Gunnison Valley News | 1920-05-14 | Page 7 | Really "Bored to Death."

Really "Bored to Death?' The expression, "bored to death," In no mere fanciful figure. A person may actually die from boredom. The Medical Medi-cal Press, in commenting upon this subject, refers to n statement by Dr. W. II. 11. Rivers, that "interest in life is the primary factor In the welfare of the people." Doctor Rivers contend that the dying out of native races Is due not so much to wha the while man has Introduced In the shape of new diseases and new modes of clothing, cloth-ing, housing and feeding, as to I he fact lhat by uprooting native institutions, without providing adequate substitutes, substi-tutes, he bus "deprived them of nearly all that gave Interest to their lives."