The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-28


chair. In that sand hole she SAT- down.
saying 70 herself. 4 am not going &C get
ont Of this hole tai dnd what that vi
sion means" And she said. telling a
friend the story years after:
I would have sat there til ROW X
the solution had not come
She sat hour after hour. and slowly
the meaning became clear There cams
10 her. she says. as cut OF the air. the
plan for a set OF newspaper syndicate
articles along 3 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 n the strength
OF her convictions
7 got OUT OF the hole. went up 20 the
house and Immediately commenced "a
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 erola-
ton OF this woman proceeded with
equal step. AS she wrote her syndicate
letters IL was borne IN on her mind
more and more that she had things %
say that could rot be pat into ordinary
newspaper writing. She loved women
and longed 90 help them Presently she
started her own paper. Eleanor Kirxs
Idea Meantime she Became deeply in
tereS5cd in the doctrines whose pToch-
cts are Helen Wilnans and Mrs Eddy.
She read. nedit&ted profoundly and
questioned the great. solemn Taind Of
the universe IN the nighttime. 21ler
awhile a faith that was not EddyfSm or
WIlmanS,sm. but EleRnoE Kinks own
highest. deepest. most powerful convic-
lions. became clear 20 her. IL l. she
faith that God Is in all ard God Is all
and that By right thought we can ever
come everything that mankind hclds
EVIL. This doctrine Is not exactly oeT.
Many teach IL.
" 4 had been only something 20
make a living cut 81. Eleanor KIRK
would not have preached her doctrine.
To her IL IS holy faith 90 be lived out
IN this world. and unless II can ee 50
lived and proved practically true II IS
OF no worth. Right thought must elm
mate sickness. poverty and sin OF Il Il
no good
Naturally you win ask. What has her
mental science doctrine done for Flea
nor Kirk HERSELF IL IS a question one
has the right 10 ask. Wei. slowly but
surely IL has Improved her finances step
by step. year by year. at least she con-
siders Il has so done. and We are net
going TO dispute st. she has one 81 the
prettisst homes in Brooklyn. Then as
TO her physical health: When / first
knew Eleanor Kirk. now over ten years
ago. she was already 4 grandmother
Today she has the figure, movement
and life Of 4 gfrl OF eighteen she
springs up four or i've flights OF stairs
as a boy might do. She reads. writes
and Segs without glasses precisely "a
she did at sixteen. she says o. herself.
Il haze not single ache or pain az
any time. Everything IN me IS normal
and healthy. ] can do more work. phys
zeal and Intellectual than I ever ceuid.
/ love life and rejoice IN g. ] am going
TO Say here in this world just as long
az can and learn all can"
What she has written on mental sci~
ence. so called: on star science her In
spring talks 10 women and her help
ful Housekeeping and ehlid lessons All
the world knows or can find out Her
life is n very simple one. yet 80 strera-
Gus that most women, even young wo-
men. would shake their heads end euaii
before Il. She IS no hall Grassy eraak.
ignoring common hyEieuic and sanitary
rules on the contrary. she insists on
these and believes "a doctors as weil a.
mind cure. 10th are none too much.
she thinks. 20 hold the miseries Ct this
life in check. She Feycis IN air bath.
sun bath and water bath and eats only
two meals a day. moderate one az noon
and an extremely light enc IN the even-
ing With no meat at either. she says
IF the beef trust had kept the pTice
OF meat Or long enough for people %
get ont Of the way Of eating u - much.
Il would have been glorious thins."
The deep breathing Of pure air Is with
Eleanor Kirk AmeH a panacea Tor many
iiis. r. as some 1ay. the atmosphere
about the earth contains al the chem
zeal constituents Of sood. then WY uot
breathe ;hcse into the body direct At
any rate Mrs. Arnes Says that since she
formed the habit Of deep. slow breath
ing she requires Jess food than former
" Therefore she teils a. IN the simple.
direct sfyie which IS hers % perfection
20 "eas air"
In the phraxeoiogy of the cult she has
demonstrates" over poverty. iil heaite
and all manner ~ mental depression
aud dgmps This 81 much. esrcclsiiY
10 one Of her sensitive fine uerxed or
ganlzatioo II has taken her years %
dc 80. bsa that she could Do 81 ali -
hope and an Inspiration HAPPY ne
women ~ the twentieth century win
such leaders and lowers az tdrsror
Klrki ALICE W MORTIMER