Show MIND AND AND MATTER S- S A A gentleman tells an amusing story in an eastern eastern east east- o em ern paper about his own experience He says ays he can stand the cold outside well enough but in the house he wants it about 72 and for the last four y years ars he has been shivering with the cold because his llis thermometer showed only oDly 68 At last st he complained to his wife to know why 7 i it H was vas vas vas' that his room was always cold while the rest irest rest of the house was always comfortable She told him his room was as warm as the rest He knew mew better S So did she And S so to prove to her what a thoughtless and unappreciative woman she was he lIe took his thermometer that marked 68 and hung it UP p in the parlor beside one that marked 72 and they watched it together The parlor thermometer remained the same 72 his remained the same 68 and he realized then that for four years past he has been suffering with the cold because because beuse be be- cause use his thermometer was w s. s not an honest ther ther- T- T f 0 And there here is a great deal i in ip that In a a hot day Vin in summer a man or a woman may not be very uncomfortable un- un comfortable Jn on in the heat until they look at the thermometer Then they are about to melt In Inz z 0 the same way they can stand a good deal of cold x Vin the winter until they look at their thermometer ancl and then they a are e wishing they could change places with some polar bear north Which h goes to show that the imagination has a good deal to do with peoples people's feelings Sl i There is an old story that an Englishman who slept with his window up and could not J. J Asleep sl sleep ep without it being in a strange house was about suffocating when he got up and arid with his j boot bo t smashed the window and then went to bed bedy y and a slept nicely But when he awoke in the morning morn morn- king ing he found he had broken the glass door in a av v bookcase t bok e and he kept still about it wh when m he ho settled set- set tIed his his' is bill with the landlord We W get impressions re s ns ev every ry ay which do us a 3 great deal of good or a great deal of harm A A. 1 man than who who has been a little ill comes down the street in the morning meets four or r five friends 1 and they tel telI tell him how bad he looks He goes up to his office sick whereas if four or five friends assure assure him that they had heard he had been ill but he did not look it they n never ver saw him looking healthier or younger or fresher he he- goes to hi his office of- of fi fice e and does an immense da days day's s 's worK woric fooling himself himself himself him him- self into tL U. belief that instead of being 65 years old he is really only 45 and ami good for at least twenty-five twenty years more The mind is lord of us all an and ani anything that disturbs it either for good or ill ha hat has its direct effect upon our physical frames The only exception exception exception tion that we know to this rule i is when a man begins the day stupid and ad half groggy and then gets tt tS feeling well and capable of any Amount o of I work in Ii the belief beliel that he car carries ies with with him that tha his best girl is giving him absent treatment |