Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-24
HEALTH GRAMS

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Observation-Disclosures
Overdrawing is considered a very
grave oifense in financial circles. The
wilful passing of a fraudulent eheque
is regarded as abundant reasons for
hailing the culprit into eour, of
justice. oyerdrawing ones health. ae.
count is an otfenSe no less violent and
while the guilty cannot be dragged
into the presence of a judge he fire..
quently finds himself facing the YER
dict of doctor.
Every individual has definite
amount Of physical and mental re-
sources and these resources vary with
every individual just as economic re-
sources. vary. One man can undergo
physical hartlships and exposures
which would prove disastrous To an-
other, just as the millionaire can enjoy
an outlay of funds that is impossible
10 the average man.
For this reason every person must
face his own health problems in an
individual way. At the same time
there are general rules that apply to
all cases. No man has financial re-
sources so vast that they cannot be
dissipated to the grief of himself and
his heirs. In like manner health re-
sources can be exhausted by the most
robust and ii doesn't take life time
to do it. Kaiser Wilhelm lost an en-
pire in the brief space of four years
whereas the building of that mighty
nation required many generations of
skillful work.
A survey in New York City showed
that two-thirds of the families in that
metropolitan municipality receive in
comes of less than $4,000 per year.
Likewise most people are only mod
erately endowed with health resources.
General rules for healthful living are
therefore applicable to most people
and while everyone can cite instances
of overwork, overdissipation and over
indulgence without apparent inJur.
Gus results, il is only the exceptional
person--the millionaire in health re-
sources--who can get away with II.
Bankers frequently wink at slight
overdrafts and permit them to pass
with a gentle reproof to the custom
err. Nature excuses a man for taxing
one night out or even two, but In the
long run she requires of the average
man s hours sleep out of each "a
The same is true in regard to oven
or under eating, poor dietary hapi's
too little air and sunshine. -.
A man can occasionally whip ms
business along by stretching his credit
here and there, but il is mighty
dangerous procedure for the fellow OF
limited resources. So a man can
drive himself by absorbing stlmulents
and nostrums but here again the BODY
will accommodate very limited
amount of abuse and the man VINO
shuts his eyes to this fact is flirting
with disaster. u
The lack of money is the root OF all
evil, according to Mark Twain, VINO
might have added that the lack OF a,
is no less disastrous to physicai
well-being. Getting too much air Is
like getting too much money-Very
difficult. Human beings depend upon
air for breath, for food and with the
of radio, for galet'' ana
learning. Bad air in the lungs, now
ever, has an equally distressing
effect on the body as it does on radio
service when we speak of static. i,
A man can build up fortune OF
resources just as successfully
as he can build up pecuniary fortunes.
He must understand and play the
all. He must remember
always that there is an invisible worla
of living organisms that are onnl-
nresent ready to attack him at every
.urn. waiting only for a moment when
he Is below par in bodily resistance
It is probably too much to expect
neople generally to take precautions
against invisible disease germs .neiI
thew find it difficult to avoid falai
contact with enormous machines tha'
are easily seen. Last year accidents
were charged with nearly 5,0Vo deaths
IN Illinois. the automobile fgurlng III
more than 1000 or about lOo PEI
month. ..a,o,,
Smallpox has been more prevalent
in the United States this year than IN
any other country of the world eEcep,
India, according to a report from inc
health section of the league OF nations
asst wear Russia was the only couh-
trv that reported more smallpox than
10 limited States. In New England,
where socalled personal liberty gives
way to public good in the form OF
vaccination laws, very
little smallpox is ever reported OF
The greatest personal freedom and
liberty comes always from obeying
ratber than breaking the laws, wheth-
or man.made or natural. The fellow
a,bo steals finds himself incarcerated
in prison at worst or stunning the
nresence of him he robbed at best,
while the man who refuses to be vac,
cinated finds himself confined in bed
with smallpox at worst or stunning
almost the name of this disease at
hest. In like manner the abuse OF
a ppetite, too much swivel chair and