The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-25
Furry Causes Oils
Nervous Diseases That Arc Due to Stress
of city life.
TO point to the hurry and stress OF

! r. o point to the hurry and stress OF
modern town life the cause
of half the ills to which
flesh to-day is heir has become
almost common place in aetio-
logical diagnosis. The oldfashioned com
plants might almost excite a medical
mans pity so much do they seem to be
! crowded ont 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 ner-
vous system is the weak link of the or
ganisIn. The weakness is not natural.
1t is acquired because the strain upon
this link is SO often almost constant and
out of proportion to wearing power o.
the material. Whether as generations ad-
vance individual nervous systems VIII
more easily bear the labors asked from
them or not, at any rate, 1t may fairly
be assumed that in the early days OF
any new style of lite the generations born
under an old regime have the worst Of it.
Their children cope more easily with the
new necessities. They are earlier con-
fronted with them and new arrangements
which pefpleXed 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 hundred
telephones and sleeping s"eetly though
airshlps whiZZ among countless electric
wires over their heads and perpetual
night traffic of motor car hurtles past
their bedroom windows. AS yet, It must
be sorrowfuly confessed. our nervous
systems are not caliods. Some or us
still start at the telephone ring and ma
the irregularities of the instrument
source of irritation and worry. Many or
us are actually neverous at the sudden
appearance of a motor car round the
wrong side of Il London street corner.
The result of countless repetitions OF
these trials. small though they may De
singly. is not to be lightly estimated.
Fortunately, the very causes or nerve
exhaustion. so far as improved raplditS
Of ioconotion may be counted one OF
them provide one important counteract-
ing feature of town life at the present
day. We are abiding to the facility with
which those whose week days are spent IN
city toll may spend the seventh in breath
ing the fresh air and hehofdng the fhho-
cent joys of the rustic. To the hard-
working Londoner the value of the week
end properly used is hard to overestimate-
From the eager broker and worried buSf-
ness man to the stfled seamStreSs ana
toiIing artisan there are few who cannot
find further or nearer from the metropolis
some fresh and open spot where they may
replace the evil atmosphere of the office
or the factory. Without trains electric
tramways and motor cars such whole
some change of scenery and surroundings
would be scarcely possible in the limited
time available.
We do not wish to underrate for a mo-
ment the value Of parks and open spaces
the "city's lungs For many these at
ford the only possibility of a Sunday in at
any rate comparatively fresh air. Those
large numbers. though. who habitually
find the Sabbatil's rest in days whole
o. n distance
their work-a-day center may spare a
moment from the usual condemnatory at
ttude toward the hustle. rush and c!atter
of up-to-date locomotion to bless the
means which enable them so protitably to
enjoy the day.-Lancet.