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we consider the opportunities that angling affords of 

 intimate, leisurely enjoyment of Nature in her most 

 beguiling moods and with the added zest of agree- 

 able companionship; for anglers are admittedly a 

 quiet, considerate, genial, and gentle craft. 



The pastime does indeed supply a most happy and 

 inspiring change of activities from the usual more or 

 less sedentary occupations of its most ardent vota- 

 ries, its varied technic with the combination of open- 

 air life, not too fatiguing exercise, and the complete 

 change of environment being subtly efficacious for 

 the solacement of nerves jangled and out of tune 

 and for the revivifying of the whole man or 

 woman. Physicians have reason a-plenty keenly to 

 realize that a warped mentality or a sick soul pre- 

 sents an infinitely more serious problem than does a 

 disordered body. I have now in mind one who but 

 a few short months ago was the personification of 

 ambition and will power, and who at the present time 

 is a pitiable example of a strong man bereft of con- 

 fidence and groping and shrinking in the grip of par- 

 alyzing fears. By what means should men strive to 

 forestall such a calamity? and how are they to be 

 helped out of such a Slough of Despond? Dr. Rich- 

 ard C. Cabot says that what the blind, the worried, 

 the invalid, the discouraged, the convalescent, the 

 neurasthenic, the drug-victim what the whole 

 world needs both to keep well people well and for 

 the restoration of the sick, is vitality and resisting 



