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employed


upon something


external,


are sure


be tunraed


upon his disease, whether imaginary or real, and usually to his
detriment. Employment, which Galen calls Nature's Phy-
sician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is
considered the mother of misery."' English soldiers in tile
West Indies, while idle, though kept out of the sun, and taken
care of, were far more disposed to diseases, says Robert Jack-


son. than when


kept


at moderate


labor


nearly all day long,


building roads in a marshy district.


Lanier, in his interesting


little


volume


on Florida, himself


an invalid


, thoroughly ap-


preciates the importance of this subject.


He says


" Endeavor


to find some occupation consistent with your disease's require-


ments.
interest


Brooding kills.


yourself i


If you are near a Florida farm (e. g.),


which is


going


on there, the


orange-culture, the
early vegetables, the


grape-culture,


banana


fine tobacco-culture and


like.


the
The


field of Florida in these matters is


yet so


new, so untried


the resources


modern


agricultural


improvement, as to


full as fascinating, if one should once get one's interest aroused
in it, as it was in the old days when the Spaniards believed it


to be full of gold and pearls.


Many invalids came to this spot


winter,


and, finding


nothing to


interest them, although


acknowledging *the


superiority of the climate,


wandered


in search


of novelty.


Many others, although remaining here


for many weeks, found that there were objects of interest still


unexamined when they left, although pretty industriously em-


played all


the time.


The fault, in these cases, is generally in


the individual, not in the place.


Some seek out sources of in-


terest and amusement for themselves wherever they go


others


of different tastes, or
the temptation of in<


less in
dolence.


quiring
 Those


habits of mind, yield


who


have become blee


from frequent


visits


ordinary


haunts


visitors


may,


they possess


the requisite


strength and


energy,


strike


new course, and explore almost untrodden regions, and without


any particular danger or discomfort.
sands," says A.M. Oonklin, "who, each
'ih eahvtf heiti and pleasure, few if


dsrlht&1" interim country,' referring to the


"Of the tens of than-
i winter, go to Florida
any ever hear of this


Kiaeimmee and


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