HOW TO GET STRONG
week, mowing down your friend who even yesterday looked to be all right. "There is no discharge in that warfare." And that worry eats at the vital organs and parts more than many know of. One writer says:
"Harassing anxiety, impatient expectation, disproportionate fear of the unknown; this is worry; and this is what causes the heart to struggle, the kidneys to contract, the arteries to weaken, and the mind to fail."
No one who is not given to worry can conceive of the power which the habit gains over its victim. Such a one will freely admit the excellence of the advice not to worry, but he will add that it is impossible to follow it. This is true only in a measure and in a few cases. Barring instances of exceptional trouble, of extraordinary "hard luck," almost every one can by resolute determination reduce his worry within living limits.
Look into the causes of these enemies, secretly sapping and undermining the vitals, and destroying life itself; and you will find, in almost every case, that lack of sensible bodily exercise has been a potent factor in opening the door, which let in these assassins. Indeed its share in keeping off other insidious foes is greater than many are aware of. Of the five departments of the sewage-system of the body,—the lungs, kidneys, liver, bowels and skin—many a man does not keep the millions of pores in the last one—the skin—open and free; indeed allows them to be clogged for years, till he almost forgets that he once had, and might have yet, as pure, sweet and clear a skin as any healthy babe has to—day.
What right has such a man to expect that the work of five departments, which he thus crowds upon the other four, will not wear one or more of them out before its time? A man who pretended to be an engineer, yet
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