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Show The Cause of "Brain Fag' Some Good Advice: for Chronic Sufferers from a )lseas That Seems to Have a Predilection for Those Who Have No Particular Brains to Fag. i The San Francisco News Letter doesn't believe in brain fag. It exploits ex-ploits the so-called disease in a manner man-ner altogether Its own; a manner made popular by the distinguished editor edi-tor of that coast publication, Frederick Freder-ick Marriott. This publication in question ques-tion has never yet been afraid to say what it meant, and its conclusions on any subject are worth attention, if only to catch a fresh point of view. Brain fag is' a frequent subject of discussion. Here at the East we frequently fre-quently hear of citizens falling by the wayside because they are beset by this icsidious difficulty, and this Is the more apparent, the careful observer ob-server believes, among those who have no particular brains to fag. The source of the prevalent complaints about the spread of this disease we find them chiefly in religious papers and in namby-pamby society journals plainly suggests the question whether the recent re-cent discovery of the hookworm, as the bacillus of laziness is called, has not some connection with this sudden epidemic of brain fag. The brain is a I most reasonable as well as a reason-i reason-i ing organ. Its habit Is to give exceed-: exceed-: ingly little trouble. The eye, the stomach, even the useful hand, is a poor and troublesome instrument compared com-pared with the brain. Nobody knows just how the brain does its work, but ordinarily it goes on doing it without any fuss whatever. Now and then, to be sure, it appears to be raising a great disturbance. Its plaint of agony on such occasions is heard through the whole system. But the chances are that it is merely fighting some other organ's battle the stomach's, probably, or very likely the liver, or it may be that cold feet have sent an undue un-due flow of blood to the head. As to becoming "brain fagged," it is ex-trmely ex-trmely rare that the hardest work tires the crain out.- The seat of the trouble is not there. The brain grows brighter by work. It was made for toil. It works while we sleep, and does not seem to mind that. Nine times out of ten those who think they have tired brains simply have tired consciences, or much more customarily, customar-ily, weary and sadly overworked stomachs. stom-achs. Or else they have those same redoubtable and pestiferous germs, the hookworms of laziness. The very excellent Mail and Express of New York recently found that the hookworm hook-worm had seized upon all too many of Its staff., and it set about applying a cure. It gives the following recipe; Take a large dose of determination every morning, fortified with a cold bath on rising, and followed up by an hourly dose of persistence." It guarantees guar-antees that this will dissipate brain fag as the rays of the summer sun i scatter the dew. Try it |