The Washington times. (Washington, D.C.) 1894-1895, 1894-09-28
KNOWN BY THEIR WALK.
Strides that Betray Ones Station in
Life.
Why the Majority Of Americans Walk
With Weary, Listless
Steps.

Watch the passers-by on the street and SEQ
how their walk betrays their position in life.
Here comes a countryman trudging along rs
he would in his corn field; there goes la
borer whose vocation is not hard to tell, even
if he has left his hod by the brick pile. This
fellow you know is in college, for he has the
traditional college swing. Those merry girls
with sprightly springing steps have not yet
had their buoyancy stolen by late hours at
balls and parties. This woman's weary steps
show her to be one of the great army OF
American inyalids.
And what impresses the observer most is
the great preponderence OF weary steps. In
the long procession of business and profess
sional men. Congressman, clergymen, men
high in office and men about town, and wo-
men representing almost every grade of So
ciety, more than half of them show by their
walk that they are tired and indisposed to
eXertion, an indication that is confirmed by
the jaded expressions OF their faces, the set
looks of weariLess in their eyes.
These are the people whose nervous sys-
TENS have given way under the strain OF Sc
we're mental or physical exertion or the exac-
tions of social life, or perhaps dissipation OF
one sort or another. They have laid the foun-
dation for deadly disease, are travelling the
path that leads to untold misery and early
graves. yet they are thinking only OF the dis
comforts of the hour. They are suffering
from nervous debility-a condition that is un-
doubtedly the means OF causing more misery
and crushing more hopes than any other trou-
BILE that human flesh is heir to.
1t is a statistical fact that seven out OF
every ten people in the United States are suf-
ferers from nervous debility, and OF this num-
Der less than half realize it. They know they
have gloomy thoughts. depression Of mind,
an impaired memory, dizziness and headache,
wakeful nights, and spells Of extreme ex-
kaY, th ii,,,ta 9th,
cause than the right one. They feel languid,
irritable, restless. but they cannot explain
why. How many thousand men, in their
eagerness to acquire wealth. have exhausted
their nervous force by RnA.ety aud overwork.
How many more are In the same condition
from the effects OF abuses and indulgences.
Nervous exhaustion will not cure itself.
The sufferer who thinks that nature alone
will bring about a restoration OF health Is
simply deluded by a false hope. He will real
ize this OF the power to realize anything IL
left in him) when he becomes hopeless vic
tim to one Of the terrible diseases which his
debilitated condition invites; when paralysis,
softening Of the BRAIN wasting palsy, loco
motor aJaXia. spinal meningitis or consump-
ton begins its relentless work.
DR.. +. 4. Walker, the well-known special
ist who has given a lifetime TO the study and
treatment OF diseases of the brain and nery-
Gus system, has had many thousand such
cases to deal with, ard in every case has eff
fected safe and permanent cure.
Many men ara sufferers from nervous eX-
haustion. nervous debility, impaired memory,
low spirits, irritable temper, and the thou
sand and one arrangements of the mind and
body that result from excuses, resulting Ia a
loss of manly power, wrecked constitutions,
and not infrequently in softening OF the
brain, epilepsy, paralysis, and insanity To
reach and reclaim such cases is one of DR..
Walkers aims and he has been the means of
restoring hundreds of unfortunates to health
and happiness.
DR.. Walker may be consulted free OF
charge al mis- Office, 1411 Pennsylvania ave
nue., adjoining Wizards Hotel, between the
hours OF 10 u N. and D. m. or by special
appointment He may also be consulted by
letter by persons living outside the city
Moderate charges in all cases.