The Washington herald., 1922-09-05
That Tired Feeling

That Tired Feeling
Did you ever hear Of q poem be-
ing penned to a pair Of tired eyes.
a tired look, a tired spirit? Nor
have l.
'Twould be less than one-half of
one per cent intoxicating were she
to drink to him only with tired eyes.
would 1t not? No. they must glow
like the sparks of fire. Ladies with
bright eyes rain influence. and get
the prize" to paraphrase a Milton
observation.
That tired feeling is something no
girl or woman can for beauty's
sake afford to let linger long upon
her. 1t is woefully destructive.
Can BE Helped Mentally.
II you are chronically and per-
petually fatigued, your first duty
is to consult a competent physician
to find out whether you have tuber-
culosis. Bright's disease, or any
other demonstrable disease. II you
tire often and more easily than any
one else you know and have no
chronic symptoms discoverable, you
may make up your mind you are
simply another recruit in that vast
army of "tireds" or "just nervous"
more in need of a good shaking
than anything else to pull you out
of yourself.
II there Is one dose you must not
administer yourself IT is to admit II.
The more attention you give to the
feeling the more quickly you
weaken your power of resistance.
Fatigue Often Habit.
WEAKNESS is habit, just as sure
ly as bridge or breakfast, with the
woman without chronic i'll. With
the habit fixed enough you can be-
lieve yourself overworked when not
more than Is per cent of your en-
ergy force has been pushed Worry,
fear, resentment, discomfort, and
other depressing emotions create
fatigue. Giving way to them, mag
niles 1t. Presently, II you are not
careful, you make of yourself an
out and out neurotic, a most unat-
tractive type of womanhood, physi-
cally and mentally.
In that authoritative and highly
interesting book, "Outwitting Our
Nerves" the co-authors, DR.. ]. A.
Jackson and H. NJ. Salisbury, COM
piled a little catechism for the
neurotic:
Q.-Who gets up tired every
morning? A.-The neurotic.
Q.-Who fancies his brain so ex-
hausted that a little concentration
Is impossible? A.-The neurotic.
Q.-Who still believes himself ex-
hausted as the result of work that
Is now ancient history? A.-The
neurotic.
Q.-Who lays all his woes to
overwork? A-The neurotic.
Q.-Who complains of fatigue be-
fore he has well begun? A-The
neurotic.
Q.-Who may drop his fatigue as
soon as he gets the idea?" A-The
neurotic.
Q.-How can he get the idea? A.
BY understanding himself.
Q-How can he forget his IA
tigue? A.-By ignoring 1t.
Q.-How can he ignore It? A.
By finding a good stiff job.
II he wants understanding in a
nutshell, here it is:
Get understanding! Get courage!
Get busyi
They advocate enthusiasm as the
best remedial agent for the nerv-
Gus and fatigued, and not the rest
cure. The best releaser of energy
is enthusiasm" say the authors
and you can't get that by lying
around in bed or playing checkers
at health resort.
Missing Joy in Life.
Beside the nervous folk who
feel themselves so weary that they
scarcely have strength to live,
there are thousands upon thous-
ands of men and women who are
called normal but who have lost
much of the joy of life because
they feel their bodies inadequate
to meet the demands of everyday
living.
Nature is not stingy," continue
these experts on nerye outwitting.
She has not given the human a
meager inheritance. The body has
stored within its cells enough
energy in the shape of protein.
carbohydrate, and fat to meet and
Hlole lHdn meet any drains Inat
are likely to be made upon it.
either through the monotony of
the daily grind or the excitement
of sudden emergency. Nature
never runs on a narrow margin.
She does not start her engines
with insufficient steam to complete
the journey. On the contrary, she
has in some instances reserve boil
ers which are almost never
touched. AS a rule, the trouble is
not So much lack of steam as the
ignorance of the engineer who is
nnOcquainted with his engine and
afraid to let her out"
Our Resources Unexplored.
In one of Prof. William James
essays he refers to the levels OF
energy usually untapped: Every
one knows what 1t is to start a
piece of work, either intellectual
or muscular feeling stale-or
cold, as an Adirondack guide once
put ii to me. And everybody
knows what it is to warm up to
his job. The process of warming
up gets particularly striking in
the phenomenon known as second
wind On usual occasions we
make a practice of stopping an
occupation as soon as we meet the
first layer $50 to call it) of
fatigue. We have then walked.
played, or worked enough, so we
desist.