Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

might be read than the mersly ephemcra1
aovelette. How many Of the rising geneia a.
ton really are familiar with the novels OF
scott, Dickens. Thackeray. George Eho,,
Mss Mulocl. the sketches OF Hawthorne
Washington Irving Cooper?
There was time when rhe heavy bind-
ing and high cost OF standards rendered
them undesirable companions m ham
mock but the recent Issues Of the works OF
many of the best English and American
writer's in paper covers does away with this
objection. Good books, in good type. on
good paper, at nominal prices are to be had
on every hand.
In purchasing an outfit for the summer
vacation the hammock books should be no
more overlooked than the hammock Itself,
and let both be OF kind that stands wear
Trashy reading provokes q menfal dyspep-
STA akin to the physical malaria produced
by diet of sweetmeats, unaccompanied by
substantials. Such a course OF treatment
units either mind or body to do the winter 5
work for which vitality should be accamu-
lated during a summer vacation.
Some people never take books to the
country with them. They either feel no
need for the strength or relaxation they
might gain from reading OF :hcy rely upon
chance for their mental pabulum. Wise are
they who are otherwise.
Think
Healthy thoughts is to keep a pure mind.
an honest purpose. a brave endeavor. 1t
builds a wall between the whole being nnd
sin. They who do not suffer themselves to
imagine anything about the taste OF for.
hidden fruit are not going to banker after
1t, and so injure themselves by 1t beyond
repairs. They who do not look too longing
Iy on THE bounties and luxuries beyond their
reach are not going to compass these luxu-
ries by any dishonest thiefs grasp at last.
Those who do not cherish a grudge and pri-
vately giOat over the opportunities for re-
venge are not going to debase themselves
by spitefulness, by littleness by hardness,
by cruelty.
Those who do not picture unwisely the
joys that fate has denied them are gong
to turn their efforts and strength into cham
nels~where they can attain greater ha ppi-
ness. Those who think healthy thoughts
only will have no room in their minds for
any other. To think only healthy thoughts
after all, then. is not difficult or impossi-
BILE; 1t simply Is refusing entrance to the
other sort. refusing place to envy. to rerin-
ing. to sensuality. to cruelty, and 50, by
feeding the soul only on what Is best, to at
tain the normal stature of spiritual growth.
Among the laws laid down for the self
treatment Of the invalids In some Of our
large sanitariums Is the decree that they
shall think only helpful thoughts. Simple
as this seems, its effect on both the physi-
cal and the mental system is valuable.
The Worrying Temperament-
Belongs more frequently to a woman than
to a man, partly because usually 1t has
been more in the power of the man to work
and overcome the cares in the way and
partly because worrying Is a weakness and
makes its habitat with her who sits at
home in a certain inability to hinder the
worst that may happen. It also belongs in
a way to the unself1sh nature, for the worry
usually occupies itself more about others
than about oneself. Are the children out
too long? VIII they wet their feet? Are they
dressed warmly enough for this wind that
has come up? Will there be money 10 pay
tho bill? Is the dinner going on properly?
VIII the cook give notice? These are the lit
tie worries. The big worries are: VIII the
bank foreclose the mortgage? Will ]onn in
herit the disease Of which his father die z
What II he cease caring for her? What il
she lose him? Are we coming to want in
our old age? And sometimes there is SUPER
added an infinitely larger and more III ,uri-
GUS worry IN species of pious concern,
which, after all, is not truly pious since It
implies a doubt of the infinite love and
goodness of God, and since the spirit OF
true religion leaves all 1ifes interests and
all life's affairs to the divine disposing will.
Psychologists and Psychologists agree that
worry is more fruitful cause of disease
to the nervous system and to the brain tt an
a much greater amount of work or of depri-
walton could be- The system never accus-
toms Itself to worry and to worrys perpet-
ual tease on the nerves.
ADA MAY KRECKER.