The Detroit times., 1916-08-09

"' "'iVic Sou Stdhu, 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 been cowardly, and evaded is-
sues should have Squarely met?
Have | been vaScilating and weak
where | should have been firm and de-
cided?
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 | worried?
Have | been petulant, fretful. or irri-
table?
Have | spoken sharp, hurtfu, or i'll
tempered words?
Have | been deceitful, pretending af-
lection did not feel?
Have been hypocrite, pretending a
virtue or goodness I did not have?
Have | been diSloyal, saying in any
ones absence what | would have been
ashamed 70 say in his presence?
Have uttered any complaint of other
people, Of luck, or of circumstances?
Have INDUCED in vanity. in Boosting,
or acted as a prig. or prudc?
Have judged others harshy, and my
self leniently?
Have talked too much about myself?
Have ! stored this day as a pleasant
spot in the memory of any one?
Have taken proper physical exercise7
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
been punctual in every engagement?
Have done anything the memory Of
which may soil another persons life?
Have lost self-control at any timer
Have spent money useessly?
Have | argued unnecessarily?
Have failed in consideration toward
children, 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
wrctched?
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-lifc 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
drfted with the crowd?
Have | read anything useful?
Have | been temperate and sclf-con-
troIled.
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?
Waikiki AND THE lao VALLEY
Walluku (a town ~ Maui, Hawaiian Islands)
stands 10 wndward between the West Maui
range and the ocean. and Wauku II drenched
in green and heavenly cool. The Trade blows
eternally through your rooms. bland and tenn
percd blast At your very door is the entrance
10 the lao Valley. which untes in desperate
and tantalizing perfection all the essential beau
ties Of all the valleys you have seen or dreamed.