Over activity is a form of excess. If we work too much or play too much, we gradually lessen our energy. Overwork is working beyond the compensatory power of the body during the hours allotted to rest and sleep. It means driving oneself beyond the limits set by tire. Ambition, the desire for fame, for place, power and pelf and economic necessity drive many to overstep the limits of fatigue and wreck their health in the pursuit of baubles. The individual may not work hard, he may only work long hours.

The man who uses up his nerve energy in business and the general affairs of life, to the extent of having too little left to take care of the food he eats will suffer from indigestion and other functional failures. "People are well so long as their habits are rational and they live within their physiological limitations. As soon as they begin to expend nerve-energy faster than they build it, they are faced in the direction of discomfort, disease and early death."

Thousands strive vainly to keep in the race of life handicapped by an enervated body and mind. This striving further handicaps function. Nothing but health, free from the inhibiting influences of wrong life, will give full efficiency.

Do not build enervation by taxing the organism to its very limit. Lighten the burden with which functions have been weighted down, guide the mind into new channels of thought, and secure sufficient rest and sleep for recuperation.

Children often play too hard and become very nervous, cross, even hysterical. They become too excited and over enthusiastic in their play. When parents observe their children becoming nervous, loud, and boisterous, they should stop them from playing and have them lie down until rested.

Stimulation of any kind is overwork and is an insidious poison. The stimulating habit once established, only the strongest character can succeed in throttling the monster temptation that will come at times when nerve energy is at a low ebb. Stimulating habits prevent almost everyone from achieving more than about sixty per cent. efficiency. Stimulants rob us of nerve energy and dull the nervous system. No one can be a hundred per cent. healthy and continue the use of any kind of stimulants even in the lightest forms. Perhaps this will be pooh-poohed by those who are thoroughly drunk on food and the stimulants that commonly accompany overeating, but let them look to their own state of health.

Overstimulation from any cause, physical or mental, brings on enervation. Too much food of a stimulating character; cold, heat, joy, sorrow, envy, spite, jealousy, lust, acquisitiveness, pride and ambition, all bring on enervation.