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 hale said about it the bragging of a people used to playing cards and then coupling the two observations we get a standpoint from froin which to view tho discrepancies ot of society tho the medical journal treats the matter scientifically and learns from psychology that thai the keeping the mind on exciting uncertainties renders it inefficient effic lent in the consideration of serious things afterward go for instance from an exciting kame game of baseball and pick up your emerson ruskin sartor Res artus or progress sand and Il poverty and see where there you are stuck in tho the mud cerasa tsa you cannot budge a barley coi now keep that up day after day with any sort of sport and then take account of your mental condition we suspect the Af medical edical journal is right and dr hales illustration is pat and it if you want to make an effective thinker of yourself it would be well not to get daft on any game take hold of it asan as an incidental it if you bother with it at all ohio state journal |