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"OU know that "end-of- the-holiday" feeling? Everyone experiences
it at some time in their lives. A touchiness, an unreason- able irritability over trifles, which leads to quarrels be- tween lovers and friction in families.
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of its connection with mental illness. Excessive nervous strain does frequently cause delusions You probably do not know or phobins, but a faulty blood that the basic cause of it is that supply to the brain can produce you have been enting more and very similar phenomena, and to richer food than usual, perhaps withhold sympathy from nerve taking more exercise, subject- sufferers, to treat them as if ing different parts of your body there was really nothing wrong to unaccustomed strains. Your with them, is both cruel and nervous system, over-strained in silly.
its purely physical duties, lets you down mentally.
A nerve itself looks like a lit- tle white worm. If you have Look at it the other way a large hole in one of your teeth. Tel. 27778-9 round. Many people when they the dentist will probably kill the receive a sudden piece of bad nerve in that tooth and pick it news feel, and often are, physi- out with a thin wire hook. Next cally sick. Others burst into time that misfortune occurs to perspiration, or start to shake. you, ask him to show you your
Excessive mental or emotional marriage arranged between George Hunter, only son of Mrs.srtain on the nerves
MARRIAGE
nerve.
preventa It is a profoundly interesting
G. Cautherley, and the late Mr. them performing their bodily object. That little
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G. Cautherley of Royston, Herts, duties properly and produces linked with every other nerve in England, mud Dorothy Alice, physical symptoms. youngest daughter of Mr. K. W. Campbell and the late Mrs. Campbell of Shanghai, will take
place in tioly Trinity Cathedral, Shanghat, on Saturday, February
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1038,
CENTRAL EUROPE'S
even
your body. The whole system is like a highly complicated electric The serious study of the mer-grid controlling every movement Dus system and the recognition of and in your body, and ready of the part they play in health to warn you of danger at a mo- are comparatively recent deve- ment's notice. lopments of medical science. You will still hear doctors lis miss some patient's ailment with a contemptuous "Oh! it's nothing. but nerves" Such a remark is just as foolish us to say of a man with a broken leg "It's nothing
but a bone!"
THE centre of the system, the
trunk line of the grid, is your spinal cord, which runs down from your brain inside your backbone.. A man can break his backbone and live, but if his spinal cord is broken he dies in- stantly. From this trunk line branches of nerves lead out to very part of your body. The bigger central ones are bundles containing many separate ner ves; by the time the skin is reached these have split up into single worms.
never reaches your conscious- ness at all. If it did, you would be quite incapable of thinking about anything else.
Your brain would be hopeless ly overburdened. The method by which this is avoided is one of the most ingenious parts of the whole miraculous me chanism.
Different stages of digestion inke place at different parts of what is called the alimentary canal, the series of organs which begins with your stomach and ends with your bowel. If diges- tion is to take place properly and provide your body with the full value of the food you have eaten, the contents of your alimentary canal must move forward accord-
If you regard the brain as the ing to a regular time-table.
This is ensured by a series of central switchboard of the ner- vous system, there are subsidiary lock-gates, nerve-operated, which switchboards working automati- open and close to allow the food cally in other parts of the body. to pass through at the appro-
Messages reaching these are printe moment. short-circuited and the motor..
If the gates stick and the food nerves net immediately on their is retained too long in a particu- receipt without your knowing far part of the canal it ferments anything about it. Your breath and you suffer from indigestion. ing, the beating of your heart, your digestion, are all operated through these automatic switch- boards.
Now, it is this lock-gate con- trol which is most often affected by the emotional strains which I mentioned at the beginning of this article.
CROSS-ROADS THE nervous system, like the bloot systém, covers every There are definite indications part of the body with a network of a trend towards the Rome-of tiny fibres, and its functions in maintaining health and pre- Berlin axis by Austria and serving life are no less important Hungary. Commercially, poli-than those of the blood. tically and
from an It remained for so long the
There are two types of "line" historical point of view such an Cinderella of physiology because in this human grid. The sen Occasionally they go wrong affinity is not surprising. Com-
sory nerves, which record and Cases have occurred in which
If you are violently in love, or mercially, Germany and Italy conversations. But the Monar- transmit to the centre news of the patient was unable to breathe
anything that happens in, or on, unless he consciously drew each very frightened, or over-excited are important to the Austrian chist_campaign_for_Otto gave the surface of your body, and breath. There was nothing it is almost certain that you will and Hungarian people; incrcus-them an excuse, if they required the motor nerves, which control wrong with his lungs, but the not be able to eat normally or, ingly so in view of the necessity one,
the action of your muscles.. control mechanism had failed if you do eat, you will have a LTD. of the bigger powers securing
The most obvious example of and an operation which in nor. stomach ache,
To use an electrical term, the of emotionul "load" on your ner- sciously became a matter raw products from their neigh that the Austro-Hungarian re- the close and rapid co-operation mal people is performed uncon-
between the
two groups is to thought and will. No one could vous system has proved bours. It would seem that in affirmation of their opposition touch a hot plate. this case the lesser states were to Communism was a move of
endure long in this state without than it can stand. Conversely, in a sound position for bargain-self-defence against their pro-scious of the painful sensation
Almost before you are con- going mad or dying.
if you have just eaten a substan- tin meal and are digesting it 90ing, but the political aspects of fessed friends of Rome and of heat. which your sensory ner-
properly, you will probably ind the situation are such that this
Berlin. It is probably very ves have conveyed to your brain, advantage
functions, and Few people propose marriage one which is most easily put out immediately after dinner. Any of order, is the control of the speaker knows the impossibility But a very large proportion of food that passes through your of rousing a well-fed audience. of them, the weaker parties find idea of world revolution. But the work done by the nerves body.
