Show FA FAUL FAULT U FIN LT-FIN DI NO I By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Whatever your our thoughts ma may be beabout beabout beabout about other people is of or small conse conse- quence to those people But Dut tho thio nature nature na na- na ture of 01 your thoughts is of vast consequence consequence con con- sequence to you ou If IC you rou are arc giving Ing vital Ital forces to bitter bit bit- ter reflections on the unworthiness of some men mei and women you rou know an anif and if ii you rou are censuring circumstance fate fato or God for giving them moro more success suc sue cess prosperity fame or beauty thant has fallen to your own share you OU accomplish ac ae- ac- ac on only Of- Of I one thing viz iz you lessen your our own chances of ever obtaining ob oh- taming those things which you rou feel they ther unla unlawfully possess Every E thought uses up just so 0 much of your our vital force an and the tho force spent In ill unhappy censorious criticism weakens your our powers powel'S of achievement ement in worthier lines Thoughts are either constructive or destructive and it If Ie your thoughts are atc used se as ha hammers knocking down the possessions 1 of or other W r g to do dolio lio so the ar ari n t hohle turcs of your o r own This Is a good season OIl of or the tile year car carto to begin constructing good gooel mental edifices Start right Jn ill tolu today all and the tho moment mo ment meat r you u find your yourself drifting rIfting toward finding fault with or anythIng anything anything any any- thing bring yourself up with a close rein use your our will power and aud turn your attention to something which is admirable ble in iii the circumstance or person per per- son Eon you rou have e been beon If IC such SUell an effort pro proves pros s hopeless as it might once in ten thousand housand times I Ithen then seek seel something In your rom our own life on which you OU can think with pleasure and gratitude Perhaps you ou have hae been looking at ata ata ata a selfish or Immoral woman whose personal persona beauty brings admiration luxury and praise and you on stand stanel aside neglected and lonely conscious that you ou are worthier of the worlds world's attention attention at at- and favors than this woman Perhaps it is a selfish vulgar lr man who has fortune power and success while you cu with a T o Dene ent heart clean morals morLis and refinement are workIng work work- In Ing like a slave for the necessities ol of life Ufe i These are painful s situations for foi forman forman man or woman oman and it requires more moro than thaI ordinary reasoning powers to I pass through them without indulging In some bitter reflections Nevertheless you gain nothing and you on lose much b by allowing yourself to be bitter blUer or resentful about these things which are arc the result of or laws be beyond onel our control There Is In only one philosophy or religion religion re re- re- re ligion which explains all aU the se seem seemingly m m. unjust c conditions existing in tho the world That is the tho law of I Karma meaning the law of cause and effect We Ve have all aU lived U in many man bodies and md wo we bring brins to this lire life just what we earned in tho the last Incarnation The Tho beauty earned her ber beautiful body but If it she bhe lives a selfish and dissolute life Ufe now she sho will tako take a diseased or de de- e. e formed forme body boLly when she ahe goes boes into tho the next earth life And so It is with all things but meantime ho however er e unsatisfactory unsatisfactory un un- un satisfactory our place in this life Ufe we can improve o upon our con conditions and build a new world for ourselves while in this plane pIano of existence 1 If we waste no vital forces in foolish complaints or criticisms of at ers or of the I Creator The Bible Dible Is full of references references refer refer- dICeS to former Incarnations Christ in speaking to his disciples of John L I the tho Baptist said It If ye can enn receive recel I It it this Is Elms Ellas which was to come Nothing can call be plainer than the meanIng mean mean- lag Ing of that sentence The disciples like tho the people of or today were accustomed tome tamed to thinking in ruts and so sc I Christ said sald If U y yo jO can receive it knowing ho how bow difficult it was waa to make them grasp the large truth He ba had hac I learned in His studies in India where I he passed the tho years between ado adol and lud manhood nb absorbing the deep lore of or the ancient seers seer But even If It ye rc can not receive It It- It this truth of reincarnation reincarnation-it if you on can nm cannot to not bell believe bello o that vo we 0 nil all como to earth when where hero and anel under under- the conditions wo we o deserve eser e yet et your common sense Tans must show you ou tho the folly of trying to change existing conditions by ill ill- temper and criticism It Itan can an not nol bo ho done dOlle It IL was never Derer done dODO and will never neer bo be done doue lu in that w way Cheerfulness mess optimism hope gratitude gratitude tude praise sympathy tolerance love lovo patience these patience these aro are constructive forces of or the human mind and aud the divine 11 spirit Couple them with wIlh good Work and you ou will find the kIu kingdom elom of or heaven cn Is within you ou and all aU other things shall be bo all added lIed thereto You can make inako yourself beautiful healthy successful happy happ I Tr Try it I |