The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-10
CuRE FOR BLUES.

CURE FOR BLUES.
 Benjamin Keech writing in Medical curing the blues and guarantees their | efficacy:
 The first step is to get the mind in
 proper condition and keep 1t that way, ,, this event, forgive yourself and begin again. The first effort, though puny' helped you, and all the other enorts'
 taken altogether. VIII , erect , a agains. ourG; you-maybe this is the very thing that makes you blue. If so. you can, in time change your environment by per sistently desiring all things that are good. You cannot become an optimist in a day. but you. can certainly pegin to cultivate optimism and cheerfulness at this very moment. When Dad and replace 1t with a good one. Then | firmly hold to the latter.
 One cure for the blues is to quit be. ing selfish. It is true that some or the most unselfish people imaginable | are seemingly overtaken by the blues at
 regular intervals, but this Is pronaDly | because their good plans are TOT the
 moment upset, and not because they are really selfish. At the same time, most of us can lay our blueness to the fact that we can not have our own way. The remedy is to do somethlng TOT
 somebody, quick" | When all of your hopes ar crushed, and terrible, Indigo days follow one another for weeks at a time, just for l get that there is such person as your, self, and find something good to do
 for some one near you. This Is beau | tiful cure. You can not appreciate | It's merits until you have tried 1t. | Plenty of work will do the blue in-
 dividual untold good. .,o | Another leading remedy for people
 who are either slightly or seriously afflicted is to take a walk. When
 everything goes wrong. put on your hat
 and ramble for day through neids and woodlands. If you are a true lover of Nature you cannot fail to be
 benefited by this treatment.
 BACK TO THE LAND.
 Rider Haggard, the English novelist says an exchange, travelled about 7,- 900 miles in his tour of this country trying to find land for colonies of
 Englishmen. He has been impressea | He foresees 4OO.000.00 Chinamen, | trained in the industries and with countless warships, seeking home Tn nrotests-for in his vision the Ameri- can people have lost their vigor and efficiency by crowding into the cities: | Back to the land your people must
 10 got there. Else will the Chinese. needless of the diminished numbers of enfeebIed city people. Seize upon the land" Mir. Haggard's views on what ne saw VIII Uo OhiHO0ASN A" o government report.
 HER VANITY.
 The following story Is told or Wo-
 mans inability to resist flattery: The department store detective had been following the. woman during her systematic meaudering past the coun ters in the large store, says The Phll-
 adeIphia Record. She fitted the de- scription of certain notorious. shop filters, but while morally certain that articles had been deftly transferred
 to concealed pockets. he lad no direct
 evidence to cause an arrest NeVeF-
 Good afternoon, Ellen Johnson"
 said the detective at her elbow. The
 chilly stare directed at the would-oe masher was his only reward.
 But you are Ellen Johnson. arn't you?" he persisted. ~ T
 I'm notE I she s9er. sqsPpstdI GsPPspctIvs And 4 you
 why, er-er-Tm the store detec-
 tive myself he stammered, "and l re-
 cognize you as the shoplifter' Ellen
 'oG?A SIT! You and your store shall pay
 But the description fits you ex- actIy, madam. It says beautiful and
 expressive features hazel eyes, rose-
 'uI "oh-oh! i Does it really say that" "Yes, madam, and further goes on, a patrician profile, great charm of man. ner, pearly teeth"
 "A-a-h, sys you flatter--" Still further the description says: | Ears like rosy sea shells. Tltlan tresses, peach-bloom complexion and alabaster brow. The woman pushed back a wisp of mousecolored hair. from her wrinkled forehead and smiled.
 T can't deny the description, sir, she said. T confess all! But be sure to hand that description to the re- porters, won't you please?'
 THE FATAL B-CKB-RD. The following sad, sad love story
 which does not end in living happy ever after" is told in The Chicago