Show BOASTING A POOR EXERCISE it loosens the fiber of the brain and makes men soft and flabby boasting is a poor intellectual exercise it seems to loosen the fibers of the brain and make them soft and flabby when we read in the new york medical journal that card play ing Is injurious to the mind we remember what dr edward everett hal hale said about it the bragging of a people p 1 e used t to 0 p playing lay n 9 ca cards ads and then coup coupling I 1 ng the two observations we get a standpoint from which to view the discrepancies ot of society the medical journal treats the matter scientifically and learns from pay etiology thit that the hs keeping the mind on exciting uncertainties renders it inefficient effi clent in the consideration of 0 serious things afterward go tor for instance irom from an exciting game ot of ba baseball se and pick up your emerson ruskin sartor Res artus or progress and poverty and see where you are stuck in tto the mod cert certain aln you cannot budge a barley corn now keep that up day after day with any sor sort t ot of sport and then take account ot of mental condition we suspect the medical journal Is right and dr kales hales illustration 1 Is pat and llyod want to make an effective thinker of yourself it would be well not to get daft on any game take hold bold ot of it as an incidental it you bother with it at all ohio state journal |