Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13

can't get that by lying around in bed or
playing checkers at a health resort
Missing Joy in Life
Besides the nervous folk who feel
themselves so weary that they scarcely
have strength to live. there are thous-
ands upon thousands 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.
Mature is not stingy.' continue these
experts on nerve outwitting. She has
not given the human a meager inherit
ance. The body has stored within its
cells enough energy in the shape of
protein, carbohydrate and fat to meet
and more than meet any drains that
are likely to be made pom 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 In
sufficient steam to complete the jour
ney. On the contrary. she has in some
instances reserve boilers. which are al
most never touched. As a rule the
trouble is not SO much lack of steam
as the ignorance of the engineer who
is un%acquainted with his engine and
afraid to let her out
Our Resources %UnexpIored
In one of Prof. William James es-
SAYS be refers to the levels Of energy
what it is TO start a piece of work,
either intellectual or muscular. feeling
stale-or cold, as an Adirondack guide
once put it 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 oc-
casions 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 work
ed enough. so we desist.
THE amount Of fatigue is an effica-
cious obstruction on this side of which
our usual life is cast. But if an I'M
usual necessity forces us to press on
ward. a surprising thing occurs. The
fatigue gets worse up TO a certain crit
ical point. when gradually or suddenly
u passes away, and we are fresher than
before. We have evidently tapped a
level Of new energy. masked until then
by the fatigue obstacle usually obeyed.
There may be layer after layer of this
experience. A third and fourth wind
may supervene.
Mental activity shows the phenom-
enon, as well as physical, and in excep-
tom cases We may find, beyond the
extremity Of fatigue-distress. amounts
OF ease and power that we never
dreamed ourselves to own-sources of
strength not habitually taxed at all,
because habitually We never push
through the obstruction. never pass
those early critical points.
of course. there are limits; the
trees don't grow into the sky. But
the plain fact remains that men the
world over possess mounts of re-
source which only exceptional individ-
uals push to their extreme of use. But
the same individual, pushing his en-
to their extreme, may in a vast
of cases keep the pace up day
after day, and find nc reaction Of a
bad sort, so long as decent hygienic
are preserved"
Worry MuItIpIies Exhaustion
The key to unlock new stores of en-
and drive fatigue away is right
fully prescribed by Drs. Jackson and
Salisbury as the zest of pursuit. the
Joy of battle, intense interest in work,
a new enthusiasm.
Presupposing decent hygienic condi-
hours in bed. three square
meals a day and a fair amount Of
air and exercise-fatigue need
never become a monopolist of atten-
ion. Attention increases any sensa-
say the nerve experts. "espe-
if colored by fear. Fear adds
the waste matter Of fatigue little
Of adrenalin and other %secre-
which must somehow be elm
before equilibrium is re-estab-
ished. This creates a vicious circle.
We are tired. hence we are discour-
lged. We are discouraged, hence we
ire more tired.
If you learn to take your fatigue