Part 58 (2/2)

CHAPTER XLVI

NATURE'S LITTLE BILL

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FREDERICK VON LOGAU

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil--ECCLESIASTES

Man is a watch, wound up at first but never Wound up again: once down he's down forever

HERRICK

Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth like fire upon a rotten house--SOUTH

Last Sunday a young e at twenty-five--JOHN NEWTON

If you will not hear Reason, she'll surely rap your knuckles--POOR RICHARD'S SAYINGS

”Oh! oh! ah!” exclais?” ”Many things,” replied the Gout; ”you have eaten and drunk too freely, and too s of yours in your indolence”

Nature seldom presents her bill on the day you violate her laws But if you overdraw your account at her bank, and give her a e on your body, be sure she will foreclose She may loan you all you want; but, like Shylock, she will des in her cancer bill before the victim is forty years old She does not often annoy a man with her drink bill until he is past his priht's disease, fatty degeneration of the heart, drunkard's liver, or some similar disease

What you pay the saloon keeper is but a small part of your score

We often hear it said that the age ofon the cross should appear that very day in Paradise; but behold how that bit of etable on a Hawarden breakfast table is snatched froht shakes Parliae of ht before our eyes Nature perfor the dead? Watch that crust of bread thrown into a cell in Bedford Jail and devoured by a poor, hungry tinker; cut, crushed, ground, driven by muscles, dissolved by acids and alkalies; absorbed and hurled into thethis strange strea for this crust, transic, here into a bone cell, there into gastric juice, here into bile, there into a nerve cell, yonder into a brain cell We can not trace the processes by which this crust arrives at the muscle and acts, arrives at the brain and thinks We can not see thehand which throws back and forth the shuttle which weaves Bunyan's destinies, nor can we trace the subtle alcheory in the world, the Pilgriress But we do know that, unless we supply food when the stos and clamors, brain and muscle can not continue to act; and we also know that unless the food is properly chosen, unless we eat it properly, unless we estion by exercise of mind and body, it will not produce the speeches of a Gladstone or the allegories of a Bunyan

Truly we are fearfully and wonderfully e of a city into pure drinking water in a second's time, as the black venous blood, foul with the ashes of burned-up brain cells and debris of worn-out tissues, is transforht, red blood Each drop of blood froic stream of liquid life was compounded by a divine Chemist In it float all our success and destiny In it are the extensions and li life, or disease and pree, our cowardice, our energy or lassitude, our strength or weakness, our success or failure In it are susceptibilities of high or broad culture, or pinched or narrow faculties handed down from an uncultured ancestry From it our bones and nerves, our liness, all coentle life, the tendencies of a criminal or a saint How important is it, then, that we should obey the laws of health, and thus maintain the purity and power of this our earthly River of Life!

”We hear a great deal about the 'vile body,'” said Spencer, ”and ress the laws of health But Nature quietly suppresses those who treat thus disrespectfully one of her highest products, and leaves the world to be peopled by the descendants of those who are not so foolish”

Nature gives to him that hath She shows him the contents of her vast storehouse, and bids him take all he wants and be welcome But she will not let him keep for years what he does not use Use or lose is her reat economist snatches fro and do not use it, Nature will remove the muscle almost to the bone, and the arm will become useless, but in exact proportion to your efforts to use it again she will gradually restore what she took away Put yourof idleness, or inactivity, and in like manner she will remove your brain, even to iives it to him, but reduces the other You can, if you will, send all the energy of your life into some one faculty, but all your other faculties will starve

A young lady ht corsets if she chooses, but Nature will remove the rose from her cheek and put pallor there She will replace a clear complexion with muddy hues and sallow spots She will take away the elastic step, the luster fro Nothing in this world worth anything can be had for nothing Health is the prize of a constant struggle

Nature passes no act without affixing a penalty for its violation

Whenever she is outraged she will have her penalty, although it take a life

A great surgeon stood before his class to perform a certain operation which the elaborate e ofand gentle hand he did his work successfully so far as his part of the terrible business went; and then he turned to his pupils and said, ”Two years ago a safe and sio a ay of life ht have prevented it We have done our best as the case now stands, but Nature will have her word to say She does not always consent to the repeal of her capital sentences” Next day the patient died

Apart froely at will What business have seventy-five thousand physicians in the United States? It is our own fault that even one-tenth of the What a commentary upon our modern American civilization that three hundred and fifty thousand people in this country die annually from absolutely preventable diseases! Seneca said, ”The Gods have given us a long life, but we have h to becoe Only three or four out of a hundred die of anything like old age But Nature evidently intended, by the wonderful mechanism of the human body, that we should live well up to a century

Thoe of one hundred and fifty-two years He was married when he was a hundred and twenty, and did not leave off work until he was a hundred and thirty The great Dr Harvey exae of living Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshi+re, England, lived to be a hundred and sixty-nine, and would probably have lived longer had not the king brought him to London, where luxuries hastened his death The court records of England show that he was a witness in a trial a hundred and forty years before his death He swam across a rapid river when he was a hundred

There is nothing we are y and chemistry of the human body Not one person in a thousand can correctly locate ians or describe their use in the animal economy