The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
Heart To Heart Talks
ny EDWIN A xrE


 that he goes away saying, "it g really en- Joyahle to converse with MT. So and So and So.
 Listen and learn
 When some one says something you do not quite understand just keep still and listen. Sooner or later the fluent speake. Is apt to explain himself, and you will lose nothing and perhaps gain friend.
 Because
 Your talker is likely to talk himself into an admiration Of himself as sue eessful talker and, filling himself up with admiration. what runs over is spent in admiration of his appreciative auditor. Listen and enjoy.
 There are so many things in life and in rature and in men and women that you may enjoy if you are content to keen still and hearlSen Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut and be entertained
 Listen and smile.
 If somebody gets mad and says mean things or silly things, keep still, smile and just listen. The mad person or the foolish person will soon get tired and quit
 Listen for the harmonies
 The world is full of harmonies if your ear is properly attuned The good listener turns his deaf ear to discords He hears the harmony that is denied the glib and the 1oquacious
 There is time to talk
 But mostly the time is to incline youf ear and listen.
 Early in the morning one day this sum- mer walked from my home downtown If Is two miles
 Most of the people in the hundreds of houses along the street were asleep, and noted particularly how few of the windows were wide open. How many did 1 count, do you suppose?
 Just IA,
 To be sure, l was not able to see all the windows of the sleeping apartments, and comparatively few of the houses had sleeping porches
 Many of these sleepers were poisoning themselves in their own poison.
 How is that?
 Why, you know of course, the body creates poisons and that these poisons are carried by the blood to the lungs. whence they are expelled in the air that is breathed out. In order to do their beneficent work the lungs must inhale pure air.
 When the alr Is breathed out by the lungs it is loaded with impuritles-with poison. If the lungs are not supplied with pure air they breathe over again the poisoned air, and thus the body is filled with poison
 You arise in the morning and your face Is swollen. You have been told that 1t is because you have slept too long, which is not true Your face is swollen by the poison that is in you. You have been breathing impure air.
 Literally you have been poisoned by your own poison-the poison manufac- tured in your body.
 or course when you get out into the fresh air you gradually rid yourself of the poison But think of the danger you run! What diseases may get a foot hold in your system, locating in some weak spot?
 sons who are afraid of the might afr"
 If possible. Sleep out of doors.
 If not be sure you get your windows In winter IS in summer--up from the bottom and down from the top. One is as important as the other. Foul air goes out at the top
 Even then it is remarkable how much foul air will turk in the corners of a room
 Nothing In all the universe is so free and prevalent as good air. and there is nothing, apparently. of which so many people are afraid.
 Do not poison yourself
 Some years ago the father of a min ister disinherited his son because the latter changed his denominational creed-quit one church and went into the ministry of another
 By the recent death of his mother the minister received the share of the estate to which he was originally en- titled
 Which raises the query:
 Has any father the moral right 10 disinherit child?
 Who Is responsible for the child's be- ing in the world? Certainly the child came without it's consent It was not consulted. It Is not responsible.
 Manifestly the parents are responsl ble. The child comes into the family by invitation and is entitled to all the rights and privileges of the family
 Whatever estate may be aceumu lated by the family belongs to all the ia family, l,, East< -s1hird -eshrId is 1asty entitled to s legitimate share. .i,sstice re qhlreE an even distribution.
 NYr does fl matter what opinio.,s the ehiiY may hold. It cannot thele lepy dis Inherit itself
 Our inheritance laws need to fejrmed They have their orie,n ln re oed English Jurisprudence. which ren. pshized the right of the father nrac. ticallN to disinherlt all his cbfldrsn save the eldest " ms eni'uren
 Our laws should be changed to cory respond with our enlightened moral
 laefer may say:
 ns property held fin my name is all min9 I accumuiated f." or .,i herited t Shall I not do as l,l1o with my own?" iihe
 n,% seems good logis If you ad. mt premise. But
 ihet man Is mistaken. Tn a ,ra sense he property is not all his oy, | IS iFerely held in trust for ina ban nt o1the family. of which he is llohlpal head. He has no moral ri. 70 oNert any legitimate share of famrn
 Is 'ni not true, ethically?
 Ffequra'l5 7e hears of xsu Wno mas eu. his child .ins child haI Ter Ter on some p1t of poll trary to the wisAs ger or ter.
 Which Is not right.
 1t Is wicked.