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Show How to Kill the Blues. - Generally speaking, if you are troubled with the "blues" and cannot tell why, you may. be certain that it springs from physical weakness. Instead of lying on the sofa and courting painful ideas, if you are a desperate lover, a hypochondrical, or a valetudinarian, you should be up and stirring yourself. Tha blood of a melancholy man is thick and slow.creep-ing slow.creep-ing sluggishly through the veins,-like muddy water in a canal ; the blood of your merry, chirping philosopher is clear and quick, brisk as newly broached champagne. Try, rather, what a smart walk will do for you; set your pegs in motion on rough, rock)' ground, or hurry them up a steep, cragged hill; build stone walls, swing an ax over a pile of hickory or rock maple, dig ditches, practice prac-tice "ground and lofty tumbling," pour water into sieves Danaides, or, with Sisyphus, Sisy-phus, "up the hill heave a huge round stone ;" in short, do anything that will start the perspiration, and you will soon cease to have your .brains lined with black, as Burton expresses it, or to rise in the morning, as Cowper did, "like an infernal frog out of Acbern, crowned with the mud and ooze of melancholy." |