Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-22
FASHION REIGNS.
Also in the Forum and Busy rIarts
of Trade.
Perfls That Reset the Student, the
Scholar, the Teacher and
the Merchant.

No class Of people enjoy such perfect health as
that which earns its living by regular hours of
moderate physical exercise. The MAMMAL laborers
whatever else may be said of them, generally
know enough to rest when they are tired Neither
they, a rule. disturbed by the ambitions
anxeties and avarice. the shocks and excitements
Of business and social life. and the oversrains Of
jealous competition that confront q large proper
ton Of those in the higher walks of lIfe
This is why the physical complaints arising from
disorders Of the brain and nervous system are so
much more common among the upper anil middle
classes. Nervous exhaustion and the diseases d.
rectly or Indirectly attributable thereto claim
more victims than any Of the other Ills that afict
the human family. The malady In its earlier
stages Is too lightly considered by the general
physician and by the patient himself. Even IL the
physician recognizes the gravity Of the condition
he Is usually unable to treat 1t successfully.
Nervous exhaustion Is essentially and pre-emi-
nently an affection of modern society. and Is found
In Its most aggravated type In the United States.
The Inducements to active effort great here
that the business life IL assumed at an unusually
early age and with extreme zeal Social duties
are very exacting and often exhausting. Young
men Of abundant means plunge into fashionable
dissipation. travelling ut lively gait, INDUCING i'm
forbidden pleasures, youthful excuses and late
hours The students Of science, art literature
law and theology overwcrk their brains In their
haste to acquire proficiency and position In their
chosen Professions. So the trouble begins.
The subjects Of nervous exhaustion complain Of
lassitude. a want of huoyant feeling indispo-
sition for exertion, mental depression and some
times pains and aches. They usually wakeful
at night, and rise with a sense Of fatigue When
stimulated by some unusual excitement they may
be capable OF the usual e1ertion but when the ex-
eitement has subsidized they feel exhausted. Dys-
pepsia is one Of the most distressing manifesto
lions of the disease
There Is one fact that cannot be too forcibly i'm
pressed upon the sufferer from nervous exhaustion
and that Is that he Is In a most dangerous condi-
tion- He should seek q possible
not a cure for some local trouble, beyond which
his physician Will probably be unable to penetrate
bot cure that will remove the cause Of all his
troubles and restore his nervous system and mental
faculties to their natural state of healthy activity
To fail to do this Is TO invite such deadly diseases
As paralysis, paresis, locomotor ataxa, wasting
palsy. epilepsy, insanity and various affections Of
the spine and brain.
Hundreds of victims of this malady are being
cured every week by DR.. r. A. Walker. specialist
In the treatment of disorders Of the brain and
nervous system His extensive sanitarium at 14I1
Pennsylvania avenue adjoining Willard's Hotel. Is
visited by many Of Washingtons best people. Dr.
Walkers office hours from 10 a. m to s p. m,
Sundays from 10 to IL q m, and he makes special
appointments with parties upon their request. He
also invites sufferer, 1t q distance to communicate
with him by letter. having perfected q system Of
treatment BY correspondents.