The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-10

chair. In that sand hole she sat down.
saying to herself. II am not going to get
out of this hole till md what that VII
sion means" And she said. telling a
friend the story years after:
Il would have sat there till now If
the solution had not COME
She sat hour after hour. and slowly
the meaning became clear. There came
to her. she says. as out of the air, the
plan for set of newspaper syndicate
articles along a line at that time quite
original, though the same scheme has
been often employed since. She simply
knew this would relieve the financial
stress. Through all her life this point
is clear: Her success lies in the strength
of her convictions.
Il got out of the hole. went up to the
house and Immediately commenced to
do what I had been guided toward
That was the beginning of a large sue
cess and the end of money friction
The intellectual and spiritual evolu-
ton OF this woman proceeded will
equal step. AS she wrote her syndicate
letters it was borne in on her mind
more and more that she had things te
say that could not be put into ordinar.
newspaper writing. She loved womer
and longed to help them. Presently she
started her own paper. Eleanor Kinks
terested in the doctrines whose proph
cts are Helen Wilmans and Mrs. Eddy
She read. meditated profoundly an
questioned the great. solemn mind o
the universe in the nighttime. Aftel
awhile q faith that was not Eddyism
Wilmansism, but Eleanor Kinks owr
highest, deepest, most powerful convfc
lions. became clear to her. It IL tn
faith that God is in all and God Is al
I&xru forI,k -
come everything that mankind hold
evil. This doctrine is not exactly new
Many teach it.
If It had been only something tc
make a living out of. Eleanor Kirl
would not have preached her doctrine
To her 1t Is holy faith to be lived ou7
in this world. and unless it can be SC
lived and proved practically true It Is
OF no worth. Right thought must elm
mate sickness. poverty and sin or 1t i
no good.
mental science doctrine done for Flea
nor Kirk herself? It is q question ons
has the right to ask. Well, slowly bu
surely it has improved her finances steI
by step, year by year, at least she con
siders it has SO done. and we are no
going to dispute 1t. She has one OF tn.
prettiest homes in Brooklyn Then a.
to her physical health: When mrs
knew Eleanor Kirk. now over ten year
ago. she was already q grandmother
Today she has the figure, movemen
and life Of q girl of eighteen. Shs
springs up four or i've flights Of stair
as boy might do. She reads, write
and sews without glasses precisely q
she did at sixteen. She says Of herself:
IT have not a single ache or pain
any time. Everything in me is norme
and healthy. I can do more work, phys
ical and intellectual, than I ever could
love life and rejoice in it. I am goine
to stay here in this world just as lons
as can and learn all cs.n.'
What she has written on mental sci
ence, SO called; on star science. her in
spring talks to women and her help
full housekeeping and child lessons al
the world knows or can find out. He.
life is very simple one, yet 30 strenu
GUS that most women, even young wo
men,. would shake their heads and qua
before it. She is no half crazy crank
gnoring common hygienic and sanitar
rules. On the contrary, she insists o
these and believes in doctors as well
mind cure. Both are none too much
she thinks. to hold the miseries OF this
life In check. She revels in air bath
sun bath and water bath and eats onls
two meals day. moderate one at moor
and an extremely light one in the even
ing. with no meat at either. She says:
IF the beef trust had kept the price
OF meat up long enough for people tt
get out of the way of eating it so much
1t would have been glorious thing"
The deep breathing of pure air Is with
Eleanor Kirk Ames a panacea for many
ills. If, as some say. the atmosphere
about the earth contains all the chem
ica1 constituents of food. then why moi
breathe these into the body directf Al
any rate Mrs. Ames says that since she
formed the habit of deep. slow breath
ing she requires less food than former
| ly. Therefore she tells US in the simple
direct style which is hers to perfection
| to "eat air."
In the phraseology of the cult. she has
demonstrated" over poverty. i'll health
and all manner of mental depression
and Dumps This is much. especially
| in one of her sensitive, fine nerved or
ganfzation. 1t has taken her years ts
! do so, but that she could do 1t all Is 9
hope and an inspiration. Happy the
| women of the twentieth century with
such leaders and lovers as Eleanor
| Kfrkl ALICE w. MORTIMER