and Happiness Campaign.
BY ORIsON SWEET MARDEN.

James J. Hill, referring to the les
sons the great world war is teaching,
says: The great lesson of the conflict
for this country is that every step
should be taken to so develop our
people that any war of aggression
on the part OF the United States will
forever be impossible. The construc-
tion of a mighty nation here IN which
the average of human health and hu-
man happiness. human ideals and hu-
man usefulness shall be higher than
IT has been elsewhere in the world
will give us enough experiments TO
try to keep US very busy"
In this great work OF advancing
the average Of human health. and
human happiness. and human useful
ness. the nation will have to depend
on the help of every man. woman and
child within its borders.
The first requisite for playing q
worth while part in this national cam
paign of high endeavor is robust
health. without this we are always
at a disadvantage in whatever we
undertake. To keep our strength and
ability at their maximum is the surest
way to make the most OF ourselves
and of our country.
We need a health
campaign more than anything else.
On every hand, we see business and
professional men breaking down. often
in early manhood, owing to some
special emergency, which used them
up because they had not accumulated
sufficient reserve power to carry them
over a hard place, through a test Of
physical endurance.
1t is dangerous thing to use up
all of your physical and mental ener-
al Won GhnfNld mt
as so many people constantly do, en-
croach upon your reserve. You
should use each day only the force
which is generated during the TWEEN
ty-four hours. II you use up more
physical or mental energy during the
day than you generate as you go
along. It doesn't take a mathematician
to show how soon you will be in
physical bankruptcy.
Every one should keep in his physical
bank a large reserve of energy for
emergencies. 1t may occur In your ousi-
ness, when your precious capital may be
In jeopardy and you have to draw very
heavily upon your reserve. II may come
to the lawyer in some critical case upon
which his whole reputation and future
hang. He may be obliged to work day
and night to save his client and his own
reputation. 1t may come to the ply
SiCian in times OF great eploefnlCS, Wnen
he can get very little rest. It comes
often to the mother. in sickness in the
family, when for weeks she may have
to watch over her loved ones with only
the minimum OF rest and sleep.
Now, these emergencies come to all Of
US at one time or another. and they are
the test Of our reserve strength II we
do not have sufficient we pay the pen
atty in shattered health.
How shall We get and maintain this
necessary reserve? Certainly not by
constant overworIinE and goading brain
and body to the limit of endurance. We
can get and hold our ma ximum Of strength
and efficiency only by regular living and
sufficient rest and sleep; these are the
great energy builders, life reviewers, life
refresheners: the great life conservers.
A noted athlete tells US that twenty
minutes of scientific training every day
keeps him in better condition than would
two hours Of training every other day
In other words, It is the regularity. and
the rhythm of the exercise and the train
ing that count.
The same thing is true in regard to
the daily living of men and women. 1t
is regularity in eating, In exercise, in
rest, in recreation and in sleep that keep
body and mind at the top Of their condi-
ton. 1t is by systematic attention to