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Show Your Health ; ! Total Retirement' Folly -. In High Blood Pressure By Jamee W. Bartoe, M.D. You ma remember my itory about the elderly employe of a PitUburgh retail coal yard who la I after working for one employer for SO year wu 1 called Into the 1 office. Hit em-ployer em-ployer aaid : "Jack, you hove been with u for 50 years. Here is a purse of 1500, a gold watch, suitably engraved I stating your 60 nr. Barton years of isiuirui service, and beginning with tomorrow to-morrow morning your pay will go on as before, but you will not havs to report for work any more." The employs replied, "I am taking tak-ing the purse and the watch, but I'll be here for work tomorrow morning just the same." To be able to retire is the goal of many men. But stopping all physical and mental work is a . mistake. Thus this coal yard employe em-ploye knew that while working was not the plesssnteet thing in the world, not being able to meet his fellow employes and others every day would make life dull Indeed. Other considerations are the lr- regularity of ths retired way of living liv-ing as to food, rest and exercise. There is indigestion, constipation, and usually loss of desire for food. In esses of businessmen whose physical work is light but whose responsibilities are heavy, the blood pressure often Is high. Frequently, the suggestion Is to retire, so they may take things easy, and havs less responsibility. I It is knowie that rest of mind and body la ths first thought in the treatment of high blood pressure, ths forerunner of heart and brain strokes. That retirement In most of these cases Is a mistake is stated by Dr. Herman O. Mosenthal, Associate Asso-ciate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Medi-cine, New York Medical college, in "Medical Clinics of North America," Amer-ica," unless there is total mental or physical disability. The occupation occu-pation or daily work of the patient pa-tient should be adjusted to his or her fitness. Instead of retiring completely from work, thus becoming an Invalid, In-valid, Dr. Mosenthal advises plenty plen-ty of rest, not leas than eight hours st night, even if a quieting drug is needed to obtain complete rest, with at least ons rest during the dsy, right after lunch if possible. In the office no annoying callers ars allowed, and if rest In cresses weight, less food should be eaten. Overweight is dangeroue in cases of high blood pressure. The thought then is that while rest Is the most Important point of ths trestment in high blood pressure, complete mental and physical idleness idle-ness is a mistake. Send today for Dr. Barton's booklet dealing with both high and low blood pressure entitled "How Is Tour Blood Pressure T" To obtain ob-tain It send 10 cents and a 3-cent stamp, to cover cost of handling and mailing, to Ths Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram" Home Service Bureau, Salt Lak City 10, Utah. " a |