Evening star., 1925-01-06

sticks and stones, no one can properly
deny.
'I'll bet there has been many man
converted to belief In spiritual
things as he sat at his radio and lis
tened to the voices and music that
came to him over the air. My in
visible audience" is the invariable
salutation of the boresome radio
speakers.
But the audience is not the only
Invisible thing. The very words, the
very notes, the very rustic of the
paper held by the distant reader, the
very sounds Of the automobile horns
that hoat into the studio and go out
again on a longer journey than any
auto horn has a right to expect, all
these sounds are absolutely invisible
just impulses in a substance that
may not even exist!
Yet they come into the head
phones like ton of brick and roar
out the loud speakers like Niagara
From the Invisible, the intangible
they materialize into motion OF
diaphragms and so into the lovely
strains of the waltz song from La
Boheme," and the voice of the
earnest preachers declaring, "And
now, brethren, let US remember that
1t Is more blessed to give than to
receive"
Probably for the first time in the
world the average man has a clear
cut case before him of the invisible
accomplishing actual results. He
does not have to argue himself into
acceptance of theory, but knows
and apprehends for himself that here
is a mystery, here is a miracle.
What has this to do with being
clean? Simply this, that our enjoy
ment of life and our happiness with
ourself depends upon being clean
physically, mentally and spiritually
especially the latter.
III L do not shine my shoes every
day--and most often / do not-I miss
just that chance of doing something
to make myself think better of my
self. Hang what anybody else
thinks! 1t IS what 1 think about
myself that counts, II is what you
think about yourself that matters
q paraphrase this from Walt Whit.
man, who got it from Ralph Waldo
Emerson. | wonder where Emerson
got it?)
II 1 chaw tobacco and spit to-
bacco juice all over my neighbors
l am just that much farther from
the ultimate cleanliness, which is my
aim You may think / have a long
way to go. and so l have, but / an
on my way.
II you revel in filthy pictures
which you Indignantly hasten 10 as.
sure me you DO not-you need tc
wash out your mind with soap anc
water.
If you have given up that cool
not cold-bath in the morning, gs
back to IL in modified form, allow.
Ing the big bath towel to take tn.
place of so much water.
The action of what water you use
and the cool air will be enough, aftel
you have rubbed your epidermis into
a pink glow with the big towel. tt
send you down to work in the morn.
ing ready and anxious to fight q
bulldog with bare hands. Maybe
you will even feel like giving a full.
grown tomcat a bath.
The Army does for thousands o.
men what a college course does fol
thousands OF other men. Each trains
Its men in cleanliness. 1t is curiou,
to watch boys come to college and
see the transformation that come:
over them in regard to their per.
sonal habits. 1t is safe to say thai
II our universities and colleges die
nothing else but inculcate this per.
sonal regard for physical cleanliness
they would be doing a very great
deal
Clean up and paint up" is tn.
slogan of the paint industry, and Il
Is very good one. too. For per.
sonal application most of us-ever
the ladies. or perhaps especially tn,
women-can confine ourselves to tn,
first half OF that sentence and max.
our daily motto, for use at all time.
and in all things, physical, mental
spiritual
Clean up''