The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-11

your mind as the silk lining, your spirit ~ the
seu. Keep the box Furnished and clear Of dust,
| but remember always that the jewel within Is
tho precious part Of Il,
! Think Of yourself AZ on the threshold Of I'm
patalleied sucsess whole, clear glorious
/ year lies before youl In n year you can regain
health fortune, restfulness, happiness
! Push on Achieve, achieved
Such arc the clesins words Of the hrst chap
ter
The urging OF the study and practice Of the
| Science OF the new thought lie addressed par
ticularly TO women, And here some Of the
things she says to those past thirty
Make your life after 1t reaches It's noon
glorious With sunlight, rich with hafvests and
bright with color. Be alive In mind, besrt and
body Be joyous without giddness. loving with
out Stiffness, attractive without being airtatous
attentive 10 others needs without being oth
cious, and instructive without too great dis
play Of etudiuon
BE noble, loving lovable woman
Here is recommendation for beginning each
day with the New Thought practice
The first moment on waking no matter What
your mood say 70 Yourself I viii get all the
comfort and pleasure possible cut Of this day,
and will do something to add to the measure
! cf the worlds happiness or we'll being ] viii
| control myself when tempted to be irritable or
unhappy, | viii look for the bright side Of every
event
Speaking TO thos. whom she wishes to en-
courage TO take heart Of grace and lead better
lives she says
DO not feel hurt by the people who slight
you, or who refer 70 your erring past Be
sorry for them I would rather be a tender
hearted reformed sinner than hsrdhearted
model Of good behavior
Il would rather learn sympathy through sin
than never learn It at all.
There is nothing we not live down and
4 rise above, and overcome, There is nothing we
can not be in the way of nobility and worth"
The chapter on breathing" is really the best
in the book and is heartily recommended 70 the
consideration of those who are looking out TO
help themselves and others TO happiness during
the year just begun
Laurence Housman has written a nativity
play which he calls Bethlehem which is now
being performed with music in London under
the stage direction Of Edward Gordon Craig.
The Macmillan company will publish the play
in book form the 18th of this month. II IS
rather a striking presentation of the story of
the Nativity 1t will be remembered that Lau-
renee Housman is the author of "An English
Woman's Love Letters" although he has never
officially acknowledged this 1t is pretty well
known, however, in literary circles in London.
That the great and instant success Of Cen
cral De Vets vigorous book Three Years
War was scored in the scramble OF the sea
sons end in competition with the nnumerabe
and the best--output Of the publishing year,
makes that success doubly significant
Detaching itself from the vast mass Of war
literature with which we have been deuged for
several years II has, by reason of what the New
York Tribune calls Its real red-blooded inter
est" and of the simplicity that causes the New
York Evening Post 10 compare it with the early
chapters OF Grants Memoirs" leaped into a
leading place among the seasons works
The second edition was the press before
The epd of tbe fret he 5ot n
. the binders, and third edition is already in
sight,
pleasant narrative style, delightful bits Of
description dialogue gancing brightly from one
TO another of the problems OF the day, caustic
satire Of current fads, and picturesque group
ing of striking figures against New England
background--a these are matters Of course In
: Arlo Bates novels But his fiction has been
l. weak in that human interest without which the
most ingenious plot fails Of its purpose. The
characters have not been real, and the reader
a has not really cared what became Of them. In
this respect The Diary Of Saint is decidedly
superior to any of its predecessors Ruth Prive
' daughter to the old Judge, and Lady Bount
4 fu for the community igh-spirtcd and inde
pendent, yet keeny sensitive 70 the uicetes o
a conduct and charscter--oompels the reader
r. liking at the very outset, and he follows The
y passing Of her love from TO the other al
= the two men who come TO WOO her with sym
patty that becomes absorbing toward the close
y The most delicate social problems bound W
- with Ruth Privcty personal perplexites and tht
: writer's treatment Of them is at once decorou
o and searching although his climax seems al
3 evasion (Houghton, Miffin & Coz Littellt
Living Age
: "Molie and the Unwse Man by John Ken
: drick Bangs, is one OF the latest additions t.
" the Children's Library Of Henry 7. Coates
Co.. the Philadelphia publishers.
. In this volume Mr. Bangs III subject matte
as well as handling, has made fresh departure
still through those fields of fancy afTordnt
views always fantastioally funny, It is true bu
: this time the absurdties are OF different orde
>. from those with which Mr.. Bangs has hereto
!. fore RECALLED his readers.
The book recounts some Of the adventures o
the little girl Mollie, her French doll, Faxi
locks and the entertaining rubber boy. Whistle
binke, who had the habit Of talking at time
through his hat"
+, One Of the most amusing touches m It IS
=, report OF the interview this enterprising tri
and Bopeep had with the little old woman VII
!, lived under the hill whose general cantarker
!, business Bopeep accounted for by explaining tha
" she had 10 live on ink And tho picture whio
accompanies this part of the text still furthe
explains Bopeep's explanation Anyhow. the oil
lady was clever even IL she was cross as
II shown by the manner Of her disposal Of a
/ Bopeeps lost sheep.
y The illustrations nv Albert lowering an
Glare Victor Dwiggns are excellent through
& out the volume,