The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-12-12
Hearts 0rerworRed.
Chambers' journal. in a &C

Chambers Journal, in a recent
issue says:
No organ in the body is sc
liable to be overworked as the
heart. When every other part q
the body sleeps, it keeps on its
perpetual motion. Every increas-
cd effort or action demands from
the heart more force. A man runs
to catch train and his heart beats
audibly. He drinks wine, and
his blood rushes through lis res
ervoir faster than ever was in
tended by nature. His pulse rises
after each course at dinner. a
telegram arrives, and his heart
knocks at his side. And when
any one Of these "excitements" is
over, he is conscious of a CORE
spondent depressionAa sink
ing or emptiness, as it is called. The
healthy action of all the members Of
our frame depends upon the supply Of
blood received from this central foun-
tain. When the hearts action is ar
rested, the stomach, which requires
from it large supply of blood, be-
comes enfeebled. The brain, also
waiting for the blood, is inactive.
The heart is very willing member,
but if it be made to fetch and carry in
cessantly-if it be put upon as the
unselfsh member of family often is,
it undergoes Reorganization which is
equivalent to its rupture. And this
Reorganization begins too often nova
days in the hearts Of very young
children. Parents know that if their
sons arc to succeed at any of those
competitive examinations which have
now become SO exigent, high pressure
Is employed. Hence young persons are
stimulated to overwork by rewards and
and punishments. The sight ola clev-
CT boy who is being trained for compe-
tition is truly sad one. The pre-
cocious, coached-up children are never
well. Their mental excitement keeps
up q finish, which, like the excitement
caused in strong drink IN older child
rem, looks like health, but has no re-
lation to it;in word, the intemperance
Of education is ovcr-straining and
breaking their young hearts. If in the
school-rOom some hearts are broken
from mental strain, in the playground
and in the gymnasium others succumb
10 physical strain. 1T is no object Of
mine,' says DR.. Richardson, ito under
rate the value of physical exercise for
The young; but l can scarcely overrate
the dangers of those fierce competitive
exercises which the world in general
seems determined to applaud. l had
the opportunity once i'll my life of liv-
ing near Il great trainer, himself being
u champion rover. He was Il patient
of mine, suffering from the very form
of induced heart disease of which am
now speaking, and he gave me ample
means of studying the conditions of
many Of those whom he trained both
Tor running and rowing. found oc-
casion, certainly, to admire the ply
sique to which his trained men were
brought; the strength of muscle they
attained; the force of their heart, but
the admiration was qualified by the
stern fact Of the results. But, indeed,
1t is not by overworll so much as by
worry and anxiety that our hearts are
disorganised. Laborious mental ex-
ercise is healthy, unless it be made
anxious by necessary or unnecessary
difficulties. Regular mental lab, is
best carried on by introducing into it
come variety. Business and profess
sional men wear out their hearts by
acquiring habits of express-train haste
which q little attention to method
would render unnecessary"