She ought to be in better business, and she knows it, though she won't admit it.' Oh, the pity of it, the woe of it, the horror of it, for it is one of the curses of our present day society and is one of the causes of many a man's and woman's physical and mental ruin.

In the words of our author elsewhere: They are killing themselves to get what they really don't want and don't need, and are starving for things they could easily have by just putting out their hands.
Where life's struggle is reduced to this kind of thing, there is little compensation, hence we are not surprised to read that: Judge Emery was in the state in which of late the end of the day's work found him--overwhelmingly fatigued.

He had not an ounce of superfluous energy to answer his wife's tocsin, while she was almost crying with nervous exhaustion.

That Lydia's course ran smooth through a thousand complications was not accomplished without an incalculable expenditure of nervous force on her mother's part.

Dr.Melton had several times of late predicted that he would have his old patient back under his care again.