The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-26

delibly printed upon the mind that we
know what life is. Before that 1t is
merely a problem Of existence.
These modern fellows are getting up
some curious idea, and one of the most
puszling to the old.timer who believes
in calomel for biliousness aud quinine
for malaria, is this modern scheme of
suggestion, which means that all that
is necessary is to convey the suggestion
to the mind OF the patient that his NAL.
ady is getting better, and it straight.
way begins to disappear. They ever
have a magazine of their own called
Suggestion, and it is "A good one. The
cult is spreading rapidly and in many
portions Of the United States the sug.
gestionists hold meetings, and claim to
be accomplishing wonderful things.
Doubtless they are. Since the dago
gentleman got up the plan OF telegraphy
HithNht WINS ipA1g otoeAVhs1 VI any
thing else except air mot hot) it is
easy to believe anything, and we do.
This suggestion idea has many attrac.
tive features about il, too, so much SO
that there ought to be something in it,,
whether there is or not. just think of
the idea of waking up in the morning
with n bad case of bust. head, and sug.
costing to yourself that you haven
any such thing, that your mead is as
"A bell ana. you mind clear and fresh,
instead of feeling like a dish of scramb.
led Eggs looks. Prestol IL is SO! You
go about your labors without a cloud
upon the horizon, aud are able to do
u day 3 work that under ordinary cir.
cumstances would have been agony,
without a tremor. Whenever your
bones ache until you wish that you
could take them out and throw them
away, your eyes smart, your stomach
reels, aud the other symptoms of the
grippe develop, all you have to do is
to suggest 20 yourself that il is a mis-.
take, and it is all as though it had nev.
er been. If you have had the meanest,
cOnsarncdest, rampaginest disease that
ever bothered man, you will appreciate
this part Just as soon as you realize
the quaickncss of it. If you have ever
had the grippe right, you know that a
felloY would take ni~tro-glycerin or any.
thing else To get rid of it, and this sug.
g~estion idea would be better than a let.
ter from home with a cheek in it. When
the baby has the collie and you aud
your wife are worn TO a frazle minis.
tering to his wants and trying to ap.
pease his royal dander, all you have
to do is to suggest to the little scoun.
drel that he is sleepy and the belly
ache vanishes from his little body like
the mists of morning. There is peace
upon the chosa that makes the yeast
stop working, and in three seconds the
sound like the east end of the wood.
yard, as the weary household gets
stretched out to sleep. When your wife
gets on a rampage and makes you wish
that you had not done it, all you have
to do is to mentally suggest that she
cut it out, and in "A second all il serene,
and the face that "A few minutes before
looked like "A storm cloud, is dimpled
with smiles and you feel like you did
In the sparkling days, when you beliey.
ed anybody a fool who did not think
she was nice enough to eat. As this
suggestion idea can be worked without
the knowledge of the other fellow, she
can get il right back at you, by max.
ing you realize what an ass you are as
a usual thing, and that when you look
on the bourbon as it sparkles in the jug
you are following a blind trail that
leads to disaster and a bad taste in
the mouth. If she makes the suggcs,
tion with another 10 the effect that ii is
time to quit fooling and ge down to
work, if you can I get a job you will
spade up the back yard and plant a
garden, and the gang on the corner will
know you no more.
= =
/ have received from a prominent
territorial paper a commission TO deal
out a batch Of dope about the alleged
straying away from the church of the
men who work with their hands. The
request puts il the other way, but the
effect is gust the same, the idea seeming
TO be that the working people are sour,
eel on the ministry and wan none Of
them or their doctrine, and will so re.
main until divinity and dollars are sep.
nrntnd md tha mnn WIN nivns ton