Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-16
no>.r SPREAD SOUL SICKNESS

snr so conta gious as our moous
Thov are more catching than 'lo
cu The time will come when we WIZ
he intelligent enough to pay as ii"Oh
attention to mental hygiene as we no"
40 IN physical hygiene. Then. when we
,,.,c.,ye that We are suffering from
grumpy. grouchy feeling. accoinpaiiou
b, = aark brown pcssimistic taste, anu
other symptoms Of soul sickness We
shall he humane enough to quarantine
ourselves IN our own rooms ahu """h
nut a aisn on our door to warn o'h''
n,cnie away until the attack is over |
and the danger of infection is past.
perhapa 80 shall even go SO far as 10 |
teVe isolation hospitals wheie NV
,loona will he forcibly immured. as are
amallpox and iepr"sy cases. ana ''"s
,hc general plhlic will hc prote'teo
seatn.t thnsc who SO about scattering
broadraHt thc germs of woe lndouo'-
stlv this viii hc hard on the melancholy
thc,nselves. hut IL would make the world
healthier and happier place Tor the
balance of us to live in.
Tor nome ~ us are immune 70 the
mo- da of those about us cur poor
Nabby. gclttudinous minds on'r per
fc,t rnIturc medium for a microbe OF
an idea ~ emotion that drifts our way
and before ~ know IL. We have CauBht
iust tn attitude towards life Of the per
son with whom w are associated.
Al of ne have experienced this
thousand tit,s We start out in tho
,,,,rtpr feeling Ven. aud cheerful. and
,.r,ir.. - that this is tho best Of all possi-
- e.ad worlds W. meet two or thrc"
psapJ. who tcll us All tho terrible de
t,ue - iusiduous diseases. that bring
a man a. ~. briuk nf his grave without
he even Knowing that he is sick ana
uugona, lousN We hcEip Z" explore ON
own etcms for symptoms "f fatal
p.aladice w have hccu infected with
imaginary 81. lucss MIST rs surely as we
could have been affected with tuh'r-
culosis hacill
rhcp another friend comes along
amtcted with fHe nervous irritable can
taug,louau.-s aud We catch that Re
fafr W ,au say scat are fIac-
tious and CROSS. and III natured also
Then comes The pcesimist who passes
o. a. Won great rors # Gloom-the
country Is goinE 10 tho dogs all bust
ucas Is hautrup' aI labor IS Rolshe-
VaH. tlf uut3Hstq are thieves. ai men
pf.d voul,u are 'iars Everything ~
tp, would IS rotten and when he leaves
,on Nou ale SILK with tho despair that
yon ha,, oeurht fron him
~ tho reverse ot Tins happens to Won
vau start out Voul das f.eling half
t0 vuriod depressed You are
trtuvr with p,aplc Who radiate health
#ta hariinese ana eood cho"t. ard they
l.k Won ur ana put new life and
.faro Irf. rnu ar1 you nrd vour-
s,.t t,Htrr uru sto,i.a instead ~ 60
tra ~ rhe doctor u shedding tears of
rtty Is ,ou' handkerchief
U.r ,us,r rfalrcsz thank cod is as
tst tri.ua aa melancholy
hief amurE these carriers" tRs do"
ta,a ,au thrso who have an abnormal
II alN fW harboriue Germsl arc wo-
ANIL -hfs rtekos ~ vital Importance
tnst ,y,r, woman who is AZ the head
- houz,hatd should ~ ,erv careful
thst she disaeminatoa henefCent hacili
tnatead ~ tho deadly kind that slays
all the peacr and inN ~ home
Tor u 10 the vife and mother whose
moods are most catching Did you ever
soc nice iplly. easy-Eoing woman who
laughed instead ~ scolded over the lit
tls inevitable domestic mishaps. who
DIDN'T have pleasant. genial, amiahle
nna sTectiouate husband and children
hay, never known that kind of a wo-
man a. have = husband who Rloomed
around The house ~ knocked every
thing that eNer, bodv did o. whose chill
dr,n Were afraid ~ him.
Nor have ] ever known the children
81 such 2 family to be always fighting
with each other. aud complaining that
tt,V couldn't have the things that
richer children had and the reason is
that thcv are All infected by theii
mothere sane outlook on life, and hel
good cheer and philosophy
And when you find woman who il
Tho revorao ~ this. who is peevish and
diseoutcntcd and irritable and high
tempered Nou will invariably find
family that exists in state or civil war
The husband is gloomy and crouch,
ard brutal t. his wife and children Th'
children qusrcl among themselves, an'
d,lv then parents. and leave home tn,
first chance thcy get.
That woman has sout sickness. an'
ho whole family have caught it fron
hc1 and thorc is no health in them.
woman has To be very ignorant In thes
davs Who docs not sterili7e her baby
milk, and who docs not try TO proteC
her children against infectious diseases
what = uitV that moro mothers do no
realize that tho microbes If temper, an
disroutent and envy are inst as con
taRious a. tho measles and are far NOR
dangerous to tho Young.
And what = double pity that worne
don't realize that If they want TO kee
thoir families placid and calm an
reasonable they have only got to b
calm and placid and reasonable them
selves for that kind OF a mood is Just a
catching as the disEruntled mood
ln former years il used to be con
eidcred s. mark Of refinement and ee
Fance for woman 10 be a semi invalic
an The hcroines Of old fashioned novel
spcut their lives reclining on cOuche
and faintinE Now we have a pityin
contempt for invalid ladies; a woma
is ashamed 81 heing sickly, And If sh
has a contagious disease she has dt
ccncS eneurh no, TO want 10 give Il I
others
without doubt the same change
taking place IN our attitude toward
melancholy People used 20 parad
their sorrows and cherish them. an
talk about them. Now they keep the1
10 themselves and affect a Cheerful
moss they often dc not feel for we al
getting humane enough not TO desiI
a. pass on our spiritual disease an
more than our physical oTes.
FOR soul sickness is contagious. II
malady that the prudent avoid bot
giving and taking
To Lecture on Judas.
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