The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-03-29
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are Sulll TO De IOuuu
at their desks, doing hard work every
every day.
Many of them are so "gaited" that
they would be very unhappy If they
took the time to loaf.
But believe that every man and tvonI.
an should during the active working years
think of iessening labor as old age ap.
sproaches. !.
They may not want to retire when
they are past sixty. But they ought
to be able to retire If they want to.
Nothing is more pathetic than the
spectacle Of an elderly man or woman
trying to match in energy the younger
people around them, and feeling GER
tain that they are doomed to fail.
This is not written for the old, but
for the young.
To the young the world seems q
long stretch ahead of youth.
But that youth cannot be main
tanned without planning for its MAIN
tenance.
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If you will persuade yourself that
you, like every one else in this world,
are not so young as you used to be,
perhaps you will be little more saw
ing of your health as we'll as of your
money.
have always heard the Scotch were
thrifty to fault.
But when I went to Scotland I
found that, while they certainly were
thrifty, their thrift was not penurious-
ness, but mere sensible provision for
the future.
They have lived and done their work
in climate that Is quite as dour as
many members of their race.
They have learned by experience
that the struggle is hard, and they get
ready to make it less hard in old age,
by counting their pennies, and putting
temptation to spend money behind
them.
In America, where for many years
money was made easily, it was spent
more easily. The result was that Amer
leans acquired the spending habit.
They bought more of everything than
they needed. They sought to make a
show of their wealth.
They tried to keep up with neigh
sbers who were far more affluent than
they were.
They have learned better now, but
the lesson has been hard one.
l think in the future that they will
be little more thrifty, little more
awake to the wisdom of making pro-
vision for old age.
Unless you are doctor, and a good
one, you know very little about the
complicated machine
Sick which is your body.
Peon1e Today, fortunately
for the public, there
are more and better doctors than there
have ever been before.
Make use of them. 1t has been said
that the man who doctors himself has
a fool for his physician.
You probably haze found that by TAX
ing plenty of exercise, getting out in the
open notO and then, and not eating things
that disagree ,Uith you that you will be
tolerably well.
But that is not enough.
You ought to be extremely well. I'm
less you are you cannot do your best
work, and if you cannot do your best
work you are likely to be loser in
life.
Get yourself a doctor. Get a good
one.
Let him look you ever every so often,
as is done in the life extension insti-
buttons.
Follow his advice. Get him to ex-
plain to you as much of the marvellous
system you possess as you understand.
Naturally you want to live long.
have never known anyone who does
not. Well, then, try to live long.
And when you get to feeling slow"
drop in at the physicians, let him test
out the machine and find out what is
the matter with it.
Today there are many great hos
pitfalls, with stats Of able physicians,
all of them specialists in their own
line.
If you are in bad health go to one
of them and let members of the staff
tell you what's the matter and what
to do about it.
They and the men who have gone
before them have amassed a vast store
of knowledge, and it is their business
to pass it along to you.
Moreover, don't let youngster grow
up without regular inspection by man
who knows about human bodies, and
how to help them to grow healthy and
strong.
Give youngster the right kind Of
a physical start, and half the battle
for his future existence has been
fought.
That will not only provide him with
a good chance In life, but 1t will in
sure him against many of the Ills
| which sometimes blight childhood ir-