Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-01-26
Being an EcOnmiSt
BY ADA PATTERsoN.

Important thlpgs are OIten FOUND. But
you who read this want to be success
full, and assure you that successful
folk are always economists of some
sort, or several sorts.
No one is truly successful who is not
an economist of strength. The per-
son who passes through life, under the
weight Of serious physical ailments is
like convict who drags ball and
chain behind him, hindered at every
step. Your health is worth more than
bank account, of greater value than
brilliant, high pressure working brain.
1t is better than any other assest you
could have, save sturdy character.
Save your strength which is your
health, on every occasion as you would
save your last nickle that stands be.
tween you and walk from the Bronx
to the Battery to your work tomorrow.
Think of it as your most precious pos
session. Have you a ring or pin with
a "real stone" in itl You never fling
that about. You are careful that your
glove or lace on your jabo do not de-
taeh it. One of your chief cares is
that stone, and yet you never deny that
it is worth all the care you give it, and
much more. So with your health.
The Right Choice.
If you must choose between long
walk on the Palisades or climbing the
Staten Island hills and a day of lying
about in your kimono with the compan.
ionship Of novel, go to the Palisades
or Staten Island. Even though you
think you are tired and it is an effort
to prepare for the walk, you will come
back glowing as to cheek and eye, and
with new hope in your heart and new
ideas in your brain. Make it to polish
that most precious jewel you can
ever possess, even though the wheel of
fortune toss the wealth of one fthe
Rothschilds into your lap. A billion
aire offered million to his physician
if he could make him enjoy his dinner
once more, and he said it would have
been cheap had the doctor been able to
provide him such prize.
Be careful to eat only such food as
keeps you feeling fit for the days
work, such as wards off more than oe.
casional "tiredness Eat the energy
making foods. You yourself can dis
cover what they are by observing the
effect of certain foods upon your con-
stitution. Manage to get all the sleep
you need, and in the case of sleep
rule holds that does not apply to food.
Eat little less than you want, but
sleep as long as you desire to sleep.
Take both kinds of baths, air and
water, every day. If you haven't q
stationary bathtub with flowing water
in your flat or room, be ingenious. Con-
trive substitutes, as the towel dipped
again and again into pitcher of cold
water and passed briskly over the body,
or invest in a portable tin tub Of your
own. The money will be well invested
and carrying the water to half fill the
tub will be perhaps needed exercise.
Your Thoughts.
That one who desires to be deemed
successful is economical in thought,
not in the amount, but the direction of
it. Thoughts are the shaping hands
that mold this life. He obeys the wise
man who wrote; "Think only those
thoughts that yield fruit in action"
Thought is valuable life ammunition.
No good marksman ever shoots wildly,
Nor should you waste your thought
stuff Think about how you can make
your work better instead of how you
can induce "the boss" to raise your
salary for it is an almost universal law
that the better the work the better the
salary
Think about how You can become a
finer woman, broader of mental range,
deeper of tenderness and sympathy,
with an ever.increasing stock Of useful
and helpful information in the store
house Of your mind, useful to yourself
and helpful to others. Think of how
yor relations to your family may be.
come stronger and sweeter. Think of
George, who tells you You have beau.
tiful eyes, but not unduly, not more
than you can help, for natre and in
stinct take care Of such thoughts.
There will be plenty Of them.
You will find them embarrassing
enough without encouragement. And
don I dwell too much on marriage.
You may decide not to marry, The
term cold maid is becoming obsolete
and with it is passing the dread of
single life. Better single peace than
welded discord
The Emotions
Be economical Of emotion. No, l am
not counselling you to become hard