Talmage on the Blues

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 62, 12 November 1889, Page 2

Talmage on the Blues

We all need the refreshing Influences of more out- door life. Almost every nature, however sprightly, sometimes will drop into a minor, key, or a subdued mood, that in . common parlance » recognised *on the blues.* There may be no adverse causes at work, bat sqmohow the bells of the soul stop ringing and you feel Hke sitting quiet, and you .strike off 50 percent, from all your worldly and spiritual prospects. The immediate causemay be a northeast wind, or a balkyliver, or an enlarged spleen, or pickled oysters at V2 o'clock the night "previous. In fcuch depressed state" so ou» 'can afford to sit for an hcmi. First ot '

all, let him get up and go out of doors. Fresh air and the faces of cheerful men, and womes, and frohcksomechildren will, in fifteen minutes, kill moping.

" Thefirot moment your friend strike* the key : 'huard of your soul it will ring music. \ hen might as well try on populous Broadway to batch out a feathery group as for a man successfully brood over his ills in lively society. Do not go for relief among . those who feel as badly as you do. Let. not toothache and rheumatism, and hypochondria #o to see toothache- ' rheumatism, and hypochondria. Ou one block in Brooklyu lives a doctor,, an undertaker aud a clergyman. That is not the row for a nervous man to walk on, lest he soon need all three Throwback all the shutters of your soul and let the sunlight of genial faces shine in. Beside, that, why &it ye here with 'the blues,' y# favoured •ons and daughters of men, shone upon by such stars and breathed > upon by such air, and sung to by so. many pleasant pounds.? You ought not to be seen moping ; especially if Light from the better world strikes its aurora through your night sty, ought you to be cheerful. You can afford to have a rough luncheon by the ■way if it is soon to end amid~the baaqueters in white. — N. Y. Observer*