Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Habitual Hurry. [ARTICLE]

Habitual Hurry.

The number of sudden deaths which occur every year as a consequence of running to railway trains and ferryboats is not inconsiderable. The victims are mostly persons, middle-aged or older, who, without knowing it, have some disease of tho hoart. This kind of over-exertion, however, doos less harm than tho common habit of boing continually In a hurry. A habit which keepH tho nervous system at a perpettoal tension leads to excessive vital waste, undue susceptibility to disease, and, in extreme cases, to nervous exhaustion. Under its influence persons naturally amiable are transformed Into petulant and noisy scolds. The woman who is a wife and mother is peculiarly liable to this habit, sho lias so much to do and so little time in which to do it, in these dilys when so many outside things crowd upon her domestic duties. There is no doubt that hurry claims ton victims where hard work kills oue. The man of business suffers in much the same manner. Tho hurried breakfast and the hurried skimming of the morning paper are but the beginning of a hurried day. Yet It is unsafe for him to act in a hurry, or in the spirit generated by it. The uncertainties of his calling make entire self-control of prime Importance. School children are victims of the same evil. They must* bo at school exactly on time. But in thousarids of cases the family arrangements aro not such as to favor punctuality. Tho child is allowed to sit up late, and so Is late at breakfast; or tho breakfast Itself is late, and tho child must hurry through it, and then hurry off, half-fed and fully fretted, dreading tardiness and the teacher’s displeasure. Robust children may work off the effect amid tho sports of the day, but many others are injured for life. Occasional hurry is hardly to be avoided, society being what it Is; but the habit of hurry should be guarded against as one of the surest promoters of ill-temper and ill-health. If necessary, less work should be done; but in many cases nothing is needed but a wiser economy of time. Some of tho worst victims of hurry are men who dally With their work until time presses them, and then crowd themselves Into a fever, pitying themselves meanwhile because they are so sadly driven.—Youth's Companion.