The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-07
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= he presidents illness brought him by overwork
te man OF powerful physique of Clearly life taking an
abundance OF outdoor exercise, riding walking and golfnp
lie is particularly abstemos and generally temperate
~ WORK IN TINS ne goes to extremes he discharge
inc duties that incident his great office His work was
mental and when the too strong some cord had
to snap and give wav
The nervous system stand just so much and no more
Every thought and concentration of the mind makes draft on
~ and the undermining goes nsos and the climax comes
without harbinger warning Physical labor ages the BODY
and makes it seek repose sleep during which the tearing
down process arrested and the rebuilding begins Sleep is sure
tired natures sweet restorer Physical work NAV 90 on until
exhaustion Then come rest and regeneration Not
with mental work In the latter the brain NAV become fevered
and the entire as every nerve was wire made
ncandscen by electricity but the physical powers act as spur
e goad the faculties to renewed and greater effort
person slow to realize mental fatigue So long as he
feels no physical fatigue he thinks himself capable of carrying
on OF continuing until the coapses and the
machinery ceases to function Machinery even the machinery
o. locomotive requires at stated intervals permit the
molecules to readust themselves Sleep does not come to the
overWorked brain The momentum great that cannot be
halted and sleep dreams visions come to tax and
consume the energies deep sound sleep seldom besses the
brain worker who overtaxs his faculties The drawn SO
taut will not relax unless after long for which no
time, because the victim must be up and doing his readm
halted but not helped by frequent Interruptions An interruption
brain worker like whose clothing becomes caught
IN the fangs OF brbed wire fence only arrests his prog
ress but makes lump draft upon his store of energy
which, with most people, is great
quite probable that the president feels that he Is capabe
81 gong on and attending to his duties that his medical at
endan keeping from the nation his at crucial time
unnecessarily The physical worker knows when he is tired and
and when he must have rest the wsest mind worker
cannot know these things because there nothing to admonis
him but the affected organ--the brain
Nervous exhaustion much common than most people
tnink " IS secret insidous enemy that does its devastating
work ny stealth and without attracting Muscular
strength instead of being help hndrance II aids abets
ana encourages overwo and not nfrequeny compes More
fortunate than many the president has someone to call halt
and tell him when he has reached the end Of his resources
The human mind when concentrated one thing can 90 a
long way and last long time 1t is like flowing through
sluce 10 Beethoven every composition mathematical
problem the multiplicity of things that exhau and wears
Changing from subject another like water umbne
over rocks and falls 1t churns and seethes
The OF concentrated mind when inerruped cries on,
Don't bother meP 1t is agony him. from which he would
For with the president there no escape He
must submit and suffer the consequences which sometimes
fatal