The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-09
Self-EXamination
BY DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

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 vascillating 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 l covered up my failure to do
my duty by depreciating myself?
Have | INDUCED in morbid or gloomy
thoughts?
Have | worried?
Have | been petulant, fretfu or irri-
table?
Have spoken sharp, hurtful, or ILL
tempered words?
Have ! been decctful, pretending af-
lection did not feel?
Have been a hypocrite pretending a
virtue or goodness | did not have?
Have | been diSloyal. saving in anv
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 prg. or a prude?
Have Judged others harshly, 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 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 earnestress, 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 time?
Have ] spent money uselessly?
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
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 l
thought success. cheer, optimism, and
brightness?
Have failed in thoughtfuness 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-
troIled.
Have | done anything today that did
not want to, just because ] ought?
Have done 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
Wallum Ga town Of Maui. Hawaiian Islands)
stands 10 windward between the West Maui
range and the ocean: and Waikiki II drenched
In green and heavenly cool The Trade blows
eternaliy through your rooms, bland and tenn.
pered blast At your very door IL the entrance
TO tho lao valley. which unites in desperate
and iantalizBK perfection all the essential beau
tics OF all tho valleys you have seen or dreamed
The fantastic peaks rise ever ahead OF you M
YOU wind mp the road beside the stream. As