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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Do You Want to Live a Few
Years Longer? Read This
Sit in the Middle of the Car on the Right Hand Side in A
STEEL Car. It Is Worth While to Form Habits
That May Save Your Life.
(Copyright, 1918.)
When you find your car, of steel or wood, take your seat, if
you can get it. in the MIDDLE of the car, on the RIGHT-HAND
SIDE.
The middle of the car is the safest place, because it is farthest
from both ends, where the bump will come in case of a head on or
rear-end collision.
The right-hand side is the safe side of the car—we mean the
side on your right as you look in the direction in which the train
is going.
The train goes on the right-hand track, and when you sit on
the right-hand side you are on the side away from the train that
will pass you on the other track.
Sometimes the train on the other track is a freight train
carrying a load of iron. If a piece of iron gets out of place it will
rip out all the windows on the side of the car next to it—and that
isn’t pleasant.
About once every month some passenger train is “side-
swiped.” That means that it is “swiped” all along its side by
something sticking out of a freight train on the other track. The
passengers also are apt to be “side-swiped —uncomfortable un
der such circumstances.
It is easy to form habits which become second nature and are
followed mechanically after awhile.
You may say, “Not all the passengers can possibly ride in the
middle of the car on the right-hand side, and not all can get into
the steel car if a wooden car is on the train." That is true. But
remember that the most careless and indifferent thing in the
world is the average human being.
Not one in a hundred will take the trouble to do the very
simple things in life that will prolong life and make it worth
while.
That is why not one in a hundred reaches life’s proper limit.
To Improve the World Begin
by Improving Yourself
Make Up Your Mind to Be One of the World's HONEST
Citizens.
The Atlanta^ Georgian
In the Movies In Real Life
There are various habits. One is the habit of riding properly
in trains, under ground, above ground, or on the surface.
First, find a STEEL car if you can. You can learn to tell the
steel cars from the wooden cars—even when the wooden cars are
painted to imitate metal.
The rivets and bolts on the steel car are your guide.
If you can’t find a steel car, of course you must ride in the
wooden car. If you do that, when the ride is finished talk to your
friends about persuading the distinguished lawmakers to forbid
wooden cars hereafter.
To improve the world begin by improving yourself.
Make up your mind to be one of the world’s HONEST citi
zens.
And here is an argument that should be more powerful with
you than self-interest:
Remember that the world needs honest, conscientious men
and women, able to do good work themselves and to people the
earth with children born of honest parents.
Your hardest effort may fail to achieve greatness. But hon
est work will at least make it impossible for you to be a failure.
Train your brain, nerves and muscles to regular, steady,
conscientious effort. Make up your mind that FOR YOUR
OWN SAKE you will make every effort your best effort.
You will soon And yourself a more successful, more self-
respecting, abler man or woman.
MERELY WORKING “FAIRLY WELL” IS NOT
ENOUGH.
If you want to rim a mile fast, you do not merely jog. You
try every day to run the mile faster than you did the day be
fore. If you want to learn to jump high, you strain your mus
cles and try over and over to do what you can’t do. Ultimately
you achieve it.
Keep that in mind when you work. Remember that you
must wind yourself up. The most watchful employer may dis
charge you. But he can not wind you up.
Be a self-winding machine, and keep yourself wound up.
Intelligent readers will not misinterpret this advice to mean
that they should OVERWORK themselves, or work regardless
of their own physical welfare .
The right course is this:
Do as much as you can in the present, without drawing on
your future reserves.
Don’t work ail night and then go on the next day. Such
effort impairs permanently your store of vitality, and that vi
tality is your capital.
But never form the habit of neglecting work, of shamming
and lying instead of achieving honestly.
You may deceive one employer, or ten. But you can’t de
ceive nature, and you can’t deceive yourself.
You can form good habits only through regular work. You
can develop your faculties only through exercising them hon-
tly ar^ systematically. (
Mysteries of
Science and
Nature
The Two-Part Life of
the Seals Which Voy
age Thousands o f
Miles Yearly Without
Chart or Compass, Is
One of the Most Fas
cinating of Scientific
Puzzles.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Neglected Wives
Discontented Women, She Says, Would Do Well to Read Newspaper
Records of Divorces and Think Well Before Blindly Asking
Sympathy and Advice From Another Man.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.)
A 1
MARRIED woman became
infatuated with a man who
was not her husband. She
wrote this man a letter every day.
Wild, reckless, impassioned, im
prudent letters, which the Judge
refused to allow re Ad in court.
She believed her lover would
guard her letters like precious
gems, and that he would in every
way protect her name.
The husband naturally, in time,
learned of the relations existing
between his wife and the other
man.
He began proceedings for a di
vorce.
So soon ns the lover learned of
this he went to the husband and
asked for a private interview.
