Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — Sympathy with Sickness, and what Comes of It. [ARTICLE]

Sympathy with Sickness, and what Comes of It.

•Such is the false Interest created in-dis-ease that many, in order to secure, the sympathy it. is sure to awaken, will either altect or deliberately incur it. Others again, if not willing to lie sick patients or to bo classed among them, arc at the.same time averse to the reputation of possessing robust health. There, are many flames' ami damsels wp know of who Would regard themselves almost insulted, though in porft'H health, if they wore presumed to be capable of any ordinary act of physical vigor, say ascuadjng a/mountain, walking a mile or two,'or' catiiig a hearty dinner of beef und pudding, be lore .witnesses. In fact there arc some yonng lfidtes wlio'hnve been known to faint ut the sight of roast pig. Such is their delicacy of organization that even the tlionglit of a dinner upon so gross a dish is enough to exhaust their vitality, iy . < Thin waists, cramped feet and hands, whitened faces, sofas, lounges, and small or pervpiW appetites, all-own Hieir ionableness to the fttlstj kick mt thore-hr something loveable in disease or an approach toßi fgttfturaotj bfamoredutgorous or more mistaken notion, fu every one naturally endowed with vigoroli* faculties of body and mind, all derangements of either must lie regarded as acts of disobedience against the law. ol their creation, and. therefore as proofs of offense. It is a moral duty, to preserve tiie integrity of our bodies as it is of our souls; and when we fail to do it, from ncglector perverse act, we cannot be guiltlca|£<?|le«lßijif may grieve at and pi|V 4 |iakncss, but it should not cyoke our ayntptjxriy. It lulSflecli well Tanarkiflsthat with the Increase of sentiiucnlal benevolence there Is* tv diminution of the pr act leal;- and thus it happens that those who are robust of body and strong rtf nerve are ordinarily tiie most tender and helpful to the billeted. They, on the-contrary,' are the least regardful of the sufferings of others, who are themselves dclicttte and oiling, ebd full of morbid "sympathy with, sickness." —. Harper'* Bniar. ' r ‘‘. ' ' ! -;i—.——U.J *;i - A ooMgABATiVK statement of the mor.tality of the cities pf Boston, tltneiniiMi, Shicago and St. Louis, from January I.to uly 1, 1839, based upon official figures, fipows that btery eighty-ninth person died ip Boston; every one hundred and fourth Ih Cincinnati.; every one hundred, end eleventh In Chicago, and every one hundred ttnd tenth in Bt. Louis.