Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-05-24
Secretiveness

ticular Office. Whatever may be said
against this system, it has the merit
Of giving point and facility to thought
on mental science entirely wanting in
any other system or classification.
In this essay I have selected secret
iveness. It's location is about a-a inch
above the tip of the ears. Defined, it
means self-restralnt, reserve, policy,
management, discretion, tact, eva
sion. art, secrecy, doubled dealing, Gun,
ming. It's perversions are lying, de-
ception, trickery, hypocrisy, stealing.
You at once perceive that a person
having this organ very large has a
great tendency to deception, especial
" if the moral faculties are not also
very strong. Happily, there are no
bad organs in the human mind. Their
rue action is always good. Over
wrought or perverted action is always
bad, To secrete or hide is a proper
Ind natural law Nature does much
If her grand and glorious work in
secret. and most Of the animals would
become extinct at once but for this
aculty. Who has not in coming near
/ BIRDS nest noticed the old bird
lutter around, making great noise,
approaching very near. you, sometimes
auttering along before you as if it had
! broken wing. This great ado is
simply to fix your attention upon the
bird, that you may not find the nest.
Now there are two things taught by
his fact. First, the dear little bird
IS trying tact-all in the interest Of
it's home and nestlngs-and there
was no power in it to work the slight
est possible injury to yourself or any
living creature. 1t was trying to put
off the great truth that the dear little
ones were right there and apparently
in danger. The second thing taught
is that the great mother Nature,
though she is cunning, artful and Sc
cretive, she never viciously deceives.
So let the vile knave, who thinks to
deceive with bright promises and
honeyed words, who has only your
ruin to accomplish; does not, cannot
deceive the discerning, for, like the
bird, his very action discloses the
fact that he would conceal. The Ian
guage of deception is quite as easy to
learn as that Of love and sympathy.
And he who laughs in his sleeve"
over success thus achieved never has
20 itS md
sure as life itself. Never for mo-
ment suppose your sins will not find
you out, for the dark actions deity
paint their names upon the face, and
the soul in its very walk proclaims
| is deeds.
Secretiveness also holds us in re-
| serve-waits the opportunity poll
cy, manage ment-divines what action
| to take in business to win-"sees
which way the cat will jump" is al
ways on the spot in the nick Of time,
develops great tact, which often wins
| where talent fails.
But perhaps the grandest power of
secretiveness is self-restraint. Think
for moment what the world would
be if all our thoughts, emotions and
bedlam worse confounded" would So
ciety be to perfect anything what
ever Indeed, the whole human fam
lily would become extinct in less than
sixty days. Becoming great sea of
fierce, wild, swaying, maddened mon
Isters, compared to which the widest
hell would seem a relief. How then
like a great angel Of peace comes
this power of self-restraint, holding
back the evil, while the eyes light up
with bright good will to all mankind.
Secretiveness is not itself an angel,
but is the power that lets the pure,
sweet angels of love and sympathy
to fiutter down among us so we may
catch glimpse Of heaven
How it keeps us from fretting and
complaining at every little annoy
ance. How it spares our friends so
we do not bore them to death with
aNhousand little fdgets. How we
may withhold the truth when that
truth can only add burden. How it
enables us to suppress our own feel
ings while we. do a kind act to one
we may not love. Without this power
we cannot train ourselves to love our
enemies, or obey that other command
ment, "Be We wise as serpents and
harmless as doves" Our feelings are
all too impulsive for lasting harmony.
Then, in steps self-restraint, with its
iron power and sweet music flows on
forever Secretiveness lies close
along the margin between heaven and
hell, figuratiyely speaking, and one
has only to beckon with his left hand
and up from the depths of hell come
a thousand imps, in just the garb you
wish, to do your bidding. So, also, if
you beckon with your right hand, soft
1y come futtering down from above
as many angels to gladden. your life.
Mother Earth secrets the tiny acorn
and hx cunning art tho cfatoIv and