Evening star., 1932-07-14

Save yourself from unreasoning dis
likes, if you wish to live happy life.
This is one Of the surest roads to q
goal which all human beings seek.
1t Is as important, in its way, al
bread.
1t is a sort of mental bath which
each person must give his own mind
as far as he is able
Come to think Of it, how curious q
thing it Is that conscious attention to
the needs of the mentality is so often
overlooked.
Hidden away in their wonderful box
the brains are supposed to take care
Of themselves.
1t is just another case Of "Out OF
sight, out Of mind"
Certainly. it is possible. however, for
the average human being to devote q
bit of attention to the needs of the
mind, not SO much as mental prophy-
laXis, which has a forbidding sound
as in the way Of common sense treat
ment of an old friend.
Why permit ones self to have un-
reasoning dislikes, when there will be
enough reasoned ones to fully occupy
the mind?
In this connection it is well to state
that an unreasoning dislike of some
same as an instructive dislike.
The latter may be divided into two
classes. First. the real. and second, the
imaginary. 1t is thus seen that only
the second fall into the classification
of unreasoning dislikes. OF the real
instructive dislikes, there are many, all
Of them held, justly enough, within the
scope Of the individual mind, educa-
ton, background temperament, etc.
There are people who instinctively
dislike cats, for instance.
For every one such true cat hater,
however, there will be score. or maybe
q hundred, who profess to dislike cats
without once knowing whether they
dislike them or not, or even like them
but won't give themself the chance.
This whole subject was brought up
in our mind by the sight OF man en-
joying the antics Of litter Of kittens
in his back yard
He found them amusing and enter
tanning as any one would be bound TO
find kittens, if he would really let him
self.
We wondered how any one. Of any
way near normal minds. could help be-
ing interested in kittens at play.
And If they could, as they ought to
be able to, why couldn't they permit
themselves a thousand and one other
likes, where only silly. negative dislikes
now dominate them?
A dislike unless 1t Is a reasoned dis
like. is a hurtful thing. not only to the
object Of it, but even more to the
holder.
1t is a sort Of distemper, in which the
whole being ultimately takes part.
Psychologists and others profess to show
that these mental irritantS play part
in the physical being, and are respon-
sible for physical maladies.
However that may be. there can be
no doubt that an unreasoned dislike to
which so many of us take as if instinc-
tive. tends to cut US off from many a
delightful thing which would be to our
| advantage to know and to esteem.
This attitude is based on the broad
foundation of the inherent interest in
the things OF this world.
Whatever another world NAV have
in store for mankind, there can be little
question that there is an infinite variety
Of interesting. wonderful and enthrall-
ing natural objects in this world about
whom and which most of us could learn
great deal more, to our own mex
haustible profit.
No man who loves dogs. for instance.
or who processes to love dogs could
fail to find something of interest in a
mother cat and her kittens. if he would
simply let himself find that interest.
1t is there that interest. Just as it is
in a diamond, cut or uncut; in the
clouds of heaven, in the interesting
things which happen when man makes
an airplane wing and puts a powerful
motor behind it. in the seemingly end
less array Of insects, in the animal and
bird life of the globe, in the excavations
Of ancient ruins. in the ripple Of
muscles when modern gladiators meet,