The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-10


be reckoned with as menaces to humanity.
the clergyman of the
The Clergyman day does not often
and the Novel carry this important
themeinto the pulpit.
when / was a young man." said an In
dianapoIis lawyer. Iounging in a book store
coy corner. "all novels came under the
ban of the pulpit. and were preached
against particularly in the Methodist
Church. with as much regularity and vim
as dancing. theatrical entertainments and
card playing. Persistent novel readers were
booked for terrible doom. and ii was fire.
quently held up before them. One day I
was browsing In our little old home town
book store. when the Rev. Stephen Bowers
came in and asked to borrow a novel He
said he had sermon to preach on the sub
ject and, as he had really never read
novel, he would like to qualify. The book
store gentleman, with genial and wicked
twinkle in his eye. leveled at me some
what knowingly. gave Mr.. Bowers Pen
Dennis which was just then in the prime
of its first fame We warned him that he
would not be able TO say much harm of
Thackeray but he went confidently away
with 'Pendennis' under his arm: OF course,
was interested enough TO follow the for
tunes OF Thackeray's arraignment by the
Methodist Church, and in about ten days |
learned that the clergyman had returned
.Pendennis' with a request for another of
Thackeray's books. If his sermon against
novels was ever delivered, we never heard
OF it,
Now that the whole world has nerves.
and nervous people we have with us al
ways, the everyday man, in all lines of
business, learns to adj
One Dem just himself to all posi-
fists Ways. BILE manifestations of all
phases of the universal
disease
Nerves. said a local dentist who
looked a trif1e nervous himself Eyes. in
deed. everybody has nerves nowadays, and
the dentist, by experience gets an ac-
quaintance with nervous troubles that a
doctor might envy With what 1 know
of nerves, In fact, could run a rest-cure
and turn out perhaps, as many restored-to-
health patients as the average nerve spe-
cialist- As rule. however, / don't have
time to give elaborate treatments to the
average patient. I have 10 economize time,
so 1 use mind-cure. With most all men.
who quite often shrink from pain
Imaginary pain as much as women. | gener-
ally the irritation antidote; that is, I
try to make the man vexed with me. just
a safe trifie.
- a big fellow like you afraid to face a
little pain, / say. Why, Thompson, half
your size. was in here yesterday and had
two teeth pulled without 1inching. Or,
remark quite placidly:
"'Your wife stands pain better than you
braces the man at once, and he gets gritty
clear through.
women ! always feel sorry for they are
SO much Trailer than we are; but they re-
spond like a flash to mental brachg. To
white-lipped woman who says with faint
smile;
out. DOCTOR / can infuse courage in an
instant.
Little women always have big grit; Ii takes
a So Ia re
her pride aroused, and the worst is over
But IL Is not really light business the
tired-looking dentist concluded. I'VE have
10 keep up our nerve. and other peoples
nerve, too"
In general summing up Of the numerous
mechanical inventions which contribute
largely to the gayety of nations. the tele-
phone. 1t appears, does
The Cheerful not fall behind
Telephone. 'It just occurred to
me the other day." said
woman In little group Of club loiterers
who were having social chat after the
club had adjourned. that we do not give
the telephone its just dues of praise as
cheer distributor One hears a good DEAL
now and then, about the useful telephone
the wonderful telephone. the convenient
telephone. but really, l have never heard
any one call it the cheerful telephone Per-
haps, however. one needs to be suburban
dweller TO realize what an entertaining and
agreeable companion the telephone is. In
trfte phrase, words can hardly tell what a
valuable affair the telephone is In the coun-
try In the dull winter days. when my hus-
band was in town and the children at
school, my spirits would sometimes flag
Instead of flying to a quinine pill or a dose
of cut-rate tonic. 1 would simply fly to the
telephone. call up some one OF my treasured
relatives or intimate friends, either in town
sparkle of talk or harmless gossip over the
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refreshed and braced in mind and body
:. 'Unbeknownst, too. good old Sairey
Camp would say. | often administered the
telephone-cure tc my husband and children
If Henry yawned good deal in the evening
and didn't seem TO care 10 read, or 10 talk
j would say carelessly:
80 Henry. call up George Blanke. and ask
how they all are over there; we haven't
heard from them for several days; or
Henry. call up your mother and ask how
all the folks are; tell her we want to
know. These little telephone symposiums
would brighten dear old Henry up amaz-
fngly. When the children at home
from school with colds. too. the telephone
was our great comfort. Indeed. think the
world at large Is unsenerously silent con-
corning the countless glorious messages of
golden cheer which. day by day. In every
direction. fit along the telephone wires
In this enigmatical world, fancy is con-
tinually collding with fact. and the wisest
man, fortunately. seldom gets wise enough
TO believe that il may
'safnt never happen again. Only
Elizabeth" by his patient self-renew-
Ing ideals. 1T were is
mans faith in life kept sweet and cheer
full
IL hurts man to keep a girl on a
PEDESTAL for several years and then get her
rudeiy )ounced on. remarked tall, SLIM
serious-eyed young man. In our dry goods
house. upstairs somewhere for a number of
years. there has been employed the most
yet Her clear. innocent blue eyes and her
long yellow plaits wound round her head
IN simple German fashion. always made
me think OF Marguerite IN Faust She
came down into the store from the dress
makers establishment TO match samples
and buy materials. and have often waited
on her. Her manner so refined and
gentle, her garb so neat and her face so
pretty and innocent that / took a great
interest In her, and named her-to myself
onlY-.Salnf Elizabeth, The charm % L.