Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-07-08
How to
Live
81
Common Sense Comments on
Health, Happiness and
Longevity
By GEORGE F. BUTLER
A. NJ. M. d.
ACTIVITY.

The four great forces at work In ma
ture to keep us living and well, all
merge into one great trunk or center;
and that is activity. Life Is like the
great locomotive that goes screaming
down our valleys and across our
plains. The coal In the tender Is like
food TO the man; both furnish the
heat and are the source of power. The
breeze that fans the spark In the fire.
box and which kindles the flame, that
heats the water. that produces the
steam, that turns the great drive
wheel, Is like flame or vitality In
man." The drive-wheel, the puffing
smokestack, the ringing bell, the rat
Ting wheels; all telling us that glad
tidings or friends are being brought to
us-is cheerfulness. All good and use
full things are active. The cheerful
fire that warns us, or cooks our food,
IS roaring cracking, dancing, leaping.
The sparkling water that quenches our
thirst comes trickling down over the
pebbles, or falls In rain, penetrates
and then comes bubbling up again,
ever moving. The light that comes to
us from the sun is generated by ViDra-
ton. The wind that blows is only the
result of natures activity. The air is
only pure when In constant motion.
cessation of activity is succeeded by
stagnation, and stagnation means dls'
ease and death.
Rest-yes, most assuredly, you must
rest, but get tired first, and then ENJOY
every moment of your rest To the iull
est extent possible. What is 1t to be
tired? I'll tell you. There are two
sources which supply the BODY VIII
materials with which the blood is evei
busily engaged in rebuilding or replac
ing the countless little cells which
make up our body. The one Is th'
food which is operated on by tn
digestive organs, and the other is thu
oxygen which is assimilated by tn
lungs. If our exercise is little II
excess of that which our bodies are &C
customed TO, the tissues OF the BOD,
are broken down more rapidly thai
the blood can refurnish and with tn
fiat chest and undeveloped lungs, tn
blood is not furnished with enoug
oxygen, and thus the muscles an
nerves are being starved and cry on
for resi-; or, in other words, that 20
cease to draw upon them until III
blood has time and opportunity TO RI
new itself If proper food Is Furnished
rest will stop the destruction of lis
sue: the lungs will soon furnish sui
ficient oxygen and the normal cond
tlon will soon be established Natur
provided many helps TO digestion, sue
as cleanliness, pure air, sunshine, an
! cheerful surroundings; but the onl
possible means of distribution, deve
! opment, strength and health are b
proper exercise.
Health. long life, education, pro-
ress, In short, everything of worth a
complished in life depends on menti
and physical activity properly d
rected. If physical stamina, healt
and intellectual culture are TO be a
talned, mental and physical activi'
must be so regulated and systematic
TO not only symmetrically develop bot
brain and body, but to simultaneous
develop one with the other An u
symmetrically developed body will n
have stamina or remain long in healt
nor will a brain that is not ali-rour
or symmetrically developed reasC
logically; nor, on the other hand. W
a developed brain In q dwarfed bod
or dwarfed brain in a develops
body, accomplish great things. All Ii
is movement. ii is its very essenC
LEARN HOW TO LIVE.
The old man whose brain is SCUM
and who is not ashamed TO keep
thinking and working, rejoices. ev
I'm the evening of life. In the world al
people and the happiness Of youth, a
enjoys love and consideration inste
of being the object of aversion
ridicule.
Keep mind and body active. Fig
vigorously against worry and desp'
n dency. one great remedy Is to ia
l short views 1t is no use trying to r
away from difficulties, they are ST
to o,ertake you. Face them boo
! and they will often vanish.
| Activity is the presence Of functi
II An active man Is seldom desponde
| To be idle is to suffer Activity m
| lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lie
| To good. You have not a faculty
| BODY. mind or soul, whose law
| strength is not action.
III Obliterate everything disagreed
II from Yesterday. Start out with
| clean sheet for today. and write W
J II for sweet memory's sake only tn,
things which are lovely and lovable
The amount OF abuse which
modern civilized stomach can wi
!, stand is an eternal monument to
| perfectlng powers of the evolutio
survival Of the fit, Il.
= with som" people the question
" no, how much good is this food
J ifo ~ 80 in -''i how pleasant II