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Evening star., 1917-11-20
Table Glass and
Cut Glass.

In abundant assortments.
We have provided these
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and offer only first quality
clear glass that will give
tone, refinement and bril-
liancy to the table setting,
and establish the appoint
ments as e1ninently correct.
Suitable glassware for the
most elaborate formal din
ners, as we'll as the most
homelike affairs. Special at
tention is invited to the
French Baccarat and the new
Amber Glass Services.
I'm floor. p straaf
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Highly Important Prices in
the Women's Coat Displays
$500 and $3.50.

Warm and serviceable Winter Coats in smart
belted models, with medium high waist lines and
generous of buttons trimmings; lined and half
lined with satin Also included is the Trench Coat
much in vogue this season. and authoritative
military lines Most of them the large con-
vertble collar styles that look well low for
the beauty of collar button up around the neck
simulate smart little cape colarette, which they
readily do when the collar is of fur kerami CLOTH
as many
Shown in plush, burella, heavy velour, zibeline,
tweed and mixtures and the coors beet root navy
green, khaki, brown oxford, black.
noorG
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always | fear that l have made a
mistake in some way. Dressing conse-
quently becomes an endless process to
me. Even with help-and l nearly al
ways have to be helped-it is two or
three hours before am finally dressed. !"
Consider also the case of morbid
doubter who was successfully treated by
that well known Boston medical psy-
chologist, Doctor Boris Sidis. In this
case doubling was only one of several
disease symptoms. Here, somewhat
abridged, is Doctor Sidis' own account
of his patients indulgence in trivial
doubts:
"The patient is troubled by form of
folie de doute. He is not sure that the
addresses on his letters are correctly
written; and, no matter how many
times he may read them over, he can not
feel assured that the addresses are cor
rect. Some one else must read them and
assure him that they are addressed cor
rectly.
"When he has to write many letters,
sometimes a sudden fear gets possession
of him that he has interchanged the let
ters and put them into the wrong en-
velops. He has then to tear open the
envelops and look the letters over again
and again, to assure himself that they
have been put by him into the right
envelops.
Similarly, in turning out the gas-jet
he must needs try it over again and
again, and is often forced to get up from
bed to try again whether the gas is
really shut off He lights the gas, then
tests the gas-jet with a lighted match to
see whether the gas leaks and is really
completely shut off.
ia an closing the door of his room he
must try the lock over and over again.
He locks the door, and then unlocks it
again, then locks it once more. Still he
is not sure. He then must shake it vio-
lently, so as to get the full assurance
that the door has been actually and
really locked"
A Serious Hindrance in Business
THIS second illustrative instance brings
out vividly the fact that | specially
wish to emphasize the fact, namely,
that at bottom these doubling manias
are only exaggerations of phenomenon
of common occurrence. There are times
when virtually everybody is tormented
by doubts regarding matters that ought
not to cause any indecision or perplexity.
Moreover, while comparatively few peo-
pie feel the need of going to physician
to be cured of abnormal doubling, there
are many Others who might advantage
ously seek the specialists aid. People
often are blind to their great weakness
in this respect, though their friends may
see clearly that their vacillation with re-
gard to things great or small constitutes
a defect that of itself accounts amply for
their inability to make headway in the
world.
Like the Washington neurologist's
patient, if in less degree, there are people
to whom the choice of clothing presents
prodigious problem. To others the
choice of foods is never-ending puzzle
At every meal they find themselves sadly
at loss to decide what they shall eat.
Others again, acting in much the fashion
of the young man treated by Doctor Sidis,
conjure up visions of possible mistakes
and mishaps in connection with the writ
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was particularly true III the
Washington case. The pa
tent in this case was the
only son of parents whose
love had led them to be
over-solicitous about him.
When he was a little fellow
they could not bear to have
him out of their sight, lest
something should happen
to him. They had antici-
pated his wishes, gratified
his whims, done for him
things that he should early
have been taught to do for
himself; and, when he did
attempt to do things for
himself, they intervened to
help him.
The result was an enfeeb-
ling of his consciousness and
of his will. The man grew
up without initiative. Peo-
pie had always done things
for him. had always decided
things for him. How could
any one expect him to de-
eide anything for himself?
1t was not that he was nat
urally weak-minded, weak
willed: it was that his
training had engendered in
him conditions making for
Evening star., 1917-04-15

