FUSSINESS ABOUT HEALTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 270, 23 November 1901, Page 4

FUSSINESS ABOUT HEALTH.

O.vk wonders sometimes whether the new fussiness about the body really tends as much to human happiness as the old ignorauco or stolid resignation. It certainly increases greatly the ob ■ jeets of fear, ,and every fear tends to impair the serenity' which is the base of happiuess. It also helps to keep alive the feeble, who are often in the way and who do not improve the race, and it very’ decidedly interferes with that “ evon How of promotion ” which is almost as necessary’ to society at large as to the army or the civil service. There is too some diminution of courage, however slight, in facing risks, and a great increase in that habit of self-pity which is apt, especially with the frail, to enfeeble charactor. Upon the whole, however, we fancy’ the result is beneficial, ospeI dally to those at phe two ends of life. Children are not only happier but positively better for the new healthiness secured by science—an opinion which will be indorsed, we believe, by every manager of ;a good preparatory school - and to the old the benefit is indescribable. They will die as of yore, thoughlater. but thev gyg spared half the old aches and pains, so that .“cheery old age 1 ’ instead of being noticeable is the common and expected condition,—Spectator.