Then he informed the injured
man that he had a package of let
ters in his possession which would
make it an easy matter for the
divorce to be gained.
Sacrificed Her to
Shield Himself.
The price he demanded for the
letters was the husband's promise
to obtain the divorce quietly and
make no mention of the corre
spondent's name.
And this was the Romeo for
whom a wife had sacrificed her
honor and her good sense, and her
self-respect!
What humiliation of spirit, what
self-contempt, what shame she
must have experienced when the
miserable story came to her
knowledge.
When the husband obtained his
divorce, the lover was not waiting
outside her door to sanctify the
relation by marriage.
He was hurrying to distant
scenes to avoid ar- unpleasant
notoriety.
He was one of many men who
are ever ready to enjoy the posi
tion of a lover to a married wom
an, but are not at all V^iger to
make the woman a wife after she
is freed.
That type of man feels it a cer
tain kind of honor tr be known
as a paramour of a married wom
an; but he regards it a dishonor
to be that woman's husband when
she is liberated and at his com
mand.
Yet in spite of the fact that
such cases are to be seen in the
It will be well for her if she
sits alone in her room and recalls
some of the cases she has per
sonally known, and seeks vainly
to find shining examples of bravo
and loyal lovers who have stood
boldly by their scandalized mis
tresses and protected them with
fine honor to th© very altar.
Lessens Her Own Value
In Eyes of Other Men.
And if she finds such exam
ples. she would do w r ell to follow
them through the years after the
marriage, and see how many
have brought the woman happi
ness in her new relations.
There is something about a
woman who has proven false to
her marriage vows and who has
compromised herself with an
other man which seems to lessen
her value even In the eyes of the
man who has led her into folly;
and it is seldom that peace or
happiness ever accompanies the
two across the threshold of a new
life.
Man are quick to boast of the
favors of married women.
But they do not prize them.
R CDYARD KIPLING, In one
of his poems, has referred
to the mystery of the pe
riodical disappearance of the seals
from their breeding grounds,
where the hunters cut them down.
His imagination appears to have
been deeply stirred by the strange
instincts of these animals, which
know the hidden ways of the sea
and travel where man can not
follow, with a sureness of course
and an unerring divination of ob
stacle and danger which, if pos
sessed by human pilots, would
make the navigation of the ocean
as simple as walking across a
room. And, indeed, it is a poetic
mystery.
Without chart or compass they
voyage thousands of miles, and
never go astray. They live in the
sunlight, and walk on the land
during months of every year, and
yet, when the time comes, they
plunge into the sea, disappear, at
will, in its dark profundities, seek
and find their winter homes, thou
sands of miles away, feed upon
the fish and squids in the depths
of the temperate or tropical ocean
and with the return of the north
ern spring, take their way once
more to the borders of the Arctic
ice.
These statements apply espe
cially to the fur seals of Alaska.
The less valuable “hair seals" are
a widely different species, al
though they, too, have their
strange annual migrations.
Fur Seals.
What adds to the mystery of
the fur seals is the fact that, un
like the others, they are, ana
tomically, allied to the bears,
whose behavior they strikingly
imitate when on land. For this
reason they were originally called
“sea-bears.” Thus they come into
a certain relationship with land
carnivores, or flesh-eating ani
mals of the land, which, though
they may swim, can not live un
der water.
Practically at least half the life
of these seals is passed beyond
our ken. They come up into our
world, like plants sprouting out
of the ground, when their sea
son is due, re-create their kind
on rocky beaches, or hill slopes,
remain until their land-born pro
geny has learned the secrets of
the water-world, and then go their
unhesitating way down in the
darknesses of the sea.
Tne family life of these ani
mals is as strange as their migra
tions. In the month of May, as
the sun begins to melt the ice
floes in the Behring Sea, around
the Prlbllof Islands, the black
heads of the "hull” seals may he
seen emerging from the water.
They are seeking the breeding
places for the “cows,” which will
come later. They have voyaged
thousands of miles with no
North Star but only their in
born instinct, to guide them.
They select, on the rocky coasts,
beaches and slopes to please
them—and then wait. Each bull
has his own ground, or “rook
ery." He Is alone, but he knows
that his company is coming.
In June the females begin to
arrive. They are small and frail
compared to the bulls, but they,
too, have made their way unerr
ingly. Then the “harems" are
organized. The bulls are like
Grand Turks; each of them has,
on the average, 30 members of
his harem. Once in a while some
unfortunate (or fortunate!) has
hut one; but, on the other hand, a
few have as many as a hundred!
Have No Harems.
The lot of the young bulls,
"bachelors,” the seal fishermen
call them, has a kind of poetic in
terest also. They have no har
ems. not even one with a siijgla
Inmate. They collect together in
companies near the harems that
they can not enter, and loo£ on
and think. Perhaps they con
struct romances of the future in
their poor, muddled brains. But
their lot has another unhappy
feature since man has learned the
value of their hides, for they can
be unmercifully slaughtered with
out fear of diminishing the herd.
