Evening star., 1923-01-01
Coue Effects Cures BY Force
. Of the Optimism He Imports
ssLittIe Wisard of Nancy Insists He Does
Not Heal by O,on Efforts, But
Merely Points Way to Patients.

absolutely detached and impersonal as
/ he was.
But have not all of life's greatest
! truths come to us, innocent Of protein
sions and from most impersonal sources?
/ A man of child-like simplicity, Prof.
Coue has so cleanSed himself of all
personal interests that he has become
an unchoked channel for living
truth. which. if you but accept il in
| the same way in which il is given,
will work miracles in your thought
| life. His great compassion and desire
for service have become perfected in
him because of his supreme detach-
ment and self -effacement. Though
extremely impersonal, he leaves you
with the imprint of a great per-
sonality.
But his is not the personality of the
man who has an idea of his own i'm
! portance-who engages a press agent
| and has his secretary dismiss unin-
tereSung people. His one maid of all
work serves him occasionally when
she is not occupied in ministering to
! his more Seif-centered visitors
DOUBT II he ever heard of a publicity
campaign such as we have in America
he never gives a rendezvous because
| ne VIII speak to you at any time and
I'place where you approach him and
ask him Il question.
his personality could better he com
pared to the sign on the roadwav
whiSh Climbs the mountains side
! the hand with the index finger noin+
! ing to the summit directing ono on
70 larger vista, a higher plain. n
! broader horizon. We do not aIv,a,
give due thanks TO the sipnnoS, 9
/ ,HI men we encounter. We take their
! hes,+i tnat tnere are unima gina Bile
| 1edutles ahead, and if We folIoyv thni,
nmtrectlon we usually find the summit
70 me vi. Cnue has been ! sion,'l,,t
p%oIhllns with infallibIe gertrude to
lhe SUBMITS of life. ~
InstiIls Confidence.
! He shares with all the truIv orea,
me ABILITY to project himself intn
| tne experiences of Others IL hjS
cLlnlc he knows how to offer iust
nn.!g ougn sympathy to strengthen the
pa out never enough to weaken
% Inn. In unsuccessful patients he is
| aL"aFs able to tell exactly wherein
| tnsE ran to practice his methcd IN
order to bring about the desired re-
SUITS. SUITS. Then his face will light up
| WIN that radiantly beautifuI smile
he is optimistic because he sees me
person cured. His spirit lifts as his
imagination pictures to him that sick
pody restored to health. He looks AS
J Jsahne 1 dArc might have looked at
! 1he stake when she said "RIesSa d
| Jesus and felt no longer the limi;a-
| tlonS OF the flesh, because her i'm
asination had pictured to her the life
beyond. free from suffering
10 woman who is subject to peri
| odical illness he will remark Are
you in pain now. madame?"
| No. monsieur"
1t is great pity, madame: for
! you instant relief"
Then. turning to her neighbor. he
| VIII ask: And you. madame How
IS your rheumatism today? Are you
| in pain now?'
NO. not just this moment. but it
returns every evening"
! Out comes the omnipresent ciea
rette. A cloud passes over the white
forehead. Then burst of optimism
! My dear friends, you are all so
eager to tell me that your pain is
going to return little later. and il
| VIII return because you wait for it
| We are all victims of our imagina- =
tions. Eighty per cent of the people
who limp are lame because they think
| they are"
Defines Mind and Body.
In speaking of the medical profes-
sion. with which he works hand-in-
hand, Prof. Coue once said. our
minds are in the same relation ia
our bodies as the motor of an auto-
mobile is to the body of the car. The
medical profession prepares men only
with the knowledge of the latter
Applied psychology teaches us how
to treat the engine. The two studies
should supplement each other
] One time woman who had had
asthma for twenty years ran up
stairs to prove to herself that she
was cured.
| "Miraculous"' was the comment Of
every one who witnessed it.
] But it is not miraculous at all. :
| protested NJ. Coue. 1T is less mirac-
ulous and nearer the normal for Il
! person to walk up stairs without