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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.)
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.
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 yon 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.
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 find yourself a more successful, more self-
respecting, abler man or woman.
MERELY WORKING “FAIRLY WELL” IS NOT
ENOUGH.
If you want to run 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
uf their own physical welfare .
The right course is this:
Do as much as you can in the present, without drawing on
pour future reserves.
Don’t work all 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
md 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
estly and systematically.
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Elia 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
A 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 read 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 as 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 w’hen 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 eager to
(Copyright, 1913,
make the w oman a wife after she
is freed.
That type of man feels it a cer
tain kind of honor tc 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
by Star Company.)
It w r ill be well for her if she
sits alone in her room and recalls
some of the cases sh e has per
sonally known, and seeks vainly
to find shining examples of brave
and loyal lovers who have stood
boldly by their scandalized mis
tresses and protected them with
fine honor to the very altar.
Lessens Her Own Value
In Eyes of Other Men.
And if she finds such exam
ples. she would do well 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.
Men are quick to boast of the
favors of married women.
But they do not prize them.
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 tiles of old
newspapers and reads some of
the divorce trials which are oc
curring and recurring every year.
2
JACK
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
J ACK whs a youth who was fond of thrills,
Anil bravely he followed the pave that kills.
He plunged, because he was young and strong.
At cants aud 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 ron 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 he 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.
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Mysteries of
Science and
Nature
The Two-Part Life of
the Seals Which Voy
age Thousands of
Miles Yearly Without
Chart or Compass. Is
One of the Most Fas
cinating of Scientific
Puzz’es.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
R UDYARD KIPLING, In one
of his pofcms, 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 rtie time comes, they
plunge into the sea, disappear, at
will, fn its dark profundities, seek
and find their winter homes, thou
sands of miles away, feed upon
the fi8h.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 tfre 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.
The 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 Pribilof Islands, the black <
heads of the “bull” seals may be
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 hull
has his own ground, or “rook
ery.” He Is alone, but he know*
that his company 1s coming.
In June the females begin te
arrive. They are small and frail
compared to the bulls, bat 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
but 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 peal fishermen
call them, has a kind of poetic in
terest also. They have no har
ems, not even one with a single
inmate. They collect together in
companies near the harems that
they can not enter, and look 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
ignominlously 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
1S93, 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.
Their Wanderings.
It was thought that few would
Bui
go away farther than that,
to the surprise of everybody th
"pelagic.” or open-sea flshermei
made the very next season, with
out violating the protective boun
daries, the largest catch on rec
ord. Then it was found that th
seals were limited by no sue
narrow bounds of oceanic war
dering as had been ascribed t
them, but that they might b
encountered in abundance almos
anywhere north of California an
Japan! So now, by a fifteen-yea
convention, pelagic sealing :
prohibited anywhere in th
Northern Pacific, Japan Joining i
the agreement with Great Bril
ain and the United States.
Seeing Without Eyes
By EDGAR LUC1EN LARKIN.
—“You writ© in th© science
column recently of seeing
# without eyes. Kindly ex
plain the phenomenon of seeing
with the eyes closed, i. e., when
w© 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 mentallsts. 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, w ithout 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 a 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 for lying. Next day a funeral
train came precisely as ohserv
by the girl.
No physical science can hop©
offer any explanation. There a
a few scholars now living who
minds are so very powerful th
they can think a thought th$t h
not been thought before. The
may be as many as 500 now all
and thinking. Suppose that o
of these should say: “I made i
my mind to go,” and that som
body hearing this, should ask t
meaning of “I” and “my.” T
wise man, even if a mathemat
clan capable of weighing t
sidereal universe, would m
could not, even begin to think
a reply. What the human mil
or personality Is is as complete
unknown now as w-hen Badara
ana began to study centuries B.
Here is the appalling thing nc
before the people for solutic
There are perfectly sane, innoce
people dying by inches in as
lums for th© insane for doing t
same as did this little girl. Ai
here In the twentieth centu
people are “tried” by other pe
pie totally ignorant of what lit!
is known of the action of mir
or of its real nature, or what
is: and hurried to these asylurr
where the sane are soon driv.
insane by th© terrific and hideo
surroundings. w _