The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-02-17
TIPS ON BEING
COMFORTABLE
From a Woman Who Says That
Nervousness is Vicious.
Think of Pleasant Things and il
Won't Matter Whether You
Eat Or Not.
New York Sun.

Mrs. Vance Cheney, foui dress of
mental something which she says is
new and describes as "mind develop
ment' or "correct thinking" spent
yesterday afternoon in telling 200
women and four men in Carnegie hall
studio that nervousness is the most
vicious thing in the world and the root
of nearly all evil, ;" and more to the same
effect. Enthusiasm and excitement are
all wrong. anger and resentment are
errors of judgment, failures in business
and love are opportunities misapplied,
physical illness is all imagination; and
these things and many more unpleasant
events are all the result of "the modern
evil, nervousness"
The studio was in semi darkness, and
no one spoke above whisper during
the half hour that Mrs. Cheney kept her
audience waiting. Patience is one of
the articles in her creed.
'The Prevention and Cure for Merry
ousness-Is Nervousness Compatible
With True Christianity" was the title
of Mrs. Cheney's address. "Never,"
she said, but without enthusiasm or em-
phasis, which are fundamental elements
of nervousness. "Not while the world
goes around. Nervousness is selfish
ness and slavery. Christianity could
never be either"
| hoc fOT inc
nervousness, but in all of them she in
cludes, "Think you are not nervous,a and
let your mind dwell on beautiful things.
Whatever We are enamored Of" she
said, "the nerves will respond to. Let
us love beautiful things, our nerves will
succumb and our bodies become comely.
Man has an absolute choice of what he
will think about"
The eyes of some of the women rested
on particularly attractive hat in the
second row.
Instead of looking upon man as a
body having a soul, picture him as a
soul wearing body"
"Oh," gaspsd one of the older ladies,
"such things to tell young people!"
"You needn't be nervous anothe
hour if you will but touch the spring of
the open secret of the universe and let
your inner consciousness control the
outer consciousness. The kernal of
nervousness is sel6shness. The woman
who is nervous has a soul and mind
unawakened
Misfortune does not crush; it sug-
gests opportunities. illness does not
conquer, when your inner conscious
ness CONTROLS" continued Mrs. Cheney,
herself showing the least trace of nerv-
business. CATER the dozen or more
maids who have invaded your kitchen,
and upset your household, you find one
who actually possesses one trait you can
endure. You find that she can make
excellent coffee. Nerves and coffee CO.
operate beautifully when the mind is in
a proper condition.
IF the proper brain cells are devel-
oped and our inner consciousness upper
most we are bound to be healthy and
happy. Ii is good when we have our
breakfast and good when we have none.
Food and regular hours are not neces-
sary when your nerves are in proper
condition"
She also declared that if the brain
cells are properly developed, "the squeak
of door is a pretty variation of the
third or fifth musical scale, and if your
little boy takes a piece Of steel and
scrapes on the window pane"
"Oh-h-h!" shivered two matronly
looking women at the suggestion, and
Mrs. Cheney did not tell what soothing
; music that sort of screech might be-
: come. Instead she said: "If your little
boy insists on beating his drum or blow
ing his horn, you will love him all the
more for it, and find pleasure and peace
in the pastime."
. 1t is easier to become i'll, Mrs. Cheney
says, than to make an effort TO be other
: wise. 1t only requires thirty days to
obtain marked change mentally and
physically in those who adopt the cart
of right thinking"
Some of those at the lecture are won
dering what that is.