WORD FOR WORRY
“It is an interesting fact that the health of the country is exceedingly good at present—in spite of the departing influenza epidemic. People are cheerful, hearty, fit, and full of worry. Nobody has time to be ill; nobody has time even to think about illness,” writes the Medical Correspondent of the Times Trade and Engineering supplement. “ Man was designed for worry. If worry is denied him he invents it. At present, happily,, we are obtaining our worries from the bountiful hand of the Government, free, gratis, and for nothing; and the doctors are idle. Men spend their days planning escapes from all sorts of calamities; their pulses are quickened and their eyes beam with enjoyment. The writer knows a man who was accustomed, a few years ago, to disburse hundreds of pounds in the purchase of excitement. To-day the same man has his pleasure for a song, for his business has only just weathered the storm. Now he talks about * striking out ’ in new directions. He is so healthy, so full of fight, so deeply in love with worry that he doesn’t know what to do with his surplus energy. That is better than pills consumed in sorrow and without hope.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 7
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204WORD FOR WORRY Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 7
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