Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-09-02
How to
Live
Common Sense Comments On
Health, Happiness and
~ Longevity
By GEORGE r. BUTLER.
A. Nj. M. d.
VACATIONS.

world which you and ! might be In II
We only had the good sense TO avail
ourselves of our opportunities, am
commiserated so much after all IL we
fail to have our good time oftener.
Don't think you haven't time TO take
short vacation. You have. Don't wait
for the opportunity TO present itself,
take the opportunity. If one sat on
shore and waited for some trIg little
boat from off the sea TO sail up to the
strand draw one into Ii by some meth
cd Of affinity unknown TO science and
carry one OF 10 Spain, don't you think
one would grow gray headed and wan
before the voyage commencedi Ii is
just as silly and just as hopeless TO
wait for some full-rigged opportunity
70 draw near and force you ON board
Without some effort on your part you
Will never set sail. You will never go
anywhere if you do not arise and go.
Leave your work for a while; leave
things und0ne II need be. Bother the
duties Shoe the obligations! Just
you get up anu go
What one needs To be well and hap
py is out of-door exercise-to get In
touch with nature and forget oneself.
The open air is not only a cure for the
body, but for the mind as well. Nature
is not only fairy godmother, not only
revelation of beauty, hut a guide and
n teacher We are told that Buddha
went into the forest TO look for truth
He left mankind and went. TO nature
for help. And you will be helped
spiritually and physically by going in
10 Gods sanatorium of out-of- doors.
All nature teens with JOY and peace
on summer days, seeming TO laugh
and chatter and whisper TO us Of
health and happiness. There is mo-
ton In the ground. Each rill and trunk
OF tree and stem of flower and blade Of
grass feels the thrill of life. Health
and energy are abroad in the land.
And yet some of us are discontinued
and feel ourselves Alsused because We
happen TO be a little short q money
now and then. and II Is hard TO find
the plums In our pudding; or we are
sick or think we are. and are despond-
ent and hopeless. These thoughts are
only the transient reign of winter in
the heart, and are due largely TO the
need of change-a vacation. Get out
OF doorsl Rejoice with the trees, the
flowers and the birds. 1t is an exhll-
arating, healthful and sublime uplift
that they will give you If you will but
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What has not quitting the crowded
city for change Of air effected How
many has II not snatched from the
saved from sickness! How many con-
suinptives, melancholy hypochondriacs
and waning and harassed dyspeptics
has Il not restored TO former health
fulness and JOY. Go 10 Nature IL VIII
strengthen your bodies, uplift your
souls and help you TO forget how tired
and troubled you are. And the slips
of health and contentment you VIII
gather you should plant in the neglect
ed garden of your soul Remember.
II is not always youth time any more
than II is always May; and gratis and
shoots that grow readily in spring Will
take no root in bleak November. Cui-
tiyate your smiles and your simple
services Of love now and old age shall
be but an afternoon trellis, hung deep
with perfumed roses, as beautiful in
the sunset glow as In the dawn"
LEARN HOW TO LIVE. ~
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The way OF health lies through
obedience 10 law, and the discernment
of laws determining health lies In
mans recognition of the fact that he
is a complex being, a conscious spark
OF divinity embodied in matter ana
that no part OF his nature can he neg
lected or ignored without making the
whole man sick.
We are walking along the paths OF
a very beautiful world. 1t Is a per-
petusl panorama, passing by us every
day: and We shall add greatly TO the
happiness OF life, and 10 the elevation
and publication Of all our faculties. II
we acquire the habit of working for
its beauties.
1t is our duty to SO order our habits
with reference TO the maintenance OF
a high degree OF effectiveness. TO so
utilize all means, material and spirit
ual. which make for soundness. that
we shall he up to the mark In physical
health.
Some Of us perhaps at the present
day do not sufficiently appreciate the
importance of leisure and securing. OPP
portunlties for meditation. We make
life too much of rush and hustle |;
even our games we turn into a bust
ness.
In our moments Of tete-a-tete with
the imfnite. how different life looks.
How $50 hat usually occupies and ex-
cites Us becomes suddenly puerile,
frivolous aud vain.
We. are strong only as we ally our
selves Witir nature. We progress only
hy laying hold on the forces of the