Show Some Bad Effect of Overwork I Over-work I What I have seen and beard during dur-ing my stay among you haa force Ion I-on me the belief that hid slow change from habitual inertness to persistent activity baa reached an extreme from which there must begin a counterchange a reaction reac-tion Everywhere I have been struck with the number of faces whioh told in strong lines of the burdens that had to be borne I have beeu struck too with the large proportion of gray haired men and inquiries have brought out the fact that with you the hair commonly begins to turn some ten years earlier than with us Moreover in every circle I have met men who had themselves suffered from nervous collapse due to stressor stress-or business or named friends who had either killed themselves by overwork over-work or had been permanently incapacitated or had wasted long periods in endeavors to recoe health I do but echo the opinion of all the observant persona I ha > a spoken to that immence injury is being done by this highpressure life the physique is being undermined That subtle thinker and poet whom you have lately had to mourn Emerson Emer-son says in his eaaay on the gentleman gentle-man that the first requisite is a general oneit extends to the man ito i-to the father to the citizen We hear a groat deal about the vile body and many are encouraged by the phrase to transgress the laws ot health But Nature quietly aupprea aea those who treat thus disrespectfully one ol her highest products and leaves the world to be peopled by the descendants ol those who are not so foolish Popular Science Monthly |