El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
How To Overcome Nature
As Flowers Have Been Improved, So
Can the Human BE Improved
by Cultivation.
By Ella Wheeler WiIcoE
By Ella Wheeler

66N ~ cannot cnanse nature you
cannot overcome inheritance"
This is a statement one
hears 50, frequently that it has be-
come stale.
Men and women excuse their short
comIngs, their poor physical condition,
their quick tempers. their respondent
tendencies by saying these things came
to them through Inheritance
I am just like my mother: she was
always inclined TO be melancholy"
take aIUer my father; he had a
quick temper 4 am weakly like my
mother; am afflicted with nv
fathers trouble" and so on ad in
finitum the tale of the inherited evils
Have you ever seen the Lawson car
nation pink? Or the sQmptuOus Amer
lean Beauty rose? Or the Burbank
shasta daisy? Do you know how they
were created?
It is man who took the simple.
old-fashioned spice pink which
grows IN country gardens and Guilt
Lated and loved 1t up TO the glorious
Lawson Pink" the most GORGEOUS
ana beautiful flower of its kind in the
It is man who, from the simple sin
sic -eaFed wild rose, bred the mag
nificent hot house roses which appeal
to all the senses.
From small hard, unpalatable an
pies. the most delicious species have
Deen evolved; by grating and inter-
breeding new fruits have been created,
ana today We enjoy varieties of plums,
apples grape fruits and melons I'M
heard Of and unknown because they
dld not exist a few generations ago.
In face of all these remarkable re-
SUITS SUITS now can any sane and sensible
human declare: 1t is impossible to
change our nature We cannot over
come Inheritance"
Just as the sour, hard ;is..---1
pie has been cultivated into the de-
uclous Northern Spy, just as the seeds
nave been eradlcated from the sour
orange and the appetizing navel orange
produced; just as the MAGNIFICENT roses
and pink have been evolved from poor.
pale beginnings, so great men and
women may be produced from the crude
creatures Dorn into this earthly life
In flowers and fruit and man God
placed the divine possibilities.
1t is for man himself to work out
these possibilities in himself for the
same superb realization which his ef-
forts have produced in the vegetable
kingdom.
Eliminate your seIfishness and your
lrritabiity and your greed, your in
dolence and your pessimism. Just as
the seeds have been eliminated from
the orange by steady, persistent eff
fort
Beautify your pale character with
vivid purposes and amplify your mea-
ger qualities with living emotions and
sympathies, just as the single leaf of
the rose has been multiplied an hun
dredfold and given added fragrance {
anu COlOT.
It does not matter how difficult and
hopeless seems the task, remember the !
qualities are within you which you de-
sire, and il is only a matter Of per-
Slstent effort and answering purpose /
to bring them forth.
Believe that your children are to /
develop as you desire and love them 4
into this development.
Create in them the qualities you /
desire.
God has planted the seed Of divinity /
IN every mortal being. Man himself 4
must develop that seed.
You are exactly like your fathers |
family; they were all nervous and IL /
r1table; and it does seem a pity you 4
have none Of your mothers traits" has \
been the expression Of many a mater ]
nal grandmother, aunt, OF other rela- /
tive Of some small child, or young girl 4
or boy.
Even mothers and fathers have /
hung into the faces and ears of their
children some similar statement
It is a cruel and wicked thing to 4
do; and one which has been done in |
tens of thousands of socalIed reli-
gious families-families in church at
tendance and in Sunday school OBJ
servance.
Parents can make their children
what they desire them to be, by the
law Of suggestion. and with the aid
Of divine helpers.
Copyright 1912, by American Journal
Examiner.