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Show As to Nerve. Talk about the weakness of modern nerves doesn't square with facts. We of today are more sensitive to pain than were our ancestors. We even shudder at the pain of others, which is something that our forefathers were able to endure with equanimity, and after with pleasure. But when it comes to withstanding a seven-day-in-the-week assault on human nerve-ends, nerve-ends, our ancestors were neuraesthe-nic neuraesthe-nic children compared to ourselves. Back in the middle ages people had a witchcraft panic whenever somebody's some-body's cow died suddenly; dancing manias when any one preached at them too hard, and nearly all Europe stood on its head, figuratively speaking, speak-ing, when the Turks took Jerusalem. How different now! The modern citizen cit-izen takes the troubles of the whole world home with him on a street car. He lives in intimate association with while plagues, and anti-white slave crusades, and uplift movements of all sorts and varieties. He takes sides with the suffrage question; he endures elevated roads, honking at charging motor cars, police censor cubist art, tariff debates, and ture' trots, and still, in most cases, he B& ages to keep out of the insane asytu and courts generally hold that t competent to make a will. The ner endurance of modern human kin" serves a monument. Chicago J0" ' nal. 1 i |