CURE IS EASY

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 11 April 1927, Page 5

CURE IS EASY

NO-WISH-TO-LIVE DISEASE. LONDON, March 1 Dr Rudolf Urbantechitch, one of the leading nerve specialists on the Continent, declared in a lecture here that the “wish not to live’’ had, os a result of the war, become “a world-wide disease.” It has nothing to do with poverty, he declares, for the real “joie de vivre” is to be found less among the rich than among the poor or the middle classes. In his lecture he prescribed for those “suffering from this disease, which is almost as deadly as influenza.” Here is the

Concentrate on your day’s work, though there be but an hour of it, without air lowing thoughts of anything else to interfere. Take a. volume of any classical work (in your own language) and study 20 pages per day.

Go in for an hour's sport daily, or 10 minutes of physical exercises at an open window.

At night think over what yon have Hone during the day, or. better still, write up a diary every evening. Believe in yourself; live for yourself; act according to your own judgment, and not that of others. Cultivate a belief in the fatalism of Schopefihanser, and cease thinking of and regretting what cannot be altered.

“Try this cure for a fortnight,” Dr Urbantsehitch advised his audience, “and you will find that, instead of being a pessimist about life, you will become a firm believer in it."