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Show NEED BE NO SICKNESS; MOPE IS THE CURE FOR EVERY ILL. Health and Bapplnenn Secured by th. EfforU to Make Other FeopU Happy Troe Story of How a "Strorjf UnJ-ed" UnJ-ed" Girl ffm Cored. V A young woman was staying in a distant' city, where she had made few acquaintances. She had money, but homesickness and insufficient occupation occupa-tion were unfriendly condition to health of mind and body. At length the felt obliged to call upon a phyaidaa and ask his advice. It happened that the doctor whom consulted v.-as a religious man as veil as a skilled one. He understood her symptoms, and when she complainert that she was a victim to "the blues." he astonished her with this original prescription: "David Sones lives at 104 Dash street. Ho is ill, and confined con-fined to his bed, aud very poor. CH there, show sympathy with him and his family, and read the 'bread and butter' but-ter' psalm to him; and when you go away leave a email Mim of money ifl his hand." Of course he had to tx)a'i to th amazed lady that the Script tire he had so oddly named wn? the lo3 Pi-a'm, and that the heartenini? and rejuvenating effect of it fifth verse aud all mad-it mad-it to him just what he called it. 0! its virtue in this case he rer-raed to have no doubt. But the very idea of doit-g as h recommended was a.- distasteful to th young woman as it was surprising. "Why, how rude anil intrusive the niau would thiuk me to break in upon him so. a perfect stranger!" he said. "I could not do such a thing." She went from the doctor's office disappointed dis-appointed and displeased, but thinki-ap.. The very uluniness of the advice hai stirred her .stagnant spirits, and she was already beginning to forget her own ailment. The storm ot protest in her mind gave her a bad hour or two, but finally someihins she could hardly tell what compelled her to surrender sur-render to the dot-tor's orders. She found the sick man. and after talking kindly to him about himself, aud encouraging him to hope for recovery re-covery and better days, she opened her Bible to the ps;tlm. Her lips wer dry, and the first three or four verses were pronounced like a mechanics! exercise, but farther on her voice and mood mellowed. The force and beauty of the words aroused her. and she read the last verses of the jvnlm with fueling. fuel-ing. A woman who had enteted the room and listened, sat in the corner weeping. weep-ing. She was a recent lodger who had tried in vain to find work at he trade as a dressmaker, and had become be-come discouraged. The young ladj had already earned ihe graiitude of three strangers. With feelin&s entirely new to her she remained in the poot tenement, conversing with the sick man and his wife and their needy friend, until she had quite trained theii confidence, and then left them with encouraging words and n small gift ol money. Thoroughly interested now. she In a few days secured orders for the discouraged dis-couraged dressmaker and work nol long after came In so abundantly thst the family were placed nbove wsnt The sick man. relieved ot his anxieties, soon recovered. A shadowed honn had been brightened by an involunUrj kindness. It wss a lesson that ihe complain-ins complain-ins young woman never forgot. Het experiences thanks to the good doctor's doc-tor's consul had exploded the vain notion that "it is useless to try to do pood unless you fool like it." A brave effort to cure "tho blues" hail resulted in opening her heart to .in uu-selfish uu-selfish nil. aud to broader view ot her relations to loss fortunate soul' about her. How to Kut. Tho prevalent Idea that slow oat ins is very favorable to digestion Is largely large-ly fallacious, says the "Journal ol Mental and Nervous Diseases." "The important point is not that wo cat slowly or fust, but that when we do oat we chow with energy. of course, wlioro (ho hasle Is duo to i-otue tnouul anxiety, (his may iujuriouidv Inhibit the secretions. Sli rating begets habit of simply muniMlim tho food without really mast lorttins It. whlk he hurried onl. r s Inclined to tuval '"W his food bof,,i ,, proper must lent Ion. "once, hurried r.KInn Is bad, but iKl'ld "oistu-aiUm Is .uhanlar.roiu. It con-eent con-eent rates our energies on tho act ! ''"""thm, and honoo more thotonghlv ' '"'"'yi'lW'w if. Moreover, one, gel u ving Mln.uI.Wes ,h ,.,,. .,, l '"a m the most fiuotsble imtnuor '"'' VaUotu polnlo are so r -tmiiclv ,";;l'"'"l at l,,,s, v ,!, Ml,,. ,,1"i.!,,"-v ''"'""..I our Ci-cnotU alien. |