Year: 1870

Good health is necessary to ENJOY
ment Of Iife. TO sound thinking 10
Drudent and successful working, JLlAI
every mans prime duty is to secure
sound health. There are thousands
of people who pass for healthy men
who are far from being so. lt Is true
that tbev-need no physician, that they
require no medicine, that they lose ii"
time, but keep on regularly win Ia liieli I.
business. But they do not get out OF
their body half Of the work OF WhlclI t!i
il is capable, and they altogether lall
Of thar enjoyment which the CIeaIoI
has provided for perfectly healIhF
I persons.
a man may have neither dropslesr
fevers, nor any marked disease, nor
even be i'll, and yet he may lack tone,
strength, buOyancy, and cheerIulne
Of spirits, and that courage which j.
apt TO 20 with full health. He may
I drag himself through a business opera
/ tiOn consuming hours, when half an
hour only would be necessary If one
was sharp and clear. Witha dull axe
one may hack and pound upon a log
four times as long as would be needed
with a sharp axe. Our faculties are
tools. They must be well tempered,
and be kept with a cutting edge.


If aman suffers depression Of spirits


when he first wakes in the morning,
and requires two or three hours before
he gets warmed up to his work, he
surely is not in good health If one
suffers from drOwsiness after meals, If
at evening all his powers are tagged,
he is not in good condition. A real
healthy man is bright end cheerful at
waking in the morning, goes to his
meals with good appetite, and thinks
no more about his food after il is eaten
than a mill does when the grain is in
the hOppers, works and thinks with
alacrity, directness, and efficiency,
looking before him all the time with
gentle hOpefulness. The natural and


healthful action of faculties and or
gansispleasurable. A gentle pleasure
bleness is a sign Of health. The ab-
senee Of it marks either disease or an
under-tOne of the system, out Of
which diseases are easily developed


While physicians would classify in
a scientific manner the ailments OF
men, it is enough for our purpose
simply 10 refer to the most frequent
causes which contribute to produce a
low state Of the human system.


First, IS Oyer-eating and drinking.
When boys are growing, and the
body is building itself at a rapid rate,
the appetite, though vOraciOus, is
natural and healthful. But after the
age Of twenty-five, growth is usually
at an end, and all that the system then
needs is q resupply Of material wasted
day by day in labor. Those who are
subject to hard material labor, and in
the open air, require and will bear
more food than those who are shell
tered, sedentary, and subject TO very
moderate eXertiOn. II men eat more
than they need, all the digestive ap-
| paratus is OverwOrked the various
| parts OF the body are over nutriated,
| the brain is dulled, the stomach is at
/ length enough impaired to keep up a
I complaining state,


/ The higher the civilized conditions


Of society, the more apt are men to
/ suffer impaired vigOr from Over-feed-
/ ing, because viands are multiplied, are


made more tempting-be men
have more leisure, and eating becomes


a luxury as well as q necessity-be-
cause people are less addicted to work,
get less fresh air, and live less in sun
light. Every day we see men Of good
morals. Of position in society, Of es-


timable qualities, who are inferior or


unhappy for no other reason than


they are not wise in eating.


There is many an irritable man,


full-blOOded, fiOrid in face and quar-


relsOme, who would become peaceful


and cOntented if half of his meat
4 ratiOns were knocked Off


Another fountain of ill-health il


found in Over-cerebral excitementa and
| undersleep. These causes lower the


working power of society, we should
I think, one full third.