Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
LITTLE REAL THOUGHT.
Deductions of an Investigator Who
DeIved Into the Mysteries of
wOmen'A Minds.

"The trouble with most of us is that we
simply don't think" said certain lee
turer one day, according to the New
York Tribune. I'VE let our minds wan
der about aimlessly over past, present
and future in a fashion that, were 1t
demonstrated to the eye, would appear
much as do the shambling, revolving
movements of an idiots limbs.
Especially is this true of women"
continued the speaker, relentlessly,
though more than half of his audience
were feminine persuasion. IF the men
tality of the majority of women could be
pictured in process, there wouldn't be
one straight, clear cut line in the whole
hazy mass. Thought is power. No ma
terial thing or circumstance can long
withstand the persistent, concentrated
force of intelligently directed thought,
and the reason we don't get anywhere
in our lives is that none of our think
ing is purposeful, but shambling and
leaky."
Nobody protested audibly at the time,
and the inference was that the major
ity of the audience found the cap of a
more or less snug fit. But one listener
determined to put these sweeping state
ments to statistical test. Whereupon
she fell into the way of asking fem
inine friends whom she met on the street
and elsewhere of what they were think
ing. Most of them, required some sec
onds Ito remember" to collect" their
thoughts Out of 85 thus questioned 81
were thinking what good or bad or in
different time they had had on such an
occasion; 10 were wondering" what
! they would do If such and such a thing
should happen; the minds of 81 were
occupied with shopping, although they
were all convicted on the spot of having
well made out lists with them, and the
remaining 18 were mot thinking about
anything" A child of five or six, gaz-
ing out of the window with a dreamy
look on her face, was asked the same
question. After a seconds reflection
the answer was Nothing" "Oh, but
you must have been thinking of some
thing" she was urged. "Your mind
couldn't have been quite empty, you
know" Then, in all seriousness, came
| the edinest reply Wel, ueeu, IL was
I didn't know it,"
Out of ten men questioned two were
planning a deal" one was studying
how to get even" with some one who
had "got the better of him." and the
rest answered on an average with The
women. The statistically inclined mem.
ber of the audience then compared notes
with the aforesaid lecturer.
"And then people complain that fate
Is against them, that they can't over
come circumstances, and things are un
evenly divided in this world, he smiled
why. they are scattering with theil
brains what their hands may build. They
are carrying their earnings in a pocke
full of holes. OF every accomplished
fact there must first be mental concep
ton, as the brick and mortar house Il
first built in the architects brain, and /
Is not difficult to see why people accom-
, plish so little. when practically the!
think = definite, clear constructiv,
thinking-not at all, Why, if half ever
of the women in the world would d.
some determined, creative thinking. th
, progress of the next 25 years woul,
eclipse the last century or two"