They are driven off by hunters at
night, corralled in musters that
may number thousands, and then
lgnomlnlously knocked on the
head.
The breeding season closes
about August 1. Then the bulls
go away, followed by the females
and the young, to lead their other
life in the sea.
An indication of how little has
been known, until very recently,
of that other life of the seals Is
afforded by this singular fact.
When the United States and Great
Britain combined their wisdom in
an effort to protect the precious
herds from utter extinction, about
1893. a protected limit was drawn
about the islands, with a radius
of 60 miles from shore, within
which it was forbidden to kill
seals found in the water.
Hieir Wanderings.
It was thought that few would
go away farther than that. But
to the surprise of everybody the
"pelagic,” or open-sea fishermen,
made the very next season, with
out violating the protective boun
daries. the largest catch on rec
ord. Then it was found that the
seals were limited by no such
narrow bounds of oceanic wan
dering as had been ascribed to
them, but that they might be
encountered in abundance almost
anywhere north of California and
Japan! So now, by a fifteen-year
convention, pelagic sealing is
prohibited anywhere In the
Northern Pacific, Japan Joining in
the agreement with Great Brit
ain and the United States.
Seeing Without Eyes
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
JACK
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
world all about us, other women
take no warning, and rush into
similar compromising situations,
blindly believing the affinity will
be eager and glad to claim her as
his own, once she is free.
NeglectedWives Should
Ponder Over Question.
When a wife, however, neglect
ed and misused she may be. be
gins to confide her trouble to
another man, and to seek for his
sympathy, it will be well for her
if she turns over the files of old
newspapers and reads some of
the divorce trials which are oc
curring and recurring $very year.
T AOK was a youth who was fond of thrills,
j And bravely he followed the pace that kills.
/ He plunged, because he was young and strong,
At cards and women and wine and song.
Laughing at plea or at stern command,
He sowed wild oats with a reckless hand.
Debt and illness, ruin and rack
Came to the boys who trained with Jack.
A gray old man came along one day
And watched Jack throwing his strength away.
“It won’t work, boy,” he said with a smile,
“It’s better to walk than to run a mile.
How can I ask you to listen to me?
I never would listen myself, you see.
The cost of it all was wasted years
And a shattered frame—and a woman’s tears.
The truth will dawn on you, boy, at last.”
Then out the door the old man passed.
Jack is as old and as sad to-day
As the pitying stranger who crossed his way.
He weighs the past and ho counts each loss:
The gifts that he threw away like dross,
The painted cheeks and the mocking gin,
The golden years that he gave to sin.
And ever he sees a ghost in gray—
The stranger who warned him and walked away.
—"Tou write in the science
column recently of seeing
without eyes. Kindly ex
plain the phenomenon of seeing
with the eyes closed, i. e., when
we are in slumber and dream, or
when under the Influence of an
esthetics.”
A.—This is one of the most im
portant mentological questions
now before mentalists. Able
books are now being published on
this fascinating subject. The rig
idly scientific definition of the
word "seeing" is with eyes, optic
nerves and optical "brain-area,”
or thalamus, by aid of light. But
"sensing,” becoming aware of the
existence of forms, not objective
ly. but subjectively, without light,
is a very wide department of
mentonomy. And the vision, or
impression of seeing, is as clear,
distinct and accurate as that due
to light. The cause is unknown.
Here is » case out of several
thousands on file here in the li
brary: A girl was standing by
a window overlooking a railroad
and landscape. She suddenly saw
a train with one car draped in
black, and called her mother.
The woman could see no train,
and gave her daughter a whip
ping lor lying. Next day a funeral
train cams pr-cisely as observed
by the girl.
No physical science can hope to
offer any explanation. There are
a few scholars now living whose
minds are so very powerful that
they can think a thought that has
not been thought before. There
may be as many as 600 now alive
and thinking. Suppose fchat one
of these should say: ‘1 made up
my mind to go,” and that some
body hearing this, should ask the
meaning of "I” and "my.” The
wise man, even if a mathemati
cian capable of weighing the
sidereal universe, would not,
could not, even begin to think of
a reply. What the human mind
or personality is is as completely
unknown now as when Badaray-
ana began to study centuries B. C.
Here is the appalling thing now
before the people for solution.
There are perfectly sane, innocent
people dying by Inches in asy
lums for the insane for doing the
same as did this little girl. And
here In the twentieth century
people are "tried” by other peo
ple totally ignorant of what little
is known of the action of mind,
or of its real nature, or what it
is; and hurried to these asylums,
where the sane are soon driven
Insane by the terrific and hideous
surroundings. ,