Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15


should go to bed quietly and not eXcitedly.
Then should come perfect relaxation. Let
every agent of the body unfold until 1t is "A
dead weight. Breathe gently slowly deep
ly, regularly, with closed lips and with your
neck bent sufficiently from the back to cut
Off communication from the nerve and sense
ramifications below to the brain above.
Have the room dark, well ventilated and
quiet. This will induce restful sleep and in
spire freshness and vigor for the succeeding
day. Practice this habitually.
Tt is a
Debatable question whether purpose.ess
self-sacrifice is virtue a vice.
To scourge ones body without cause rem
ders It useless and broken down. Then why
would not crucifying ones mind make a
foolish, feeble spirit?
1t is not usually the most sensible people
who inlict upon themselves martyrdom that
is without reason. Indeed, it is more often
the narrow minded and bigoted.
The healthy mind rejects instantly and IN
stinctively the proposition that such useless
suffering is either right or necessary. There
is purpose in pain, otherwise it were devil
ish."
To be specific. people sometimes submit to
petty self-denials which do no one, even
themselves, any good. 1t is nothing to my
credit If 1 sit upon hard chair rather than
comfortable one. unless | do ii that some
one else may have the easy seat. In fact,
IL shows to be little lacking in COM
mon sense. There Is no virtue in eating
what we dislike or in associa ting with dis
agreeable people, or in doing any earthly
thing we do not wish to- unless some one by
the act is helped.
Martyrs of this kind do not amount to
much in the world. 1t Is the common sense
soul, who is happy and makes others happy,
who really counts.
Love of the Beautiful
Should be created In the child life A lit
tie boy who had a few spears of grass and
clover was asked what he had. TT is
bouquet for my mother" he said. "She
loves beautiful things, and she will put
these in water and she will show me these
through the microscope when she gets done
sewing" And this little fellows mother
never laughed at the tiny beauties he
trihe She admired and studied the flowers
and praised him for gathering them and
bringing them TO her.
Love for the beautiful will come, If the
eyes are but opened. and this is the moth
er,s duty and should be her pleasure.
Call the child's attention to everyday
beauties-the day or the scene before him.
or If he goes to the store let him admire the
luscious fruit or flowers or the pretty
dresses.
Take him to the picture galleries and show
him the difference between the cheap and
artistic productions or keep him In the at
mosphere of something higher. Let the daft
fodls by the rivers brim be something more
to him than just flowers
Study the child'S mind and direct 1t In the
ways of the beautiful.
It is the Purity
And honesty of our motives which make
for the growth of our souls and create no.
bility and strength of character The mo-
tive of action Is of far more Importance
to the actor than the action itself.
Therefore. we should analyze the motive
which is about to prompt the action. as that
will determine the right or wrong of what
we do.
But the long suffering and charity which,
when injured. stops to ask the motive is not
found often. II we are surly and disagree
able 1t seems to make little difference to
those with whom we are what causes it; or
again If we hurt others feelings they are
likely to make us suffer for it, albeit our
motive was the best.
Sometimes when our acts have been gem
tie and tender and our motives pure we
have been misunderstood. Then we must
know that the act has been right and we
are entitled to the reward of right motive.
We should never allow ourselves to be
knowingly disagreeable or unkind any
thing that Is not born OF love.
self-Pity-
Means loss of moral force declares one
who will not allow herself to grumbie, that
she dare not do It, because 1t becomes a
habit that annoys others and harms oneself.
1t is just natural to love sympathy. and
we find it hard to listen to another's tale of
woe. because we are SO anxious to relate
our own.
A small girl who has a baby brother al
ways seems to envy him the sympathy he
gains when he has the collie. AS as the
mother tries 10 quiet him and speaks to him
with a voice full of sorrow she feels the
pressure of two small hands Juggling at her
arm and a little voice isping plaintively,
Me, too, mamma"
And that is the way with the larger chill
dren. We see into our own heart, and we
know what our troubles are, and we just
long. when we see some one else receiving
all the warm and tender sympathy from
gracious hand, to go up and plead for our
share, too.
And how much drawer II is to keep silent,
ito bear the whips and scorns of time, the
oppressor's wrong, the proud mans con-
tempt" Every time we exercise self-con-
troll We gain fresh strength.
It is Unfortunate
When a woman Insists upon thrusting her
pets upon other people-for 1t is women who
do this.
An irate man who had been forced TO hold
baby and caress dog says that there are
two classes of women who have no consid-
GRAFTON for the feelings of mankind One is
the mother of a would-be precocious infant
and the other the owner of small dog
A fond mother should remember that all
the world does not love a baby, and may
not have q faint degree of interest in her
bright darling's latest witticism, and may
not care to hold the baby to see how heavy
hs is. Many people are quite willing to take
any ones word for IL.
To most people canine is even worse
than a baby. even though the owner could
not imagine such thing. With the baby
one can hope for future possibilities; With
the dog one cannot get past present annoy
ance, and IL the individual does not wish to
have the dog play with her feet or chew her
skirt or bite her fingers she may have some
thoughts that are not religious enough to
help her heavenward.
Let guests invite their own attentions to
your household pets.
There Are Few Women
In the world who do not give some consd-
Grafton to man. Possibly her present hap