Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

portion are anxious, as it were, to
develop their souls rather than their
Dodies-their outward appearances.
/ In other words, only few have the
inclination to read, to study, to OBJ
serve with a discriminating eye, to
reason, to become, in short, self-suf- :
| ficient and self-governing. Most peo-
ple-and this means the majority-al-
ways try to improve their bodies, their
looks, their outward appearances, to
please others. The majority always
want to conform to conventional Gus
toms, to be beautiful" and be "in
the SWIM"
individuals who are doing their best
to develop their souls and do not care
what people think of their bodies
Cheir outward appearances) can al
ways maintain their self-respect-they
are morally self-goVerning. On the
other hand, those who constantly try
to improve their outward appearances
for the purpose of pleasing the eyes
of others lack the moral equilibrium,
so to speak. In consequence the for
mer require no guardians of any kind
as soon as they have reached the age
of discretion, while the latter would
be dangerous, indeed, if they had none
TO restrain them from committing all
sorts of indiscretions.
Nearly all individuals who left be-
hind them great deeds and works had,
and the majority who now live and
are making themselves immortal by
means of great deeds and works have,
souls that not only conform to the
definition, but greater ones-souls in
describable; yet their bodies (their out
ward appearances) were, and are, not
such as would greatly please the eyes,
in fact, from a physical standpoint.
Great minds have no time to occupy
x.ritI hot o,.1 caIx
but always with their inner selves.
The short time allotted to us on this
earth is insufficient to improve all of
cur parts. Hence those who improve
their within have no time to improve
their without; and reversely, those
who improve their without have no
time, much less inclination, to inn
prove their within.
Hurrah for the new consumption
cure A leading" English physician
says that all children should be taught
to eat plenty of candy and they will
be immune from consumption. Hur-
rah, and again hurrah! This makes
the thousandth and one consumption
"cure," and yet the number of con-
sumptives is constantly increasing.
What fools some mortals are, and es-
pecially the leading" ones of the
medical fraternity. If all the theories
announced by "leading" physicians
amounted to a single straw diseases
would have entirely disappeared long
ago, but what do we witness instead?
We witness, / am sorry to say, the
number of new, or newly coined. dis
eases on the increase. and also an
increase in numbers of human beings
who succumb to them. If the medical
fraternity should occupy a portion of
their time, at least, in an endeavor
to ameliorate the physical distress of
those now sick they would be Of some
use to mankind. AS matters stand,
however, they are of little use to them
selves and of least use to mankind.
Leading" physicians are always busy
ing themselves with theories ON dis
eases-not with theories on health, but
diseases, remember-and also to secure
the enactment of laws that shall give
them the license to practice-I say, to
practice-on poor mortals, rather fool
ish mortals, who ought to know bet
ter by this time.
Speaking of candy. however, my ad-