Beaver County News | 1920-05-12 | Page 3 | Really "Bored to Death"

Really "Dored to Death." The expression, "bored to dentil," is no mere fanciful figure. A person may actually die from boredom. The Medical Medi-cal Tress, in commenting upon this subject, refers to a statement by Dr. W. II. It. Kivers, that "interest In life is the primary factor in the welfare of the people." Doelor Kivers contend that the dying out of native races Is due not so much to what the white man has introduced In tin shape of now diseases and new modes of clothing, cloth-ing, housing and feeding, as to the fuel that by uprooting native Inst it til ions, without providing tidequate substitutes. substi-tutes. In lias "deprived tliein of nearly all that gave interest to llieir lives."