The "load" on the nervous some expedient to have
likewise a good proportion of
system is the other way. definite understanding in order them are opposed to Naziism
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is largely offset. true that the vast majority of your motor nerves have set in NE of the most curious auto. it difficult to become excited. Tney outweigh commercial con- Austro-Hungarians are opposed action the muscles which draw siderations. Possibly because to the doctrime of Marx and the
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your finger back..
A TRAGEDY OF PROGRESS physical or mental?
««XELL." I called, "are you look-room where his hoe and rake and
Ing forward to the twenty- trowel and raffa and pockets of seeds)
were kept there stood a small oll- THE first rule, as cighth?"
stove. The old man straightened his back and turned round slowly, "ve been Here on summer evenings he would much about it or tending this bit of ground for thirty- brew strong ten, and, seated on his that your nerves are wrong. But
car.
with most discases, is not to think too to be afraid
you
to avoid complications of
and Fascism. Archduke Otto, This, dangerous nature.
in fact, has bluntly declared least, is the view of several
against Fascism, though latter- commentators in Europe dis-
ly he has changed his attitude cussing the problems of the
to the extent of admitting that governments at Vienna and
such a system might solve the Budapest. They put it bluntly: Austrian political problem. For in order to escape the danger Hungary he has never deviated
you suppose sofa and puffing at a rank old clay, this does not mean that four years now. Do of unfriendly reaction on the fron the contention that I'm glad to lose it?"
hold court among the other allot- ment-holders, old and young alike, should not contemplate and "ad- part of Italy and Germany, Imonarenical form of Govern- I was leaning over the common who gathered for a nightly gossip mire your nervous mechanism as on the British fence of our allotments. I had just when their digging and thinning and you might the engine of a motor-
dismantled the little collapsible hut Austria and Hungary may find ment, based
model, is the best suited.
in my own patch of ground, and tying up was done. it necessary to adhere to some
packed up a few tools and one or He might eat and sleep in a crowd-
If you understand how an en- There is to bound to be some two plants I intended to give awayed tenement where the sunlight sort of pact with their big conflict in these central Euro- to gardening friends. We hnd re- rarely penetrated, but that mattered gine works, you are less likely neighbours, and it is possible pean fields. Never particularly ceived an order to vacate our allot- little this was his true home--this
was his country estate, where he was to subject it to undue strains. that the conversations at pre-popular, the League of Nations ments by the 28th of November, ak
ing.
And day in, day out, whenever I in danger of over-loading and sent in progress at Budapest, at appears to have lost entirely ground was to be used for build the equal of the richest in the land. So realise when your nerves are
the friendship and trust of
The old man hobbled towards me he was to be seen in his, moving
worked in my own small enclosure, take precautions. which all four powers are Austria and Hungary. Des- He had only been pottering aimlessly slowly about among his plants, with If you know that on holiday represented, may be laying the patches from Budapest indicate in a border. Obviously he could not a nod and a smiling word for every
you have been eating more than foundation for this understand-that withdrawal of both states her to leave the earth alone, though neighbour.
usual, avoid conversation on sub- is not impossible. And with- he knew it would never feed another
plant or bring forth another flower.
But on this misty morning the field jects that excite or worry you. drawal would probably be the
was almost deserted. His back seem-! The political situation in first step in the re-establish-
He was the Grand Old Man of the ed more bent and his hand more If you are in love or anxious ment of the old Triple Entente, allotments. His hut. Its wails com trembling since the order had come, about your future, be careful Austria, copecially, is very
very or something
like it. posed of scraps of sheet-iron, three-
"Are you getting another place about what you cat. Never much confused. There is a Austria and Hungary must na-ply board, farred felt, and planking farther out of town?" I asked,"
been extended with the years,
quarrel at meal-times. "No. I'm too old to begin again," strong Nazi party there, bitterly turally aim at security. Out of so that it now consisted of two
Alcohol in excess, and to a arms of the League they ply board, tarred felt, and planking, I hadn't far to walk." I realised he antagonistie to the Monarchists, are in the hands of Germany painted: little windows had been meant he could not afford a bus fare, losser extent tobacco, immedi- gade with irregular fragments of who are now campaigning for and Italy. What more natural glass, and the roof and corners were turning over soil that was to serve energy.
As I left he was half-heartedly ately
ing.
the
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weaken your nervous whitewashed an the foundation for some ugly the return of Archduke Otto to than that they should join the decorated with
The man who gets drunk bo- wondered. It the throne of his fathers. It anti-Comintern pact, recognise tons of rubber tubing and old bleycle concrete building. I
tyres.
srogress meant General Franco's Insurgents,
KO much. And cause he has met with a reverse was a coincidence that the Nazis 'Italy's Empire in Ethiopia, and
Inside, luxury of luxuries, was an thought of Eden. But what was this definitely diminishes his own chose to make their influence become good totalitarian states ? ancient solice; the walls were dotted old man's sin, that he, too, should body's capacity to resist what
with brown-edged pictures clipped be thrust out?' felt at the time of the Budapest They are being driven to it from wartime magazines;-and-in-the-
A.-F. B. has happened to him.