The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-25
nrSr.MorI. Of mind and Iody.

Mental work and worry produce great
exhaustion Of the body as well as OF the
mind.
Tho school teacher who hes been busy
all day, with the whole nervous system
on highest tension from the effort TO keep
up proper discipline, with the brain active
in the difficult tasks Of instruction and ex'
PLANTATION, aud with tho attention frequent-
lydiyertod by tho numerous Interruptions
and worries Of achOol room, goes homo
in the evening moro completely exhaust
cd than the tired lsborsr after his day in
the bitches.
Recreation OF some sort, or moderate ex.
ercIse, would naturally rost the over'taxed
mental power; as light reading would be
grateful change and rest from bodily
labor. But severe exercise is doubly harm.
fol when added to the exhaustion Of
mental atrain; as ovSr.taxtng Of the mind
Is very trying when the body Is suffering
from physical strain. LISA combination,
then, Of mental and bodily strain that
eventually brings serious results and We
can frequently SEQ ouch results happening.
1t is unwiso for young professional
man, after hard days work in his office,
to undergo the extreme physical exertion
ola military drill room, or gymnasium.
Few men are able, also, to do as the
learned Blacksmith did, work all day at
tho forge and study astronomy and master
Languages at night.
The moot common examples Of these
victims Of combined mental and bodily
strain can DO found among the business
men OF our largo cities, who live at some
distance from their office or place Of busi-
noss. They take hurried breakfast to
mako tho frat train, and after q busy day
make dash for the evening train thsttakes
them homo in time TO eat big dinner,
their principal meal, which they can
neither enjoy nor digest.
We can take leaf from the daily life Of
one Of our irlends for home example.
He is young man oil the nervous, hard
working temperament, with q quick In
telleCt and comprehensive mind that is
capable Of considerable. He Is connected
with a large manufacturing cdRCern at q
half hours ride by rail from his home,
and his work Is altogether mental. lie
gets up early In the morning, before tho
reSs Of the family, eats his breakfast by
himself, and hastily, III order 10 catch the
morning train. AS Doon Is he arrives at
the works he plungOs into his affairs. In
the middle Of tho day, II he hud time, he
munChes Ills cold lunch, generally stand.
ing, and occasionally giving directions TO
workman, or stopping to make cal.
culation. After such an unsatisfactory
excuse for meal he Is soon hard at work
again, and goes homo in the evening,
weary and worn, and sits down to an am.
plo, nouBhinG, warm dinner, which his
exhausted body is not prepared to asslm.
ilate. This 10 oil bad enough, but II 10
made worse by bringing some Of his work
home, and renewing tho strain till mid.
night.
What iu the rs5ultH He has just re.
covered from severe spell VI tOysr, and
his system IL constantly kept in good
condition for an attack Of the arst acute
disease that comes along II he survive
such dangers he may before many years
find himself a hopeless, almost hslplesS
invalid.
Such a life brings on what hSs been we'll
called the American disease. The sub
ieCtS Of II are nervous, dySpcptic, broken
down men before they have reached the
meridian Of lie. Ills one Of the causes
Of an advanced civilization, and our rush.
Ing haste in the race for great wealth that
most Of Us strive for and only a few &C.