The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-03-10
REST AFrsR MgNTAL LABOR.
"Gath" Tell, How He Incorporates Af.r
Severe Literary Work.

Gath" Tells How He Incorporates AMER
Severe Literary Work.
Living in our very active age, with
every individual working at the top Of
his speed, 1t becomes often a question
where to get the resuscitatiun absolutely
required after some contiguous intense
mental work. ] see that Edward Ev.
erett Hale has recently written an article
upon his own personal habits, saying
that he sleeps whenever he can get a
chance, and that It is only by sleeping
that he arouSes and recurs to what he
says is the most exciting occupation to
man, regular literary composition.
have probably done as much work
in the past thirty years, Of this kind, as
anybody living. It has often been a
matter Of health and almost life to me
to know how to get the necessary
change. Sometimes have to clear out
for three or four days and get into the
country somewhere and take q long
ride through new scenes, About 800
miles in a railroad car and thirty or
forty miles in an open carriage gives my
mind a thoroughly now outfit, and l
come home feeling as II had been away
for month.
But it is in the city with the daily at
tack and drudgery Of mental occupation
that one needs the small hourly relief
which sleep will give. but 1t Is at the ex-
pense Of the physical part Of the man.
Suppose, for instance, that Iwcrk from
Cor ! O'Clock in the morning till 9 in the
afternoon. What shall l then do to be
ready for work at 8? If / go to bed, and
lean most always sleep, l get q men.
tai rest, but get no exercise for my
muscles and physical organs. en-
courage tendency to the govt. IfIgo
out in the street and walk, very often
the themes have left follow me and
seem to fasten themselves in my.feet,
and go mile or two and find my
mind running around in a circle from
which there is no relief.
find in taking Russian baths the
best and most various relief l can get.
The walk to the bath or back from It is
fair amount Of exercise for the legs.
In the bath there is the exercise Of div.
ing and plunging, or swimming, and Of
the rubbing or massage by the at
tendAnts. The cold water following the
sweat is anabsOlute change Of the whole
mental system, as IL the brain itself had
been secured off and put back. The
sweating in the bath carries from the
body much that corrodes and slogs It,
and alters the speed Of the larger organs.
Then, after the bath and the rub, little
sleep Of half an hour Is equal to two
hours ut home in bed without exer.
else.
These baths ought to be in every i'm.
portant American city. There is an
idea that they kill people by giving
them colds. l have had cold in every
way except by going to the baths. Then
there is an idea that they are a shock to
the system. That system which is
shocked by cold water applied in gada-
tons from the warm to the cold ought
to strengthen itself by trying more
water. The heat of the American
climate, the action OF coal smoke. the
meat-eating habits OF our people, the
stinting ourselves Of exercise, all call out
for the bath as it is taken in Russia,
whether in the cold or warm belts OF
that empire Of vigorous men.-Cincin.
matt Enquirer.