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able irritability over trifles, which leads to quarrels be- tween lovers and friction in families.

illneas. 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 cuting more and richer food than usual, perhaps Laking more exercise, subject ing different parts of your body to unaccustomed strains. Your nervous system, over-strained in its purely physical duties, leta you down mentally.

supply to the brain can produce very similar phenomena, and to withhold sympathy from nervo sufferers, to treat them as if there was really nothing wrong with them, is both cruel and silly.

A nerve itself looks like a lit tle white worm. If you have Look at it the other way a largo 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 888.5880004 cally sick. Others burst into time that misfortune occurs to

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marriage arranged between George Hunter, only son of Mrs. G. Cautherley, and the late Mr. G. Cautherley of Royston, Herts. | physical symptoms. England, and Dorothy Alice, youngest daughter of Mr. K. W.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938.

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Excessive mental or emotional srtain on the nerves prevents It is a profoundly interesting them performing their bodily object. That little duties properly and produces linked with every other nerve in your body. The whole system is like a highly complicated electric grid controlling every movement, of and in your body, and ready to warn you of danger at a mo- ment's notice.

The serious study of the ner- vous system and the recognition of the part they play in health 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!"

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 lesa important Hungary. Commercially, poli-than those of the blood. tically and

an It remained for so long the historical point of view such an Cinderella of physiology because affinity is not surprising. Com- mercially, Germany and Italy conversations. But the Monar- are important to the Austrian chist campaign for Otto gave and Hungarian people; increas- them an excuse, if they required ingly so in view of the necessity one.

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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 every 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.

There are two types of "line" in this human grid. The sen- sory nerves, which record and transmit to the centre news of anything that happens in, or on, the-surface-of-your-body and the motor nerves, which control the action of your muscles.

never reaches your conscious- ness at all. If it did, you would be quite incapable of thinking about anything else.

Different stages of digestion take place at different parts of what is called the alimentary canal, the series of organs which begins with your stomach and Your brain would be hopeless- ends with your bowel. If diges- ly overburdened. The method tion is to take place properly and by which this is avoided is one provide your body with the full of the most ingenious parts of value of the food you have eaten, . the

whole miraculous me the contents of your alimentary canal must move forward accord-

chanism.

If you regard the brain as the ing to a regular time-table. central switchboard of the ner- This is ensured by a series of. yous 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.

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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,

Now, it is this lock-gato con- your digestion, are all operated 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 eat normally or control mechanism had failed if you do eat, you will have a and an operation which in nor stomach ache. It is perhaps unfair to say The most obvious example of mal people is performed uncon To use an electrical term, the raw products from their neigh-that the Austro-Hungarinn re-the close and rapid co-operationsciously became a matter of emotional "load" on your ner- bours. It would seem that in

between the two groups is to thought and will. No one could vous system has proved affirmation of their opposition

touch a hot plate. this case the lesser states were

endure long in this state without than it can stand. Conversely, to Communism was a move of in a sound position for bargain-self-defence against their pro-

Almost before you are con- going mad or dying.

if you have just caten a substan- tial meal and are digesting it ing, but the political aspects of

scious of the painful sensation fessed friends of Rome and of heat which your sensory ner-

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properly, you will probably find the situation are such that this

Berlin. It is probably very ves have conveyed to your brain,

it difficult to become excited. advantage is largely offset.

true that the vast majority of your motor nerves have set in ONE of the most curious auto-

matic nerve functions, and Few people propose marriage They outweigh commercial con-Austro-Hungarians are opposed action the muscles which draw

one which is most casily put out immediately after dinner. Any siderations. Possibly because

your finger back.

of order, is the control of the speaker knows the impossibility to the doctrime of Marx and the of them, the weaker parties find

food that passes through your of rousing a well-fed audience. idea of world revolution. But

body.

The "load" on tho nervous it expedient to have Bome likewise a good proportion of

system is the other way, them are opposed to Naziism and Fascism. Archduke Otto,

to

definite understanding in order a avoid complications of dangerous nature.

it necessary to adhere to some sort of pact with their big

But a very large proportion of the work done by the nerves

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How can you avoid suffering from nerve-trouble, whether

PROGRESS physical or mental?

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with most tisenses, is not to think-too to be afraid

at This, in fact, has bluntly declared least, is the view of several commentators in Europe dis- against Fascism, though latter-

ly he has changed his attitude WELL," I called, "are you look room where his hoe and rake and cussing the problems of the

twenty trawel and rafla and packets of seedaj to the extent of admitting that ing forward to the and

were kept there stood a small oll-THE first rule, as governments at Vienna

such a system might solve the

The old man straightened his back stove. 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 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 You suppose sota and puffing at a rank old clay, this does not mean that you of unfriendly reaction on the from the contention that a I'm glad to lose [£?"

hold court among the other allot- ment-holders, old and young alike, should not contemplate and ad- part of Italy and Germany, moñarenical 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- Austria and Hungary may find ment, based

dismantled the little collapsible hut tying up was done. model, is the best suited.

in my own patch of ground, and packed up a few tools and one or He might eat and sleep in a crowd- There is to bound to be some wo planta I intended to give away ed tenement where sunlight If you understand how an en- conflict in these central Euro- to gardening friends. We had re- rarely penetrated, but that mattered neighbours, and it is possible penn flelds. Never particularly celved an order to vacate our allof-little; this was his true home-thin Bine works, you are less likely that the conversations at pre-popular, the League of Nations menta by the 28th of November, as was his country estate, where he was to subject it to undue atrains. 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 And day in, day out, whenever in danger of over-loading and the friendship and trust of

worked in my own small enclosure, take precautions. The old man hobbled towards me. he was to be seen in his, moving which all four powers are

Austria and Hungary. Des- He had only been pottering aimlessly

If you know that on holiday represented, may be laying the patches from Budapest indicate in a border, Obviously he could not slowly about among bis plants, with bear to leave the earth alone, though nod and a smiling word for every

you have been eating more than foundation for this understand-that withdrawal of both states

he knew it would never feed another

neighbour. 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 the ed more bent and his hand more The

In first step in the re-establish-

If you are in love or anxious political situation

mont of the old Triple Entente, allotments. Ils but, its walls com- trembling since the order had come. about your future, be careful Austria, especially, is

very or

Bomething very like it. posed of scraps of sheel-iron, three- "Are you getting another place about what you ent. Never much confused. There a Austrin and Hungary must na-ply board, tarred fell, and planking farther out of town?" I asked.

quarrel at meal-times. "No. I'm too oht 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 the arms of the League they ply board, tarred fell, and planking, I hadn't far to walk." antagonistic to the Monarchists, in the hands of Germany painted; ille windows had been meant he could not afford a bus fare. lesser extent tobacco, immedi-

wenken As I left he was half-heartedly ntely 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. the return of Archduke Otto to than that they should join the decorated with

OCDs the foundation, for some ugly 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 wondered if

tyres.

meant so much. And I cause he has met with a reverse General Franco's Insurgents, 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 wittee; 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? from wartime magazines; and in the]

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