Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS

The January Wide World Magazine
is distinguished by several highly in
tereStinC articles THE Romance of
Seal Hunting relates in graphic Ian
Yuage the many hardships and dan .
gers through which a sealing party
must pass before my lady can don her
furs. christmas in Many Lands is a
seasonalle contribution describing the
manner in which the birth of Christ is
celebrated throughout the world. THE
Grey Scourge" .;eals with some thrill
ing encounters with wolves, while
"Mistletoe Farming" describes an in
dustry which has reached mammoth
proportions III Normandy and Brittany.
Professor Wollaston continues his in
teresting journey through Central AZ
RIGA, and James Ross of Lexington,
KY, contributes Il blood-tingling ac>
count of the Martin-Tolliver-L Logan
Teud. The short true stories are up TO
their usual high standard of interest.
LAS a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he His opinion of himself will be
reproduced by the life processes with
in him and outpictured in his body,
says OriSon SWEET Marden in Success
Magazine" If YOU would make the
most of yourself never picture yourself
as anything different from what you
would actually have yourself, from
what you long to become.
Whenever you think of yourself,
form a mental image of a perfect,
healthy, beautiful, noble being, not
lacking in anything, the person you
wish to become. Positively refuse to
see anything about yourself which you
would not like to have true. Insist up
on seeing only the truth of your
being, the man or woman God had in
mind when he made you, not the dis
torted thing, the burlesque man or wo-
man which your ignorance and unfor-
tunatc environment, Wrcng thinking
and vicious living have produced. The
estimate you have of yourself, the
image of yourself which you carry in
your mind, Will mean infinitely more
to you than what other people may
think of you.
If we would make the most of our
lives. if we would be and do all that it
is possible for us to be and to do, We
must not only think We'll of ourselves,
but we must also be just to ourselves
Physically. be good to our bodies. In
order to be the highest. the most eff
cient type of man or woman, it is Just
us necessary to cultivate the body, to
develop its greatest possible strength
and beauty. as it is to cultivate the
mind. to raise it to its highest power.
'On one OCCASION" says the English
actor, Lewis Waller, in the January
Strand. I'VE arrived in Southport too
late at night to secure rooms. and ac-
cordindly NV fox terrier and HE'D our
selves to the nearest hotel. At this
particular establishment, however.
dogs We're not admitted. and it was
only after The exercise of not a little
persuasion that I obtained rather,
srudging permission for my four-foot-
ed friend to spend the night in room
in the basement which was used, for
the most part for cleaning booth.
Having Sc n tho dog securely tied
up by lead / retired for the night
My room, I remember, was on the
third floor and was situated in long
corridor passage, both sides of which
We're lined with bedrooms. In the
middle of the night. however, I was
scratching on the panels of my door,
and on jumping out of bed to see who
'he would-he intruder was, found my
COX terrier seated on the mat outside
| was too tired to go down and see
how my faithful companion had man
aged to burst his bonds" but, in any
case, although it was. perhaps, not a
difficult matter for him TO free him.
SELF his task in finding my room in a
strange hotel containing several hun
dred bedrooms cannot have been an
easy one, though, as a matter of fact.
suppose the little chap must have
shifted at the boots placed outside each
door until he succeeded in finding
NINE"
The first thing that strikes one in the
studies which have led to the new plan
of Chicago is the comprehensive defini-
ton the Commercial club has given to
the city, geographically. The plan eX.
tends to all the territory within a ra-
dius of sixty miles from the heart of
Chicago, ard considers all the territory
within that semicrcumference as hav-
ing definite relations with the future
city.
The creation of metropolitan COM
mission for the management of this en-
tire area is recommended; but pending
the creation of such a commission the
public authorities and the Improvement
associations of every town arc advised
to confer with their neighborS, and
agree on the routes of the connecting
highways, the width and arrangement
of the rOadWays, sidewalks and plant
ing spaces. and the varities of trees and
shrubs to be used for shade and orna-
ment.
The object of this commission should
be to arrange direct highways leading
from all the outlying towns to Chicago
as their center, and also to connect the
suburban towns one with another by
well-built and Northumberland roads Of
Il width appropriate to the amount Of
traffic thereon From Charles w. Eli
OTIS "a Study of the New Plan of Chi
caSo" in the January Century.
Tile first number of the American
Baby has been received and it is a
dainty magazine.
The American Baby in making its
bow to the public. hopes to prove at
tracIive to everybody. Stories. poems,
humor articles are for all who are in
terested in our youngest citizers.