The centipede was happy quite
Until the toad, for fun,
Said. pray, which leg goes after
which,"
Which worked her soul to such pitch
She lay distracted in ditch,
Considering how to run.
HESE merry lines ought to bring
a smile to every face. But also
they ought to provide food for
- serious reflection. The foolish be-
havior of the centipede is too often
matched in human life There are plenty
of people who needlessly vex their minds
about things of no great Importance, to
the detriment alike of their happiness,
their working ability and their health.
Nay; there are people who behave ex-
actly as the centipede is supposed to have
done. There are people in whom the
habit of futile doubling and reasoning
about trivialities is SO extreme as to
amount to veritable disease. This
seems incredible to you? Let me tell
you little story of actual occurrence.
To neurologist in the city of Wash
ington there came one day man thirty
years of age. There was nothing in his
appearance to set him apart from other
people. He was intelligent-looking, well
dressed, well hammered, and he did not
seem at all out of health. But this, in
effect, is what he said to the neurologist:
"Doctor, have come to you as last
resort, and if you can not help me l do
not know what | shall do. l am men,
tally all in pieces. My mind is so weak
that l can not even decide what clothes
| ought to put on.
"My indecision shows itself the mo-
ment | awake in the morning. | start
to get up: then it occurs to me that per-
haps | ought not to get up immediately.
So lie down again, wondering just what
| ought to do. Not until somebody en-
ters my room and insists on my rising
can bring myself to do so.
"At once a terrible conflict begins
within me as to the clothes l should
wear. Every article of my clothing has
to be carefully considered. 1t is as if a
vital problem had to be solved. Some
times, after l am dressed, the thought
strikes me that my underwear may be
too light, or too heavy, or that some
thing else is the matter with it.
"Then l have to undress and put on
fresh underwear which / minutely in
spect. Or perhaps it is my shirt that
Evening star., 1917-04-15

it necessary to study unusually
hard for some examinations,
breakdown came. Various disease
symptoms, physical and mental,
developed in him, including the
Evening star., 1917-04-15
By HI. ADDINCTON BRUCE
illustrations by E. Hopper

tnem. Iney thlnk tnat, though they
treat them courteously, this may be only
common politeness, and they may really
resent their wasting their time when they
call on them. They hesitate to ask these
people to do things for them, though over
and over again the friends may have
shown their willingness, and above all, by
asking favors of them in turn, may have
shown that they were quite willing to put
themselves under obligations.
"They doubt about their charities.
They wonder whether they may really
not be doing more harm than good,
though they have investigated the cases
or have had them investigated, and the
objects of their charity may have been
proved to be quite deserving. They hesi-
tate about the acquisition of new friends,
and doubt whether they should give them
any confidence. and whether the conf
dences they have received from them are
not really bats.
To Doubt Is to Waste Energy
HERE, manifestly, we find state of
affairs not only breeding unhappiness.
but involving vast waste of nervous
energy. This it is that chiefly makes the
yielding to trivial doubts menace to hui
man welfare. To conserve energy for use
full purposes we are so constituted that,
ordinarily, the little acts of everyday life
our rising, dressing, eating, attending to
household or business details of routine
characterize done by us automatically.
We take it for granted that we do them
correctly, and usually we SO do them. If
now and then we make mistake, we
think little about it. Rightly, we regard
it as of no account compared with matters
our energy for our life-work. Whereas
the doubter about trivialities fritters his
energy away.
Whence, then, arises the costly habit of
doubling about trivialities? Still more
important, if men become victims of
doubling habit, how may they overcome
it? To answer these questions, it will be
helpful to turn once more to the cases of
the two morbid doubters who consulted
the Washington and Boston specialists
In both of these cases psychological
analysis was undertaken to ascertain the
causes of the exaggerated tendency to
doubt. In both it was found that the
patients had been subjected in childhood
to conditions almost inevitably produc-
tive of profound distrust of SELF This
was particularly true in the
Washington case. The pa
tent in this case was the
only son of parents whose
love had led them to be
over-solicitous about him.
When he was little fellow
they could not bear to have
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What Trivial Doubts Can Do to You
BY H..

