Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — BREAKING MEN DOWN. [ARTICLE]

BREAKING MEN DOWN.

The cause of much of the premature decrepitude and nerve degeneracy and breakdown is in the many inventions man has devised whereby he robs himself of timely rest. The morning newspaper, often read through before breakfast ; the telephone in his house, to call him at any and all times aside from his repose; the electric light, to keep his brain unduly stimulated through the retime; the railroad and the sleepingcoaeh, which may keep him continuously on the rail (if he chooses so to travel), for many weeks without rest from the noisome and exhaustive cere-bro-spinal concussions of this mode of travel, hasty meals, and telegrams, and business, and nightmare sleep, all commingled, wither and wreck lives innumerable, which, under wiser management, might end differently; and the needless noises of the city—the bells and whistles, howling hucksters, noisy street cars, yelling hoodlums, that make night hideous with their howls—hasten the premature ending of useful lives; and when, superadded to all this unphysiological strain, we have the assault of a pestilence that poisons, like cholera, how much exemption can such overwrought organisms expect? How much of resisting immunity can such overstrained and exhausted nerve force oppose to the invading foe?— Sanitarian. England owns 25,000,000 fowls, and 1,000,000,000 eggs were imported in 1885.