Milford chronicle., 1927-09-23
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Q THE BRAIN IS SUPREME

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Q THE BRAIN is SUPREME
Remember how on the Fourth OF
July night you used to take little
fireworks stick called a sparkler,
and whirl it about? You wove
circles, figure eights, all sorts of
fantastic patterns in the air. And
at that time you didn't realize that
the figures you were seeing didn't
exist at all. 1t was your eyes that
were deceiving you.
Try the same experiment any
time with a match or a glowing
cigar, You can't trust your eyes.
That's why so many of us need
glasses.
You can't trust your nose, either.
The sweetish, almond smell may
come from deadly cyanide of potas-
sium. Many of the poison gases in
the World war had a not unpleasant
smell-at first.
Your ears are just as unreliable.
Just try to whistle a tune in some
ones presence. Unless you are a
phenomenon, you'll whistle mostly
wrong notes, off key. Your whist
ler's all right. It's your ear that's
playing a trick on you.
Your taste. allied to smell, is
equally deceptive. The sense of
touch is probably the most reliable
of all, but it is poor thing at best.
How would you like to sit down
blindfolded among enemies, and
agree to eat whatever you might be
permitted to feel of?
Then, if the five senses are such
poor servants, how is it we get
along so well with their aid? 1t
is because the brain directing them
is more perfect tian any one sense.
When the eyes fail, the brain Or
ders the tOuch-sense and the hear
ing-sense to help out.
No life. no home, no business, can
be successfully carried on without
central mind more capable than
any of the subordinates. Just as
your sense, cooperating, achieve
what no single one could do, so in
your every activity you will find
most success if you, too, learn to CO.
operate. Know when to subordinate
yourself. and be not afraid when it
comes your time to command.
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PICTURE LESSONS
Pictures have played a vital part
in the shaping of the destinies of
the world and the individual. They
are an inspiration either for good
or evil-depending on the picture.
Good pictures find their way into
the cottages or castles of the
thoughtful and the cultured. The
thoughtful and the cultured bring
good pictures into their cottages or
castles.
We can not afford to purchase
the originals of the now immortal
masterpieces but modern COM
mercialisni beneficiently brings
within the reach of the humblest
home good copies. 1t is true that
the rich buy paintings" and the
poor buy prints" but no less true
is it that there are millions of prints
sold for each painting "sold for a
fortune" There is a wealth in
pictures that is unknown to
wealth."
The artist could wish for no full
er and finer appreciation of his art
than that bestowed upon it by those
without means to own it Gin oils"
The value of the pictures is
known to those in all walks of
life. Newspapers have long recog-
nized the news value in the picture,
educators know it's educational
value, the church depends upon it
for inspirational power. An adver-
tising writer says "to unlock the
average mind use pictorial key"
Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote "a room
hung with pictures is a room hung
with thoughts" and in the words of
Ben Jonson "whosoever loves not a
picture is injurious to truth. The
picture is the invention of heaven,
The most ancient and most akin to
nature. 1t is itself a silent work
and always one and the same habit"
Man learned to paint and draw |
pictures, roughly and rudely at |
,irst-before he learned to talk and |
% build himself a fire. Some of the
pictures created by the genius of |
nan will be among the last things
cherished by man.
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GOOD NEIGHBORS
formerly people were considered |
good neighbors if they were friend
Iy and social, and kind and helpful
IN times Of trouble. There has been
ZerY much of this fine snirit in Mil |