The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-12-06

and take care Of your soul.
Immediately you realize that the
idea of illness turks in such a situa-
ton. The person in the draught may
take cold or become so chilled that
illness, with suggestions of danger,
may ensue. The doggerel stanza is a
warning which it is wise to heed. 1t
also indicates that the person in the
draught is in an Enclosure and n,
out-of-doors.
Indoors and Out.
In the house there are air currents
caused by open windows or open outer
doors, sometimes from open inner
doors when one room is cooler than an
other. The tendency then is for the
colder air to watt into the warmer and
more volatile atmosphere. Out-of-
doors person is seldom in draught,
but may be in gale of wind.
Little children playing on the floor
feel air currents that do not rise
higher. When a child Is in q play
ward, or pen, there should be blan-
ket, or thick rug, covering the in
closed space. The play yard should
be positioned in some corner of a
room free from draughts or near
enough to the heating unit for the
warmth from it to offset cooler cur
rents.
An aged person or one who is not in
good health should be protected from
draughts, which may be a necessary
| accompaniment of airing rooms. Or
| it may be that these persons are 50
susceptible to air currents that they
feel them when others do not. Screens
| are satisfactory aid in protecting
| them from draughts. BY careful man.
| agement of the screens, and by pro-
viding comfortable seats or sofas for
| patients where they can rest without
being in danger of air currents, their
comfort is increased. Then danger
from draughts is eliminated entirely
or reduced to minimum.
Work as a Curative.
When affairs are disquieting because
of discordant thoughts or exciting
times, pleasant or unpleasant, and
when one gets a feeling of dissatisfac-
ton with life, nothing is more restora-
! tive than to plunge with a will into
some work which should be done. The
fact that something is being accom-
plished is mentally steadying, and the
use of the ferment of power which Is
created is relieving and physically
| steadying. Unless something restOra-
| tive is done, a tension Is created that
may make a temper snap, or nerves
break down. So it becomes important
to have the steadying element of
work to keep tempers and nerves nor
NAL
While nature requires a certain ex-
penditure of energy in work 1t also
demands that it be done with proper
moderation, not in speed but in guam
tity. Hard work is not necessarily I'M
beneficial unless the work is physically
straining, nervously draining or men,
tally upsetting. To work with all OneN
energies, without overworking, pro-
notes physical and mental well-being.
Growth in these fields results. This
realization of gain is stimulating. But
just as an athlete has to grow grad
ually by exercise into power and skill,
never overworking, so must those In
other fields graduate their work to
suit their strength.
Work in itself is not harmful, but
beneficial, even though a person is no.
strong. But it must be done in amounts
to conform to the energy of the person
doing it. To do nothing is to lose
power, to do little may be all that is
possible when health is poor. But in
each instance performance Of work Is
steadying.