The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-05
LETTERS FOR WOMEN
AND GIRLS
~ MRs. W. c. JOHNSON.

Christmas gift! to you, Joan, com
posite maid, and to your mothers (al-
ways including mental mothers whom
wise mothers add unto you),
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keep this letter for future reference.
1t Is a sort OF key gift.
a written you a letter rather long
and elaborate, but on second thought
| am, instead, going to tell you a story
which | win call GIFT Bringers."
Reading In the new language Of type
study, we find that a nation which has
a leading good characteristic and will
develop it in practice, rises at some
time to be a gift oringer to the hu-
man race.
For instance, the Jewish race long,
long ago exhibited a hunger and
thirst" for religion, and brought to the
world the greatest guide book. This
race brought the first Christmas gift
in the person of Him whom our local
professor ro6 Of ,p Psychology y refers to rev.
Prof, Walter Din Scott, now justly
famous as the director Of the mental
age tests In our military camps, came
TO Memphis a few years ago to lee
ture at GOODWIN Institute, lie told
OF gifts Of gift bringers of the TWEEN
tieth century, very marvellous gifts,
which we should all appreciate. Other
lecturers and authors have In detail
described these gifts OF knowledge,
the law Of suggestion and mental
age.
the fruitage Of the Scotch Intellect,
famous the world over for close anal
ysis, \. group Of scotch medical stu
dents investigating a case Of hynotism
ran upon this great law lahout the
year 1900, One effect of the dtscov-
a.,, .r,. - rlA,v shat DLNSt,,1 a..
years, could not be depended upon as
a measure of human ~power-abiiity to
vote well for instance.
Scholars were puzzled, decidedly blue,
over the prospect,
Just about then the artistic, prac-
tical mind Of France fruited in the
discovery of a truer measure Of age
mental age
II was as though heaven and the
/ opposite state we're newly mapped, and
the Great Psychologists statement that
the kingdom OF heaven is within q
human being could be understood al
last,
To I've a human being, really, was
found TO be the attainment Of ~ meu-
tai years, a process which might by
circumstance be delayed to 25 ply steal
years, such a complete brain is Of
necessity moral, hence morale is the
great foundation of states and per
sons.
According to kia I4ok Yen. n writer
In the International journal Of Ethics.
the Chinese democracy has planned 10
demonstrate belief IN the great gifts
Of knowledge brought by the twentieth
century and to found a republic on
morale. Let us illustrate Just what
II appears China proposes to do by an
extract from an address made ny Mai
Gen RuCk last week In Memphis. lie
said that he went to a company OF
engineers in his command and said /.
Gentlemen, YOU are students Of n GER
tain line Of thinking. not precisely my
line, | shall expect you 10 do my
thinking in the matter OF surrounding
the obstacle Of this line OF harhed wire
entanglements 30 feet wide" They did.
too. by cutting a roll Of chicken wire,
+ sewing the strips together with soft
wire, rolling them up again and when
ready to chargel unrolling before them
Qike n roll Of carpeD right over tho
harhed wire
China proposes to combine the results
OF the discoveries of the Scotch mind
and the French mind and unroll them
before her over mot through some OF
the difficulties OF society and politics
which seem SO ru2zlinE. not 10 say
battling, in. for instance, Memphis.
Could Memphis or L. $ A do the
sameH OF course "
The Chinese have nm old, old reputa-
ton for morale in business dealings.
and Il new intention of political and
social morale, SO founded. should rrp.
duce great results,
China has not much reputation as
u warrior, and u world dominated hy