HOME INTERESTS.
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 asofa and courting painful ideas if you are a despondent lover, a hypochondriao, or a valetudinarian, you should be up and stirring yourself. The blood of a melancholyman is thick and slow, creeping sluggishly through his veins, like muddy water in a canal; the blood of your merry, chirping philosopher is clear and quick, brisk as a newly-broached champagne. Try, therefore, to set your blood in motion. To affect this don't go to guzzling down brandy-smashes, gin-cocktails, or any of the other guzzling compounds in which alcohol is disguised, for every artificial stimulant will drag you down two degrees for every one it lifts you up. The devil always beats you at a barter. Try, rather, what a smart walk will do for you ; set your legs in motion on rough, rocky ground, or hurry them up a steep, cragged hill; build stone walls, swing an axe over a pile of hickory, or spade up a square rod of your garden.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 28
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195HOME INTERESTS. Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 28
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