The products of digestion in an unhealthy person - that is, in one suffering from indigestion - are alone and of themselves sufficiently powerful and poisonous to produce irritation of the nervous centres, inducing Nervous Prostration, Nervousness, and Worry with all its attendant train of disorders. It is for this very important reason that we must live, as well as think, health. If thinking good health of itself would make us well, no one need ever be sick.

To expect one to quit worrying, who is in illhealth, is like asking the removal of mountains without apparatus. With improvement in bodily health, the functions of the mind are at once stimulated to healthy and natural conditions. It is a comparatively easy matter to cure worry when it is more particularly dependent upon, or proceeds primarily, from a condition of bodily ill-health; but when the factors responsible for it have been shock, fright, death, etc., directly affecting the nerve centers, then the case assumes an entirely different aspect and becomes somewhat more complicated, involving systematic mental training.

In a few words, then, the cure of worry resolves itself into two phases: the living and thinking of health.

First we must live health, this is the bodily cure for worry.

Secondly we must think health, this is the mental cure for worry.

Both of these conditions, the living and thinking of health, if carried out in a proper manner, are bound to end in but one thing : the gratification of one's highest desire and greatest good, perfect harmony both of body and mind, producing - Health.

To live health means that the digestion must be perfect. Good digestion makes cheerfulness, cheerfulness produces hope. Hope, the most powerful stimulant in the world, makes health and happiness. In addition to the care of the digestive functions, attention must be paid to the functions of the skin, as outlined in the chapter on Baths and Bathing.

Two of the most powerful agencies employed in the cure of nervous conditions, of which worry is a symptom, are fresh air and cold water, both of which should be used to the fullest possible extent. Systematic deep breathing and bathing are fully explained in their respective chapters. Rest, fresh air, change of occupation, or complete cessation from work where this is the cause, are all indicated in the treatment of those possessed of the worrying habit. Some individuals worry because they have nothing else to do. They should change their occupation at once, and become actively engaged mentally, or bodily, or both.

Worry has its root in fear. Again, over-anxiety is only another form of fear or fearfulness.

It is interesting to note that "worriers" as a rule are the most difficult people in the world to influence. It is almost an impossibility to get them to do anything, to become positive; they are always so fearful. You may point out to them the deadly and pernicious effects of worry; that it paralyses, kills and wholly destroys; that it devitalizes, enervates, saps and sucks the very life blood of an individual; that "worriers" have no pleasure themselves, nor, as far as their efforts are concerned, can any one else have any; to all of which they readily assent, and yet one might as well pour water on a duck's back, expecting it to get wet, as to talk to worriers with any expectation of getting them to act for themselves. You may talk to them till you are black and blue in the face, as the common expression goes, ultimately realizing it is just so much time wasted. If these individuals could only' see themselves in the same light as the world in general sees them, they would come to the true conclusion that "worriers" are the biggest nuisances in existence. However, worriers are to be pitied in many instances, because some of them are the victims of circumstances over which they have no control.

In many instances Worry is but a manifestation of ill-health, and must be so regarded. Worry always means depressed functions of the mind or body, or both. These dual functions are so inter-related to each other that what effects one is bound to effect the other, through sympathy. Many individuals given to the worrying habit have been made so by that dire disease la grippe, whose poisonous effects seem to be specially directed to, and spent upon, the nervous centres. While thousands, yes, tens of thousands of these individuals are the victims of ignorance or neglect of the ordinary laws governing health. The "nervous wrecks," which are scattered and stranded along the shores of ill-health, are such because of our artificial, rush-hurry, high-tension, get - rich - quick methods of living.

Marital Incompatibilities, much as we like to shut our eyes to the fact, are largely responsible for the worrying habit, in many instances. Even under the most auspicious circumstances, married life has its cares and responsibilities, for which young people are almost wholly unprepared. It is for this reason there are so many "misfit" families.

Imagine, if you can, a high-spirited young woman who is unfortunate enough to become the wife of a man who is a victim of the alcohol habit. Add to this the curse of a besotted and unsympathetic husband, the sickness of children with its fears and anxieties, the neglect and poverty of home - are these not sufficient in themselves to drag down and degrade any woman of spirit, in short, to induce the worrying condition? A woman so placed requires confidence, faith, hope, prayer, will power: even these in many instances seemingly require to be supplemented by dynamite. These are the circumstances where women require will-power of the character of which it is said that a lion tamer would rather face his lions than his wife's temper : manifestations of fear in both instances" - lions a-feared of man, man a-feared of woman.