Judge — April 30, 1927 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Is NOT WORTH LIVING —Without Sound Nerves OUR nerves govern your life—your efli- ciency, your happiness, your health. If your nerves are depleted, you cannot con- centrate or think clearly you have not the “pep” and spirit to enjoy your pleas- ures and sports; you have not the physical comfort and well-being without which happiness is impos- sible. 1s life worth living under these conditions? No! You merely exist— you are not getting out of life everything that it has to offer! We are living in an age of ZED; we are leading a ‘mile-a-minute” life. We crowd two, or even five years of life into a single year! We hurry, we worry, and, often, we dissipate our vital forces through ignorance. We commit these sins because we are living in an age of acute competition, tremendously high cost of liv- ing, reckless pleasures—conditions that compel us to strain our nerves to the utmost. Yet, we go one living our lives hard and efast, little realizing that we cannot go on for long, that there must come an end to our stock of Nerve Force, and that Nerve Ex- haustion is staring us in the face! Every victim of Nerve Exhaustion, when he is stricken with this terrible malady, firmly believes that he has beenstricken sud- denly. This is not true. The fact is, that it has been years developing, and that he has had many, many warnings of what was com- ing—but he did not heed them! Though he passes through years of subnormal nerve supply, he pays no attention; he believes it quite common—as many misled people do— to feel tired and worn out; to suffer sleepless nights in periods; to feel discomfort after meals; to feel depressed, irritable, melan- choly, and often in a “mental fog.” He be- lieves his trouble will solve itself “somehow,” “sometime,” especially since his physician assures him that there was “nothing physi- cally wrong,” that all his “organs are per- fect,” that all he needs is a “rest” and he will be “all right.” A little rest helps a little —for a while, and then he is right back where he started, leading the same old life. Finally he becomes a bit discouraged, be- lieves that every man must endure “a few discomforts,” and keeps going while the going is still good. Little does he realize that every day he is undermining his constitution, pav- ing the way to all sorts of physical and men- ta] disorders, and going through life only HALF ALIVE! The country is teeming with cases that fit this story like a glove, for we Americans are the most nervous nation under the sun, not barring even the hot-headed Latins. They may be called ‘‘near-neurasthenics.” A near-neurasthenic is but a next-door-neigh- bor toa full fledged neurasthenic, in the grip of actual, terrible and complete Nerve Ex- haustion—Nerve Bankruptcy! There is but one malady more terrible than Nerve Exhaustion, and that is its kin, Insanity. Only those who have passed through a siege of Nerve Exhaustion can understand the true meaning of this state- ment. It is HELL; no other word can ores it. At first the victim is afraid he will die, and as it grips him deeper he is paca PAUL, VON BOECKMANN Author of “Nerve Force" and various other books on Health, Psychology Breathing, Hygiene and kindr jects, many of which have been trai lated into foreign languages. afraid he will not die; so great is his mental torture. He becomes panic-stricken and irresolute. A sickening sensation of weakness and helplessness overcomes him. He becomes obsessed with the thought of self-destruc- tion. The symptoms of Nerve Exhaustion vary according to individual characteris- tics, but the development is usually as follows: First stage—lack of energy and endurance; that tired feel- ing. Second stage—ner- vousness, restlessness,sleep- lessness, irritability, loss of + hair, nervous indigestion, sour stomach, gas in bowels, constipation, irregular heart, poor memory, lack of mental endurance, dizzi- ness, headache, backache. neuritis, rheumatism, and_ other pains. Third stage—serious mental disturbances, fear, undue worry, melancholia, dangerous organic disturbances, suicidal tendencies, and, in extreme cases, insanity. If only a few of the symptoms mentioned apply to you, especially those indicating mental turmoil, you may be sure that your nerves are at fault—that you have exhaust- ed your Nerve Force. Perhaps you have chased from doctor to doctor seeking relief for a mysterious ‘‘some- thing the matter with you. Each doctor tells you that there is nothing the matter with you, that every organ is perfect. But you know there is something the matter. Your doctor may prescribe a drug—a nerve stimulant or sedative. Leave nerve tonics alone. It is like making a tired horse run by towing him behind an automobile. And don't be deceived into believing that some magic system of physical exercise can restore the nerves. It may develop your muscle but it does so at the expense of the nerves, as thousands of athletes have learned through bitter experience. I have for more than twenty-five years given courses of instruction in Nerve Culture by mail. Over 100,000 people have learned through me how to care for their nerves and howto free themselves of the organic and mental disturbances that originate in nerve abuse. Over a million copies of my book ‘Nerve Force” have been read by people with high strung nerves who have learned through my advice how to avoid nerve strain and how to care for their nerves. The cost of the book is only 25 cents (coin or stamps). Address Paul von Boeckmann, Studio 1415-J, 48 West 48th Street, New York City: Order Nerve Force today. It is not a pamphlet advertising my course, but a real book, 64 pages, illustrated. The latest edition of Nerve Force con- tains important information heretofore imparted to private pupils only. Nerve Force is on file in many public libraries, and at the Medical National Library at Washington. Thousands owe their recovery from nerve exhaustion to reading this book. Your money refunded if the book is not all you expect. A physician writes as follows: “I am writing you as aGraduate M. D. to say that I have carefully read your excellent book on ‘Nerves.’ It has done me more ‘good already than anything I have seen or tried and I think it easily worth a hundred times what I paid for it. It is impossible to read it without feeling the wonder- Jul Truths it reveals.” A school teacher writes: “I had the opportunity of reading Paul von Boeckmann's 64 page book Morse Force.’ I completed it in one reading. One feels at home and understands unfathomed ideas concerning nerves, mind and body. As I was reading, a stranger ap- proached and remarked, ‘That book cured me from what doctors called heart trouble, then stomach trouble, etc. I had nothing of the kind. I am now a well man.’” 28 Whar 'S_ WRONG wi THIS PcTRE ? ba NOTHING! Ancient ab 8 hateveritis FOUND IN AN OLD ASH-CAN IN BAB= YLON. 1T SHOWS “THE JUNCTION, OF “HE PENOBSCOT AND THE RHINE RWERS. CROSS MARKS SPOT WHERE “THE GODY WAS FOUND. 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