Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-28
CONSERVING Enerov.

Orison SWEET Marden, writing in the
November Success says:
Ninety-nine per cent. of the sun
power Or energy stored up in a ton Of
coal is lost on it's way to the electric
light bulb. Thus we get only a hum
dredth part OF the possible light con-
tanned in ton of coal. The other
nincty-nine paIts are dissipated in
heat. and used up in friction in the en-
CINE or the electric apparatus, and
never become light. To discover some
way to prevent this fearful waste OF
energy is one of the great problems
confronting scientists today.
Just as fearful waste of energy
goes on in mans use of his own pow
ers. Instead of one hundred per cent.
of his energy appearing in results tina.
are worth While, often nc; more than
one per cent. of it gets into his real
work the rest being thrown away, uis-
sipated in SCORES of ways.
A foreigner travelling in this country
says, "Americans waste as much en-
ersy as ,st other nations utilize" 1t
IS truGs,- there is a woeful lack of
sereiIi,y, of poise. and of balance
among us. We are always on the
move-always twitching somewhere.
A noted physician says that most
people eXpend ten times the energy
really necessary in almost everything
they do. Many grasp a pen as if it
were crowbar, keep the muscles of
the arm tense when they write, and
pour out as much vital force in sign
ing their names as an athlete would in
throwing a heavy weight a great dis
lance. Not one person in hundred
he says. know how to make proper use
of his muscles Or to relax perfectly
when al rest. Yet it is chiefly
through repose. or perfect rest. that
We are enabled to store up energy, to
stop the leaks, and to cut off all
wastes.
A normal person, who has stopped all
these energy LEAKS is not nervous or
restless. He has control of his mus
cles. ard is ever master of himself
self-IentereG. and poised. He gives
YOU the impression of IA mighty reserve
power, bcc& he has not wasted his
energy. He can sit or stand still
looking you squarely in the eye with
| out tiinching, because there is power
back of the eye. He is always bal
anced. never flies off his center, and
does not need artificial stimulants or
bracers.
Just look back over the day and see
much of il has leaked away from you
in trifies. Perhaps you have wasted it
in fits Of fretting. Tuning, grumbling,
fault-finding. or in the little frictions
that have accomplished nothing. but
merely rasped your nerves. made you
irritable, crippled you. and left you ex-
hausted. You may have drained off
more nerve and brain force in a burst
of passion than you have expended
In doing your real work.
Some women are always exhausted be-
cause they spend their Vitality on trif1es,
fri,tering away energy in n score Of ways
without any result. When evening comes.
they are unable to sit up. They do not
turn Off the faucets OF nerve force and
energy. and night finds them like a city
with every reservoir and water main
empty. an easy prey to every draught OF
air or melting cause of illness or ill-tem-
per.
How pitable it is to see such women
shriveiel and shrunken before they reach
thirty-five. and looking old. al forty, not
because OF their hard work or trials. but
because Of useless fretting and anxiety
that have only brought diScord irto the
home. and premature age TO themselves.
Sons e. MS waste our energies and make
our lif' ineffective by trying to do toe
many things. Ability to do one thing
superbly almost. precludes the possibility
of doing other things in a way to attract
attention If We focus powerfully upon
one thing, energy is Withdrawn from
everything else. The mind Is like a
Sesarchlight-everyth is in semi
darkness except the object upon which
the light is thrown al the moment 1t can
not illuminate very large area at one