El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-11

w 1s1.a 70 any 924 time mo to %-f plan in IN
advance what you are going
TO do. When you have to decide
quickly on a course of action do
YOU conduct yourself in a way that
fills you with pride and JOY and
wins respect, or do you react in a
way that later makes you heartily
/ ashamed Of yourself2
] How do you meet emergencies
When 1t comes to the great big
tests Of life most of US conduct our
selves pretty we'll It takes a real
brute TO shove women aside and
climb out Of q burning building over
the bodies of other human beings
who stood a chance to be saved if he
had given them a hand up instead OF
"A shove down
Meeting Grcat Emergencies
In the great emergencies o. lie the
deepest things in our natures come
% the surface. So when the drab lit
tie man is a hero on a wrecked eX-
cursiOn boat, and nervous Irrltaole
woman rises to heights OF calm gen
eraislIp in q railway accident, there
is nothing to be startled about; the
vital. elemental rear person Is ell
bowling and showing and pushing his
way out from under the veneer with
which commonplace living has coated
q soul
Bur how about the minor emer-
geucies Of life-the little surprises
There is Mrs. Jones. She has b--n
spreading all sorts Of malicious stO-
ries about you and her gossip mas
come back to you
In your own mind YOU have gone
over the thing carefully. You have
decided that either she is danger
Gus and malicious woman who must
be firmly told that she viii not be al
lowed to go on in her chosen course.
or that she is a silly and idle soul
who chatters too much and who must
be taken gOOd-naturedly and turned
into a deliberate friend rather than
a thOughtless enemy.
You have decided just exactly how
you are going TO talk to Mrs Jones.
whether TO warn or coax her; your
plan of campaign is all mapped out
for conquest Of the Jones menace.
And then you meet her-and cut her
dead You didn't mean TO. You know.
perfectly well that that viii make
her actively dislike you and do you
more harm than ever. But in the eN-
element Of the moment, you lost your
head.
There are dozens of cases where
you might have behave yourself with
magnificent calmness and ease and
superiority if YOU had time to pre-
pare, but the spur OF the moment
goads you TO acting too quickly, and F
your either charge the situation. liiz. .
the bull in the china shop or go rush /
ing around blindly like a decapitated T
chicken
Haven't you ever noticed the jer6y. /
awkward motions OF q new movie /
recruit2 He hasn't learned yet to pro- f
coed slOwly-very slOwly-before the .
camera and he registers yanks and +
jerks when he walks across the /
screen.
You know the woman who dashes .
into a room and trips over all the 4
ruEs2 When you We're a younEster ]
your mother always told you TO take Z
your time and not bump into every I
thing about the place. Wen. If you
would just strive to attain for your I
mental action a little OF the ease and I
and rhythmical grace which /
has to be gotten into bodily motions
to keep them from being hideousIy 4
awkward you would find that the
spur Of the moment" didn't Eoad
you into all sorts OF reckless aWk-
wardneSs and folly.
Hasty Action Regretted.
Somebody introduces you to Mr. q
Smith. the head OF the y. Y. z Nov +
inS Picture Co. He is amiable and 1.
friendly. You like him, and you feel
mat he is a very important person I.
Tor you TO know. Next day you meet !
him and he doesn't recognize you st I,
1nce, so on the spur Of the moment,
Won look the nThnu and F---D-.a