mental confusion and instability of pur-
pose.
Such was the outcome of the neurolo-
gist's psychological study of his case. 1t
held the possibilities of cure, through
psychic re-education, having as its start
ing point the emancipation of this child
Of thirty from slavish dependence on his
parents. And after nearly two years of
patient effort a cure was actually effected.
In the second case, distrust of self had
been produced in quite another way. This
patients parents had not spoiled him by
over-attention. On the opposite, they had
not given enough thought to the impor-
tance of developing in him emotional con-
troll, the need for which was particularly
indicated in his early childhood by great
dreaminess and sensitiveness of DISPOSE
ton. Liking to read, he was especially
fond of a type of fairy tales now known
by medical psychologists to be exceed
ingly unsettling and weakening to SUPER
sensitive children by reason of the CORY
elements in the tales. His special need
for training in the control of his emotions
was further evinced by the violence of his
reactions to happenings of disturbing
nature. Once, for instance, when he un-
expectedly met in the street deformed,
paralyzed man, he tainted.
This should have been sufficient warm
ing to his parents that they must make
every effort to stiffen his character and to
protect him from needless shocks. As a
matter of fact, they exposed him to con-
ditions that would have been harmful to
any child. During his early years he was
thrown much into the company of an old
grandfather afflicted with sundry ailments,
among them the doubling mania in an ex-
treme form. Also he was allowed to wit
ness the death agonies of several relatives.
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Distrust of Self

ALL this was bound to leave lasting
imprint on his mind and his nervous
system, filling him with vague fears both as
to life in general and, in particular, as to
his own ability to live successfully. 1t was
impossible for him to escape the know
ledge that he did not endure the difficult
and the unpleasant as well as other chill
dren did. And, with this knowledge, dis
trust of self, sense of inferiority, took
firm hold of him.
Nevertheless, he contrived to get along
passably until he entered college. He was
nervous and a little queer" but not
markedly so, When. however. he found
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The centipede was happy quite
Until the toad, for fun,
Said, @Pray, which leg goes after
which,"
Which worked her soul to such a pitcl
She lay distracted in a ditch,
Considering how to run.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

President Wilson's inaugural address
will take a high place in political htcra-
ture. Ia which he has been one of the most
virile and brilliant contributors.
Although expressed in the generalities
which usually characterize inaugural adj
dresses: and with the restraint and eau
ton that pending problems compel. il
sounds a lofty note which the confusion of
the time can not obscure.
II i not bellicoSe in the slightest de
gree. but entirely in harmony with the al
most superhuman patience which he has
been able To evince during months of ex-
IRENE trial and provocatlon.
ii j. not extravagant in promise. The
domestic plans and purposes he would be
glad to foster and promote are cautiously
held in the background and the great crIs-
i which involves the life Of the nation IT
self are stressed earnestly, for all internal!
PROGRESSES must await the accomplishment
Of the security for which all Americans
must strive.-IIon-.on Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
Many Dallas Men To
Take Military Work

DALLAS, Texas, March 3O.-Scorcs Of
Dallas citizens including business men are
awaiting themselves of military training
offered under direction OF United States
army recruiting Officers here, at the noon
hour, each day. The drills are being put
on in an abandoned railroad yard in the
center OF the city.
TO make the drilling attractive for all.
no charge J. made and all who wish may
participate. The number of citizens tax
ing advantage Of the opportunity has in
increased each day since the plan was
started. early in the week.
Neither i. it required that the partici-
pants drill 4 specified time each day.
They can drop out after a few minutes II
they have to hasten back To their regular
work.
The army officers in charge have APP
pcalcd to the bushes smen not only 10
take part in the daily drills hut to en-
courage theim employees 10 participate II
il can be arranged 10 give them a few
minutes off each day.
lit j. understood similar drills may he
arranged for a number Of other cities IN
the state.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

