Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-11
LITTLE REAL THOUGHT.
Deductions sf an Investigator Who
 DeIved Into the Mysteries of

Deductions of am Invesagator Who
 DeIved Into the Mysteries of
 Women's Minds.
 II ne trouble with most o1 us IS thaLWe simply don't think" said certain lec- turer one day, according to the New York Tribune we let our minds wan der about aimlessly over past, present and future in fashion that, were it demonstrated to the eye, would appear much as do the shambIng, revoltlng 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 'fIf the men, tality of the majority of women could be pictured in process, there wouldn't De one straight, clear cut line in the whole hay mass. Thoughts 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 8 more or less snug fit. But one listener determined to put these sweeping state ments to 8 statistical test. Whereupon she fell into the way of asking fem mine friends whom she met on the street and elsewhere of what they were think ing. Most of them required some sec onds "to remember" to collect their thoughts. Out of 85 thus questioned 27 were thinking what good or bad or in- different time they had had on such an occasion; 19 were wondering" what they would do if such and such thing should happen; the minds of s21 were occupied with shopping, although they were all convicted on the spot of having we'll made out lists with them. and the remaining IS were mot thinking about anything" A child of five or six@gaz- ing out of the window with dreamy look on her face, was asked the same question. After seconds reflection the answer was Nothing" ttOh, 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 earnest reply: Well, deed, if was, I didn't know it.'' ,.
 Out of ten men questioned two were planning a dea1,' 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 satisfactorily inclined mem Der 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 circum stances, and things are un- evenly divided in this world" he smiled. "Why they are scattering with their l brains what their hands may build. They are carrying their earnings in a pocket l full of, holes. Of every accomplished l fact there must first be amental concep- l tion, as the brick and mortar house is 1 first built in the architects brain, and it 1 is not difficult to see why people accom- l plish so little, when practically they 1 think = definite. clear. constructive
 thinking-not at all. Why. if half even of the women in the world would dc l some determined, creative thinking, the progress of the next 25 years would