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Show PROF. J. T. MILLER ! CiVES INTERESTING TALKS j Prof. J. T. Miller, of Salt Lake City, i editor of the Character Builder, a very j interesting monthly magazine published j in that city, was a Castledale visitor j last Sunday and Monday and gave a number of interesting talks on character building, etc. His first appearance was at a gathering gather-ing in the meeting house Sunday evening when he lectured to a large and attentive audience o.i the general ethics of living taking up the subject from a variety of 'standpoints. One of the first conditions necessary for a good life from every point of view, is a ludthy b dy. This is very much ovjr looked in these (lays. ! The eating of sugar and other sweets is j I one of tne worst evils, and to this cause i I a number of ailments are traced to, one i of th se is diabetes. Th use of pepper, mustard and oth:T spices and soda and baking po.vjer bread has bad results; too. The lungs must have plenty of : fresh air, a simple thing, and the, only j ! inexpensive thing today. There need ; be hardly any sickness if everyone had 1 their due of fresh air, wh'Hesomi food, 1 and pure water. If animals were fed ( as we feed ourselves they too would al- j ways be in need of operations. j Parents and teachers should be i stu lents of human nature. A know- ledge of this subject would aid much in j the bringing up and instruction of child-i child-i ren. Environment is one of the great-i great-i est forces that govern character build ing and it is thus within the parents power to determine to a great extent what their child's future shall be. Children's natures should be studied in order to find what is best adapted to hi. n for his life's work. Pure thoughts are necessary to a healthy life as is pure air. We cannot think aught evil but what that thought goes toward enlarging enlarg-ing some portion of the brain in the ! wrong direction, and a succession of evil thoughts makes it impassible for i brain cells to w;irk in the right direction. ! Every thought is reflected upon the face and if we knew chat photographs of our faces were taken as it were all the time to remain sometimes as a lasting im-' im-' pression of good or evil, we would be more careful in our thinking. Prof. Miller lectured to the Academy students Monday morning in devotional i services and again to the ladies Monday j afternoon and the men Monday night, having large audiences at both lectures. Prof. Miller's lectures are to be much commended as he touches on topics that are more or less neglected, but ought not to be, as good iives and living are dependant upon a knowledge of these same principles. Come again Professor. |