The Washington herald., 1915-04-30

| How to avoid worry? Broaden your
outlook Take hold on life. and it
shall be thy joy and crown eternally.'
! Cease to work and strive for self as
| the center of your orbit. What Is the
cause. not the specific. but the general
cause of worry? Is il not an exag-
gerated self-consciousness. the dwelling
on the Importance of certain events in
ones own personality?
| We are only a unit, such a small unit
| In the vast sea of humanity that all
the troubles of life cannot possibly come
our way. And, If they do, they cannot
harm us. We will arm ourselves against
| them
Know that Infinite Love surrounds and
protects you" That you are a part
OF tho real life principle, that the supply
of infinite life and love and JOY and
health is without limit. Claim your
share Rely upon the forces within
| yourself; no one else can help you. Be-
Iieve firmly in ultimate good; desire it
and the forces Nf your being radiate and
| attract it to you. The desire radates
and ascends and the good is attracted
| and descends.
! You remember Jacobs vision OF angels
ascending and descendinS-the ascent al
ways first.
! Look up-put your trust in God. and
as angelic. helpful and towing thoughts
ascend from you a troupe, whole bevy
OF beautiful ones descend. No wonder
Jacob saw them as angels.
| The worrying person creates his own
| troubles. II he can't conjure up
enough in the present. he goes back
| over the past. How wrong that is,
| There is no sin that continues once
it is forsaken: no mistake that cannot
be rectiied and then put aside.
! Why worry about the future? John
| Wesley wrote in his journal during a
time when. from worldly point of
view, he was in sad affliction: II would
as soon curse and swear as to worry. 1t
is doubling Cod
The happy person does not worry.
Create happiness. then: it is yours TO
cultivate Look to give out good in
| every deed and thought.
Broaden your mind by reading the
helpful thoughts of others. Each vital
principle worked out by another mind
calls up from self a shower of accom-
panying congenial thoughts This
| creates an attitude that reassures us
and gives US confidence in ourselves.
| How often when we hear or read some
| comforting philosophy or vital truth
we say to ourselves. How familiar
that is to me, have always known
it. but l could never put it into form"
That Is the great thing-to make
use of the knowledge and forces with
in you.
Never allow yourself to he morose
for a moment. Remember that the
worst effect of any aff1iction is the
moral atmosphere it creates within
YOU You have the power to govern
your own atmosphere. And know alb
solutely that II you are not happy IT
is your own fault.
| Do not lay the lack of happiness to
circumstances or to another. Open your
soul to the angel thoughts of trust. love
| and divine compensation.
Answers to Correspondents.
Miss Cocroft will endeavor to answer
all questions relating to her department
| as promptly as possible. AS it will not
be practicable to print an answer to
every inquiry. a stamped envelope should
accompany each letter. All letters
should be addressed to Miss Susanna
| Cocroft. care of this paper.
| Babies and DiPhtheria.
Mrs c. II. F-The reason young babies
80 seldom contract dphtheria Is because
about 90 per cent of newborn infants
have an antitoxin in their blood no diff
ferent from that which develops in older
people after they are infected with the
diphtheria bacillus This natural i'm
munity OF infants rapidly diminishes dur
ing the first year Of life. Hans Klein
schmidt states that 81 per cent of children
are immune the first year: 81 per cent
from . to 5 years. and, from to 10, 30
per cent are protected against the disease.
This per cent increases to 76.S per cent
between q and 40 years and then di-
minishes to 4S.2 per cent.
Typhoid Inoculation.
H NJ T-There are many who are
against incubation of any nature, but
the best study Of scientific medical eX-
periments in the past quarter Of a CEN
tury has, 1t seems to me, proved beyond
q doubt that incubation for typhoid
greatly lessons the liability Of the disease
and. where contracted. lessons the IA
tality. In the South African and Russo
Japanese wars. Sir F. Treves states that
| in the whole force not single one who
had been inoculated died Of the disease.
| Brain Stimulation.
| Miss H. writes: why Is It that when
| I feel mentally depressed I just simply
can't move? It seems as II my muscles
won't work. Is II because my brain af-
fects my body or my body affects my
brainT
It IL both Joy. hope. trust. and faith
stimulate the nerves and the heart ac-
ton, and the nerves, IN turn. stimulate
the body. Mental depression means that
you. are-n not directing the- forces OF the
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