Show A opinion on weeping As the muscular power that extends or sexes a finger ii is at a distance from the part moved oo 00 the excitement to tears is from an irritation in ad a distant nervous center and ia is removed when the nervous center is either soothed or exhausted the persona persons who weep say that tears afford relief nothing Is more perfectly true both ing more clear when the facts are understood the relief cornea comes not from the mere mem escape of tears which la is only a symptom but from the cessation ot at tho the storm in the tb nervous chain if the storm be becalmed calmed by soothing measure measures as when we soothe a child that is ia weeping from tear fear annoyance or injury we quiet the nervous centers upon which the effect ceases in children the soothing method succeeds and sometimes it succeeds in adults although in adults the cc cessation of tears is more mord commonly due to actual exhaustion following a period of nervous activity in grief the afflicted weep until they can weep nomore no more then they become calm or like children cry themselves to sleep thus tears indicate relief and that the nervous system has fallen into the repose of weariness persona persons subjected to many and repeated shed in time fewer tears team and the aged compared with the younger are almost tearless dr W B richardson in |