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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-
VES
tween lovers and friction in of its connection with mental families.
illness. Excessive nervous strain
You probably do not know does frequently cause delusions that the basic cause of it is that or phobias, but a faulty blood you have been eating more and supply to the brain can produce richer food than usual, perhaps very similar phenomena, and to 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, 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
nerve.
srtain on the nerves prevents It is a profoundly interesting worm is them performing their bodily object. That little duties properly and produces linked with every other nerve in
never reaches your conscious- physical symptoms.
your body. The whole system is
be quite incapable of thinking The serious study of the ner- like a highly complicated electrices at all. If it did, you would
grid controlling every movement about anything cise. vous 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 lopments of medical science. You will still hear doctors dis- miss some patient's ailment with a contemptuous "Oh! it's nothing but nerves! Such a remark is just as foolish as to say of a man with a broken leg "It's nothing
but a bone!"
so long the Cinderella of physiology because
ment's notice.
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 hie spinal cord is broken he dies in- stantly. From this trunk line branches of nerves lead out to every part of your body. The bigger central ones are bundies containing many separate ner ves; by the time the skin is reached these have split up into single worms.
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. called the alimentary what is take place at different parts of 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 enten, 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 priate moment.
CROSS-ROADS THE nervous system, like the blood system, 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
It remained for historical point of view such an
in this human grid. The sen There are two types of "line"
affinity is not surprising. Com-
sory nerves, which record and mercially, Germany and Italy conversations. But the Monar- transmit to the centre news of are important to the Austrian chist campaign for Otto gave anything that happens in, or on, the surface of your body, and and Hungarian people; increas-them an excuse, if they required the motor nerves, which control ingly so in view of the necessity one.
"the action of your muscles. of the bigger powers accuring
The most obvious example of 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 touch a hot plate.
bours. It would seem that in this case the lesser states were
It is perhaps unfair to say
affirmation of their opposition to Communism was a move of!
in a sound position for bargain-self-defence against their pro- Almost before you are con- Fessed friends of Rome and of hent which your sensory ner- scious of the painful sensation
Berlin. It is probably very ves have conveyed to your brain, true that the vast majority of your motor nerves have set in Austro-Hungarians are opposed action the muscles which draw
your finger back.
ing, but the political aspects of the situation are such that this advantage is largely offset. They outweigh commercial con- Isiderations. Possibly because
to the doctrime of Marx and the of them, the weaker parties find idea of world revolution. But lit expedient to have some likewise a good proportion of definite understanding in order them are opposed to Naziism to avoid complications of a and Fascism. Archduke Otto,
This, at dangerous nature.
in fact, has bluntly declared least, is the view of several
against Fascism, though latter- commentators in Europe dis- cussing the problems of the governments at Vienna and
But a very large proportion of the work done by the nerves
short-circuited and the motor- If the gates stick and the food nerves act immediately on their is retained too long in a particu- receipt without your knowing lar 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 Now, it is this lock-gate con- through these automatic switch- trol which is most often affected by the emotional strains which boards.
I mentioned at the beginning of Occasionally they go wrong, this article. Cases have occurred in which
If you are violently in love, or the patient was unable to breathe unless he consciously drew each very frightened, or over-excited breath. There was nothing it is almost certain that you will wrong with his lungs, but the not be able to cat normally or, control-mechanism had failed-if-you-do-eat, you will have_A__ and an operation which in nor stomach ache.
To use an electrical term, the sciously became a matter of emotional "load" on your ner- thought and will. No one could vous system has proved more endure long in this state without than it can stand. Conversely, going mad or dying.
if you have just eaten a substan- tial meal and are digesting it properly, you will probably find
ONE of the most curious auto- it difficult to become excited.
matic nerve 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 food that passes through your of rousing a well-fed audience, body..
The "load" on the nervous system is the other way.
