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Show THOUGHTS THAT HARM , Why Its Better to Look Out Than In p If you want heart disease, lie awake B nights and listen to your pulse; it you j want stomach trouble, inject your c thought regularly into your stomach; g Jf you want a bad looking mouth, keep & .fixing It and screwing at It, and if you jwar.t any member, gland or organ of K your physical framo to go on strike fi 'and begin" to act up, give it a good tj doje of self-conscibusness. So I say I I that, whether or not your thought can i cure anything, it can certainly give M 'you something in the way of disease. & The same is true of the soul There ; is no recipe so infallible for giving you 1 the mulligrubs and the moral pip and f the spiritual colic as to keep piying ft into yourself. Analyze all your good Si motnos and pretty soon you won't have any. Suspect your good Impulses jj ,and they will soon wither and die. Go j around in your soul with a dark lan-fj lan-fj I tern, like a Sherlock Holmes, and be-15 be-15 fore long all your decent, self-respect-r 'ing, manly elements of character, will I 'get disgusted and move out I Tlie one sensible, moral and rellg-'i rellg-'i ioii3 thing to do with yourself Is to let you-celf alone. y . "Look out, not In," was a famous 1 'saying of Edward Everett Hale. The n ( reasonablenbss of it is herein. That ! wncu you look out you can see some-J some-J ; h'ng, 4ind vrhen you look in you can i , 03 nothing. - ; Outside are the sun and trees and A sky and people. Inside is a deen. dark 3 I Pit- l i'ou cannot see yourself by looking within yourself. There is a deal of danror In this same self-examination, seir-study, self-culture, self-Improvement and the like. The way lo ruin your watch fs'to tinker tin-ker with Its insides; the way to ruin your crop of beans is to dig them up every day to see how much they'vo grown, and the way to ruin your body and soul is to think about them. "He that savcth his life shall lose it." Tic placo to see your real self is outside. There are mirrors all about you in which you can see your soul. first, if you want to see how good you arc, look Into the eyes of the one who loves ,you. Cheer up! It's trim. You are as, good as that. If you want to know how mean you are listen to your enemies, those who envy you and hate you. Be humble. It's true. You are as bad a3 that, too. If you want to see what you amount to look at your work. The psychological psychologi-cal function of work is lo reveal a man to himself. When Wagner had finished fin-ished a part of his "Tristan and Isoidc" he wrote: "As the good Lord said seme C000 years ago, when He made the earth, that it was good, having hav-ing no. one else lo say It for Him, so I say of this work of mine, having no one to praise me, 'Richard, you'ro the dickens of a fellow.' " That was propei, sane and reasonable self appreciation. appre-ciation. , .'f you've never done anything, in all probability you arc nothing. FRANK CRANE. |