Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — Trilling with Health. [ARTICLE]

Trilling with Health.

Man is the only animal who violates the laws of health knowingly, and yet continues the bad practice. An illusI tration cf this moral and physical eccenI tricity is ’ afforded by the habits of ! Thackeray. j Unlike Dickens, he took no regular walking exercise, and, being regardless : of the laws of health, suffered in consequence. In reply to one who asked him if he had ever received the best medical advice, his reply was: 1 “What ig the use pf advice if you

don’t follow it ? They tell me not to drink, and Ido drink; they tell me not to smoke, and Ido smoke; they tell me not to eat, and Ido eat. In short, Ido everything that I am desired not to do, and, therefore, what am I to expect?’’ And so one morning he was found, like Dr. Chalmers, in the sleep of death, with his arms beneath his head, after one of his violent attacks of illness, to be mourned by his mother and daughters, who formed his household, and by a wider public beyond, which had learned to love him through his admirable works.