How can you avoid suffering from nerve-trouble, whether
A TRAGEDY OF
PROGRESS Physical or mental?
ly he has changed his attitude**ing forward to the twenty- trowel and raffla and packets of seeds
to the extent of admitting that
stove.
with most
*\X/ELL." I called, "are you look-room where his hoe and rake and
eighth?"
were kept there stood a small oll- THE first rule, as
discases, is not to think too such a system might solve the The old man straightened his back Budapest. They put it bluntly: Austrian political problem. For and turned round slowly, "I've been Here on summer evenings he would much about it or to be afraid in order to escape the danger Hungary he has never deviated tending this bit of ground for thirty-brew strong tea, and, seated on his that your nerves are wrong. But four years now. Do you suppose sofa and puffing at a rank old clay. this does not mean that you hold court among the other allot- of unfriendly reaction on the from the contention that a I'm glad to lose it" part of Italy and Germany,monarenical form of Govern- Austria and Hungary may find ment, based on the British
model, is the best suited. it necessary to adhere to some sort of pact with their big
ink
ment-holders, old and young alike, should not contemplate and ad- who gathered for a nightly gossip mire your nervous mechanism as when their digging and thinning and you might the engine of a motor- tying up was done.
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car.
If you understand how an en-
I was leaning over the common fence of our allotments. I had just dismantled the little collapsible but ir my own patch of grouml, and
He mighi cat and sleep in a crowd- There is to bound to be some packed up a few tools and one or
ed tenement, where the sunlight two plants I intended to give away conflict in these central Euro- to gardening friends. We had re- rarely penetrated, but that mattered! neighbours, and it is possible pean fields. Never particularly ceived an order to vacate our allot- little; this was his true home-this: Kino works, you are less likely ments by the 20th of November, as was his country estate, where he was, to subject it to undue strains. that the conversations at pre-popular, the League of Nations metround was to be used for build the equal of the richest in the land. So realise when your nerves are And day in, day out, whenever in danger of over-loading and sent in progress at Budapest, at appears to have lost entirely
worked in my own small enclosure, take precautions. the friendship and trust of
The old man hobbled towards me.) he was to be seen in his, moving which all four powers aro
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 cave the earth alone, though neighbour.
he knew it would never feed another is not impossible. And with plant or bring forth another flower.
usual, avoid conversation on sub- ing.
But on this misty morning the field jects that excite or worry you. drawal would probably be the
was almost deserted. His back seem- He was the Grand Old Man of theed more bent and his hand more If you are in love or anxious The
in first stop in the re-establish- political situation
ment of the old Triple Entente, allotments. His hut, its walls com trembling since the order had come about your future, be careful Austria, especially, is
or something very like it. posed of scraps of sheet-iron, three-
"Are you getting another place about what you ent. Never ply board, tarred fell, and planking farther out of town?" I asked. much confused. There is a Austria and Hungary must na ind been extended with the years,
quarrel at meal-times. "No. I'm too old to begin again,”
Alcohol in excess, and to a strong Nazi party there, bitterly turally aim at security. Out of so that it now consisted of two
the arms of the League they ply board, tarred felt, and planking. I hadn't far to walk." antagonistic to the Monarchists, are in the hands of Germany painted; little windows had been meant he could not afford a bus fare. lesser extent tobacco, immedi
made with irregular fragments of who are now. campaigning for and Italy. What more natural glass, and the roof and corners were turning over soll that was to serve energy.
As I left he was half-heartedly ntely weaken your nervous the return of Archduke Otto to than that they should join the decorated with whitewashed
Bocns the foundation for some ugy The man who gets drunk bo- the throne of his fathers. It anti-Comintern pact, recognise tons of rubber tubing and old bicycle concrete building. I
General Franco's Insurgents, tyres.
progress meant so much. And I 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 thi definitely diminishes his own chose to make their influence become good totalitarian states? ancient settee; 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 oult from 'wartime magazines; and in thei
A. P. 8. has happened to him. felt at the time of the Budapest They are being driven to it.
very
I realised he
wondered
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