Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-18

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| 9e tlred tomorrow. You may 60 out OF
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A Magazine Editor.
| A prominent business man WIN pse. /.
great deal Of Edward Everett HaIe,s WORT
is Mr. John Brisben Walker. editor of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine. He has saen all
sorts or ups and downs in business specu-
| iation and literature. He made a fortune
In Denver and he promises to make an
otner In the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He is
man perhaps forty-five years Of age. He
Is man Of brain, push and intellectual
| vitality and words that he writes are worth
printing, though he does not seem to think
! the questions I have propounded by any
| means easy to answer. He says:
! My Dear Sir: You are a modern Ponce
de Leon in search Of the fountain of per-
petual youth. You ask a busy man how he
avoids worry. He is like yourself seeking
| the clue to this secret and will doubtless
some day have his body covered over by
Mississippi Of care and anxiety and the
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or three things worth knowing. One is to
aid digestion by plenty OF out door exercise.
walks brisk enough to bring out the pers-
| piration. Another is never to worry at the
| result after you have done your best. These
| two will bring sound sleep and so next days
| labor becomes a pleasure.
| II you obtain the true solution to your
problem please send II to me.
Yours sincerely,
JOHN BRISBEN WALKER.
Old Statesmen on Intellectual Health.
Judge Holman tells me that the secret
Of his good mental condition is in a good
diet and sleep. He believes in hard work,
and says. More men are killed by shirk-
ing their work than by doing it." He takes
cold bath every morning. and says he
loses a great deal of intellectual vigor
whenever he misses it. Gov. Curtin once
told me that he thought his Intellectual
health came from his care in his diet. He
said he could go all day without eating
and not notice II. Henry b. Payne, the
famous Ohio ex-senator, told me that he
owed his good mind to the fact that he
was temperate in all things. and also to
his habit of walking long distances every
day. He believes that more men are killed
by intemperance in work than by intemper-
ance in drinking. and is an active advocate
of short hours and long rest Cassius NJ.
Clay once told me that he could never get
along on less than nine hours sleep, and
that he did not believe that a man should
be walked in the morning. He believes that
a good mental condition can only be kept
by daily exercise in open air and by cold
baths. 1t was the same with number OF
old men whom / interviewed. or these
men there were about a dozen famous &C.
togenarians, and without exception they at
tributed their good mental condition to
open air exercise, frequent bathing and
moderate drinking. / knew George Ban
croft well during the later years of his life.
He took ride every day almost UP to the
day of his death. He attributed his long
life to his exercise and temperance.
Erastus Wiman on Intellectual Health
Among my letters from prominent brain
workers is one from Erastus Wiman. He is,
you know. a self-made man and has GER
tainly had his share Of ups and downs.
His pei just at the present time is more in
teresting than when he was at the top Of
the swim as a Wall street millionaire. His
letter reads:
/ wish 1 could give a recipe for intellec-
tual health and freedom from worry. Worry
and work ought not to be harnessed togeth-
er so constantly as they are. but they travel
in pairs to far greater degree than is de-
sirable. Intellectual work and worry make
old men of the best and brightest of our
race and fear will do so to the end of the
chapter.
Working at night is to me the worst thing
that can happen. When darkness comes
all nature seems to be at rest and / don't
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morn before dawn darkness may be made
available, but after the exhaustion of the
day intellectual work is burning the candle
at the other end
habits of work I beg to say that from to
in the morning are my best working hours
for reading and writing, and that the rest
of the day is given to business. with a total
cessation of work and worry at night.
Sleep is the best as you suggest and many
a man can sleep at to $50 till 8 or 4 a. m.
that can't sleep from ii 80 or II 80 to a. m.
My pull on good health and vigor OF body
and mind is in the ability to drop asleep at
the plebeian hour of O'Clock A snooze I'm
the middle of the day after lunch on the
ferry boat or I'm the train is the best OF
tonics in the middle of the day.
Word From w. ID. Howells.
w. d. Howells is one of the most con-
scientious workers in the United States as
well as one of the most regular. L once
asked him as to his manner Of working and
why he did not buy any books except those
on money making. He replied. IT can an
swer that question best by quoting from
one Of the Italian poets. who says. Our
work of making books is all in vain, if
books in turn do nothing to make men,"
At this time Mr.. Howells told me that he
did all Of his Intellectual work in the morn
ing and that he arose about Z o'clock had
breakfast at and then worked until lunch
time. He believed that he did his best
work on good American breakfast and he
thought it stood him better than the Eu-
ropean custom of taking only coffee and
rolls In the letter which / have received
from him concerning the above customs. he
says that the best recipe for Intellectual
health Is a clear conscience He deprecates
his ability to throw aside his work when he
leaves it. He says he nearly always sleeps
well and that his advice to persons over
burdened with work and worry Is temper
ance and exercise.
How Mrs. Frank Leslie Works.
Perhaps the most successful business
woman in the United States is Mrs. Frank
Leslie. Her history is known to all. How
she was left by her husband with Frank
Leslie's newspaper. and a load of debts
How she borrowed $1,000 to carry on IN.
business and built IL up until IL brought
her an income of more than SlOO 600 a wear
everyone knows how she added to the cs
adjustment dozen or half dozen other
celebrated publications, and how TODAY
though one of the richest women IN tbe
United States, she works on unaffected NV
the worries Of a fortune and a big b,,si,
ness She has for years been ground he
tween the upper and neither mill stones
OF work and worry, and is today as fresh
almost as when she brought her brains
into the literary hopper. She writes as
Without physical health, Intellectual
neaith Is an impossibility. Brilliant work
mas oItentlmes been done on nerve force
ana by strong will power, but to insure sus-
famed and continuous good work physical
health is an absolute necessity ANXIETY
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