Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1868 — Fifteen Follies. [ARTICLE]

Fifteen Follies.

From Hall’s Journal of Health. 1. To think that the more a man eats, the fatter and stronger he will become. 2. To believe the more hours children study at school the faster they learn. s' To conclude that if exercise is good for the health, the more violent aud exhausting-it is the more good is done. 4. -Td imagine that every hour taken from sleep is au hour gained. . 5. Tq act on thepresumption that the smallest room in the house- is large enough to sleep in. L. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately hotter, is good for the system without rcgarcl to more ulterior effects. The- “soothing syrup,” for instance, does slop the cough of children, does arrest diarrhea, only to cause, a little lator, alarming convulsions, orthemore fatal inflaniation of the brain, o£ water on the brain, or, at least, alw.uys protract the disease. 7. To commit an act which is felt in it elf to be prejudicial, hoping that mo how or other it may be done in your case with impunity. 8. To advise another to- take a remedy which have tried on yourself, and without making special inquiry whether nil conditions are alike. 9. To eat without an appetite, or to continue to eat after it has been satisfied, liierelv to .gratify the taste. 10. To oat a hearty supper for the Eleasure experienced during the rief time it is passing down the throat, :tt tiie expense of a whole night’s sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. 11. To remove a portion of the covering immediately after exorcise', when the most stupid dravman in New York kuows that if he does not put a cover on his horse the moment he ceases work in winter, he will lose him in a few days by pneumonia. 12. To contend that because the dirtiest children in the street or highway are hearty and healthy, therefore, it is healthy to he dirty; forgetting that daily exposure to the pure ortt-door air, in joyous unrestrained activities, is such a powerful agency for health that those who live thus are well, in spite of rags and filth. 18. To presume to repeat later .in life, without injury, the indiscretions, exposure and intemperance, which, in the flush of youth, were practiced with impunity. 14. To believe that warm air is necessarily impure, or that pure cold air is necessarily more healthy thaa the confined air of a crowded vehicle; tho laUf r » tmo!i M* non b' cause fainting and nausea. While entering a conveyance aftClr walking briskly, lowering a window thus while still exposed to u draft, will give a cold infallibly, or an attack of pleurisy or pneumonia, which will cause weeks and months qf suffering, if not actual death within four days. * 15. To “remember the Sabbath day” by working harder and later on Saturday than any other day in the week, with a- View to sleeping late next morning, and staying at home all day to rest, conscience being quieted by the pip a ,of not feeling very well. *< at. ■— —• » o In Westerly, Rhodo Island, a missionary had painted tfll ttie fences: “What shall I dp to be saved?” To which a qu&ck medioine man added, “Use bitters.” Tkeptoashnr t«ok revenge by addine Below, “Then prepare to meet thy Go d!” S* ■ ' 1 '■» ■ J. * A popular vewel—Court-ship*