The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-01
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER /. 1918.
Use Common Sense
In Living.

Use common sense in living,
Most American grown-ups would
recent the suggestion that they don't
use it always and everywhere. Some
of them do in their ordinary affairs;
more Of them do not when it comes to
tie management Of that which is most
important to Reconsideration health,
the welfare of their bodies.
What is common sense?
Analysts might differ in their def
nitions, but without undue technical
fty the use Of common sense might be
called the sane application of the rules
that have been gathered from the ex-
periences of life.
Presumably every sane man profits
by his experiences. He does not make
the same mistake twice. He guides
his actions by the methods he has
found out for himself to be best, at
least by what he believes are best.
He realizes, or should realize, that he
Gees not know all about everything,
probably he does not know all there
= to brow about any single subject.
He realizes, or he should, that he or
any other man does not possess the
sum total of human knowledge, bus
that that total is the aggregate of all
human experience and research and
reasoning. He is willing to learn from
others and to apply that knowledge
in his own affairs when he is con-
WINGED that it is the truth.
When through some mental process
he has reached this condition of mind,
he is at the starting point of common
sense just where he can and is likely
to use it.
Now, apply this line of reasoning
to the science of living. Science is a
formidable word until you get we'll
acquainted with it. know what it
means. When you have mastered it,
liarly every day. 1t has been so
clouded and obscured by the long
words that students use about it, that
IL has seemed far above and beyond
most of us, but the translat ton makes
1t possible for us to apply it's truths
to ourselves For science is simply
CLASSIFIED knowledge, the facts about
created things and the ways in which
they move, arranged, put in pigeon
holes, so that the simplest of US can
find them and use them. Having found
them. it is for US to use them If we
know how. If we do not, 1t is for US
to learn how
No scientists, no set of students.
the last thirty years than the medical
men. They have searched far and
deep for explanations of the common
est things about the human body.
Their studies have upset many
cherished notions about disease, and
That man puts himself fifty years in
the past who clings to the notions OF
his fathers about typhoid, malaria, |
yellow fever and many other diseases. |
We all accept the electric light as a
fact, although our fathers didn't have !
1t. We use it because it is safer and |
better, If not cheaper, than the old !
kerosene lamp. Yet the electric bulb /
Is no more wonderful than the discov- |
cries that the doctors have appropri- |
ated from the great unknown for the !
benefit of human kind /
But there is a science of living. the /
possession of every intelligent man I
and woman, which is plain common (
sense. It is so simple that we don't !
recognize 1t as scientific The man
Or woman who has not made a COM
plete inventory of his or her physical
possessions, who does not know the