Need of Rest.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 January 1889, Page 2

Need of Rest.

Dr. Holland, than whom there were few more observant and thoughtful men in modern literature once said ; " Tbegreafc trouble, with us is that we do not play enough." This is as true to-day as ifc was fifteen years ago when he uttered the quoted words. Tbe business man of to day does not play enough. * He runs too much in a groore. He expects too ranch • of himself. The human machine fails torespond some day suddenly, and a learned opinion is given as to the physical cause - of the man's early death. Relaxation is the tonic and lubricant of an active life, and the business men who fail to take it, simply lose time. When a man exclaims ; "I can't afford to take the time from business for this or that occasional relaxing of the rigor of daily exaction, " we wonder if he ever reflects that sickness and " breaking down " are very likely totake time for him. We heard a business man not long ago advise a younger one to' " keep at work m T stick to it through all seasons — never miss- a atpoke or » moment, "if he would" succeed. But ifcwas bad advice. Bfe " sticks" be:fc to bisbusiness who is best able to stand 1 up to its physical demands, and this bodily power is secured only by rest, absolute rest — not mere tired sleep. The man. whocarries his business to his sitting room or his bed is simply digging his grave. " There is nothing better established, " i said a medical man of prominence reicently ! " than this— that the stirring < American business man cuts short his life by fifteen or twenty years." And wehave it itvthe testimony of statisticians,, concludes the Record- Union that the vital statistics of thecountry prove this to betrue.

" I I've in my charmer's eyes,'* said" a fop to Colman. " I don't wonder at it,' r replied George. " for I observed she had a $tye in thoua when I saw her last*" Young ladies who faint on being " proposed to," can be restored to consciousness by just whispering in their ear that you* were only joking. The pariah clerk of a village in the Routh of England was in great request as au 'Umpire at cricket matches. One hot Sunday he fell asleep at the commencement of a long prayer. He woke up at the conclusion, anjd instead of saying " Amen," shouted, a,t the top of his voice, " Over !" — Tableau. !• " Ie any on,c wajting on you ?" inquired the polite a-Uesnvin, of a, S«in Francisco muiden. " Well, I ca,n, hardly tell," she blushingly replied ; " eojnptjiines I think there i^, and then again I ajiii't ceitiin ; hut Will's so.soit of funny, yon know" And then she blushed, again, and asked to look at Koine lace collars. Mr Gladstone recently happened 1 to trwat theßishopof Peterborough, England's vvhp is as smart in his conversation as the hi.te Samuel Wilherforce, of Oxford. ' I hear,' my lord,' observed! Mr Gladstone, 4 that you don't quite approve <>£ niy dealings with the Irish, qnestion.' 'Oh !• dear, no,' quietly answered the Bishop ; it ia not your "dealing" I m/nfl; Mr Gladstone it in youi "shuffling" thai I ohjact to.' A preacher who was an ardent, aHmjrer of Mr Gladstone prayed lor heav,en'-« blessing og the Premier in these Bomrtwji.it ambiguous words: "Oh Lord, lit this ciitical juncture of event* he pleased to, grant tint Mr Gladstone and hi« fellowredeemers of England may hunu together." On hearing the ptayeru bi other below, who whs aooustoined to "Anien" in piayer-timo, ami who approved oE the ConBerv.itive policy, exclliitoed ' " Amen, amen : m.iy they all hang' together." The Radical minister felt that he was misunderstood, and, by wav of explanation exclaimed: "Oh* Lend, 5 do. nptmean, hang together in the sftiise which, outbrother down below means it; I mean, may they in accord and concord haug, togethei." " Amen, amen," replied the, Conservative worshipper ; " I don't mind, what the cord is, ho long as they hang on Home cord."