The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-24


chair. In that sand hole she sat down.
saying TO herself, II am not going TO get
out of this hole till find what that vi
sion means" And she said. telling a
friend the story years after:
II would have sat there till now it
the solution had not come"
She sat hour after hour, and slowly
the meaning became clear. There came
10 her, she says, as out of the air. tho
plan for a 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.
II got out Of the hole, went up 10 the
house and Immediately commenced To
do what / 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 with
equal step. AS she wrote her syndicate
letters IL was borne i'm on her mind
more and more that she had things TO
say that could not be put into ordinary
newspaper writing. She loved women
started her own paper. Eleanor Kinks
Idea. Meantime she became deeply in
terested in the doctrines whose proph-
cts are Helen Wilmans and Mrs. Eddy.
She read. meditated profoundly and
questioned the great. solemn mind OF
the universe in the nighttime. After
awhile faith that was not Eddyism or
Wilmansism, but Eleanor Kinks own
highest. deepest, most powerful convic-
tions. became clear TO her. Ii is the
faith that God is i'm all and God Is all
and that by right thought we can over
come everything that mankind holds
evil. This doctrine is not exactly new.
Many teach it.
II It had been only something to
make a living out of. Eleanor Kirk
would not have preached her doctrine.
| To her il is a holy faith TO be lived out
I'm this world, and unless IL can be so
lived and proved practically true IL is
of no worth. Right thought must elm
mate sickness. poverty and sin or 1t is
no good.
Naturally you will ask, What has her
mental science doctrine done for Flea
nor Kirk herself? 1t is a question one
has the right to ask. Well, slowly but
surely IL has improved her finances step
siders IL has so done. and we are not
going 10 dispute 1t. She has one OF the
prettiest homes in Brooklyn. Then as
to her physical health: When i first
knew Eleanor Kirk. now over ten years
ago, she was already a grandmother.
Today she has the figure. movement
and life of a girl of eighteen. She
springs UP four or five flights of stairs
as boy might do. She reads, writes
and sews without glasses precisely as
she did at sixteen. She says OF herself:
II have not a single ache or pain at
any time. Everything in me is normal
and healthy. / can do more work. phys
ical and intellectual. than j ever could.
love life and rejoice in it. / am going
TO stay here in this world just as long
as / can and learn all 1 can"
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 all
the world knows or can find out. Her
| life is very simple one. yet so strenu-
Gus that most women, even young wo-
men. would shake their heads and quail
before 1t. She is no half crazy crank.
ignoring common hygienic and sanitary
rules. On the contrary, she insists on
these and believes in doctors as well as
mind cure Roth are none too much.
she thinks. TO hold the miseries of this
| life I'm check. She revels in air bath,
sun bath and water bath and eats only
two meals day. a 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 to-
get out of the way of eating II so much. \
it would have been a glorious thing"
The deep breathing of pure air is with
Eleanor Kirk Ames panacea for many
ills. II. as some say, the atmosphere
about the earth contains all the chem-
ical constituents of food, then why nos
breathe these into the body direct? y.
any rate Mrs. Ames says that since she
formed the habit of deep, slow breath
ing she requires less food than formcr-
ly. Therefore she tells us in the simrie.
direct style which is hers to perfection
to "eat air."
In the phraseology of the cult, she has
demonstrated over poverty, III health
and all manner of mental depression
and dumps" This is much, especially
in one of her sensitive. fine nerved or
ganization. IT has taken her years 10
do so, but that she could do ii all is o
hope and an inspiration. Happy the
women Of the twentieth century with
such leaders and lovers as Eleanor
Kirk! ALICE w. MORTIMER.