The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-09-12

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The Washington Herald tells of a.
man who felled horse with one blow
OF his fist. But he couldn't get back
the money he had lost on the brute.
Lettuce is said to cause measles
and scarlet rash. 1t is known beyond
cavil to the Atlanta Georgian that
boiled cabbages have caused rows in
flats.
The difference between the paying
guest and the boarder, as defined by
the Atlanta Journal is that the lat
| ter doesn't help to bring in the stove
| wood.
The Charleston News and Courier
says that there are demagogues in
this country whose ideas are so bad
that they refuse to associate with
each other.
A California politician died of heart
disease when arrested for embezzle-
ment. Do these things still surprise
the California boodlers 70 that eX-
tent? inquiries the Louisville Courier
Journal
A young husband in Connecticut
died the other day from the effect of
eating the first pie his young wife
had cooked. That illustrates the hero;
ism of the brave fellows who take
unto themselves brides.-Houston
Post.
If a man and woman live together
in perfect accord. perfect friendship
and sympathy, growing together, help
ing each other, studying each other
they will find that they can get on
WE'LL form a complete society of their
own, without much help from the out
side, moralizes the New York Journal
Without adequate physical develop
ment, mental instruction to a great
extent is wasted asserts the New
York World. A sickly child in excep-
tional cases attains an unusual mental
development, but in general bad
health means poor scholarship, and a
weak body is accompanied by an inef.
fectiye mind
Men and women are learning the
laws of health and learning to keep
them. We are entering on an age in
which there will be less sickness, ac-
claims the New Haven Register.
There are some bold prophets who
declare that we are approaching
time when to be sick will be dis
grace That is looking ahead, but it
IS a believable prophecy. When that
day comes, what will doctors do
then. poor things?" Have they thought
Of that? It also is inevitable.
AS words are most potent to child
rem who are just learning them, so
they are most pregnant with magic in
the youth of a race when it is just
forming its language, observes The
Dial. The discovery that things can |
be named. that we can pack the riches
of the world into our minds, that we
can in way Overrun and posses the |
earth by turning it into sign and
sound, always intoxicates. And in the
early stages of a nations growth, this
is very widely made. Then
4 poet addresses an audience of poets.
Then brief and pregnant verse is pre-
ferred to dull and diluted prose. Then
the images of life do not have to be
spelled out and explained and Illus
trated and made visible by material
objects, but hints and glimpses fash
them at once into the minds of audi
.ors themselves inf1amed with creating
Jury.
Even in our ordinary experience
low is habit formed? Watch mar
.owly the process, cautions the Chris
ian Register A new thing is done
With high degree of conscious effort;
ZACH step is deliberately thought out,
md every movement Is assiduously
,uided. Do this again and again; with
epetition there is a decrease of con-
cious effort, but an increase of ease,
race, facility. These forces below the
Consciousness are taking over the
uidance of the physical activities.
md many things, once they have be-
ONE "habitual," are done better the
ess we consciously think about them.
he wise man does mot leave to ran.