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THE
REVIEW
J1UJIC TIRADE
VOL.
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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, January 15,1910
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H E R E is no doubt but that the average business man goes through life with his nose close to the
grindstone.
And he pays dearly for it, for it is almost impossible to pick up a paper nowadays with-
out noting the death of one or more men prominently identified with
the business and financial affairs of the country.
Every report shows an increase in the number-of deaths from
heart disease and there should be a lesson and a warning in its steady
increase.
I t shows what worry and sticking too close to business will
do, for while the average duration of human life has been length-
ened three or four years during the present generation the number
of deaths from heart disease in the great American cities is steadily
increasing.
This is admittedly due to the stress and strain of modern life.
It is constant strain and worry over apprehended disasters that will never occur that causes
a lowering of vitality, which renders the subject easy prey to any prevailing disease, and if the heart be
weakened it gives way.
Physicians have long been preaching the doctrine that American business men live too fast.
With the telegraph, the ocean cable, telephone and other modern facilities the man of affairs can .do
in one hour work that formerly might have occupied days.
It might be, therefore, thought that his working day would be correspondingly shortened.
Nothing of the kind.
The great speed with which trade can be effected has simply accelerated his pace and he not only
works faster, but more hours than ever, with corresponding increase of business and responsibilities.
To keep up this energy he eats too much—sometimes drinks too much—and does not take
sufficient open-air exercise.
Physical deterioration is inevitable and when a period of more than unusual stress and anxiety
arrives he is liable to succumb.
Even from a sordid, money-grabbing point of view his manner of living is a mistake.
There should be relaxation.
It will give new strength and vitality and a clear brain.
Tn perfect health and in possession of all his faculties the man has an acute insight for the manage-
ment of affairs and can accomplish more than if he spent the whole time in his office with his nose to the
grindstone.
What the American business man needs most is to quit all worrying over actual troubles until
they come, not worry over troubles that never come. Get away from the grindstone.
We are living at the pace that kills and the ambition of man- to accomplish tilings is snapping the
thread of life of many a brilliant man at an age when he should be at his best.