Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-09-10
No. 43

freshness and newneSs in new clothesi Is
this all Imagination, as you call it, Or a
whim! Or fancyi Isnot feeling thinking,
and if your garb makes YOU think the worn
out and threadhare, are YOU not generating
within YOU thought of Ike character. How DO
you know bu that this has good deal to do
with the makeup o. blood and flesh. muscles
and nerve, and 'he shape which these takei
"Ridiculousr' YOU say. "The mans ac-
tually irving TO make out that thoughts ara
things. thnt our ideas are substance, and
that these things make US and shape us.'
'R.c.cilousl' YOU say. Ridiculous,
tLinz, thar for ages we have assumed that
thought was nothing. or next TO it. because
we can't see or feel it-that an idea wasn't
proau-t Of the elements as much as 4 tree OF
a 4 lWer
Hasn't the idea Of fast running, instilled
more and more in a breed OF dog, made the
greyhoull slim boiisdi Hasn't the idea Of
fighting AMI tearing. similarly cultivated
by the hunqn brute in another canine spa
cies, male he bulldog run largely to jaw
and grip. Hasn't the same idea OF getting
fast over the ground made one species Of
horse slim-bodied and slimleggel. You
say: "The idea of mind in dog" What
a creature that can love, fear, hate, know
people by sight, have recollection and intel
ligence. and yet without mindl
To finish off your ugliness. cultivate also
the night SIDE, the black side Of life. Say
ever TO yourself and others: what is il
all fort What's the use of living, anyways
We're naught but accidental atoms and
trans!tory worms of the dust, and the sooner
we're out Of this muddle the better This
kind of thought will give you a gloomy,
sardonic and semi-devilish expression. 1t is
effectual in driving the best people away
from you and attracting to you forlorn,
miserable creatures like yourself, and there
will in time be among you all a general
similarity of expression, despite differences
Of feature
Make up your mind at or near what IL
called middle age that you are too old to
learn anything new. Stick to things, ideas
and customs as they were twenty odd years
ego. This will keep your mind twenty odd
years behind the times and your face viii
also assume a behind-the-time ancient grave
yard expression. If you will persist in
always looking back your face will look
back. When you live 50 much in your back
brain the back of your head tries to become
the front This causes confusion. It's like
sticking the back Of the house on the front.
Hope looks always with eager, glowing
countenanee ahead. Retrospect may serve
for an hours entertainment; but if you in-
sist on living in the graveyard of the past
be sure you will have something of grave
yard LOOK.
For few final touches, 10 put the inde-
finable charm. the .Je ne sdis qlfoi to your
ugliness. observe these directions. Borrow
all the trouble you can. Three-fourths OF il
may never come to pass. but the result surely
will on your face. Cultivate the pout. IL
may be pretty ON Young mouth, but win
grow TO be deformity If allowed TO set
in" Cultivate hurry in the doing Of every
thing Be always on a sort Of rampage.
Let the least disappointment knock you
over and upset you completely.
PRENTICE MULFoRD.
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