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Show Modern life is complicated. It is swift. We live at high tension. The 6ins of society people have become inured to them. Neurasthenia, one knows, Is often the Inevitable, though much-to-be-deprecated, result of going the pace, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. But what is one to think of neurasthenia in the poultry yard? Comes a publication which devotes itself to poultry and other topics of I the farm. In it a correspondent i writes of the symptoms of one of his hens listless, nervous, indifference ! to food and society. And the editor replies that the symptoms are those of a nervous disease, and he declares that the only cure for the hen is the rest cure in some quiet retreat, away from the feverish atmosphere of the poultry yard. This is a withering indictment in-dictment of present-day civilization. A neurotic hen think of that! A debutante of last season, no doubt, j who should now be in the full feath er of glorious youth a victim of nerves ! |