Power through repose / by Annie Payson Call.

  • Call, Annie Payson, 1853-1940.
Date:
1900
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Power through repose / by Annie Payson Call. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    work like that without being all tired out, and the sympathizing friends would have agreed and thought her a heroine. A well-known author, who had to support his wife and family while working for a start in his literary career, had a commercial position that occupied him every day from nine to five. He came home and dined at six, went to bed at seven, slept until three, when he got up, made himself a cup of coffee, and wrote until he breakfasted at eight. He got all the exercise he needed in walking to and from his outside work and was able to keep up this regular routine, with no loss of health, until he could support his family comfortably on what he earned from his pen. Then he returned to ordinary hours. A brain once roused will take a man much farther than his strength; if this man had come home tired and allowed himself to write far into the night, and then, after a short sleep, had gone to the indispensable earning of his bread and butter, the chances are that his intellectual power would have decreased, until both pub- lishers and author would have felt quite certain that he had no power at all. The complacent words, I cannot think of myself, or, It is out of the question for me to