Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-13 | Page 7 | Don't Worry About Your Brain

19 1 I Dont Don't W Worry rry About Your Brain I Ii i f 4 By JOHN BLAKE An English psychologist gist finds it worth while to reassure people who have been worrying about brain fag He tells them that if they will keep their general health In condition their brains will take care of themselves It will be ber be r remembered m that In I Lewis ewis Carrols Carrol's song Father William when asked why he continually continually continually con con- stands on his head replies In In my youth youth my my son sonI son son- I feared It would injure the I brain But now I am perfectly sure I have none I do it agan again and again who ho alarmed ed 1 lest tt they Most o. o Ui VA of JJ the the lilt LlIO LL people v are ure a a a lest I Most o. o Ui VA of JJ the the lilt LlIO LL people v are ure a a a lest wear out their brains with ov overwork have very few v brains to wear out or they would not suffer sutter from this feeling People who have brains find and who use them never stop to think about brain fag or brain exhaustion If they did they would never get very much pUshed When James Russell Lowell was writing The Vision ot of Sir L he locked himself in his study and remained there until the poem poem was wa completed It required several da days s 's most of which were spent in Intensive effort Nearly all great work worle has to be done In the same way No Important accomplishment is possible possible possible pos pos- sible without an amount of brain work of which the he ordinary person is Incapable not incapable not because his brain iraln will break down under the tha strain but hut because it t has nev never r been schooled to keep at a big Job until it is done The mental wrecks who have to leave their business justness to rest for six months or a a. year rear are sometimes made mental wrecks by worry oftener by some some physical trouble Usually when the brain stalls stans like a a. balky horse and refuses to go o on any further It is because some ome trouble with the digestion or the nerves distracts the attention from the work in hand The anaconda who set the fashion of eating heavily Is not very alert wh nr he ha is digesting his dinner and that is the tho that collectors for zoos zoos oos and museums select elect to capture im Nor is th the business ss man who eats a a a. huge meal tn In n the middle of the day In very good shape to cope ope with the brighter business man who takes just juat usi enough to keep him going Insane asylums would have few patients if It they I only housed the brilliant and intelligent people who overwork Most 1 of the tho patients pl are mediocre men I and nd women or or people who have hae never learned how howo to o take care of their health and who have been een broken down by of disease I The brain Is capable of doing far more work than Ulan any of its owners are willing to make It do Copyright t 1925 by the Bell nell Syndicate Inc I