mental health treatment centers : As conditions of the brain, sensibility and contractility, being inseparable like form and motion, are best maintained by orderly motion and rest. Attention and will-force are put more thoroughly into constant use in learning to skate successfully, than during our more ordinary exercises. An exercise which will the more certainly unite the common bodily movements with our personal thoughts and increase our chances of continued sanity. Want of control over the bodily movements and thoughts seem to be so nearly equal, as observed in the insane, that when we improve the one by exercise the other is correspondingly restored.
muscular exercise must be first under mental control before perception and memory can regulate reason and judgment. Bodily and mental hygiene is based upon united muscular and mental well timed daily exercise, connected with other tested sanitary observances. To think correctly we must have a well formed brain and nervous system. Exercise and rest with suitable food and drink are the foundation of bodily and mental health. Form and motion are the mutual factors of human existence. Our bodily forms are dependent upon the motions and elemental forms of which we are composed, and our bodily movements for their continued existence. The material condition of the brain and nerves of the body determine our wholeness and perfection of thought. Both objective and subjective thoughts are but motions of the healthy brain. To know and remember is the work of our brain in its best condition. We have observed especially among those who use their minds more than their muscles, a marked improvement in thought in proportion to their orderly muscular activities. Evening skating gives rest to the mind in an entire change of thought while it supplies the needed muscular activity. Better sleep and assimilation of food, two of the most important requisites of sanity, are the results of this social exercise.
 Regular daily renewal of nervous and muscular tissue affords a better basis of correct mentality than where by a less active life the nerves and muscular tissues become softened by too much rest. Skating in a well ventilated room seems to leave no portion of the body untouched by waste of form. Hence the demand for rest and food to replace the waste. By improved assimilation and better sleep, the nerves and muscles are made firmer and more capable of correct motion. All physical and mental health depends upon equal and alternate exercise and rest, aided by the necessary food, drink and bodily cleanliness. Activity of body and mind, in many persons to whom we have recommended this kind of exercise, have reached an equal and more healthy relation.
 Mental and physical health are the most reliable companions. Observation and comparison with a view to correctly determine the good and evil upon all classes, compels us to decide in favor of roller skating for those who by their increased mental work are deprived of the necessary muscular exercise. It is a prescription a physician can take himself without fearing to soon share the fate of his drugged patient who needed exercise more than medicine. There can be no substitute for motion when needed to produce new blood cells. Exercise like oxygen has no substitute by which physical and mental health can be maintained.
Mental exercise must be necessary for mental health, for there is no other organ where the expenditure of life-force is so great as during a continued employment of our mental powers, hence sleep is the sweet restorer of the equilibrium, which cannot bear any disturbance, without punishment follows. Those who accomplish much mental work, know that more or less sleep is necessary, and that there is as much need of sleep as of food to keep up the supply of nerve force in proportion to its expenditure. There is not a brain more active than that of a growing infant, and we need not wonder at it, for daily new developments are made, new perceptions discovered, they have to be amalgamated and stored away for reference, hence the tireless activity, mentally and bodily, of a child; a large expenditure of life-force and frequent and long rest in sleep is the sine qua non for its health.