Evening star., 1932-03-28

He never got the idea that the man
he was sitting beside was the very
embodiment of all he had talked about
In the age OF fable it was so that
people entertained angels unaware.
Most of us nowadays tlatter ourselves
that no angels could lunch with us un-
known surely We would catch glimpse
of hidden wing!
A human being Is not entitled to be
called SO great name simply because
he manages to incorporate into his way
of living a few of the qualities which
most men of sense would recognize as
worth while.
What he has done however, and what
he may be proud of, is to use on his life
the same brains which he uses on his
daily work
1t is a curious fact that many very
successful men fail in this regard. One
sees them eating farmland lunches al
noontime. despite the fact that they dc
no more physical labor than sit in q
swivel chair.
Day by day. however. they go right
ahead giving themselves excess rationS
simply because 1t tastes good to them
and they somehow think the subject oi
human feeding beneath them.
This is but one instance of many in
which men everywhere fail to use the
same intelligence in living that they
use in making living
Now living and making living are
not the same thing at all. The latter
is but part of the former Living. itself
is the gift of God. and far Outweighs
making a living, as important as the
latter is toward the former.
The scowling countenance Of some
man of large income, and the happy
face of man of little income-WhC
has not seen them? The former may
attribute his face to weighty cares anc
call the other a frivolous person, but
the sensible observer will know all the
time that the , more to it than that.
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Any man, in his better moments.
can lay down a reasonably sane and
well balanced life program for othel
people to follow, but often enough he
fails to follow any such regimen himself
He fails because of various obSeSsions Of
the strictly American mind. One Of
these is that one becomes a hypochon-
driac by displaying the slightest inter
est in the great field of medicine.
There is not much :hance of a really
happy life in this world without some
understanding of health problems anC
ones own personal relationship to them
No chance, that is, unless one fortu-
nately happens to be one of those gifteC
individuals whose physical rating is 10C
per cent There are not many of these
And often they tend to abuse the gifts
which nature has showered upon them
The average human being will have
to go along with a faulty physical
mechanism. A great many autOpsieS
have more or less proved that the
majority of human beings perhaps Suf-
fer from one or more serious diseases
which nature takes in hand at some
least greatly mitigates. This beneficent
process does not always occur. by any
means. The records prove that, too.
1t is possible for an average human
being, gifted with ordinary common
sense, to learn a great deal to help
nature keep him in trim. If he learns
nothing else, he may come to have a
greater respect for the balancing proc
eSS which the human economy sets up
and by which it keeps itself going
great Harvard physician and sur
geon has written book upon this theme.
III which he brings out the wonder of
the human body in its inceSsant efforts
to keep the BODY states stable Despite
the fact that man is, as Shakespeare
put it, liable to lose his life at the prick
of pin, his body nevertheless keeps up
constant effort to maintain certain
states Of being which constitute what
mankind calls good health"
The fact that 1t is 50 often successful
is more wonderful than the failure of
the body in SO many instances. Only
the physician who has studied the mat
ter at first hand can know with any
degree of intimacy the full truth of the
pSalmists s words. How wonderful are
the works of Thy hands. o Lord!'
A man who will read, however, is able