The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-06

brick walk. They present an entertaining
not be too late, you viii not have to wait;
the play IS always on the stage and always
interesting. il is well worth ones while
self whose cares and responsibilities tax
their resources heavily. All this sounds like
mere trick; but try it-it will loosen up
some ligaments. And II you feel averse 10
trying these, or similar expedients, examine
well If there be not the more need OF them
POSSIBLY there are ALREADY more adneslohs
than you dream of and you are well on the
way to anchylosis. We ali know the story
OF The political prisoner who spent twenty
mental adhesions and anchylosis by playing
with four pinS-tosSing them away and
feeling about the floor 10 find them. 1t would
be difficult TO find a parallel between his
case and ours-his danger and his need so
terrible, his resources so pitifully small and
few.
tried. improved prescriptions. / have tried
all Of mine upon myself and most OF them
upon others. One Of my patients was
mountain woman who came TO me with
tale of woe Her husband miserable. drunk
en-, cruel man, had knocked her down and
beaten her again and her dull, blackened
eyes showed no signs of Frightening how
ever much / tried 10 cheer her. Finally,
set my iron on the stove and took my mag
pocket, where / always kept it. Come.
LouiZy Jane said j, 'let US go out and
look at some OF the things We can't see. so
lowed and We sat down together on broad
lichen-covered rock and reached around for
thingsIa blade OF grass. a lichen, bluet,
with the microscope. The eyes began to
light up and the Craddock dialect began to
flow. / felt as if / were substituting for an
angel and would give much If he would
come down and finish the job up right
Suppose one cannot go out of the house,
of f''tiU the window or Drop open n book to speed
away to its enchanted realms? The prisoner
Of the pillow need not be without resources.
also may develop sets of thought muscles.
as Sandow has developed layers of muscles
not in common use. Anything within reach
of the hand or eye or thought may be made
TO help. Take the bedpost, the elder quilt,
the pillow, the pillow case, the diamond in
your ring and make it tell it's story. Close
the eyes and recall some half-forgotten
scene-frst the drawing then the coloring
and background.
Did you ever try what curious discoveries
are to be made by whispering words and
sentences-how whispering is really only
muffled singing? You talk in mono
tone, but you cannot whisper in monotone.
You cannot whisper two words on the same
note unless they have the same vowels, and
not always then. Each consonant and
vowel has its own keynote in whispering.
Try whispering the alphabet, and see what
funny little tune Ii makes Try 10 whis-
per Hugh McCue. / can lick you!'' with a
Experiment in speaking and whispering
phrases and words and see how often the
infections ih M In one are & exactly ;a opposite & to
ing fork under your pillow and note the
pitch of peoples VioceS. You might discOv-
er the scientific explanation of the fact that
some persons weary you with their con-
versation sooner than others do, irrespec-
tive of what they say to you. The voice
may be pitched in an unusual key: or the
intervals made In the rising and falling in
Elections may not be true and pleasing.
Fun is very helpful, and is never far to
seek Even a coat put on wrong-side out
laughahlp of &c
a great gift; it is better to be born with that
life preserver than with a silver spoon in
eurs for the laughing muscles; they need
never make adhesions. Between Artemus
Ward and Bill Nye (who tickle the soles of
ones feet more often than they make one
smile) to the gently provoking Lamb and
Holmes there stands long row of profess
sional humorists and funny people whose
services are valuable and instantly avail
able. When you see people whose laughing
muscles are anchylosed, remember that it
has been allowed to come on in a world
that has pleasant sounds to hear pleasant
sights to see, pleasant thoughts to read
and TO think, and need not have happened
When you see people. whose laughing mus
| cles seem to be making adhesions, warn
| them against the evil day of the long face
which has to break the skin about the
| adhesions which draw the mask of Old Age
| prime of life. The supple, active brain,
resolutely taking rest and recreation when
| ever Its stern tasks can be pushed aside,
will have a rich return of long continued
| vigor and ability TO do good work through
| long lifetime.
In breaking up mental adhesion ii is help
full TO consider the transitory nature of
things In general, which include cur own
particular botherations: This earth is but
a moving sidewalk We stepped on, some
| how; We Shall step off when it has reached
| the crossing where are to leave it, 1T
| Will go on with our friends and neighbors
who have further to go. No one would
| think of taking seriously the Inconvenience
| of a sidewalk ride. 1t is so natural tc re-
| fleet that they will be forgotten when we
| are comfortably landed al home that we
| acquire a habit of considering as trifling
| experiences which would be intolerable If
| indefinitely prolonged.
| How little do those who have already
| stepped off care now for the things that
| used to burden them? Interest on debts
| notes falling due, taxes, careless servants
| tired limbs, rheumatic joints-the earth has
not rolled round its circuit many times.
| maybe, since they cared much for all these
| things; but now they do not care. Nay
| their greatest griefs may have been turned
TO joys. They must have been so glad TO
find the little children whom they mourned
! so bitterly. the one who had to wait awhile
| alone must have been glad the other went
before! How will IL seem to us an hundred
years from now? Shall we be glad of every
thing we are not glad of now? Surely it is
not worth while to let the thoughts grow
| rigid and the face unsmiling when the day
OF changes is so near at hand. II. r. E.