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HERE’S HOWE
BY E. W. HOWE
■The Saga of Potato
Hill”
Day*—Good Conduct
—Advico
Fiction i* a poor thins: compared
with fact*. I suppose I know the
story of the Siege of Troy, from
having read a little of it, and hear
ing of it many years. It never inter
ested me. it* incidents seeming chil
dish, specially that one of the river
taking side.-, and leaving it* hanks,
at command of the gods, to incon
venience some of the combatants.
Hut I read of Napoleon, a real
man, with absorbing interest. Every
little while there '» new book about
him, and I am not satisfied until I
get hold of it. His life was crowd
ed with incidents an ordinary man
can in some mcnsiire understand.
Mi. first wife hud an impudent l!]nt lhjl<
troubles.mfe, highly-bred and ugly <>( j ,j,, un _
little dog he hated; he was so fre
quently away from home on his big
affairs that the dog did not know
him, and it occasionally bit the con-
CUKDE POST
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
If You Waat i
1 Li»« Longer-
H eart i* ueaxt
TA.rll
TALK*
Childhood Goa
One i
With the advance of civilisation
the span of life has increased. Statis
ts* now show that the average is
years. A hundred years ago the av
age was but thirty-one years, and of
course centuri s ago the average
appallingly lower. Public health
officials are proud of ths pre.-ent
figures. "We are educating people an
into learning how to live," they say. • • • M
All of which is true. But the work ^' rft •
of health education has only jus* be- nb ‘oluti
gun. I look forward to the day when
nen and women will live to be a hun- God wi
dred years old and still enjoy life. ^
This Utopia will not come
the first "thrillers” of my
youth was a story, wherein a boy of
about my own size killed a ferociou
giant with a small round pebble hurl
ed from his ling. This giant
was a double-dyed villain, and,
needed killing. The boy became i
king, and a hero; hi* name is, even
yet, among the best known of earth.
. . . My mother told me this story
first; and, she assured me of its
ruth. I*have never quo
to this day. The told m
with young David; that I
p Him with me, sc that
ild not harm me.
te was the story of
, who thoughtlessly
his father’s prize
>o, will stay with
qU' l
He
i bribe
ould :
to get rid of the dog. b
with all his power.
I have heard all my life *hnt when
a man “amounts to something,"*his
wife reverences and obeys him. Prob-
ably Napoleon amounted to more,
considering everything, than any
other man that ever lived, but both
his wives were unfaithful, and made
n specialty of nagging him.
Jo my
idont ii
lind the
Napole
life
return from Elba. He wa» a pris
oner o fthc allied tuitions, after his
disgrace at Wnterb o. His own coun
try was in hostile hands; his sol
diers had turned against him. Yet
he landed in France, almost alone,
and marched toward Pari*. As he
encountered soldiers sent ugainst
him, he spoke to them, and they were
converted to his cause: when he ap-
pronchchd the gate*-: of Paris, he had
a vast army at his heels, and the
king fled, taking hi- treasure with
him. which the people on th« other
side of F.-nnce captured to lay at the
feet of this impulcnt. strangely pow
erful and lovable man.
He walked the steps of the king’s
palace, removed his travel-stained
clothing, went to hod in security,
and fell asleep to the sweet sound
of “Long live Napoleon!"
In all his omnipotence God never
witnessed n stranger scene.
through any new discovery of sci
once, but through a more complete
-duration in matters pertain njr ti
health and everyday life. cherry-tree; i
through you young people alwny just
f life will be hand- ">" tb,r read it to me. Its wonderful
ed down, for you stand on the verge moral le8 *°n, more potent for good
of a great adventure. For many of m ° s * ‘ f modern teaching—"I
you life is only just beginning. And cannot tell a lie! A liar is just a
you can make almost anything of other dress—and more to
that life—if you will. Certainly you 1,0 despised. You car. padlock against
can live longer. To do this you must the thief, not the liar,
first of all know yourself. