The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-09
BRAIN WORK.

official position.
& IH BRAIN WORK. .s.a
Frnn IA. Pallg6dIAta LttI0er. .'.tt
It's u common thing, in tho present agc,
for men to exert their brain at the expense
Of thu body, giving undue labor to the
one, and scarcely giving enough to tho
other. Health Of mind and health Of
body ought to go together, md II man
wishes 10 make the most Of himself and
Of Ills faculties lie should observe regular
hours for sleep, work, recreation and cxer.
else, and be temperate in his diet md In
all other things. EIe should treat each
day Of his life rs whole in itself, and
avoid bringing himself into state In
which artificial stimulnnts become a nc
ccssily. But how many persons do we
find following these simple and Olt-rcpeat-
cd rules? Asa rulc, professional men per-
init themselves TO be ovcrtaskcd, for they
dislike rejecting business when II oilers
itself And the same may be said Of men
engaged in trade and commercial pursuits.
Willie business Is brisk they will do, or
attempttO do all that Is possible, without
regard to the VernfCiOus strain upon
their system which such bvcrwork en-
tails. II to this bc added tho perpetll-
al anxiety, hurry, loss Of temper, dis
c0uragcncnt nj losses or failure, and
undue cxnltatlon nj success, which charac-
tcrizc the life Of most business men, to-
gethcr with the system Of taking hasty
meals, and not allowing sufficient time
for sIccb md relaxation, one nccll not be
surprised Mt the number Of premature
deaths which daily occur. The wonder
Is TINT it Is not greater. When man
desires to do very great quantity Of
work, he almost always Is obliged 10
violate tho rules Of health 10 accomplish
It +; he has TO 1iaya price for being allow
cd tol6i It; unless giflgl with a peculiarly
strong organization, his lnhor Is accon1pa-
liicd 6y its own fctributiOn. OF course,
there frequently occur situations In which
men htUM work to the utmost; they have
no choice; hut, dti the whole, 1t may be
affirmed TINT most Of the ordinary work
81 the world may be got through without
any glaring iTlattcntiOn to or defiance Of
Tie rules Of health and the requirements
Of society. And II each man would try TO
find out how lie can best do his own work,
md not trytO do II, according to the ways
lioNottcfs, 4 great deal Of useless toll and
irritation might be saved. !. =. ~, ~ ."'
ait will, perhaps, be urged TINT there have
been many brilliant cases wherein the
rules OFhealth were not only violated hut
outraged, and yet the work performed was
Of thu very Highest order. This u un.
doubleday true Of many men Of exttaordi.
nary genius, who were, however, exccll-
tIonat men, in every sense ofthe wOrd,and
hence their example Is not to be cited rs
that which prdl1afy persons should fol-
Low: No one, for Instance, Should do as
the great French novelist Bal2ac used 10.
NFltCl lie wis engdgcd on a novel he
would retire wholly from tie wofld 10
write with scarcely any interruption, and
without taking ahy e%ctctse,f from two
o'clock In the morning till six in the even
ing; he allowed himself six hours sleep,
and lived entirely on fruit and vegetables
At tho ind Of some months Of tllIs Lilo he
would enter the world again; looking like
a spectre; yet II may be true that twas
only by such abnormal work as DIS he
could achieve what lie undertook: The
vast majority Of men would break down
under II, Some non cannot do hfaih work
we'll, except atinight, This was the
case with Schiller; while his great rival,
Goethe, did MI his work In tue morning,
and never wrote after his midday dinner.
Sir Walter Scott wrote his novels mainly
before breakfast, willie Byron composed
his POEMS mostly Into al night, The Con-.
trast between the results Of these two OPP
TositG systems Of labor, Is remarkable In
these four cases. Goethe and Scott re-
peCtiVCly attained the ages Of 81 and OIL,
willie Schiller died at 46 and Byron at
90. Moreover Schiller INDUCED In clanl-
TagnG, and Byron IN gin and water, and
both llabitually wrote under the influence
l0CStfmulants. They shortened their lives
By their irregular mode Of living and
WORKING. Would they not hive lived
longer and accomplished moro by 0bscrv.
Ing Tie laws Of llcalth2 Goethe worked
without stimulants, and Scott, though not
aVrrsC to wine aud alc, was a temperate
man, an carly riser, and fond Of field
sports and exercise in the open or. But
oven he ultimately sUccumhcd 70 over
tension Of TIC hr1lin, In his desperate
ibut honorable efforts to pay of tho debts
EjF which he considered himself response
bic; had II not been for this unnatural
brain.wOrk he might have lived many
years longer. sOutlley, though q dlligcnt
student and u constant worker, would nov
or under any circumstances, do with less
than nine hours sleep, and lie was an alb
stemiOuS man; accordingly he lived to the
age OF sixty1eight; he did all his writing
! by ddy. Tho lat6 Archbishop Whalcy,
1who livcd till nearly eighty. was, however,
u remarkable instance 70 the contrary.
He said that he could not produce original
matter except at night, but TINT he could
best CritiCise aud correct In tho morning.
Tho habit ofwriting and reading at night
may be acquired; and, indeed, Il very bi.
tan Is especially by persons connected
with the press, and by Others who arC
called upon by their avOCati0ns to do
brIin.gDrk In the evening, such as aclhrs,
lecturers, preachers and Others. Never.
theless there Is good reason 70 believe that
all Of these would accomplish more by
working Us much by day as their avoCa'
lions viii permit, and not undertaking too
much. tt- wv -;,..f s-,eH
EnEE IRON, DrRT.-1s there any hair
coloring preparation, either hero or In
i EurOTla, that resembles PItAION'S VITAL.