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How Does YOUR Mind
Work W hen You Read?
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The Answer to That Question Tells You How Much Good Your
Reading Does You.
Some men worry because they can not REMEMBER what llicy
read.
Very fool'sh worry li is not REMEMBERING things read
that makes an abler man. The important question is: 'What and
1I<)W do yon Till NK as you read?
Read ing to llm mind is like eat ing to the hotlt
You can iml REMEMBER the beefsteak of week before last
and that dots not matter. What matters is DIGESTION, the mak
ing of good, new blood as tln result of eat ing Ihe meat.
When your mind eats a book, it is not remembering lhe book
that niatler.-, hut the making of good, m u thoughts: the increase
of mental power
Many nun overeat meiitalli as well as physically. To swallow
dow n a lot of books for the mere sal<<'of swidlowing is ;is foolish as
swallowing down ; 10l of food with the idea that it will make you
stronger Onlx what you DIGEST adds io your strength, whether
it he BOOKS digested in the brain, or MEAT digested in lhe stom
ach.
You should eat slowly with the mind as well as with the teeth.
You should THINK YOIR WAY TIIROI’GII A BOOK. as you ehew
your way through a steak.
11 is noi r hat tin OTHER man. lhe author, thought and wrote
that is important l<> you II is what he MAKES \Ol think as you
read him.
The falling apple, according to the legend, made Newton think
of tin law of gr.ix ilal ion
The dancing lid of the tea kettle made another think of the
steam engine. ■
Reading that a humble Dutch optician had made a glass that
brought objects nearer made Galileo think of the telescope in all
eases the thinking was followed b.x ACTION of great value to
humanity
Very likelx Newton soon forgot that apple, and Galileo prob
ably could not have'u-vmembered after a year or txvo just HOW lie
happened to think of the telescope. Bui it is not the REMEMBER
ING that counts. So do not worry because you read a book and do
not remember it. You might forg’d every word of it and still be a
much abler man for having read il.
Let us take today, and perhaps at other times, some well known
short pasages of good writers, and see what thought they develop.
Eor instance:
(live us. give us. flic man who sliTfcs at his work! He will do more in
the same time—lie will do it better he will persevere longer.
One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he inarches to music. The
very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness; altogether past calculation its
power- of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly
joyous -a spirit all sunshine. graceful from very gladness, beautiful because
bright ’(ilyle.
There are a few strong lines from Carlyle. You may not
remember those lines tomorrow. What of it?
The question is. What thoughts, if any. do Carlyle's words stir
up in YOI R OWN MIND?
Do you accept the statement as il is made, saying 1o yourself.
*' Very fine, indeed.' or do you think it over and question its sound
ness. or confirm it xvith your own thought .’
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Does it occur to you that it is all very well to say. "Give us the
man who sings at his work. ” but it is first necessary to get the
employer to give work at which a man CAN sing?
Stoking in the hold of a ship, under terrific heat, or working in
the hell hole of a sugar refinery, is not work conducive to song.
A man with a sick wife and half-fed children may do hard and
honest xvork. hut he will do il without singing.
Singing is a fine thing, but the kind of xvork that LETS a man
sing is finer and SCARCE.
The old kings knew, and modern rulers know, the value of
music —that is why they send soldiers but to murder each other
ith the hand playing’
Some day they will have the hand playing for men that do hon
est and useful work the baud will play for tired men digging irri
gation ditches to conquer deserts and Io men digging drainage
ditches to compter marshes, instead of playing only to men march
ing out Io kill.
In that day. when the music, the honors, lhe uniforms and
medals are given to those that work, and not merely to those that
kill and rule there will he no lack of cheerful men singing at their
wdrk. and dyspeptic (’arlyle. looking down, or up. at the world he
left dismal and morose, will see a very different earth and a differ
ent race- for there is not a man hut WOl LD sing at his work if
his work would LET him sing.
And it is NOT true that "efforts to be permanently useful
must be permanently joyous." for the slaves that built the perma
„ nently useful roads (ENDER THE LASH in old days were not
“joyous." and the mothers that have borne great and permanently
useful men in agony and in poverty xvere not "uniformly joyous."
