Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — Cures for Fits. [ARTICLE]

Cures for Fits.

For a Fit of Passion.—Walk out in the open air. You may speak your mind to the winds without hurting anyone or proclaiming yourself a simpleton.' For a Fit of Idleness. —Count the ticking ofa clock. Do this for one hour and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next and work like a negro. For a Fit of Extravagance and Folly.— Go to the workhouse and speak to the inmates ofa jail and you will be convinced Who makes his bed of brier and thorn Mu6t be content to lie forlorn. For a Fit of Ambition.—Go into a churchyard and read the gravestones. They will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bed-chamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your father and the worm your mother * and sister. For a Fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has given you in this world and to those which He has promised His followers in the next. He who goes into his garden to look for cobwebs and spiders no doubt will find them; while he who looks for a flower may return into his house with one blooming in his bosom. For all Fits of Doubt, Perplexity and Fear.—Whether they respect the body or the mind; whether they are a load tojthe shoulders, the head or the heart, the ifollowing is a radical cure, which may be relied on, for we have it from the Great Physician: “ Cast thv burden on the Lord and He will sustain tnee.” For Fits of Repining.—Look about for the halt and the blind and visit the bedridden and the afflicted and deranged, and they will make you ashamed of complaining of your lighter afflictions.—Exchange.