y to
eating unsuitable or poorly one's family, pity and disgust
cooked food, by drinking ice of friends.
water when one is heated,
by swallowing scalding drinks,
especially tea, which forms
tannic acid on the delicate
lining of the stomach; or
by eating when tired or
worried, or after receiving bad
news, when the gastric juice
can not be secreted, etc.

* * * * * * * *

To one nervous system Years of weakness, disappointed
shattered by dissipation, abuses, ambition, hopeless inefficiency,
over-excitement, a fast life, _a burnt-out life_.
feverish haste to get riches or
fame, hastening puberty by
stimulating food, exciting life,
etc.

* * * * * * * *

To damage by undue mental Impaired powers of mind,
exertion by burning the softening of the brain,
"midnight oil," exhausting the blighted hopes.
brain cells faster than they
can be renewed.

* * * * * * * *

To overstraining the brain A disappointed ambition, a
trying to lead his class in life of invalidism.
college, trying to take a prize,
or to get ahead of somebody
else.

* * * * * * * *

To hardening the delicate A hardened brain, a hardened
and sensitive gray matter of conscience, a ruined
the brain and nerves, and home, Bright's disease, fatty
ruining the lining membranes of degeneration, nervous
the stomach and nervous degeneration, a short,
system by alcohol, opium, etc. useless, wasted life.

* * * * * * * *

By forced balances, here and Accounts closed. Physiological
there. and moral bankruptcy.

Sometimes two or three such items are charged to a single account. To
offset them, there is placed on the credit side a little feverish
excitement, too fleeting for calm enjoyment, followed by regret,
remorse, and shame. Be sure your sins will find you out. They are all
recorded.

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us."

It is a wonder that we live at all. We violate every law of our being,
yet we expect to live to a ripe old age. What would you think of a man
who, having an e