By all means “Givg us. oh, give us, the man who sings at his
work.
But also, and first of all. give us. oh. give us, a civilization in
which work shall mean happiness, and the desire Io sing.
blf you want to do something useful to your own mind, rewrite
|m\\ that sax ing of Carlyle's, changing it to read according to your
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m MAN who si' s h<' Is 40 jours •'
Z*. Well off
in tills world’s goods, wiltes
me that he desires to marry, and
he wisiies a wife that will come tip
to till' following specifications:
"She must be a woman who will
wear her. hair short, ami a hat
something like a man that is. a
plain, simple hat that she can keep
on her head without spiking it or,
with hat pins She .must wear a
coal, waistcoat. plain shirt wai -t.
also with collar and tie like a
man's. There must be no llummer.v
about her dress.
"She must be able to sing a song,
tell a good story, and play a good
game of cards.
"She must be able to make allow
ances for my weaknesses, and
neither criticise me nor try to make
me over according to her taste.
"She must do tile marketing, and
be able to manage the home suc
cessfully. but neo. try to inter
fere in mj oftiee or business.
"She must leave religion and pol
itics on the back porch when 1 am
at home. 1 don’t care what she be
lieves, so long as she doesn't in
trude her opinions upon the."
Good Working Model.
What do you think of that as a
working model for a wife.' Pretty
i good. I think: and the man w.ho
gets that sor; of a good-fellow wit •
linn be short on a few romantic
thrills, but the one best bet is that
bo w ill be long oft comfort an I
happiness
line of the g at roubles in
married life comes from the fact
that men are more concerned in
picking out lady loves than they are
in choosing chums w hen thej- go a
wooing. Then when the time comes
—as it invariably does—when the
women are no longer lade- loves,
but just plain wives. they have
nothing upon which to fall back.
No man can go through life hold
ing his wife's hand, or writing son
nets to he eyebrows or sighing at
her feet and telling her she is the
most wonderful and beautiful ,-
title on earth He’s bound to come
down to earth, wher< people ■ it
three square meals a da\ and talk
about ordinary topics Then things
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are in a bad ease if it happens. ’
as It only too often does happen,
that husband and wife have noth
ing on earth in common exc pt the
gossamer surface attractions tha f
drew them together.
Mutual Tastes.
Il doesn't take long for matri
mony to tear romance to rags and
tatters, and rub off the gilding tlia'
made an o dinary woman .look an
angel to a man, and a ommon
piace man appear a hero in a girl's
1 ■s. Thon unless they have the
same tastes in a thousand different
little things, and the same interests
in the big ones, they are bound to
Jiiwn in each Others faces, and
when people begin to yawn across
the hearthstone Cupid packs up his
grip and departs. The real cause of
divorce is not the big sins of which
moralists prate. It's ennui. The
affinity and the charmer could
never get their work in on a home
unless boredom fust opened the
door to them.
Therefore the man is wise who
takes into consideration, fust of
all. a woman's congeniality to him.
anil her ability to entertain him,
in choosing his mate. He's build
ing his domestic happiness on a
sure foundation, for the charms lie
banks on are not ephemeral, nor
are they thl> ones of which a man
tires. Beauty fades, youth passes,
cute and kittenish ways become
mere evidence of imbecility as the
J ears go by. but the w oman who
can sing a good song and tell a
good -tore has within herself the
■ mrc" of perpetual fascination.
Wives’ Patron Saint.
She can keep a man Interested
and entertained, and that is the
secret of keeping a man nailed to
his ow n fireside. Women put their
faith in beauty, but let it be not
forgotten that it was not the good
lookers of the harem, hut the lady
with the glib tongue, who was en
abled to save her own neck, and
keep her lord enthralled while she
unwound the thousand and one ad
ventures of the Arabian Nights.
Believe me. the spellbinder. Sche
•z.erad . i- the one woman above al)
others who should be the patron
saint and exemplar of wives.
