Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Lesson May Be Learned from the Crea-
tors Master Handiwork. the Human Frame
Adaptabilty. Symetry. Strength. all Exem-
plified by the Structure that is won
derfully and FearfulIy Made e-Suss sestions
for Study of and Profit from. the Lesson
BY DR.. \. q. COOK.
LoNGBEACH, Cal. JAN IL, 1909.
Now it adds to the beauty and inn
pressiveness of group of public
buildings, where each has an ap-
prOach of bit of green and two
or three trees. God speaks to us
through the conscientious architect
as devinely as through any lineal
apostolic pulpit, and so the up-to
date architect declines to prepare
plans for rooms without light and
air from without. No intelligent
person, from choice, will live in q
home that throws q considerable
shade upon neighbor's home, nor
should he want to live in the shade
OF his neigh0or's house, since area,
air and sunshine are essentials in
physical integrity. Every law in
the construction of building is
operative in the human body
Bridge-wOrk in the arch of the foot
dove failing in the skull hinge in
the JOINTS; greater Strenth in use of
a given amount, the hollow column
in the long bones; fulcrum and lever,
in jaw ana arm; guy ropes in various
tendOns; valves of pump in the
heart; the ball and socket rotary, the
hip joint; fabrication, the synovial
fluid of joints and mucous surfaces;
plumbing, thirty-two feet of intes-
final tubing; wiring, the motor and
SensOry nerves. Even the ocean
caole is isolated like a nerve whose
central conductor lies in a casing of
fat, which in turn has two trans
verse wrappings of tibrous tissue.
Even an old lady's bag pucker-string
is like the pulling of nerve about
the gall-bladder, about the lips in
puckering, or the heart when anger,
worry or ignoble thought instantly
imprisons and makes poisonous Sc
cretiOnS.
The Grand Master workman Won
derfully created us-very good for
the occasion of earth experience,
and if men would stand for the in,
tegrity of their bodies, in a right
spirit, against manhood -saping vices,
an interesting city, satisfactory in
every means of prosperity, health
and wealth, could shortly be attained.
A right spirit brings physical ca
pacity, healthfulneSS, immortal crea-
tions, and what all the main beliefs
of the world teach. love, truth and
Righteousness. Bacon said: ;" Ma
ture is governed by obeying her.
Emerson said: BY cOntenting our.
selves with obedience we become di.
divine" Obedient to that Right
Spirit, | should be glad if q compe.
tent commissioner were to stndy the
city and its environments for plan
of civic Improvement Through it
might not all be worked out for 8
hundred years?
Cardinal boulevards-perhaps Mt
Rainier ward; also towards Tcnino
certainly to Priests Point park, and
some suburban lakes, might be con
sidered; perhaps removal OF some
structures asked. The removal O
typhoid menacing, fly accessible, an
tiquated toilets; measures for chang
ing the repulsive appearance about
the Northern Pacific depot, which
travellers tell me is worse than about
Russian depots, and not SO good a
those in Turkey. This, at a State
Capital. First time travellers some
times resent, and sniff at the
depot setting, rs being worse than /
carmel yard That bit of green anC
some lawn shrubbery and other tidy
ing would be in order, also the wO
mans restroom, heretofore men
toned by intentment. Somewhere
IA water-side drive would be in order
uniformity of kind, and regularity o
street trees; children recreation
ground. and many other things
be thought over; but progressive
cities now see the economy and wis.
dom of comprehensive plans, in
which topography, manufacturing
abattoirs, Identification, health and
other matters are considered in plans
to embrace general welfare. Los
Angeles would have saved ten mil.
lion dollars, had she had such plans
earlier. Portland and Los Angelo
have recreation grounds with a sup
erintendent to teach fair play, etc.
A million English speaking people
go insane, approximately every year,
all needless from doing what they
know they should not, missing the
larger part of life-save part OF
childhood, and some Drief attempts
at simple life. Simple life misses
nothing. A fractional life is not
satisfactory. Let us know, however
that as conditions are, the happles