New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-25
Dying Of Overwork.

The death of the great Boston artist.
William Hunt, by his own hand, while
suffering from an attack of hypochon-
dria brought on by close application to
his canvas, is sad reminder of the
danger to which professional men are
peculiarly exposed in this country.
Across the foreheads Of many of our
best thinkers is plainly written lover
worked" Almost the last words of
the late Samuel Bowles were these: IL
am worked out" Though but fifty
one years of age, he had become an
old man by his long-continued neglect
of rest and sleep.
Young men with unlimited ambition
are more apt to be impressed with the
biographical accounts of how Choate
studied law by the midnight oil and
Schiller wrote under the moon than
with the regular habits of q healthy,
rounded manhood like that of Bryant.
The economy of time, the gain in
working-hours by frightening the rest.
ing-hours, the haste that is made slow
~, and the value of deliberation-these
are considerations of no account to the
youth whose mind is full of the thrifty
New England maxims about early ris-
ing and saving the minutes while the
hours take care of themselves. The
most inveterate miser in the world is a
time-miser. He studies how few min
utes it can possibly take to eat a din
ner, how quickly he can 20 from his
home to his office, and how little sleep
be can allow himself and still live.
Life is q continued express train with
minute-stops. Rome could easily have
been built in day, he believes, but he
is sure to die before the foundations of
his Rome are laid.
While slow work is not by any means
the best work, very rapid and long-con-
tinued work is sure to be sheer folly.
The time-miser does not save his time
SO completely as he imagines. The
late Mr.. Hunt, of whom it is said that
he charmed his friends by an innate
kindness and generosity of disposition,
a boyish frankness of speech and loyal
ty to high ideal, threw this all away
by his eagerness to save time. He was
often known to remain in his studio
from seven in the morning until seven
or eight in the evening without touch
ing q mouthful of food. He saved a
few minutes, but he lost his life. Such
penny-wisdom and pound-foolishness
ought to be a warning to all who are
overworked; for aside from cutting off
ones life, the work actually done is not
well done. Overwork means excitabil-
ity, irritibility and kindred mental phe-
nomena, and the work will be equally
overstrained and incomplete. Ali this,
one will say, is trite; so it is, and would
not be said if Mr.. Hunts death did not
sharply point the moral of the old say
ing that bow always bent will soon
break. This is a truth yet to be learned
by the American people. Eza,pisev
and Chronicle.
THE Sanitary Engineer offers . re-
ward of $500 for the best plan of : mod
el school-house. Our small bow will
contest for that prize. His working
model Is not yet ready, but we may
state that his idea of . model school,
house is one in which the teacher never
icks; where recess comes five times Of
I morning, vacation every other week.
and examination never; where all
studies are elective, and chewing p,,m
i insisted upon; where there Is co-edu-
cation Of the sexes. provided the eirls
are pretty, and where there Is no pun.
ishment for fellow save sending him
70 sit By the. girl to whom he was caught
passing notes. lbony Journal
Harrison was 81 whom no vs.
sworn o President, and died exactly
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