The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-06
That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime INSTRUMENTATION.

Is the desire for Immortality dying out g?
Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes), in ar
ADDRESS before the Ruskin society of
Birmingham, Eng, of which she was
president last year, said: MANY of the
ooserVant in Europe have noticed that the
oeslre for immortality is dying out" The
statement Is one to set person thinking
Unfortunately Mrs. Craigie uses it only
as springboard from which to leap into
the middle OF her subject, The Science Of
Lie. She does not attempt to weigh the
truth of the assertion, tho the manner
IN which she presents it would lead to
the belief that she accepted it as true.
her very next sentence, however, would
give ground for a denial Of the state
ments truth. It is this "a number of
men no longer wish to live for ever-but
they wish to live as pleasantly as possi-
bic while they live
There is the essence of the whole thing.
Assure those who apparently do not wish
to live for ever that if they do live for
ever they shall live pleasantly, and their
objection will disappear Their desire for
| immortality, if it Is weakening. is doing
so because Of their picture of that i'm
mortality Tradition has made it some
thlng that they do not think would be
pleasant; ergo, they are willing to forego
1t and let death end all.
But that is aside from the point of Mrs
Cra1g1e's address, which, with a good deal
OF cogency, but by rather indirect path,
1t seems to us, leads up to this PROPOSE
ton:
All the phenomena of nature are images and
symbols of life. We hear this often, but we
seldom remember it. And If we will think of
each other as stars and realize that each star
mas It's place, we may get to see that the task
Oh giving peace of mind to the dissatisfied and
nealth to the diseased must be accomplished thru
the education of the individual.
little farther on Mrs. Craigie adds:
l see nothing in enormous schemes for whole
sale social reform. see everything In atten-
Ion 10 the Individual; he and she cannot have
too much care
| Ihls seems a common sense proposition
as starting point. But it does not take
| into consideration mass consciousness
sort OF inter-personal conscious ether.
such as that by which, to take an ex-
treme example, feeling runs thru a
mop, and which, it has been suggested by
at least one present-day writer might be
used to good advantage in aiding the adj
| Vancement of the race. However, the adj
dress and the conclusion are we'll worth
| consideration,
! A CROOKED SONG.
| There was a crooked man,
And he swung a crooked deal.
And he made a crooked million
by crooked little steal
| linen ne took a crooked house
In crooked thorofare
And his crooked ne:ghbors swore
mat this crooked man was square;
| so he hired a crooked pew
In a crooked little kirk.
And he crooked his little knees.
AND got In his crooked work.
| Puck.
There is no longer any reason whv the
person of moderate means should NOT
have library-not only Of books c'I but tio -
library containing the best that Itera-
ture Offers The cheapening of books has
made the way easy. Howard MILFORD
Bell has also, with his Unit Books. y
MADE the way easy toward a library of
many attractions Four of these have re-
Gently been -issued-DomestIc Manners of
the Americans, by Frances M. Trollope:
National Documents, Life of Jesus. bv
Ernest Renan. and Study of Words. bv
Archbishop Trench
The books of this system have the adj
vantage of being we'll selected, carefully
| edlted, handy In size and weight, durable
and attractive in makeup and aItoeethar
OF nigh class, considering the demand
they are expected to meet and are meet
ing which Is not to say that they would
pc out Of place in any useable library.
Ihev are BOOKS to wear, not to keep on
the shelves or comfortable to look at and
snow ones friends, as examples of ar
tlstic bookmaking, tho they have claims
In that direction, too. Since it Is the
BOOKS we use that do us the most good
| Inc Unit Books" therefore. have q
claim ON the general book buyer.
book to stir the enthusiasm NJ in
vent1vely-inclined, youthful minds. il
stories OF Inventors, by Russell DOUBLE
day. The author says his purpose is ito
give, In a measure, the adventurous side
OF invention,' and that purpose has been
well carried out. He tells how Mar
conf came to Invent his wireless telegram
ABOUT Establishments airships. about
last travelling by rail, about some of the
great achievements Of bridge-builders.
about submarine torpedo boats and other
Things which appeal to the IMAGINATION al
inventors and general readers. Young and
old. The stories are not technical. al
least not more so than necessary. and
SO instead of being forbidding to the
average reader are attractive and instruc-
tive. The Uneasy Chair.
THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER
The Auto Boiide.-The latest of those
DARING contrivances which seem to defv
an dynamic laws, and for which Parisians
IN particular seem to have an overwhelno
Ing fondness, is the Auto Bol1de''-cono-
pared with which looping -the-loop.'' .sths
! circle OF DEATH" and other fo1;c,+o,s,,,