The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
vHE FORCE or HtBrr.
hs. Gbkanab, sets Fsvth the case ss Hss
frtead Wressi~u.

frt~Nd Wrestlnn.
\ never saw said Mr.. Glykumhv
a mor~ striking illustration OF IN. force
OF habit than that exhibited in th. case.
OF my friend wrestlon.
| Nrestlon, when I frat knew him A
year ago. was n man OF ~. a wholesome
nice man with plenty OF money TO enable
MN 10 live very comfortably; but up to
anout year before that time he had
worked hard for very small pay Then
uistant relative. Greatunc.e who
iVed IN Australia. died and unexpectedly
left Wrestlon little fortune. whereupon
"r'stlon naturally gave up his lob
al small pay. married and set up a snug
establishment of his own. II was in this
! very nice little home that fins. came
to know him and my first visit TO him there
was 10 take dinner with him.
We had scarcely got through the
soup when wrestlon. with no apnar.n,
reason whatever. jumped up from tho
table and ran GU, of the room 10 h. Von.
TWO or three minutes; and then h. cam.
back and quietly resumed his seat nj the
table. He was calm while Mrs wrestlon
though she tried as well rs sh. could
TO Disguise her feelings. was evidently
disturbed
And she had further reason to he
disturbed. for that run Of wrestlon'-
after tho soup was not the only one he
made IN that meal. Four times more
IN the course OF that dinner ha got up
and hurried out in Just the same way.
whercat wondered Of course. hut of
course said nothing
In the year that followed I took din
Nor number of times with the Wr.s,-
Ions. and every time Wrrstion went
through that same performance IT Jump
ing up from the table At intervals and
running out for a minute or two: but !
noticed thai gradually no came TO run
out smaller and smaller number of
times. The habit that had prompted him
to do this seemed To he losing its grip
on INN or he was gradually coming TO
conquer it; and then one day when had
called and happened To find Mr. Wrsst-
lon out Mrs. Wrestlon told me what 1t
all me.nt
-Wrestlon for eleven years before his
forum came to him had been elevator
boy and switchboard tender in an apart
ment house; he had been a, this work
steadily from the time he went there,
when he was Is. till his uncle died and
left him that money when Wrestlon was
20. eleven years stesdily; and his habit Of
jumping up from the table had been
formed during that period. "a time long
enough to wake the habit deep seated
and insrained. You see wrestion and
whichever other boy was there with him
always worked alternately in twelve
hour stretches. with no relief from the
monotony Of the wora except "a they
changed shifts; that ~. they'd work for
one week one boy IN the DAYTIME and the
other boy IL night and the next week the
other boy in the daytime and the boy
who had been working daytimes then
taking tho night shift. but thai w2s I'll
tho change h. had.
For eleven ye1-s Wres;Ion h.d been
working in this way with unfalling I'M
waving regularity. with every other
week on 'he dEy HhIft, and II IVES in the
day shift work that he I'D formed I'M
consciously. hut not unn.turally this
habit Of jumping up 1T his meals You
zoe he had no chance to go out 20 '2t: 4
he m 4 to be- on the job I'll the time and
so hc had his me9l. in til. house.
When he was running tho day shifV .
his breakfast and hts luncheon were sent !
up To him by the superintendent. and he /
used to eat theS,, meals around III . little
space there wEs out of sight behind the
elevator shaft But hs Wa never per
united 'n -,.t uniut.rrupt"d.
Their" wa- always somebody coming !
IN and wanting TO go up IN tn. elevator.
or here was always somebody coming
OUT Of one Of th. apartments and ring
ing for the elevator 10 come up and take
HIM down. or there waS always, somebody
Qua I'D. aniIag 10 t-l-phOn. in or there
wa- ALWAYS somebody IN IN" hou-" want
ing 40 telephone our, and So l. wa- always
being called 10 the telephone switch
board: either the elevator bell or th"
switchboard buZZ.r was always ringing
and often both Were ringing - once,
and Ih.. people III this house. hE" those
IN most apartment hotiS"- didn'' fancy
DELAY They wanted ~ b- attended 10
at once and Wr--Ilon Wa always on the
job. and even when eating ms meals
Their. around back Of III" elevator shaft
Ia. wa SURF. To he interrupted
In This way. with eleven wears To grind
il in. Wr--rlon had got. d--p-..lt.i and
lngraued th. hahI' Of jumping up "a
his meals
A singular case Really eNtraor-
binary u seems Ia me bu' Id almost
b. willing TO contract such "A habit myself
II | could be SIire that SONY gredtunCl,
in Australia or elsewhere would leave
me a. much a. his left Nr.-il"n