Show kofr M M X it I 1 KEEPING WELL I 1 Y t WHY RISK LIFE TO SAVE 5 MINUTES DR FREDERICK R GREEN X y X f editor ot of HEALTH P punctuality Is IB a virtue but even virtue can be carried too far ar samuel E freundlich sixty years old had been employed by one firm for over thirty years and in all that time he had never been late ile he lived at rosehill Rose hlll a chicago suburb and took the a in train every morning the other day he wis was a few minutes late and reached the station just as the train was pulling out he ran to catch it jumped for the platform missed it and went under the wheels ile he lost both of his legs and probably his life we are all creatures of habit regularity and punctuality are highly commendable characteristics but they arent worth risking your life for its better to break your record than to break your neck be on time by all means but when an occasional miscalculation makes you a few minutes late dont risk your life in order to maintain your record men who are sixty years old any business running after trains anyhow its all right for the boy or the young man but the muscle fibers of the heart are like rubber when cwi are young they can stretch even beyond the ordinary without permanent injury but by middle e life the heart muscle Is like old rubber its all right as long as you dont put an unusual strain on it but it if its stretched its apt to break men find and women over forty five and especially over fifty should avoid sudden extreme and unusual exertion it if the heart muscle Is not diseased its fully equal to the ordinary everyday at strain rain which Is put on it but sudden and in d severe exertion may cause serious if not fatal consequences unusual exertion increases the rate and force ot of the hearts action the heart Is ilip a ru rubber abor ball if it Is overstrained over strained it stretches this may cause acute dilatation of the heart sometimes severe enough to produce death or it may result in stretching the valves of the henrt heart so BO that they never work properly thereafter many serious heart conditions have their origin in some unusual exertion w which Is often unnecessary if you are middle aged or past dont run after cstreet cars or trains walt until the next one comes even if you are a little late this may require live five or ten minutes waiting but it may mean several years longer life G it 34 union |