San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21
About a New Treatment for the Skin
By KATHLEEN NORRIS americas Most Popular Woman Writer for

The other day a woman l know
was telling me about friend of
hers who has fearful case Of pois-
ON ivy.
"Her face is black with it." she
reported. land she has been in bed
Tor two weeks. They are feeding her
with a tube"
Il suppose" said the Wisest Wo-
.sa l know, who CHANGED to be
sharing the CON rsation. II suppose
tbis woman isn't fighting with some
hody-isn't hating someone with all
her might
The first speaker looked surprised
We'll, she is. as a matter of fact"
she conceded in astonishment. But
You couldn't possibly have known
it,
She's having a terrible quarrel
ment house together. and they quarrel
SO that they think they will have
10. give it up, although it's been a
most profitable business"
oddly enough. | did know it."
seen your friends; I've never heard
VI llftlH uhtil Nuls Ibtl W bfn
| heard of the malignant and per-
sistent poisoning of the body. l sus-
pected that there was correspond
enough. there is
Poisoned BOdy-POisoned Mind.
You don't mean that poison ivy
-"
Poison ivy has nothing to do with
. -. e ha oil
wsys-always-when YOU find
poisoned body you find a poisoned
mind"
But then how do you explain"
the other woman began. after a
pause in which We were all busy
fitting the theory TO various afflicted
friends. How do you explain thou
sands of persons who have illness
and phy-ical Affections, and who
are really lovely. characters
Il don't explain it at all. Mary
answered the Wisest Woman. But
I assert that after long life l
have seriously come to the conclusion
that bodily ills and mental attitudes
keep pace with each other in FASH
ion that-well, at least, it makes one
thoughtful.
men you see certain tNutS VI
physical trouble, poisoning OF all
sorts. you may be pretty sure of
finding one of the Seven Deadly
Sins
That's Christian Science" Mary
asserted. ont of a brown study.
= No, To- at all. The Scientists
deny evil. control it with the mental
assertion that il does not exist. And
in the sense that all evil is man
made, material. OF the senses, they
are quite right.
But my discovery has no deep
theologic-, gearing. and | have never
worked it out 10 its logical conclu-
sion.
Il can only say that nowadays i
find myself regarding 3 boil--let us
-ay-as a manifestation of some pois-
oned infection within.
Il NAV he wrong-there may he
eases TO which the theory doesn't ap-
ply. But I'm only judging by my
own experience.
Quiet Soul-Quiet Body.
"rske Elsie.
ITO the outside world she seems
only q rather burdened anxious wo-
man. trying 10 manage mixed lam
lily. and suffering WIN terflble chronlc
headach 8. But those Of us who
know her. know that she is jealous,
qusrrelsome. always in petty RACES
and resentments. scolding the butcher
over the telephone, bitter over
bridge score.
Il really believe that if Elsie could
quiet her soul. become serene and
amiable she need never have another
headache"
We'll. inasmuch as the headaches
are a result OF all her excitement
and worry. that is probably true"
somebody conceded.
But that doesn't disprove what l
am saying. You CAN'T draw a line
between our mental and our physical
conditions-that's perhaps the great
est thing that our generation is dis
covering.
"All the new line Of thought leads
that way-which is really very old
way. only we've been too stupid TO
see il!
You can't entertain hateful
thoughts without corresponding