Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-28
Are You a Victim of Nerves?

! These neres-they are to some a
! blessing and to others a curse. The
woman of nerves we admire and envy.
the nervous woman we pity and often
AVOID.
Yes, nerves are most excellent serv-
ants; but you cannot afford to lose con-
troll of them; for once let them get the
upper hand and they will prove cruel
masters indeed.
Keep a strong hand on the reins, for
if you once allow your nerves to do the
driving hystera, headache, Indigestion,
constipation, backachc, insomnia and
many other evils will be apt to fall in
line with amazing rapidIty and life will
soon cease to be filed with sunshine and
even hope will grow faint as irritable
fretful. supersensitive, subject to fits of
unreG sonableness and stormy temper,
you day by day grow less and less at
tractive, and sorely try the patience and
love of your friends, even taxing to the
uttermost the love of your l~ng-suffering
family, whose hearts grow sick with
despair at their frnitless efforts to please
you or win your approval.
OF course, you will feel greatly abused
when you begin to notice that those who
formerly sought your company, now, as
naturally avoid you; and you will no
doubt bitterly denounce such friends for
their lack of sympathy, never once real
| izing that it is you who have exhausted
utterly tEeir sympathy and patience as
well.
Most Of us are wasting energy all THE
{ me, and the nervous woman who can
spare it least wastes the most. She is
never still, but in Il thousand useless
movements she wears herself ont daily;
her fingers are constantly toying with
something, anything, from napkin ring
to a watch chain. book, fan. paper cut
- l.. IF hh,s b.ai In a aNrn
comes within easy reach of those restless
nervous fingers is eagerly pressed INTO
service and frequently she drums idly on
table or desk, keeping up a running ac-
compartment as she listens To you talk.
When she goes shopping she wastes Il
great deal of energy in the tight grip
she maintains upon her pocketbook or
umbrella, and when she retires at night.
not knowing how to relax either body or
brain. She again wastes more energy. even
as she tries sleep with the hope of storing
up little for the morrow. Hence, she
keeps on a high tension and wears her
self out in time.
y sound nervous consti.dtio is n CON
stitution to be envied, and to be cult
waited.
As for medicine. take none unless your
physician prescribes it. for | believe
many women are now nervous wrecks
from the dosing habit 50 often INDUCED
| in by families in the effort to get well
without doctor and 50 avoid il doctor )
bill If you cannot afford a physician
| advise you not 10 afford patent medi-
cines: to he sure. many OF the latter are
excellent medicines for certain ailments
and are 30 admitted to be by some of the
regular profession. as Il rule, however,
they only serve to whip the nerves into
seeming health, and then when the re-
action sets in you are in a sadder plight
than heinrC-0r worse still, possibly yOu
mJy find yourself a patent medicine
victim needing constantly III alcoholic
StUmuigut taking more and more. ia
some form, daily. till your life is Il
wreck.
For those who are even now suffering
from disordered nerves, | urge more out
of-door life. open windows when sleeping.
longer walks in the fresh air. daily eXer-
else ten minutes night and morning. q
quick cold sponge each morning and
tppid one at night; meat not more than
once "a day, and then never rare but AZ
ways well cooked; ut least eight hours
sleep during the night, and nine. if pos
sbIe. n tcH-minuteS rest after each mca II.
Nou must eat slowly and make your
meal as merry and happy Il one as cir
cUm>tances and surroundings will admit.
II. perchauce. You dine alone. let some
merry tale keep you company: it is sure
" better to divert your mind thus BY
means of a good book than to dwell OF
yUrr loneliness as you eat and by SO do
ing lay another stone in the foundation
yon have been building for dyspepsia in
the future
When a nervous patient is sent to me
for special work. the first thing | ex-
anime is her spine. Why! Let me tell
YOU The spinal column may be likened
10 Il tail tower. with doors and windows
opening 10 right and left down its whole
length Through this tower a great
bundle Of nerves run; this bundle we
cali the spinal cord. and it comes direct
from the brain. Through every opening
down the long tower or column nerves
escape, dividing and subdividing as they