Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-15
To Danish the Blues
By Ii. ADD1NGToN BRUCE.

BY Ii. ARLINGTON BRUCE
r. VERYB BODY is liable to an attack of the "blues"
r Everybody indeed, some time other, has had
- the experience of feeling unaccountably gloomy
and depressed.
At such times a vague conviction in the
mind that something unpleasant is about to happen.
Life seems empty protless, quite without interest
Some people. of course have the blues much Oftener
than others. Some have the blues frequently. Some
are almost chemically subject to them.
These chronic victims may nave the blues though
living under most pleasant conditions.
They not out of work. They not worried by
problems of home of business. Seemingly they have
every reason to feel happy. Nevertheless they go
about with the air of attending funeral.
Study such people and yon pretty to dis
they the best of physically.
Their faces haggard, perhaps sallow Their
handshake is nabby. Their pulse may be irregular
and weak
study yourself day when you suffering
from attack of the blues. chances that
will hpd that your depressed feeling with feelings
OF physical lassitude and WEAKNESS.
Then YOU may remember that having extremely
busy, you have for few days eating your meals
rregularly or have neglected TO take YOUR regular
amount of daily exercise.
Or you may observe that the night before blues
attacked you the weather being cold stormy you
neglected to open your bedroom window, and cOnss-
duently slept in a room without ventilation.
The fact is that, general thing. the blues
the product of dsordered physical conditions
ish them effectively these conditions have to
eded
If they are frequent occurrence, it usually is
wisest to have thorough medical examination made.
Ordinarily, however, If is careful about his
diet his exercise, and ventilation Of mis- home and
working place. the blues will not bother him.
But sometimes they have their roots in conditions
which only medical examination reveal, and for
the correction OF which expert treatment is needed
Unsuspected eyestrain for example is fertile
of the blues.
So disorders of the stomach kidneys, liver,
which require careful medication in addition TO
treatment by dieting Again. the Of the trouble
may be IN diseased conditions of the mouth and teeth
Many person subject to the blues found his
depressed state of mind completely the sim
pie process of a thorough dental cleaning
Moreover, the VINO recognizes the physical ORR
gin of blues takes corrective action to bring
keep his bodily par, has this further
advantage: .tr
He is able far readily than the in a
weakened physical state, to overcome psychcally
caused depresson-that is depression due worry,
grief, and forth AS Dr. j. ], Walsh has well said;
"It is when persons in health that
grief becomes extremely difficult apparently impos-
sible to bear.
Indeed often than not the physical condition
OF the grief-stricken is prominent in
the production of the state feeling which
to be exaggerated; while, hand this state
of mind itself reacts upon physical being as
make 1t more sluggish in all its functions,
Gas a consequence a vicious circle Of eff
feet formed affecting unfavorably both Sne mental
and physical conditions"
In short, both prevent attacks of blues and
Mt better withstand emotional shocks of
it is Indispensable to in physical
condition possible. rs~~. ..-~t
Copyright 1916 by H. A. Bruce