The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-15
FOR THIS AGE OF
 HITSTLING


 HUSTLING.
 To point to the hurry and stress of
 modern town life as the cause of half the ills to which flesh to-day Is heir has | become almost a commonplace in
 sociological diagnosis. The old fash toned complaints might almost excite a
 medical mans pity, so much do they
 seem to be crowded out by those active | widespread young fellows, neuritis, neurasthenia, and whole young family of nervous illnesses, the offspring of the strained existence of to-day. A chain {, is strong as it's weakest link and to- day it appears that the nervous system l is the weak link of the organism. The weakness Is not natural It is acquired because the strain upon this link is so often almost constant and out of pro- portion to the wearing power of the
 material Whether az generations ad- vance individual nervous systems will more easily bear the labors asked from them or not, at any rate it may fairly
 be assumed that in the early days of any new style of life the generations
 born under an old regime have the worst of it. Their children cope more easily with the new necessities. They are earlier confronted with them and new arrangements which perplexed and worried their parents become habits easily borne and therefore not to be reckoned among the trying elements of existence.
 Thus we may imagine future genera tions perfectly calm among a hundred telephones and sleeping sweetly through airships, whizz among countless electric wires over their heads and a perpetual night traffic of motor cars hurtles past their bedroom windows. As yet, it must be sorrowfully confessed our nervous systems are not so callous. Some of us still start at the telephone ring and find the irregularities of the instrument a source of irritation and worry Many of us are actually nervous al the sud- den appearance of motor car round the wrong side of London street corn CT The result of countless repetltions of these trials, small though they may be singly, is not to be lightly esti- ! mated.
 Fortunately the very causes of nerve l so far as improved rapidity ! of locomotion may be counted one of l them, provide one important counter | of town life at the present | day. We are alluding to the facility ! with which those whose week days are spent in city toll may spend the sev- anth in breathing the fresh air and be- holding the innocent Joys of the rustic 1 To the hardworking Londoner the value of the week-e end properly used is hard to overestimate. From the eager broker and worried business man to the stifled seainstress and toilng artisan here are few who cannot find further )r nearer from the metropolis some 'resh and open spot where they may re- place the evil atmosphere of the office ,r the factory. Without trains, electric ramways and motor cars such a whole tome change of scenery and surround ngs would be scarcely possible in the imited time available
 We do not wish to underrate for moment the value of parks and open paces-the "city's lungs" For many hese afford the only possibility of sunday in at any rate comparatively | resh air. Those large numbers, hough. who habitualiy find the Sab 'ath's rest in a days wholesome exer- ise at some little distance from their 1ork-a day center may spare a moment rom the usual condemnatory attitude | l