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Show A DIALOGUE AT THE DOOR Citizen Outforwork, hat In hand, accosted the professor ab he came out of Candid House: "I have a wife and four small children " ' You only think you have," said the professor; "your state is merely psychological." "I haven't had any work for six months, since the factory " "Fie," cried the professor, taking off his oye- glasses and waving them in a wide gesture of deprecation; "don't you know that non-employment is merely psychological?" , "Mj wife and childrnn are actually hungry " I "Nonsense, my dear sir; hunger is merely psychological." jfp "My brother has just been fired from the X, Y & Z raihoad; the railroad people said they had to reduce expenses." "How ridiculous; expenses of railroads aro merely psychological. So Is your brother's dls- , charge." i "Professor, will you lend me a dollar? When better times " I 'This is most unbecoming language. What j. times could be better than these? Times are meiely psychological. So is your assumed need of a dollar. Learn to know the need of mankind man-kind and to find that need in yourself. Does mankind need money Do you need money? Then And the money in yourself. Everything but Colonel House and my Mexican policy is merely psychological. Money to a victim of the merely psychological state called 'out of a job?' Good-byo. I wish you more psychology and a , better frame of mind." New York Sun. . |