The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14

right. Such emotions make man for
get food, sleep, sickness, friends, love, |
everything
What a gentle. tender light there |
was in this mans eyes as he spoke |
thus, and yet there was something OF
sternness, too, almost fierceness; as If /
he had flung away with scorn all the
worlds cherished prizes from devotion
to these creatures of his brain. Here
was a man who rejoiced in the loneli-
ness of his laboratory, who had stray
ed so high up into untraveled realms
Of knowledge, that there were few, per-
lldps none, to share with him in full
the delight of his discoveries. So far
had he strayed from the beaten ways
Of men that he seemed almost to be-
long to another. race.
INVENTORS SHOULD NOT MARRY.
DO you believe in marriage, Mr..
Tesla, for persons of artistic tempera-
ment?' l asked.
For an artist, yes, for a musician,
yes, for writer yes, but for an in
ventor, no. The first three must gain
inspiration from a womans influence
and be led by their love to finer
achievement, but an inventor has so
intense a nature with so much in it of
wild, passionate quality that in giving
himself to a woman he might love- he
would give everything and so take
everything from his chosen field. | do
not think you can name many great in
ventions that have been made by mar
ried men" He paused a moment and
then added, with shade of pathos in
his tone: It's pity, too, for some
times we feel so lonely
The amount of work Mr. Tesla docs
in day, does every day, is simply
prodigious. 1t is literally true that his
life is passed in continuous labor in
the laboratory with occasional inter-
walls for food and sleep, and after work
ing all day long from o'clock in the
morning till O'Clock at might, he often
has his dinner brought to the labora-
tory and continues to work until II or
L. Twice in the last two years he has
been to a theater On very, very rare
occasions, when he could not avoid it,
he has needed some social call and en-
Joyed it, too, as he admits, although the
thought of going to a reception or eve
ming gathering fills him with dismay in
advance. One of his few relaxations is
the half hour he spends every evening
at the cafe, where we met, exchanging
a pleasant word with friends he finds
there.
What do you think about Sleep" 1
asked. is it wise for man to deny
himself and get along with few hours
sleep day so as to do more work?''
Tesla shook his head. THAT is
great mistake, 1 am convinced. A man
is given just so many hours to be
awake and the fewer of these he uses
up each day, the more days it will take
to use them UP, that is, the longer he
viii live. l believe that a man might
live 200 years if he would sleep most
or the time. That is why negroes often
1--we to advanced Old age, because they
sleep SO much. Do you know that Glad
stone sleeps seventeen hours every day.
Chat is why his faculties are still un-
impaired in spite of his great age. The
proper way TO economic life is to sleep
every moment that it is not necessary
or desirable that you should be awake.
DO | do this myself? No, but here. as
IN many other things, 1 am far from
being a model"
AS young man in his native land of
Montenegro. Tesla was famous for nm
Usual bodily strength, overcoming all
ms comrades with little effort in wrest-
ling bouts and feats of prowess. Even
now, despite the neglect of his muscles.
ne IS a man of remarkable stature and
physical force
THE TESLA FAMILY.
AS the waiter was bringing some
! things that had been ordered. l re-
marked the f1uency with which Mr..
Tesla spoke French and asked him how
many languages he knew.
Not very many he said, "six or
seven, Or eight; but my father was
great linguist; he spoke eighteen lam
guages. Besides that he was a re-
fnarkable mathematician
L asked Mr.. Tesla about the members
of his Family still living, and he told
me that he had three sisters in Servia
for whom he has the most profound af-
lection. They were all married. accord
tng 20 the custom of the country. at the
early age Of 16 or II, which, he thinks,
great mistake
You have the right ideas" he said
about that in America. When girls
marry at such an early age, they are
old women at S.
DO your sisters know I asked. .tof
the great success you have made in
this country. and the nonors that have
come to you?"
Yes said Tesla, ''they know and
they worship me; they make so much