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Show Why It Is Dangerous to Give Up Your Professional Labors Dr. David B. Spahr gives some advice ad-vice to workers who are planning to retire from their callings and enjoy a peaceful old age: "The abrupt change from an active Idle member of the consuming clasB " he says, "Is too much for a man who member of the producing class to an Is facing the setting sun. And just here is the excuse and reason for this article. I want to sound a note of warning to those contemplating such a move: "Safety first.' Fr a man in declining life whose arteries are already beginning to harden hard-en from indulging in rich and stimulating stimu-lating food, the change should be made gradually, allowing his system to accustom itself gradually to the changed conditions. A lessened amount of rich and stimulating food should be Indulged in. Regular hours must foe maintained; regular exercises that will bring into play, and actively, all the different musoles of the body in order to insure tho elimination of the waste products of the body. ''A sedentary life, inactive and pur-poselessf pur-poselessf with nothing to live for, no object in view but to live and eat and wait and waste away; with a lessened income and greater expense; with more and greater demand upon the purse strings how great the temptation tempta-tion to become restless, nervous, and Irritable." |