Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-07-30 | Page 7 | Trivial Mental Habits.

Menial It or bui O j n a I It ii r It J. J nc Tn p cc I Jn In Dr Johnsons Johnson's habit of or patting t r every i r st t ho hI passed parsed c o 0 rr f gathering c and anti j I j hoarding little bits hits or orange orang peel But some om persons give o I all nIl their attention and thought to little things s. s Meta teta- their whole conception of oC 1 tho to mystery of or lies no II deeper 1 than Ihan that unsolved and In hl blo problem oC or whether a a. person Ot who has lias Just gone gono out nut of or sight flight around un a n corner did hl not tp upon lIOn a n. crack In the thc paving It was all nil right for Cor Dr Dri Johnson on to be lie a n stopper crock to to Step slop on th the tho cracks in the paving or avoid them as ns the humor came to him h because he ho had h a mind for Cor greater things and used it IL It Is p perfectly proper for fol any person to heed trivialities trivialitIes trivialitIes-it it I is in Iii fact tact unavoidable But font don make them tho the sum o of your our thoughts and actions dont don't limit your our horizon h by the paving crack I tory cry mys- mys Tho rho abnormal paving crack habit of ot industrious triou minds becomes the normal mental attitude of many persons These laUer laRer make malce no effort to think or talk of the thc affairs of the world about them theta that arc are really worth while They TIley devote their thou thought ht nn and conversation to bits hits of oC Idle gossip 0 hopelessly or ot- dull routine Th They are ore not tot prepared h by mental hibIt to grasp grasi th tho truths of economy I politics or other activities The fhe unfortunate fleet creet is not confined to themselves tends to but extends ex ex- ex- ex all about them Society is harmed and retarded by hy their ance or vapidity Social evolution c would all along have been had the units of vastly acCelerated ac nc- ac- ac given RIven sharpened group roup and drilled their heir Intellect themselves es to making tile the most of or their theft intellectual and endowment opportunities