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NERVES *and* WORRY

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 45.

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NERVES and WORRY

By A. B. Olsen

A. B. Olsen, M.D., D.P.H.
This is an age of restlessness, of hurry and worry, and the conditions of average life, especially city life, are highly artificial and exciting. Large numbers of people are living under pressure and are always in a rush. Pushing others or being pushed themselves, their pace often becomes a wild, mad scramble, a sorry and miserable form of existence. Most persons possess a comparatively good heredity, and consequently of excitement, which prevails everywhere and among all classes of society, is sufficient evidence of the perilous state of the nerves. There is a constantly growing demand for change, for something that is new, strange, or bizarre, and people almost innumerable are looking for the startling and the sensational. Theaters, variety showhouses, skating rinks, cinematograph shows, and other forms of entertainment are enjoying a great vogue, and the