St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-24
A NERVOUS PICTURE
Hold Up the Mental Mirror
to Yourself and Sec
the Likeness.
tury's Bane, koIa Is Mankindss
AntidOte - Returned Vigor
and Hopeful Health Is
Yours to Conn
mand.

If an instrument of steel, iron and
hard, seasoned wood, such as the mod
ern piano, is apt to get out OF tune
from constant use or disuse is IL any
wonder that so delicate an organism
as the human form divine shows the
effects Of overwork, or its opposite
life of physical idlenesS? You can play
on your piano after a number Of the
keys bring forth uncertain sounds, and
you can use your body though your
nerves may protest, but in the one
case you do not get melody and in the
other you do get misery. Nervous de-
bility is the ailment of this age. II
shows itself in thousands of ways, and
attention once directed to its probable
ity the sufferer soon discovers its pres
ence.
YOU ARE A BUSINESS NAN,
let US suppose, and for some time
weeks, months, even a year or more
you have not been yourself; have not
been up TO the mark as, possibly, you
phrase it. You do not sleep well, and,
arising unrefreshed, the morning meal
is eaten, not enjoyed. A resolute will
forces attention to business for an hour
or two, then a reaction, a letting
down follows and, mind and body
alike, cry out with diStaste at further
exertion. Pehaps you conclude you
need a stimulant and a cocktail or two
or an alcoholic ''bracer" of some de-
Scription is taken-at first in the hope
of betterment, at last because Of a fan
cied necessity This is not a temper
ance lecture, but it doesn't require one
to prove that drinking before noon is,
to say the least, unadvisable.
YOU ARE MOTHER OF A FAMILY
and you too have had night of broken
sleep. The morning duties connected
with your household, once pleasant
and mind diverting, are now distaste-
full and are performed only from
sense of obligation. Social require
ments almost appal you, though for
merly they brought much pleasure in
their train. You are irritable-and
ashamed of it-full of cloudy breads
and unpleasant premonitions. There is
no seasoning in your daily walk and
conversation, and you start and
shrink at a sudden noise or quickly
spoken word
THESE ARE MOTIF PICTURES.
None better than thousands of bust
ness men and mothers know that these
brief outlines do not tell 1.-THE Of the
tale of their lives. Perhaps they say,
MY nervous system seems all run
down. but they do not act as if they
believed the saying. They go on from
day to day and from month to month
until an absolute breakdown compels
absolute rest-not always pos
sfble to secure and not always sure of
affording relief.
You have diagnosed your own case.
It is that marvellous mechanism We all
possess, that intricate multitude of tel
egraph lines to the brain, that wonder
full announcer Of debility we call the
nervous system that is affected, and
the effect of this debilitation may show
itself in a thousand unmistakable ways
not even limited at above. Brain,
heart, blood, muscles, all share in the
letdown, and whether the sharp throbs
of neuralgia. the suffocating palpita-
ton of the heart, the nauseating throes
of nervous dyspepsia or the piercing
pains of rheumatism be the outcome,
in vast majority of cases an impaired
nervous system is the cause.