The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-06

or near relative at the bedside of the
sick / will not allow It. Such nurse
hoEerlng always betWeen nope aI1 la
and working under physical and mental
strain for days and nights without rehel
often is nearer the point OF mental COL
lapse than is supposed. / have seen many
Of these victims of the sick room, some
Of them of the frailest constitutions, ana
when the spur Of mental anxiety mas
ceased, the mind has broken down. In
many cases there may be IN these SICK
room watches the greatest strain possible
to put upon the individual
With reference to the general wear and
tear upon the systems of men, DIT. KING
holds that so many organs Of the DOuy
operate in emergencies TO take the STRAIN,
one off another that the final point or
breaking down from general eNhausJloh
cannot be determined further than by
placing IL within the brain and nervous
system There IS just so much OF energy
to eXpend in the body, and the brain,
through a fatigue of its own, may lessen
the further possibility OF physlcal eIIOrI,
OF the body through eNertions that are
unusual and unexpected may rob tne
brain of energy A man may have been
fatigued mentally at his office. and ne
may start home prepared TO do some lur-
Their mental work after dinner. The pos
sbility of doing that work may depend
wholly upon whether ne walks half a
mile between the station and his home,
or whether he gets a carriage and rides
there. II he rides and conserVes ms
physical energy ne may have the power
to think; if he walks he viii have brain
fag that will preclude it,
In the rush work or the contractor IN
almost any line Of building, the first
showing of breakdown is in the mental
attitude of the men, They grow ugly IN
disposition, and any foreman VINO Is
working a shift of men beyond the point
OF physical endurance, VIII De prepares
to take from them almost any kind OF
imDudenCe and rough disregard.
They get reckless in speech, said one
Of the supervising staff In the general
OFFICES of the Chicago Edison company
You Will find them not caring what they
say to anybody. For a man to touch
elbows with a fellow worker is an Otfense
that may lead to a fight whereas under
ordinary conditions the touch would not
"Our repair gang often is called up 10
work Ions stretches at a time, but in this
we try to limit the working day Of any
one man to the hours between IN the
morning and 10 in the evening, and 10
keep no one gang at the pace for more
Z than two weeks. For regular work IL
may be said that out Of door men as VIC
employ them win do just as much work
in a week Of ten-hour days as they Will
do in a week of thirteen-hour days. For
two or three days we may get more
work out of a man in thirteen hours than
i'm ten but this viii not mold true Tor a
whole week, and as for two weeks, that
/ is the limit
I'VE have man here who once watched
/ "a dynamo which was undergoing repairs,
/ keeping to the post from clock on
/ Monday morning till noon on the follow
ling Wednesday. all of this time without
] "a
/ Job through. and we let him. He kept
I himself awake on coffee, and II was
/ made stronger and stronger as the une
went on.
( i'm this vigil. The times Of greatest sleepl-
ness were at midday and midnight; once
/ past these points on the dial he was az
/ right. even through those hours in tho
/ early morning when the tides of life ar
supposed TO be at lowest cbb From
O'Clock in the morning be might be ever
wakeful and comfortable Until noon again
Z Then at noon he would nave 70 LiSu
| through another OF the sleepy periods.
AS ne recalls the experience he was
not particularly more jaded on Wednes
/ DAY morning than ne had been on Tues
cav morning He had a certain lightnes
in the head that was more to be com
pared to intOXiCauon than 20 any lhlht
! else. He hadn't much TO do but keel
strict vigil over the dynamo. SO that m
did not suffer from additional physica
effort When his watch was over, aIte
two and a half days and two nights, NJ
would who was stupid from drink.
las for myself, when the four-mile tun
I mel was building I once worked there 70
! a forty eight-hour shift in water that wa
knee deep. / could not lie down, Of cours
knee deep I could not Tie down, of course
and had not much opportunity 10 81
down Looking back upon that eNperI
ence recall that the work on the Secon'
day--~s not at all as wearing as / nigh
have expected. and that the night follow
ing might nave Deen q great zeal WoLs
than IL was. But after had slept on IN
third day and got up--theu it was that
man wants TO whip his wife and strangl
mis- children Then man needs fou
Z aces of quiet
I'm such case a man has TO waken 70
food before he mas had enough sleep an
on awakening ne feels worse than If Il
had been on a drunk for the same period
There is feeling Of miserableness an
l restiveness. and discomfort that is ia
tolerable to the man. no less than to al
associates. and not till his rest has bee
restored in FUN does he get back hi
usual temper
For mere physical endurance 1t IS cor
sidered that the siX-day bicycle races Z
/ I q few years ago furnish some of III
! best examples Of the effect Of such stral
upon the human body. Even the layma
remarked the "dopey look Of the race
showing that the wheeiman was mental
incompetent long before his legs ha
{ failed him.-ChicagO Tribune.
/ Eat Royal bread II is pure an
wholesome Sold everywhere.