The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-08
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

How strong and well you Look
someone said to me day or two ago.
1t has been a tonic to me ever
since.
1 once heard of man who was told
by so many people that he looked
very i'll, that he finally was convinced
that he must be ill, took to his bed
and died.
am no. sufficiently a new
thoughtist to entirely credit that, but
I do believe in the power of sugges-
ton enough to think that 1t helps to
be told you look well and does harm
| to be assured that you have the gem
eral appearance of having one foot in
the grave.
People SO seldom tell you how well
you look. If you have been up late
or overriding or anything like that
there is always someone to say,
| What have you been doing to your
self?" or You look terribly or
You'd better look out or you'll be
SICK" but how seldom anyone says,
How well you look
| Why not be original and reverse the
process?
Why not say nothing at all on the
subject of looks unless you can say
something pleasant, but when you
can say something pleasant, never
miss the chance.
Try i. sometime.
Salute someone as 1 was saluted-
How strong and we'll you look
You know it can't do any harm and
you don't know how much good it
may do.
| well, I shouldn't think the LIS
could afford g telephone. They live
very simply and they dress almost
shabbily. 1 should think Mrs. l..
would rather have an occasional new
suit than q telephone.
Hasn't that remark familiar ring :?
I don't mean in substance but in
| spirit.
| IT you live with, or are an average
woman, Ill wager it has
For rare indeed is the woman who
doesn't occasionally find it incumbent
upon her to criticise the way her
neighbor spends her money.
| And isn't it absurd?
If your neighbor, provided she pays
her debts and does her duty towards
| her less fortunate fellow beings,
| chooses to spend her spare money for
a yellow carpet bag or two or three
tons of pickles. what is that to you?
And what right have you to say she
| is eXtravagant?
The only extravaganza is in not
getting as much pleasure or utility
out of any sum of money as you could
have by spending 1t at some other
place or in some other way.
And how on earth are you to judge
of what is pleasure or utility to your
neighbOr?
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When I visited Vassar college not
| long ago I was deeply impressed by
one thing and that was the custom
of having the regular Sunday night
| chapel preceded by an hour of twi-
light music. ts@s
The huge chapel is left entirely in
| darkness. The girls drift quietly in
| from time to time. The later service
| is compulsory, while this is not and
yet practically all the girls attend it.
The music is always of the best, O
course-produced by a skillful organ
| list or beautiful singer-and out of
the twilight it comes with a doubled
beauty.
| 81 like the silent church before the
service begins better than any preach
ing" Emerson said once.
| I am sure he would have liked Vas
sar's chapel in the music filled twi-
light even better than the silent
| church.
| I cannot imagine any more peace
bestowing service than this twilight
music hour. I think it would appeal
to many who do not enjoy formal
| services and I think every church in
| the land would do well to adopt it.
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