Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — Worry, not Work. [ARTICLE]

Worry, not Work.

Some people get through an enormous amount of work, and seem all tjie-better for it. We know a doctor seldom gets more than four hours sleep out of twenty-four. He says that it is not tliat he couldn’t do with more, but it is as much as he can get. Many busy men are constantly at work of some kind or the other from eight in the morning till past twelve at night. Some, of course, break down, but others can do this year after year, apparently without any detriment to their health. Instances are known of professional men who have not slept for five days together, and who have not been in bed. for three weeks at a time. These sound almost like travelers’ tales, but they are true, although, of course, they are exceptional cases. It is’ astonishing what interest and energy will do in enabling a man to dispense with rest It has been said that the twenty-four hours might be advantageously divided into three equal parts—eight hours for sleep, eight for meals, exercise, recreation, etc.,' and eight hours for mental work. lew men really require more than .eight hams! sleep, but the majority of us have to do considerably more than eight hours’ work in the day. It not so much that a man wishes' for thelPSlfk as that it is forced upon him. He perhaps is the only person who can perform a certain duty, and

i when, as is often the cake, it is a question of life and death, it is almost impossible to refuse. Many peome can never force themselves to do more than a certain j amount of mental work; they get nervous and headachy, and then it is all over j with them. Forced work, as a role, i tells on a man much more rapidly than purely voluntary work, for in the former case it is usually associated with j anxiety. Real, overwork gives rise to ' loss of memory; a sense of fatigue, and particularly about-the head, poorness of appetite, lowness of spirits, and other sunilar symptoms. It is worry that injures more than real work, care killed the cat.