The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-30

whose massive. tendency to -WrOngdoing
4 neither parents nor teachers can in the
| least prevail. Correction by precept and
merciless eastigation have utterly failed
to check the vicious propensities. Do not
hesitate to give the boy hypnotic at
bedtime, so as to insure his falling into
a continuous sleep, and formulate a sug-
gestion to the effect that he is no longer
disrespectful, untruthful, disobedient, neg
leetful of his lessons, but that he will be
affectionate and attentive to his mother s
| requests, will win her love, with the re-
| gard of the family and his teacher, by a
cheerful service and a career ef whole
some activity A sudden change of atti-
tude will probably be noticeable-the ex-
hfbition of kindness in the home where
before there had been nothing but ugliness
| and Defiance and habits of thought con-
centration in school, instead of habits of
| rambling.
Such treatment should be repeated
every third or fourth night, as suggestion
in such cases is of the nature of an educa-
| ton, and must be persisted in for months
until the desired trend is given per-
manently to the mental and moral ener-
gies.
In similar cases you will encounter no
difficulty in awakening slumbering affec-
tions, creating desire for knowledge, in
spring respect for parents and elders,
and even in compelling a courteous an
tieipation of their wants and wishes on
the part of apparently ttoughtless and in
attentive or ungrateful and reprobate chill
dren- Where ability is present, but not
application, the results OF such training
seem almost Incredible
Cure of Cigarettes
Perhaps you have an older boy who has
become slave to the cigarette, who real
ICES his danger and honestly desires to es-
cape from the thTalldom and regain his
capacity for useful service and for happi-
ness. Thoroughly assure yourself that
cigarette smoking is more injurious than
the use of tobacco in any other form, first
because of the inferior quality of the to-
bacco usually employed, and, secondly,
because the smoke is inhaled, thus pro-
ducing the most depressing effects. The
whole system is tobacconized the organs
and tissues of the body smelling of to-
bacco smoke. Boys who begin the use of
cigarettes at five or six years of age, as
many do, break down during the critical
period. Boys who contract the habit later
in their youth, and defy the risks by go
ing to the usual extreme in the abuse of
cigarette smoking, are likely to become
nervous bankrupts before they are TWEEN
ty-one.
Most young men who are addicted to
cigarette smoking display a lessening or
complete loss of moral sensibility, with
conspicuous tendency TO falsehood and
theft-so much so that many business
firms are declining to employ users of
cigarettes Filled with these thoughts and
convictions, approach your son in the pas
siveness of an appropriate sleep with sug-
gestions as follows:
What to Say
AS a cigarette smoker you are not at
h0ct 40 11oAi of ipI VOL
tile poisons of tobacco in the form of
smoke, whereby they are brought into i'm
mediate contact with many hundred
square feet of absorbing lung tissue, is
creating degenerative changes in vital or
gans, especially the nerve centers 1t is
degrading the brain CELL SO that moral
inclination cannot be expressed. 1t is de-
stroying your mentality and disqualifying
you for occupation.
:" You do not need the cigarette. You
abhor it, you loathe it, you fear it.. You
will no longer use it at the instigation of
habit to stimulate You quickly for task
and pastime, nor at the solicitation of
friends to promote conviviality. You will
not take the risk of the dyspepsied, nerv-
Gus depression irregular heart action,
bronchial irritation, eye defect and pre-
mature paralysis which are the legitimate
results of excessive inhalation. You will
not accept the intellectual torpor and
moral destitution that wait upon this
practice. You are done with the cigarette
and all that it stands for forver. The
craving for it is killed in your nature by
the force of your own decree. The odor
of tobacco smoke is henceforth nauseating
to you; the attempt to inhale it will
strangle you. You will not miss it nor
suffer the usual consequences attendant
upon its discrimination. You are free.
..rThe earnest application of suggestions
like these will effect an immediate cure.
Kleptomania will yield readily, and per-
versions that are as effectively unman-
ageable by child or youth as an epileptic
attack.
Useful to Reformatories
"In the hands of wise persons sugges-
tion may further be made a most valuable
accessory to objective ethical training in
cur reformatories, and if the authorities
in charge of institutions where the friend
less young are cared for would encourage
as a part of the moral curriculum the
practice of hypnotic suggestion on the
high plane projected in this address there
is no question that in a few generations
through the transmission of automatic
| impulses to right doing, crime would be
perceptibly lessened.
Especially are philanthropic women
who serve upon the boards of managers
of homes and asylums for the protection
of wayward girls and the reclamation of
outcasts urged to consider this instru-
mentality in connection with the noble
work of humanity they might do if they
thoroughly understood and judiciously
applied the science of suggestion.
1.-The religion of Jesus Christ. so
broad and liberal and deep hearted un-
mistakably proclaims its right to exploit
a legitimate psychological means for eff
fecting the regeneration of vicious and
criminal children, right to place the au-
tomato mind in control of any passion
that is burning up body and soul, right
to suggest pure thoughts and wholesome
aspirations to the transliminal personal
ity of a fallen child in hope to make it
clean And if it be right the duty of ap-
plication and the obligation become in
separable.
Il am not to be understood as intend
ing to substitute suggestion in any form
for the grace of God, or for enlightened
faith in God. Yet in the providence of the
Almighty suggestion is made practicable,
by his anlalgamation of a double con-
sciousness in each human unit, and it is
psychologically possible that it is the
means through which God, as well as hui
man sells. communicate directly with the
transliminal man.
eIImpses Into Mythology
Achilles had just been shot in the heel
! Anyhow he unused, my sole has been
saved. Saying which he sang "a Saliva
tion Army ballad.
Aeneas was carrying his father out of