The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-04-23

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Habits save power and strengthen
pbwrf already possessed All intcllcc.
tuai habits are strengthened b. con-
tluual use.
II a certain one " our SENSE organs
II stimulated the eye, ear 81 baud,
and that stimulus II carried tu the
brain 60 be expressed IN terms of SEN
sation. by training, to n certain path,
a second stimulus Is more likely To
follow the path OF the FIRST than any
other possible path, provided the con-
dltions are the same.
children. like well-kept machinery. II
properly bathed, fed and exercised.
viii run smoothly. While an ill-kept
child, governed through impulse. rath-
err than reason, goes with jerks ana
starts. suffering from mental. moral
and physical dyspepsia and ennui, and
Is thoroughly unhappy
Children early gain the habit OF put
ting away toye. clothing. etc.
Wheu we do "A thing for the first
time we are necessarily awkward ana
slow, but when we have learned this
thing well we may do II quickly ana
perfectly, rnd this is habit.
Prof. James says habit Is the ny-
wheel OF society. keeping each person
in his place. He says, II have seen
miners working fourteen hours n day
at cents an hour. when they could
have had more remunerative and pleas
anter occupations, but they had be-
come accustomed to this occupation
that they preferred"
At the age of twenty-five most hab-
It's are formed for good or bad.
Habits of order cleanliness and DO
likeness are learned early in childhood.
EVIL habits are learned in the same
way-use Of liquor. tobacco, coarse
thoughts and profane language; habits
of wearing loose or tight clothing: or
eating good or bad food, are formed In
childhood.
Truthfulness, honesty and unselfsh-
ness are the most important traits to
develop in childhood.
Certain habits are formed for Sleep
Ing. Habit of fretfulness should be
checked unless caused by physical all
ments. Habit of gossip, fault-finding,
scolding, using coarse or profane Ian
guage, should be at once stopped.
The best mother I ever knew devoted
herself and the pleasantest things of
home to her three boys. with whom she
associated as of the same age. Sne was
enthusiastic in their amusements and
studies, entertained their friends among
whom were numbered some of their
teachers. with charming dinners, at
which they met choice friends. You know
the real ornaments of home are its
friends.
One must first learned unmoved, look
Ing neither to the right nor to the left
Without unbroken advance there is no
such thing as accumulation of the ethi-
cal forces possible, and to make this pos
sible and to exercise us and habituate us
In It, is the sovereign blessing Of regu-
lar work.
Nothing We learn becomes useful until
1t has become mechanical, until we do
1t automatically or as we say until we
become in the habit of doing 1t. A book
Keeper learns to add automatically. The
carrying out of certain fixed purposes
should never be interrupted; there must
be perseverance and a continual follow
ing up of the first success, and each sub
sequent advantage as well, until the
highest of principles are deeply and in
delibly fixed and become our own acqul-
sition through the law of habit.