The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-25

cuss matters in the inverse ratio of thei
importance, so that the more closeI,
a question is felt to touch the heart o
all Of US, the more incumbent it is con
sidered upon prudent people to profess
that it does not exist, to frown it down
to tell it to hold its tongue. to main
tain that it has long been finally set
tied so that there is now no question
concerning it,
But this disposition and impulse tic
turn away from seIf-knowledge can
land in the interests Of the individual.
and society's well being and happiness
must be overcome. Il is just as true
to-day as it was in the days Of an
cient Greece that the most important
subject for every individual to attend
to it to learn to know myself" to
know what his individual conduct with
respect to himself ought to be to keep
in good health and to maintain good
health, and what his conduct to other
people ought to be in order to conform
to the principles Of righteousness and
THE golden rule.
As we look back into the past we
know that people have been taught all
kinds of errors in every field of phen-
omena. Now. it does not matter a
continental what we believe or disbe-
ieve concerning astronomy or the con-
figuration of the earth, whether we be-
heve we are living OIL the outside of a
solid globe or on the inside Of hollow
sphere. Our action can neither change
nor be affected by either one config-
uration or the other. What we can
definitely know, demonstrate and ufil-
lze in the interest of our mutual WELL
being here and now is the only thing
that really counts and is of value for
human beings to know.
A reporter in recent issue of the
New York Evening World mentions a
Mrs, Harriet Lucia McCollum, who has
recently blown into that city from the
wild and woody West, who makes the
bold claim that everyone can live to be
$50, make million. and be success
tul In every endeayor.
The following statement made by
Mrs. McCollum was read at the last
meeting of the mental science class at
Newllano:
The secret is simple. 1t is based
on a great scientific discovery, made
not many years ago-the vast, untap-
ped power and resources of the subcon-
scious mind.
In every human being there is a
buried genius or buried giant-a hid;
den power to accomplish or to COM
nand. The everage individual is like
4 lOO-acre field with but ten acres I'M
Ter cultivation. We know far more
han we are conscious of knowing.
First Of all, decide what you want. |
Most persons don't know that. They
hlnk it would be nice to be rich, or
veil. or beautiful, but they have not
ormulated one single definite thing
which they desire.
Choose your goal. Then visualize
t. See in your minds eye the attrac-
i've face and figure you yearn to pos
ess. Make sharpe, clear-cut men
al picture of your life when you have
blamed possession of a million dol
ars.
The next step after deciding what
ou want to be and creating picture
# yourself in the desired role, is to
cquire good health. And remember
hat the mind creates the body. | have
emade myself entirely in eight years.
you had seen me eight years ago, |
ou would not know me now. | was
nm. timid, worn looking; | had an
ldistinct voice and no presence at all. ]
Health and beauty are not altoge-
ner matter of mental determination,
ut depend to great extent on ma
erlal food that we take into our bodies. i
We eat too much protein-too
luch meat. No one can live healthy \
n meat. potato and starchy dessert
let. Be sure to eat something raw
very day and eat more green veget-
bles than is your habit. Drink a
uart OF sweet unpasteurized milk; or,
you must take the pasteurized, drink
glass of orange juice daily.
Now about getting next to the mil {
on.
First, decide how you will get it !
neither BY taking it away from the
ord, or by enriching the world to /
lch an extent that it will be glad to
and you as much as you want. AS y
ming that you choose the second of
ese two methods, pick out a field {
T yourself. something that most APP