Mexico Missouri message., 1910-01-20

ally on the rack until all at once it breaks
down. Incidentally, his digestion becomes i'm
paired, his vital organs suffer irritation, which is
often the beginning of disease and his circula-
ton is clogged, threatening apopexy. No won
der, then, that in many instance he dies sud
denly, while yet in the prime of life
Sudden deaths much more common than
they used to be. The high pressure of modern
life, with its keen competition and intense
strain, is the chief cause. The busy merchant
drives his body machine beyond its capacity and
suddenly it collapses Heart disease or apo
plexy the attack may be- according to the ply
sican's diagnosis, but 1t is really overdrivlng
that is accountable for the mischief The siren
ueus life is all very we'll but it is liable in these
days to be carried too far. l have known several
tragic incidents of the kind within the last few
years-one Of them the case of a gentleman
whom 1 had earnestly advised to lead more
simple life Nature" | said to him, did not
provide you with machine capable of enduring
such use You have so many hours for sleep,
so many fer work and so many for recreation;
you must arrange them accordingly" But he
kept on at the same gait, and, not long ago,
while speaking at dinner on board steam
ship that entering the harbor of New York,
he dropped dead blood-vessel had given
way.
When the body-machine is weakened by over
II cannot Withstand the hostile germ life which
II cannot Withstand the hostile germ life which
It is obliged to encounter. In other words its
power of resistance is diminished, And when
the hours that should be devoted to healthful
recreation are given UP to the enervating dissi-
pations of club and social life there is a double
drain upon the vitality Many business men
nowadays are kept under such continual ner-
vous strain that they resort to stimulants in
working hours and 1t is this sort of abuse, COM
bined with constant and racking excitement
that has earned for paresis recognition as
brain disease to which stock brokers are pecul-
iarly liable-so much SO, indeed that 1t might
be called brokers' insanity.
The conditions of luxury under which nest
of us liye--for these are days when even the
poor man enjoys comforts such as were unob-
tainable by the rich half a century ago-have a
tendency to weaken our constitutions and impair
our vitality Our houses are overheated and
even the vehicles in which we ride are often
warmed almost TO suifocation. Thus we have
become like dollhouse plants and, IL by chance
exposed to a current of cool air, we catch cold,
or perhaps contract bronchitis or pneumonia, q
trihing change of temperature cutting our lives
short in a twinkling Or again, II may be that
like cause viii bring congestion of the kidneys,
leading to disease of those organs proving even
tually fatal
Not long ago, while travelling, CHANGED to
stop at village on the river Rhine, whore
found an astonishing number of old people
There were dozen over 100 years Of age and
many from 80 years old up TO the century mark;
vet straight and vigorous. One woman nearly q
hundred years old was earning her living BY
picking hops; her grandchildren were Middle
aged II was quite wonderful But there was
no mystery about II; It was merely the effect Of