Exercise not Medicine.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 24 July 1902, Page 29

Exercise not Medicine.

The world grows tetter tempered every day (says an exchange) and tho presence of melancholic person^ is increasingly resented. There wer<J duys when those were pitied and fed witih commiseration, but in those days to be slightly indisposed warf taken as evidence of refinement, and good ancestry Nowadays, less tolerance is shown, and the geneial opinion, publicly evpiessed and private- 1 ly insisted upon, is that what victims of melancholy require is a ftootjf shaking , only a slight amendment m the instruction on medicine bottles* with which they surround Uieiii.selves appears to be required It ieeins harsh, to dictate to folk who dad then chiefest toy in being-, miseiable, but the yeneial com fox t has to be considered and an hour on two of exorcise every day would bring them into line with tihe niajon itv, arul enable them to see that the hiyhesi foim of spot t does not con-/ sisti iil wailing expeditions Condolence, only makes tlieui jnund of theirl detects and syinpatiiv encoui ages them to di\o to a di eper depth A hUlu sellishness is an excellent tilling and bettei than onVnng i^oud spmts to those win) will not take them is to keep them jn the bottle for one s ow n use