Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-29

quantity" He finds that In all good
supervised by the authorities, and that
college officers approve the game in
the ratio of twenty-scven to one.
Finally, accident insurance statistics
show that many other sports are more
dangerous than football The case for
football rests on the broad reason for
all vigorous. manly sport; young men
take to such sport naturally. and they
need 1t not only for their physical we'll
being. but for their moral steadiness.
AS President Eliot of Harvard has
said. athletics are moral safeguard
in discharging the high energies of
youth.
Have you hobby of some kind? If
not. get you one. What sort of hob
by? IL matters not so 1t is clean and
diverting. Golf, gardening, tennis, cro-
quet, cooking. photography. wicket
work or work bench. love or literature
one of these or of hundred others
may save your health. One who takes
his business home with him and sleeps
with it courts Il breakdown. He Is
putting crows feet about his eyes, gray
hair In his head. stress on his nerves.
He Is carrying about a load, one end
of which rests upon his brain and the
other upon his heart. This sort of a
man needs relaxation from his task
and Il change in the course of his
thoughts. without such short mental
vacation he cannot 20 to his work with
that freshness that Is demanded by
our competitive living. Get hobby
and ride 1t some. 1t Is not necessary
to ride the hobby all the time. One
need not become crank. Put It
through its PAGES when you are tired.
The change will rest you. Ride 1t
when you IRE blue. The color of life
will change. Relax the bent bow SO
that 1t may go back with snap.
Note the optimists. Nine out Of ten
Of them either have hobby or were
born to see the bright side. A hobby
well ridden will clarity your vision
and correct moral or mental strabls.
mus. You can't ride your hobby cross.
eyed. The trouble with most Of us
Is that We do not see the need OF a
hobby until It Is rather late to choose
one. We are going to be happy--some.
time. We need touch Of Bill Nye's
philosophy: ENJOY life while you
can. for you will be dead long time"
1t Is a pathetic fact that many Of us
are dead long time before comes the
holiday we had promised ourselves.
Get hobby.
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"Bclieve me-" said Philadelphia
physician who makes speciality of
treating nervous disorders. 1T isn't
ovcrwork that superinduccs nervous
prostration. The men who succumb to
nervous strain nre not the men who
work continually under high pressure.
The man who has no relaxation has no
time to brood over his health, and
brooding Is fatal to u man whose
nerves are highly strung. II Il man Is
constantly busy in mind from morning
until night he isn't In any danger OF
nervous trouble. Its only when he re-
lakes and gives himself certain
amount Of leisure that he is In dan
ger. A man IL q good bit like a piece
of machinery. Its the relaxation that
| tells. Take Russell Sage, for instance
He celebrated his elghty-cighth birth
day to-day, and he Is In the harness
all the time. Should he give up even
u part of his daily routine the prob
abilities are that he would be dead
man In six months. The man whose
nerves trouble him is the man of com
parative leisure"
~SA
1t Is dangerous for the household &c
accept as u matter Of course the re-
luctance Of the children to return tC
school after Il holiday. Shakespeare
speaks of the schoolboy Creeping lik,
snail unwilllngly to SCHOOL," but h,
puts the words into the mouth Of ,
professed cynic and scoffer. Whcl
the house, the school, the holiday, IN,
task are of the best sort, the ON,
to the healthy child. II the school
room has no attractions for him, it Il
fair to suspect either that the teache
Is not the right woman for her sacred
place. or that the mother makes o
the home n mere inn for the dissipation
OF the child's powers. not fountain
at which he may continually refresl
them. Happy the mother whose tlocl
of boys and girls look forward 10 tn
first day of school with joy, while the,
look back upon vacation full o
healthful pleasure ana recreation FIRE
from the blight Of seltishness or O
idleness.
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As II 1t were not enough to reform
the spelling OF certain words In on
language, two scientists have com
forward with the purpose of reform
ing the alphabet itself. They affect t
have tested the speed with which III
mind can recognize some Of the letters
and the conclusion reached by then
is that the forms of the printed letter
are badly conceived from u physlC
logical point Of view; that II the
were composed Of characters Of simpl
construction, such rs are the letter
4 and l., the speed Of the recOgnitio
of letters would be greatly increase
and the mental fatigue would be muc
diminished. These scientists M
shrewd enough not to say what fOrl
| tho other latters sho,lll tnkts I'm Orde