At tir'-i blush it would seem '.hat
" it would be easy enough for my
correspondent to find a wife who
could meet his requirements, but
alas! to find a woman who can in
deed sing a good song, and tell a
story, and play a good game of
cards, and who can take a man as
he is without trying to make him
over, is like starting forth to search
for a needle in a haystack! Women
possess all virtues but comrade
ship. They can be anything but
pals. They can love a man well
enough to die for him, but not
enough to let him go his own way.
There is nothing thajt women
complain of so much as that their
husbands do not like to take them
out. and it never occurs to these
left-at-home ladies that the fault Is
their own. It is the truth, however,
that the average • wife is such a
wet blanket on any festive occa
sion that after her husband has had
her enact the role of the spoil sport
for him a few times he decides to
henceforth take his pleasure excur
sions alone.
An Illustration.
• lust as an illustration of how lit
tle a woman understands how to
chum, w itch the next couple who
invite von to go automobiling with
them, and listen to the wife’s criti
cism of tier husband's driving, to
her objections to the route lie
takes, or the speed he is making.
She is one perpetual knock that
mi st make him want to drive in a
ditch and break her neck. Or
watch them at the theater, where
wife fusses because the seats are
where they ire instead of some
where else, or holds him responsible
for the plav. or spoils the most
thrilling by wondering if
they put out the ent. and if the
baby is uncovered. Or observe them
.it a restaurant, where she takes the
flavor out of the viands by count
ing up the t ost, and telling hubby
how bad everything he likes is for
his digestion.
Doubtless my correspondent has
tale n note of some of these wives,
which is whj' he puts good fellow
ship first op the list of the qualities
he demands in a wife. Ami lie's
right. Tile man who marries a
w'oman who can ehum with him
will never h:m med of the serv
ices of a divorce lawyer.
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
I Working For ‘
the Boss
h Health Is Capital. |
Sickness Is Ex- | i
pense. Anyone ' Igr
\\ hols \V ork in g <
> For Pay Capital- ‘j
’ izes His Skill and
Health About |
Equally. i ;
By THOMAS TAPPER.
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HEALTH is capital. Sickness is
expense.
? Anvone who is working for
< pay capitalizes his skill and Ins
s health about equally. He does busi-
’ ness with both.
A man who earns twenty dollars
; a week lias an annual income of
J one thousand dollars. This is all
the money that twentx thousand
■’ dollars can earn, safely invested at
, 5 per cent.
Hence the earner of twenty dol-
> lot's per xveek is a corporation cap-
? italized at twenty thousand dollars .
\ and paying a regular weekly divl-
IJend of twenty dollars.
The assets of this business may ;
be grouped about like this:
s 1. Knowing how to do the
> work SIO,OOO
i 2. Health 10.000
Total $20,000
These two factors arc very elose
s ly related, for the healthy man
without skill can earn little money:
and the skillful man without health
j can earn tittle or
t Now. ever so many people earn
> money and save some of it; but
{ very few earn health and save il.
< But as health is the basis of the
3 ability to work. It is better worth
saving than money is.
Whatever condition of health one
is in, is tlie result of habit, to a
large extent.
i Good Habits Help.
7 ' Good habits not only keep us well
today and allow us to increase skill,
'but they actually put health in the
bank for us. wltere it draws a high
rate of interest and accumulates.
Bad Habits are like the white ants
of the tropical countries. Tltcy find
their way into root, trunk, branch,
stem and every fiber. They work
unseen and eat the heart out of
everything they touch.
Then, one day, the wind blows
and down fhlls the tree which look
ed so sturdy and strong outside,
but which for a long time had been
concealing the trouble it had Inside.
11.
'P HERE ‘is Just one way to avoid
1 falling in a heap like an ant
riddled tree. Don't contract bad
habits. -And there is Just one way
to stand so firmly and to be so
strong that the winds of heaven
can not destroy you. Contract good
habits.
This contracting of good habits .
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The Last of Blackbeard
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Blackbeard. the most noted -J*
of the pirates of the Spanish
Main, ended his career and
ids life 194 years ago. Blackbeard,
whose real name was Teach, had
his main rendezvous in the Baha
mas, but often came into the
sounds of North Carolina for ref
uge. or for the hiding of his spoils.
