The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

your cigars?"
About $3.50"
Then it's money thrown away. You
can sit here and imagine you are smok-
ing and it will answer the same pur-
pose"
Exactly, my dear; and if [ imagine
L have given you money to buy hand
kerchiefs and hosiery, its just the same
as if I had You see, it's a thing that
cuts both ways if you carry it TO too
fine a point. I was referring to mag
ination in its broader sense. For in
stance, when John c. Fremont passed
a winter in the Rocky Mountains, how
do you suppose he escaped freezing to
death?"
BY imagining that he was sitting on
red-hot stove"
That was meant for sarcasm, of
course, but was pretty close hit. He
issued orders to his band to think Of
Florida, blazing fires, feather beds, hot
f1atirOns to their feet and so forth. The
thermometer registered 40 degrees below
and great powders were split by the
frost, yet his men went about perspir-
ing
Mrs. BoWser.
1T makes no difference whether you
DO or not. What does Lieutenant
Greedy say about the way he escaped
death in the Arctic circle When the
cold became so intense that no Their
mometer could register it, he imagined
that ne was sitting in the corner of his
faith er's fireplace in Indiana. A warm
glow began to spread over him within
five minutes, and in half an hour he
had to go on deck to cool off.
Mrs. Bowser didn't credit anything
of the kind but was polite enough not
to say SO, and after minute Mr.. Bow
ser went on:
"A few weeks ago. as you will re-
member, I thought I had a boil COM
ing on my leg. It was only q pimple,
but I got to thinking about bOils and
how one caused the death of Alexan-
der the Great, and for two days was
limping around and talking about
haxseed and other remedies. [ went
so far as to even imagine that you
wanted me to die to get the insurance.
I see that you are shivering again
IF you don't go down and start up
the furnace I shall.
you still imagine it's cold. Now
then, for the next five minutes think of
being in feather bed and two down
quilts over you. Think at the same
time that there is a red-hot stove
booming away not three feet from you
and that you have a hot brick at each
foot. Think"
q refuse to think any such thing"
We'll, I'll give you a practical illus
tration of what I mean. It's a cold
night out doors, isn't it?"
"Of course it Isl Just hear how the
wagon wheels creaks over the frosty
snow
''That is. you imagine it's a cold
night. I viii show you that it's pure
Imagination"
but how can YOU p
las easy as rotl5ng off q log Ny po-
sition. as I have told you befores is i'm
pregnable - absolutely inpregnable-
The temperature out doors, as a matter
of fact, is as balmy as September. I
am going out barehe2ded and in my
slippers and dressing gown, and prove
my statement
you'll come in a frozen herring if
you do"
I'll come in to prove that I am posi-
lively correct though I have no hope
that you'll be fair enough to surren-
der"
With that Mr.. Bowsef passed down the
han and out doors and down to the
gate. There was six inches of snow on
the ground and a north wind blowing,
ard the icy cold began to shrivel him
up at once. He knew that Mrs. Bowser
was looking out of the front window,
and although his teeth were chattering
and his ears growing crisp, he stood it
until a pedestrian came along and halt