The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-06-30

| NS~OoSioHS Slduly answered. Write
me In care Of the editor.)
| writing of books, in his Holy and
Profane States, Fuller says: Learn.
ing hath gained most by those books
oy which the printers have lost"
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1t Is doubtful wherether the Bolton
ruDiisning company down in Florida
mas lost anything on Judge Daniel
summons small, plump book on
Practical Psychology" for it is al
ready running into a sixth edition
but II learning hath gained" more
from any other recent book, I'd be
most grateful for the name of that
volume. To my mind, this is the most
important work on the subcons cious
mind and its relation to success and
happiness that has yet come my way,
VI course there is Frederick Pierce's
Our Unconscious Mind" Dutton S3)
devoted to how to use it,, but | be-
lleve the handling is rather different.
III review that little later. Judge
summons makes very scientific and
scholarly matter, "as plain as a pike
staff,' as the old saying went. He
uses words and arguments that the
simplest mind should be able to un-
derstand. For example, "In this first
paragraph OF the Introductory chap
ter the author makes the following
covenant with the reader "You can be
well; you can be happy; you can
make your life "a supreme success. f"
That made me wonder just as first if
this was not book by one of the
many mental healing cranks" with
an ak to grind. But the price of the
book Is small and there is no string
to it. Furthermore, as you progress
through it you find there is not a
thing that good, common sense. on
mature consideration, cannot easily
accept. Briefly, this is his propositions
The mind is made up of three sections
like layers. The objective, or the part
that receives our sense impressions,
the things we see and hear and what
We think about them. The subjective,
or the part that stores away memoir
les, and that is active when one
dreams or goes insane. 1t is the "twi-
light zone" between the objective and
the third part, the sub-conscious,
which is the part of the mind that
| controls what We speak of as instinct
i've action, sucf as breathing, winking
n 4
harm, walking, the beating of the
heart, and all the organic functions
Of the body.
Now, Mr.. Simmons proposition is
that, If we can learn to reach the sub
conscious mind with strong sugges-
tions Of what we want for health,
success, or happiness, the thing is
practically accomplished, as the sub
conscious begins to build upon it.
Otherwise the suggestion. for instance
Of danger, could not bring the light
ning-like action for self preservation.
But the sub-conscious mind is hard to
reach. 1t has to be, or it would be
confused and impeded in it's regular
duties of keeping the body going Mr..
Simmons shows how to reach it
through the subjective mind. He tells
for example, how one who is ill may
by right thinking send the sub-con-
scious mind to work building up the
impaired organ or member, just as
when you are frightened the sub
conscious mind Immediately sends
messages that make the heart beat
faster, forcing the blood quickly to
supply the expected necessity for
quick action, such as running or other
muscular force which means bodily
wear and tear to be built up by blood
activity.
Perhaps the most valuable thing |
got out Of the book, though, was the
consciousness of the very definite re-
lation between mind and God. 1t put
so many crooked things straight for
me that l can never find adequate
words to thank the author. j makes
perfectly acceptable through reason
rather than through blind faith, the
Bible miracles, and Christ's statement
| that: "He that believeth in me, the
same works that l do shall he do al
So"
incidentally, the subject of unhappy
marriage and divorce, love problems
the troubles of the yer yshy, Freudian
| principles which are nowadays being
made the basis of so many seX-novels
the hardening arteries of those grow
ing old, are all given fiery clear and
definite discussion. A helpful feature
of the printing is the inclusion OF
three or four blank pages for the
readers notes at the end of every
chapter.
After slow, and careful reading, II
seems to me that there is absolutely
no limit to the good that this book
may accomplish.
Mary s. Watts tenth book, '"The
House Of Rimmon" macmillan, $2) il
a novel showing through a most in
teresting personality how the pres
sure of circumstances brings a young
writer of high ideals finally to cater
ing to the unwholesome element IL
public taste. Ones sympathies arr
with Cleve Herrod because he die
stick it out on a high plane until thu
necessities of an invalid wife forced
action. And one is furious with Edit
Gherardi because, in her selfishnes.
and snobbery, she takes his Alteration
and then refuses the help she coult
so easily have given him by friend
ly understanding of his problems ant
struggle and real worth. At heart h
is never unfaithful to his ideals. 1t is
I think, very moral novel with tn
moral" buried deep in good story
including the most vivid pictures Q
Bermuda that know OF.
| urho hast now hook that I have see