The ravages of tile "Sea Wolves.”
of whom Blackbeard was the most
terrible, became so alarming that
the king of England dispatched
Captain Wooden Rogers, the man
who saved Alexander Selkirk from
his desert island, to break up their
nest in the southern seas. Rogers
was successful in capturing many
of them, but Blackbeard eluded hitn
and turned to his favorite refuge in
the Carolina sounds.
But it was impossible for the
arch-pirate to remain idle and he
was soon upon the high seas again,
looking for plunder. Fortune fa
vored him, and in August of the
year indicated above he captured
a rich French merchantman, which
he robbed and burned, taking his
treasure into Bath.
The news of the pirate's arrival
was sent to Governor Spottswood.
of Virginia, who determined upon
Blackbeard's capture. Obtaining
two small vessels and fitting them
out secretly with mon supplied from
an English warship that chanced
to he in the neighborhood, Spotta-
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'!• is an example of the waiting game.
And tlie waiting game is the hard
est game in tlie world to beat
Now. the good habits that Keei>
health top-notched are so-few and
simple that every one can culti
vate and practice them.
Let us begin tonight when work
is done and xve go home to supper
It is the very best of good habits
to be absolutely clean when we sit
down to the table to oat. It p.'.'. - to
eat enough, but not more th; n
enough, and to eat It in such
cheerful frame of mind that every
body else becomes ' heerfiil just
from being.wilh us. That is son .-
I limes a difficult habit to prai tli
1 but it is a great herilth-bringor.
| Try it.
i Improving the Mind.
If tlie evening hours ar. fre»,
they may be made to pax - in hea'l i
and skill. (You remember th :
health and skill are w orth T. n
Thousand Dollars eaeh per annti'o.
to a Twenty Dollars a week mai >
Let them improve the mind o'- <■
tertain it. or both. Almost any
man or woman can learn enough in
the evenings of two or three ywn
or so to double skill-capitalization.
(That means Iforty Dollars a wr .
instead of Twenty.)
The next thing is sleep. N.-iitirc
demands about so much of "h . n
every 24 hours, and must have it.
See that nature gets i’. She wi'i
pay a big return. To go to be,
clean and sleep enough to rest ti •
body thoroughly for another da; s
work is actually putting health im -
I the bank to be draxvn out in the
future. Many people of ' good
| hearts and bad judgment tempt u
j to sit up until 2a. m.. and so re
| duce our capitalized value for the
next day by one-halfr To a work
ingman that costs too much. He
can not afford it.
When we get up in the morning,
it will pay to forget utterly the old
rule: To live the day as if it were
your last.
Let us get up with the conviction
that this is the first. The slate *
wiped clean. Get a fresh sta
Keep the body Just as clean as pos
sible. Eat food cheerfully. I’-i
--good cheer around to everybody
else, and remember that we hat
a large area of lung space tha:
should be kept actlx'e by deep
breathing.
There is nothing cqmpTex about
good habits. They are the best
"pull" we have with the Boss and
A the l?ay Envelope.
4 wood sent them, tinder the com
ntand of Lieutenant Maynard,
look for Blackboard's vessel, t!
Adventure, which they discovered,
on November 23, near Ocracoke in
let. not far from Roanoke island.
in maneuvering, the Adventu <
v.as stranded, and as Maynan ■
vessel approached the pirate pour,
into it a murderous fire that swept
off many of its crew. But undaunt
ed, Maynard, ordering his men be
low, steered straight for the Ad
venture, and ns the vessels close..
Blackbeard and his crew sprati
upon the deck of the Virginian and
witli desperate courage attempt'
to capture her. But Maynard's men
were as desperate as the board
ers, knowing as they did that sur
render meant death, and. rushing
up from below, they met the pirates
in a hand-to-hand encounter, and
after a hard struggle succeeded in
overpowering them.
The Adventure carried eight can
non, and of the crew of eighteen
men. nine, including Blackheat
himself, were killed outright, at ■
nine, some of them mortally
wounded, were taken prisoners. <»f
tlie Virginians and Californian
t xelve were killed and twenty-tv
wounded.
But it uaa the last of Blackbea
and forever afterward the settle,
along the < 'arolina sounds had ' ■
more occasion to fear the king of
tin- sea-robbers.