Year: 1875

An excellent friend wishes us to
tell our readers of "some good simple
medicine, to purify the blood in
Spring" Now, we like our friend,
and we are bound to treat whatever
request or suggestion he may make
with courtesy and respect. But he
must not deem us severe if we tell
him that there is a good deal of folly
in the old idea of a regular Spring
physicing, among people who live
anywhere near right.


+ People complain of lassitude and
weakness and lack of energy and
strength in the Spring, and suppose
they ought to take something. They
remember the "picra," or senna and
salts, or sulphur and molasses of
childhood, and incline to practice on
the ancient plan. They are certain
they do not feel as vigorous at the


first return of mild days as they did
when the air was sharp and cold.
They become more quickly exhaust
ed, and want to sit down oftener to
rest.


These sensations are quite general,
we are aware; but they need not be.
If we have lived wisely and well
through the cold term, and if we are
doing our duty by ourselves now, we
cannot honestly declare that we need
medicine. If we have lived largely
out of doors for months; if we have
warmed ourselves as often by exer.
else, by motion, by active exertion,
as by artificial heat; if we have slept
only in room with a window OPEN
ed to admit the pure outer air; if we
have depended upon more wholesome
grains, vegetables, and fruits, than
we have upon pork and highly sea-
soned foods; if we have washed our
selves all over daily; if we have left
exposed to pure air through the night
all the garments worn through the
day; if we have avoided alcohol and
tobacco as the destructive and abom-
Unable poisons which they are-we
are not in need of doctors nor drugs,
and we know it. I


If we have been weak or lazy, or
careless or wicked, in these direc-
tions; if we have left undone the
many trihing but important things
which we ought to have done. to Sc
cure for ourselves health and COM
fort, ,and have done the foolish things
which we ought not to have done
then we may take physic, and mag
inc we are paying off the long score
by day or two of misery's while, in
fact, we have, by false living, con-
siderably abbreviated our term ,of
life.


The man or woman or child who
lives right, takes the very best puri-
flying medicine every day and hour.
Moreover, the medicine thus taken is
tie cheapest known. One kind-the
most important, IL fact-is absolute
ly free to all. 1t is put up in the very
best and most convenient form for
use, and is given away. Some un-
fortunate people live in neighbor-
hoods where the supply is very small,
and are unable to obtain as much as
they ought to take of this valuable
medicine; others are Indifferent
about it, and get along for time
without it; while very considerable
number take it constantly, and de-
cline to pass a single hour without
an ample dose of it. The name of
this very effective article is pure AR.


There is one fact connected with
the lassitude felt in early Spring
which all will do well to remember
We are compelled to burden our
selves with good deal of clothing
in the winter, and when the warmer
days of Spring come we are still car
rying from twenty to forty pounds
of clothing. If we could lessen the
weight of our clothing promptly, as
the season advances, we should find
that the weariness which we had ex-
perienced simply came from the bur
den of our dress. If we would ex-.
change the heavy overcoat for light
one when we walk out in the sun
shine of a mild day, and return to the
heavy garment on the advent of a \
cold snap, we should find that the
vigor and energy of Winter had not
passed from US.


But we cannot keep our cake after
we have eaten it. We cannot go to
bed at midnight and rise up fresh |
and strong at sunrise. We can not
smoke our poisonous weeds and
drugs, and have clear, strong, pow
erf1l brain, for several hours after
wards. We cannot drink whisky and
ales and other indigestible things
and keep the digestive instruments
in perfect tune. We can not 90 un-
washed and be sweet and clean and
pure. We cannot sleep in close
rooms all winter and be we'll and
strong and energetic when Spring
comes. We cannot hive largely on
oily Substances-unless our life is
active and remote from the influence
of artificial heat-and enjoy strong
stomachs and abundant appetites, as
the cold weather departs.


If we have lived unwisely through |
the Winter, let us not fly to drugs.
Let us simply reform. Let us try a
diet of fruit and grain and vegeta-
bles. for month. Let us see if we
can not live without fat things. Let
us try the experiment of living on
half our usual food. Let us throw
open our windows by day, and above
all things, by night. Let us shift our
quarters from a north, sunless out
look, to warm, sunny, southern ex-
Posure. Let us tear down the CUR
tains and unhinge the shutters. Let
US live for awhile like sensible hu-
man beings, and see if we are not
well enough without other "Sprlng
Medicines. ."-HdlPS Jour. HedIth.


Love Among the shakers.


The day of confession came at
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