The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-04
By Mime. LIMA CAVALIER

HoN'T be afraid of your nerves
Make them afraid Of yo'i. So
@ many women write ne In the
same terrified way about their
nerves that children talk about
ghosts and the bad man" that have
become convinced that they look
uuon their nerves as foes and b'ssSfes'
The nervous system seems TO them
great unexplored land Ike thA'
the maps In Columhus's days snow
us Have you seen maps Win the
unknown regions OF Northern ha-
rope. of Southern Africa and tas
Western seas marked by huge Wtta
beasts. or half human monsters
threatening invaders with uplifted
swords. Yet Columbus reso'uteIy
set sail for the unknown land OF the
West. discovered 1t, gave you the
chance TO iuhabit 1t, and. Kidding
the world of It's fear, banished the
srotesoue figures from the maps OF
the earth Follow me and / viii.
Coiumbus-Iike. lead you from ths
land of All Fear to the Land OF Lit
tie. or OF No Fear Grasp this fact
and make 1t part OF your sum Ok
knowledge,
Nine.tenths OF all nervous 6'sor.
ders spring from some other cause
than the nerves themselves. Doctors
would put 1t In this way: Ninety
ner cent. Of all nervous troubles are
due TO functional, disorders That
is. some faculty Of the body has been
IMPAIRED and nervousness is one Of
the resulting symptoms. Generally
the cause is Il slight one, easily re-
moved. For instance, eyestraia
causes much disturbance of the nerv-
aus system An incalculaoIe number
of csises Of nervous irritability could
no cured by visit TO an oculist. ana
another to en- optician. Have your
eves examined. and if a reliaba
oculist orders glasses buy them ami
wear them. Those wel.-ftted glasses
will SPARE you the dIstiguring net
work of wrinkles about the eyes that
sve-straiu causes. 1t will spare you
the deep lines Nd1 sSu III tHS lace DF
nervous headaches IL you live I'm A
city YOU may be reasonably sure that
your nervousness is caused by eye
str1iu. for every city dweller suffers
from II. II we rive on the plains our
ewes are accustomed to looking long
distances. If we sail the seas they
are used TO the sense of YaStuess that
vision gives them. Few sailors havJ
ever suffered from eye-stran OF
life cuts of our view Of distant oh.
iects. and. since the sight is confined
to nearby objects. change Is grad.
aally brought about in the structure
of the eye This change must hs
provided against by securing tina
right sort OF glasses. Unless this be
done the nery - will surely be ar
fected.
Many cases OF nervousness ars
caused by the unsnspected begin.
nings of spinal curva'ur Unless
the spire is held naturally erect
there will be an undue pressure on
the blood vessels and consequens
drain of the nervous force
insufficient fresh mir causes aena.
mia. lack os red corpuscIes In tire
nervous system. Few persons breathe
rightly especially those who are
housed IN the offices studios and
schools In great city The breath
Inc IL not only not deep enough. bur
II Is too slow. when the breath IL
slow and shallow the body has not
supply of oxygen. Nervous trrita.
hiity is often caused by too high A
hood pressure. over-st imula ting the
BRAN and nerves. Many physicians
have advised that after person e
forty the blood pressure should BIZ
tested. In this way can be learned
his or her tendency TO any disease.
and the knowledge VIII. in most
eases. enable the person to avert the
disease.
Nervous disturbance, unless
checked, IA liable 10 Jstss into the
stage OF nervous prostration. which
means the collapse OF the nervous
evstem Between twenty and fifty,
when the battle for business and So
ciai success is the fiercest. is the
time when this regretable state oc.
ours Danger signals OF this condt
ton are peevish, fault finding spirit
and extreme irritahility. The power
OF setting the mind" upon any ons
thing lessons. There are frequent
headaches. The person becomes
hard to get along with There are
far more cases Of nervous prostrs-
ton iii the United States than In any
OF her country. The conditions OF
your life there cause It. You are
bigh-power engines, driving at full
speed. What wonder that human en-
gines driven at such tremendous
speed. sometimes run off the track
and into asylums for the insane!
Overwork was once considered
virtue Now the wise folk of earth
are seeing II as ii is---a selfish vice.
IL enslaves the worlssr and makes OF
him a narrow minded egottst. II yoa
will work less In America you will
do better work Overwork causes
and the nervous person.
being Unbalanced. does inferiG work.
Don't let the high cost of living
aud the wish to keep social pace