The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-30
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a large part OF ancient witchcraft and
modern conJuring is simply cultivated ob
serVation. The story. in the school books,
! OF the lost camel and its description by an
| hrao VINO had not seen it but noted all
| It's peculiarities reflected in the mirror
OF It's trail. is case in point Houdn. the
| great French magician, could walk past a
store window and enlImerate thirty oil.
forty articles, seen as he passed. with a
turn or the head and n glance of the eve,
what enormous possibilities are in us OF
when We live in profound unconsciousness .
we mink mat memory is in the mind
alone But the fingers have a memory or
lhe pianist could not find the keys in tho
dark. When the music is forgotten by the
mind the fingers strayiug over the keys
VIII ind what the mind has lost. Change
your sleeping room in the house and the
chances are YOU Will find yourself 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 a tremendous elasticity in ma
ture Development OF deficient organs Is
just as possible as development of def
oleni faculties. Now and again the prog
ress of consumDtion is arrested in some
enc, The doctors had sounded" him. One
lung was entirely gone 1t was a hope.
LEES case. But something arrested the dis
ease. and tho 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 public speaker.
And the poor man had only one lung. How
could he do II? Easily enough. You can
do the same. You have two lungs and
you use about half their volume. II you
lose one lung and use the entire volume
of the one remaining. you have stlll as
much lung power as ever. The chances are
you have more, because the constant OK
ercise of the one lung gives 1t health and
Ia,
has endowed you with two engines so that
II one breaks down the other remains.
You choose 10 run both engines at half !
speed Very good, But II one breaks |
down you can still nut the other at full |
speed aud make just rs good time
These Gre simple facts. The remark |
able thing Is that these facts are COM
mon property and vet havc led to no |
broader application Of the principle in |
vnlved, 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 hand
icrafismaii. Tho memory OF the feet no.
bedy trains. 10 any great extent Ana on |
the other hand doctors 80 on treating lung |
diseases as u there were no elasticity or
recuperatlre nnwer I'm nature herself They
decline 10 take into account that reserve
luns power. zone lung almost gone" they :
say. That settles It." II generally set
N-NS 'i4N tJls0NilptNo u II QDSS DOt settle
the question Of cure. For hooe Is vital in
such cases. Aud the man who robs the
victim OF tuberculosis OF hope has rob-
bed him OF his most precious possession.
Hope never hurt ANYBODY. II has helped
millions. II YOU are ~ consumpflye, which
would you sooner have, the l0,Gpn doctors
VINO say YOU can't hs cured
or the one doctor who says
ynu Gan? The latter every time.
But Is II true? Can consumption be cured?
When the man with one lnne loft, lives
on for a long hppny. useful lirc It looks
feasible. And his case Is by no means
solitary, Nature stands ready TO help the
man who can get into sympathy with her.
But the trouble with the sick Is very like
Inc drowning man. who won't help himself
but cline around the neck OF the rescuer
and rehders him HELPLESS, Nature can't do
everything. She works to her ends through
natural means She'll make blood. hut YOU
,lust provide blood making material And
rats Just tho critical point The sick
nrsn or woman, the consumptivc. cant wye
peitire the means she is used To. They
ant take the food out OF which she fash
ons me fber Of the haay In sufficient
snsniiiies to providc enough for tho w,rk
re done. What Is needed is hlooi fool. |
lerve food, brain food life making ms.
eriai IN a condsnsed and concentrated ,
orn easy for the sick to receive. amo,eI
or the operations of nature. And this is