A constitutional amendment providing
for reclamation of Texans lands will he
voted on next August. The adoption Of
the amendment will reclaim to cultivation
hundreds of thousands of acres of idle
Texas lands. Wherefore the State Con
seryation and Reclamation association will
initiate a campaign Of education TO the end
that the amendment receive popular sup
port at the polls. Men foremost in Texas
business affairs compose the committee
charged with bringing the amendment To
the attention of the voters Reclamation
j. n large factor in the material progress
of the state and contributes substantial
~ to a new source of prosperity. The
amendment should be adopted by n land
slide for progress and pro>perity.-Fort
Worth Star Telegram.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
INHERITANCE TAX
TO BE 2 MILLION
LARE SUM WILL BE COLLECTED BY
THE STATE UNDER NEW LAW
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 3h.-lt J. csii-
mated by the comptrolelrSIiAoINlIRDL
mated by Comptroller H. b. Terrell that
approximately S2.000.100 in Inheritance
take, will ~ collected under the ncw Law
passed by the Thirty-Fifth legislature
amending the inheritance tax law. That
j. approximately The amount due the state
from that source.
This law authorizes the comptroller ~
enter into contracts with firms or indlvid-
ual- for the collection Of such taxes and
a. compensation these special collectors
are 10 receive 10 per cent of all taxes
collected.
Since the passage several years AGO a
the Inheritance tax law. Mr.. Terrell says
comparatively little effort has been made
by tho regular county tax collectors to
collect this money. The commission ba-
Sis viii be an incentive for the special col
lcctor~ to prosecute the vork with vigor.
Mr.. Terrell.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1917.
(San Antonio Exnressl

N
We nave had so much lately of criti-
cism of certain of our fellow citizens, a
lafge portion Of which has been levelled at
those responsible for the gathering-in and
boarding. while prices scared, of food Sta
pies, that we nave come 10 almo>t-not
quite-belieye that the Almighty Dollar in
stead of the sheaf of arrows j. gra>ped in
the eagles claws. Prosperity has been
rampant in the land and yet there have
been hunger mobs!
But the eagle still holds the arrows. Ii
comes now, forcibly To Us that there i
nothing 80 narrow or beclouded a the per
spective of Judgment with an individual or
individuals, at the end, especially when.
outside of the perspective, are something
like a hundred and twenty millions of 9th
er fellow citizens. Colonel |. N. Lewis,
United States Navy, retired, has demon
strated hat the American spirit, the fine,
upalterabIe, patriotic American spirit, still
burns "a bright a. ever.
Colonel lewis, as every one in Texas
familiar with the weapons used in the army
knows, il the inventor of the Lewis ma
INK E0n. d%V nC thtAtA ~ tItN-
firer tn the government which turned il
down a il has turned down many n sim
liar gift that afterwards has been proven
of great value. Foreign governments, low
ever, recognized in the colonel's invention
a superiority that the Great War demon
atrated beyond a question. The allies
rave ordered, in great quantities what the
experts with the allied armies have pro-
nounced the best light machine gun in the
world. During the guarding of our border,
the war department woke up and, after the
gun had been proven a success in Europe.
"tried it ont to surprised satisfaction.
So Uncle Sam began ordering-and pay
ing for them. The other day Colonel Lew
is received a check for 10000 represent
ing royalties on his weapon sold To the
United States government. lie promptly
sent the check To the war department with
a letter saving that he never intended to
accept any premiums from his government
on guns of his invention. Delicately, he
refrained from mentioning that, had the
United States government so elected, it
could now he the sole possessor of what
had been rendered 1t a free gift.
It's but one illustration that. however.
goes a long way. The American spirit. in
many respects, is divorced from the dol
lar. When patriotism speaks the dollar j.
forgotten!
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
With Other Editors


