The Detroit times., 1916-08-09


about where you stand, whether you are
improving or slipping back, and as a
practical character test, ask yourself. be-
fore you go to bed, the following ques-
tons:
TO-DAY.
Have l been cowardly, and evaded is
sues l should have squarely met?
Have | been vaseiating and weak
where | should have been firm and de-
cided2
Have kept the good resolutions have
made, or broken them?
Have INDUCED in self-pity?
Have | covered up my failure to do
my duty by depreciating myself?
| Have | INDUCED in morbid or gloomy
thoughts?
Have l worried?
Have | been petulant. fretful or irri-
table?
Have | spoken sharp, hurtful, or ill
tempered words?
Have | been deceitful, pretending af
lection did not feel?
nave oeen hypocrlte. pretending
virtue or goodness l did not have?
Have | been disloyal, saying in any
ones absence what | would have been
ashamed to say in his presence?
Have | uttered any complaint of other
people, OF luck, or Of circumstances?
Have INDUCED in vanity. in boasting,
or acted as a prig, or prude?
! Have Judged others harshly. and NV
self leniently?
Have talked too much about myself?
| Have | stored this day as pleasant
spot in the memory of any one?
Have taken proper physical exercise?
Have | studied, done any hard, mental
concentration?
Have had one hour of quiet. by my
self?
Have | eaten or drunk too much?
Have ! done my work with sincerity
and earnestnesS, the best could?
Have | been entirely honest in every
thing did?
Have kept anyone waiting? Have l
been punctual in every engagement?
Have | done anything the memory of
which may soil another persons life?
Have lost self-control at any time?
Have spent money uselessly?
Have / argued unnecessarily?
Have | failed in consideration toward
lchildren, aged persons, servants or
others inferior in any way to myself,
either in capacity or station?
Have been a snob toward people with
money or position2
Have | thought enough of others. or
too much Of myself? And have on the
whole made those around me happy or
wretched?
Have | done anything really worth
while?
Have taken myself too seriously, and
failed to see the humor and enjoy the
pleasures that came my way?
Has my thought-life been full of pes
simism, failure, depression, self blame,
complaining and the like; or have
thought success, cheer, optimism, and
brightness?
Have failed in thoughtfulness toward
those love have economical in express
sions Of tenderness and affection.
Have been honestly independent, or
drifted with the crowd?
Have read anything useful?
Have / been temperate and self-con-
trolled.
Have done anything today that did
not want to, just because | ought?
| Have done a good deed for ANYBODY:
and if So was anxious to get credit and
appreciation for it; or did conceal it the
best could, and avoid the reward?
Is there not some one conspicuous fault
Of today that | can correct tomorrow?
WAILUKU AND THE lao VALLEY
Waikiki On town Of Maui, Hawaiian IsIands)
stands 10 windward between the West Maui
range and the ocean; and Wailuku ia drenched
In green and heavenly cool. The Trade blows
| eternally through your rooms. bland and tenn
pered blast AZ your very door is the entrance
10 the lao Valley which unites in n desperate
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