The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-30

tell the number of dots from to 20 group
ed irregularly on a blackboard, at a sin
gle glance, and without hesitation, and
could remember and repeat thirty lines of
prose after hearing them once read.
The children stand with their backs to
the board while the dots are made. When
the class is ready they turn round and
one is asked to name, instantly, the num-
Der of dots, observed in that moment.
There is no time to count. The eye takes
in the group as a whole and recognizes
it as ten, fifteen, eighteen or twenty, as
the case may be. And these children have
grown so observant, have so acquired the
power of concentrating their faculties on
the object before them that they can name
accurately again and again. the number of
dots revealed in that momentary glimpse
of the board You and l can't do this.
1t is doubtful If many of us could tell al
a glance, the difference between a hexag-
onal and octagonal figure.
A large part of ancient witchcraft and
modern conjuring is simply cultivated OBJ
servaton. The story, in the school books,
of the lost camel and its description by an
Arab who had not seen it, but noted all
its peculiarities reflected in the mirror of
its trail, is case in point. Houdin, the
great French magician, could walk past
a store window and enumerate thirty or
forty articles, seen as he passed, with a
turn of the head and a glance of the eye
What enormous possibilities are in us
of which we live in profound unconscious
ness! We think that memory is in the
mind alone. But the fingers have a men,
DRY or the pianist could not find the keys
in fba dark ba iC
by the mind, the fingers straying over the
keys, will find what the mind has lost.
Change your sleeping room in the house,
and the chances are you will find your
self entering the wrong room more than
once. You say you were not thinking No
your feet were thinking in the idleness
of your mind.
There is tremendous elasticity in ma
ture. Development of deficient organs is
just as possible as development of def
cient faculties. Now and again the pro-
gress of consumption is arrested in some
one. The doctors had sounded" him.
One lung was entirely gone" 1t was
hopeless case. But something arrested the
disease, and the man went on living with
one lung. His laugh was just as hearty,
his voice just as loud. He even entered
into politics and became a public speaker.
And the poor maR had only one lung.
How could he do it? Easily enough. You
can do the same. You have two lungs,
and you use about half their volume. If
you lose one lung and use the entire vol
ume of the one remaining, you have still
as much lung power as ever. The chances
are YOU have more because the constant
exercise of the one lung gives it health
and strength. Nature, to put 1t mechan-
ically has endowed you with two en-
gines, so that If one breaks down the 9TH
err remains. You choose to run both en-
gines at half speed. Very good. But IL
one breaks down you can still put the
other at full speed and make just as good
time
These are simple facts. The remark
able thing is that these facts are COM
mon property and yet have lead to no
broader application of the principle In
volved, by the mass of men and women.
You have memory in your feet and in
your fingers. The musician trains the
memory In his fingers. So does the
handicraftsman. The memory of the
feet nobody trains, to any great extent.
And on the other hand doctors so on
treating lung diseases as If there were
no elasticity or recuperative power in
nature herself. They decline TO take
into account that reserve lung power.
lone lung almost gone" they say That
settles it," 1t generally settles the con-
sumptive If it does not settle the question
of cure For hope is vital in such cases.
And the man who robs the victim Of tu-
berculosis. of hope, has robbed him of his
most precious possession.
Hope never hurt anybody. 1t has helped
millions. If you are consumptive which
would YOU sooner have the ten thousand
doctors who say you can't be cured or the
ono doctor who says you can? The latter
every time. But is 1t true? Can consump-
zion be cured? When the man with one
lung left. lives on for a long happy use
ful life il looks feasible. And his case is
Inv no means solitary. Nature stands
ready to help the man who can get into
s,-mnattv with her. But the trouble with
The sick lis very like the drowning man,
who wont help himself but clings around
the neck of the rescuer and renders him
HELPLESS. Nature can't do everything. She
works to her ends through natural means.
she'll make blood but you must provide
blood making material And that's just
the critical point. The sick man or woman,
~ aaneunnntive can't give Nature the