Life — September 17, 1914 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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AUTUMN IN THE LAND OF THE SKY @ ESTERN North Carolina brings the rare deep enjoyment of a bracing climate; of golfing, riding, driving the mountain and motoring ane ife ranges; of smart social at club, hotel and cottage. Eighty peaks over 5,000 feet high, glorious with changing Autumn foliage. Only twenty-four hours from East, South and Middle West with through service over the rails of SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the South Literature full of facts and pictures sent upon application to any representative of Southern Railway or Connecting Lines. 30 —— 38 Sn Our National Weariness T'S a pity the American people are all so tired! We are all, it appears, on the verge of a nervous breakdown and are only saved (when we are saved) by an occasional lull in busi- ness or the approach of Lent. Some- thing ought to be done about it or the country will go to the dogs. The children are so tired that many of them can’t go to school and must be kept out in the fresh air or in a steam- heated house. They haven't time for their lessons because they must play some time; and they haven't time to play because of their lessons. And what with their dancing lessons and music and little tea parties they don’t begin to eat and sleep as they should. The mothers are tired; so tired that no one should expect them to do any- thing but be mothers, And yet they are too tired and have too little time for that. The young people are tired, with dancing or tennis or settlement work or ‘studying a profession, it mat- ters not what, but they are all on the verge of exhaustion. The servants are tired; the clerks are tired; the office-boy is tired; the President is tired; the reformers are tired; even the suffragettes are weary. and the business man—he is the tired- est of all. ‘This weariness is bad, not only in and of itself, but because as it leaves one person it attacks another, It is, like energy, eternally conserved. The banishing the fatigue-inducing activi- ties of his’ wife. The wife wears her- self out struggling with servants or playing cards or attending meetings, or whatever it is she does The daughter exhausts herself in society or at the settlement, and the settlement people exhaust themselves working for a living which it seems they don't get. The only people who seem not to be tired and to find life worth living are the babies. One small one can reduce to a pulp a large household, and come up smiling. Because of that he’s the great national excuse, Is it possible that our babies are our only true sportsmen—the only ones of us who can stand up like men and take what the day brings, and wake up ready for it each day? There was a_ serious consultation Tareyton London Cigarettes roe “ DEVISE NOT EVIL AGAINST THY NEIGH- DOR, SEEING HE DWELLETH SECURELY BY THEE.”—Prov. 3: 29. among physicians the other day. A lady was ill, She was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, They couldn't find out what caused it. She hadn't any baby—didn’t go into society much—tried not to overtire herself— rested in bed half the day—could in no way account for her condition. At last, by judicious questioning, it was brought out that she sometimes painted in water-colors, Gently but firmly the physicians told her that she must never do it again. But, in spite of that, she is recovering but slowly, though she is taking a complete rest. It is a pity that only babies and a person not to be mentioned in polite society are immune to fatigue, and that the one so constantly raises the other! If all of us were as untiring, just think | Herbert Za Sample upon request Herbert un le reque: te Tareyton S8West 45% Street NewYork.= what we could get done in the course of a year! Hattie Lee MacAlister. chorus girl exhausts herself banishing the weariness of the business man; | the business man exhausts aimself