The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-01-19

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 apoplexy. NO won
der then, that in many an instance he dies sud-
denly, while yet in the prime of life.
Sudden deaths much more common IMAM
they used to be. The high pressure of modern
life, with it's keen competition and lntense
strain, is the chief The busy merchant
drives his body machine beyond its capacity ana
suddenly it collapses. Heart disease or apo
plexy the attack may be, according 10 the phy
sican's diagnosis, but 1t is really overdrlvlng
that is accountable for the mischief The siren
uous life is all very WE'LL but it is liable in these
days to be carried too far have known seVeral
tragic incidents of the kind within the last lew
years-one of them the case OF gentleman
whom I had earnestly advised to lead more
simple life NATURE" said to him, did not
proyde you with machine capable OF enduring
such use. You have so many hours Tor sleep'
SO many for WORK and so many for recreat1on'
you must arrange them accordingly. But he
kept on at the gait, and, not long ago.
while speaking at a dinner on board a steam
ship that was entering the harbor of New York.
he dropped dead A blood-vessel had given
way.
When the bodymachine is weakened by over
II cannot Withstand the hostile germ life whlcn
It cannot withstand the hostile germ life which
it is obliged to encounter. In other words It's
power of resistance is diminished. AND wnen
the hours that should be devoted to health1ul
recreation are given up to the enervating d1ssl
nations of club and social life there is a double
drain upon the vitality. Many business men
nowadays are kept under such communal nei'
vous strain that they resort to stmulan's III
working hours and 1t is this sort OF ABUSE con.-
bined with constant and racklng exclle1nen''
that has earned for paresis recognition as
brain disease to which stock brokers are pecui'
tarly liable-so much So indeed, that IT m1gnt
be called brokers' insanity.
The conditions of luxury under which most
If ia liye-for these are days when even the
moor man enjoys comforts such as were unop
tainable by the rich half century ago-naVe
tendency to weaken our constitutions ana lmpal!
our vitality. Our houses are overneated ana
even the vehicles in which we ride are o1ten
warmed almost to suffocation mus we nave
become like dollhouse plants and II by chance
exnosed to a current of cool air, we eaten colo
or nerhaps contract bronchitis or pneumonia,
trifing change of temperature cutting our llve'
short in twnkling. Or again, 1t may De ina
a like cause will bring congestion OF the Kloheys
leading to disease of those organs proving even
tually fatal.
Not long ago. while travelling, CHANGED Il
ston at a village on the river Rhine, where
found an astonishing number OF ola peopie
There were a dozen over 100 years OF age ant
many from so years old up to the century marx
vet straight and vigorous. One woman nearly
hundred years old earning her living D
nicking hops; her grandchildren were middle
, aged It was quite wonderful. But there wa
, no mystery about 1t: it was merely the erect