The president of the Turnverein in st.
man OF good sense. lie has ordered all
the Germans flags that formerly flew from
the building of that organization to be put
away and American flags To be flown from
the vacated halyards, The German flag
has become, a. one might say, somewhat
soleciStic, in this country. But II i the
explanation this bentlman made of his ac-
ton which more s~ignaliy t~estifieS to his
good sense. He says this country will not
goto war because of any enmity or hatred
of the German people. but because of its
hostility to the spirit of Prussian aggression
and lawlessness. The distinction il an i'm
portant one. The people of the United
States wish well for the people of Ger
many. They could not be held quite free
of gull, for the crimes which have beer
committed at the command of PruSsian alb
solutism. We have had no evidence that
the German people. who have been indIs-
pensable instruments in the commission
of these crimes. have acted with a. much
reluctance a. men of humane sentiments
would be expected to feel. But, after all.
their worst fault i in having 80 long sub
mitted To the spirit of Prussian ab>olut-
ism. The German people could bring the
war to an abrupt end if they could sum
mon the courage and strength TO follow the
example of the Russian people. Not only
could they bring il 10 an end, but on terms
which would testify the worlds sympathy
for the plight which they have been brought
into by generations of ~uperstitious state
worship.-Galveston News.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
A Smile or Two
GOOD ADVICE &.

The Linotype Bulletin recently had the FOL
lowing excellent advice for reporters:
In promoting your esotcric cogitations "r
articulating your superficial scntirncntaliti"s
and amlablc ~ philosophic observations. be-
ware II platitudinous ponderosity.
Let your conversational communication pos
sess a clarified conciscness and cogcncy. rs
chew all congiomeratinns Of flatulent garrui-
ity and Alterations. LET your cxtemperous
descbantings and unprecedented expatiations
have inteIligibilty and veracious vivacity with
out bombast: sedulously avoid polysyllabic pro-
~fundity. pompous prolixity. verbosity and vap-
idity.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
News From Valley Towns

here and his friends regret his leaving.
A. r. WinShip from Boston. Mass, 4
noted lecturer was entertained NcdneS /,
day evening by the local schol fraternity
nj the Mercedes hotel before his lecture
at the school auditorium where 4 large
audience attontively listened TO him. The
net proceeds was for the bciletit of the
local training fund.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
SERVED HIM RIGHT.

AIRS. Owens1John. the butcher from where
we usszh to live has found out our address. lie
called with that last years bill and was really
iupertipent.
Overs (hotly)-Impertinent. was he' Well.
now. vel just let him wait for his money
Boston Transcript.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
MEANT. IT AS Joke.

MY husbands q brute sobbed the pretty
Lewiston. Me-. bride.
What has he donr:" asked her sympathetic
friend.
Il told him today ! had q letter saying moth
er was i'll and couldn't come to visit us
"And what did he do?"
"He said-he said h. hoped il was nothing
trivial. Exchange.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
W.

A visitor t. 4 certain Brooklyn household
was duly amazed by the wonderful likeness be-
tween the twins.
"Why." she gasped. II never saw two child
rem So much alike. How does your mother tell
you apartT'
We'll" explained Tommy. she finds ont by
spanking US. Clarence hollcrs louder than |
do."-Exchange.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30
US.

Harduppe-What is your opinion " Flub-
dub's honestys
Borrowed Mighty poor. He actually came
around to my house and stole m umbrella | had
borrowed from him.-Iife.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

Isn't il awful the way prices have gone upF'
1T surely il. Just think. my husband will
10 pay for this simple little gown / have on
Detroit Free Press.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

There are ants III Nicaragua that cult
waite minute mushrooms for food ~ their
underground homes by forming a compost
from leavc~ of trees.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

Recent explorations have Ten r. the hc-
lief that the coal fields IN China contain
more fuel than MI the rest oi the world to-
gether.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

Burial in dry flour will keep silver bright
for a long time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

The less YOU talk the less likely Won are
to choke ii compelled TO swallow Your
words.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

Don't ask TO know too much. That was
where Mother Eve made her great mistake.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-30

Don't worry over q mistake that can be
corrected, hut 20 to work and correct il.