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duties, and anxious to seek "the habitat of fin, fur 

 and feather" there to break that fatal strain on the 

 nervous system from the daily routine of work and 

 worry which has hurried so many good men to pre- 

 mature graves. 



HINTS TO BRAIN-WORKERS. 



If brain-workers as a class would take less "ner- 

 vines/ 7 clubs and banquets, and stick to three square 

 meals a day of well-cooked, healthful food, with an 

 outing of from four to six weeks out of the fifty-two, 

 the country at large would be benefited, and we 

 would have better lawyers, doctors and divines, 

 brighter students and more successful merchants. 



It Avould be improper in the introduction to this 

 narrative to dwell at length upon the importance of 

 out-door sports to brain-workers, and indeed to all 

 whose pursuits require them to draw upon nerve force, 

 especially in-doors, day in and out, like automata. 

 The unanimous verdict is stereotyped and familiar to 

 all that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull 

 boy." 



"Yes," said a friend since my return, "I would en- 

 joy an outing to Newfoundland to the fullest extent, 

 and would be benefited in many ways. I, too, love 

 the rippling brook, the majestic river, real land- 



