Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-01
Whins.

WllmS.
won't you tell me, Professor" Ia It'll
L bore only By courtesy, when taking
for a day or two, my sick friends chair,
won't you tell me what a within is?
The question was asked by the mothe
of stout lass, whose head was, as sug
gasted, full of whims.
A within my good woman, said, is ,
mental jump, a jerk, an inconsiderat'
leap at conclusion. A within is the re
suit of deciding question before yo,
have sufficient data to decide correctly
A within may be correct, and it may mo-
be; it is likely to be partly both ways
But the trouble is not with the within
but with the person who INDUCES it
Whims makes whimsical people. Did
you ever see a jumping bean? No, never
Well, jumping bean is bean with a
little white maggot in the middle, that
keeps all the time jerking back and forth,
and that makes the bean jump. A pan.
full of them is very funny. Now that
little maggot is exactly like the brain of
some people; and the way he moves is
the way the brain moves, by spasmodic
Srks this way and that.
won't you give me an illustration"
Certainly, nothing simpler or easier.
There is Mrs. DR.. Smith. She has a
within that Vegetable diet is the only
proper thing for man or beast. Her
little lions, the Smiths, are compelled to
be vegetarians. But, bless you, she
gives them all the milk they can eat, and
all the fish and eggs. 1t has never oc.
Cured to her that these things are not.
vegetable. l presume she knows eggs
don't grow on bushes. Her method of
eeding her family is a good one, but.
after all, vegetarianism is her within,
And Tom Hunter has a within that
tobacco is direct temptation of the
devil. 1t is very whimsical the way Tom
talks about it. It is nasty habit to
chew, and a generally useless habit to
smoke, but Tom makes it q question of
serving the Lord" But Tom is neither
neat in other respects, nor overpious.
On the whole, about half of all that is
held to, or acted on, madam, is composed
of whimseys. When l went into YOUR
prayer meeting the other night heard
q vision related. The relator evidently
took it for revelation. His brain had
onaggot in ia whim mean. Hetakes
the consequences of two cups of coffee or
q hard boiled egg and cheese, for q di-
vine revelation. In that way hard boiled
eggs may lead to great deal of mischief
because they undertake to lay down the
aw and gospel for people, and those who
will not obey are prosecuted.
well, for my part" she answered, 81
Like whims. The unexpected is the best
part of life, and it is the best part of peo
pie.' l suppose it is whim that people
ought to eat with forks instead of knives.
and whim that makes it fashionable to
SIP tea with a spoon. Then l have q |
'whim to hate cheese and cheese eaters: |
and can't bear the touch of silk. and |
the smell of rose makes me sick: all |
whims, of course"
Idiosyncrasies, suggested. There was
Rev. DR.. F., who never could endure the
sight of any cat except the Maltese. He
Kept gun over his table, and he would |
stop while writing his sermon to shoot
any tabby that came in sight of his win
dow if she were black or white.
For my part like black cats best. I've
q notion they are the best mousers, and
they are" Madam! I said, another whim.
Then there was the Rev. DR.. w., who
never could write decent discourse un-
starched and we'll busted. II don't be-
Ieve he could write decent discourse
anyway" And DR.. S. always pulls of
his coat, rolls up his sleeves, shoves up
his hair, and in half an hour is spattered
with ink as badly as his paper. He has
within that he can't write with his coat {
On. Or. M. writes with his right hand,
md fumbles with his eft in a box of
bran that he keeps for the purpose. 1t
serves to help him to abstract himself 8
rom more serious disturbances, he says.
And know one divine who always puts {
! bean in his mouth to roll around while I
ne sits in his pulpit-keeps him from be- t
ng nervous. When he gets ready for his |.
ermon he removes it. But one day he t
orgot to remove it, and it flew out during /
! burst of eloquence directly into the face t
# one of his auditors. i
SO whims, madam, are very service q
Ible at times, and very useful, bat liable {
o lead to qeer results. They are often 4
70 extravagant as to indicate disturbed q
.quilibrium in brain work. There is il
,oung c., now in college, a fine scholar,
'ut he tells me he can rarely get rid of q
ense of double existence. He sees him
elf in another part of the room and con- l
'erses with himself At times he can a
lot determine which is his real self. He r
hen sits down and coolly reasons him
elf into sound sensation, and appre- n
tension: 1T was only q whim of mine" r
le says, "thata man can live outside of e
ny apart from his body;and by yielding q
o the notion my imagination has be- d
ome diseased, and now must cure my Q
elf by logic suppose" t
@'Then you think all sorts of whims b
Surely, madam, if you in t
Iulge in nonsense it gets in time to be +
erious sense. II you wish to play the +
DOL, you must be reconciled after q while b
o be q fool. Mediums are genuine, no c
loubt, but they had better not be me- j.
Iiums. The hardest thing in this world t
3 to be yourself and know what you are. o
he easiest thing in the world is to lose f
Whims, after all, are ter 9
IDLY real if INDUCED in. Martin Luther '
eally saw the devil, you may be sure, o