The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and FiresideVarious
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The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
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Agriculture -- United States -- Periodicals; Farm life -- Periodicals; United States -- Rural conditions -- Periodicals
A writer in the School-Boy Magazine has gathered together the following
dictionary words as defined by certain small people:
Bed time--Shut-eye time.
Dust--Mud with the juice squeezed out.
Fan--A thing to brush warm off with.
Fins--A fish's wings.
Ice--Water that staid out in the cold and went to sleep.
Nest-Egg--The egg that the old hen measures to make new ones.
Pig--A hog's little boy.
Salt--What makes your potato taste bad when you don't put any on.
Snoring--Letting off sleep.
Stars--The moon's eggs.
Wakefulness--Eyes all the time coming unbuttoned.
* * * * *
If you would have good health, go out in the sunshine. Sickness is
worse than freckles.
* * * * *
HYPOCHONDRIA.
THE MYSTERIOUS ELEMENT IN THE MIND THAT AROUSES VAGUE
APPREHENSIONS--WHAT ACTUALLY CAUSES IT.
The narrative below, by a prominent scientist, touches a subject of
universal importance. Few people are free from the distressing evils
which hypochondria brings. They come at all times and are fed by the
very flame which they themselves start. They are a dread of coming
derangement caused by present disorder and bring about more suicides
than any other one thing. Their first approach should be carefully
guarded.
_Editors Herald_:
It is seldom I appear in print and I should not do so now did
I not believe myself in possession of truths, the revelation
of which will prove of inestimable value to many who may see
these lines. Mine has been a trying experience. For many
years I was conscious of a want of nerve tone. My mind seemed
sluggish and I felt a certain falling off in my natural
condition of intellectual acuteness, activity, and vigor. I
presume this is the same way in which an innumerable number
of other people feel, who, like myself, are physically below
par, but like thousands of others I paid no attention to
these annoying troubles, attributing them to overwork, and
resorting to a glass of beer or a milk punch, which would for
the time invigorate and relieve my weariness.
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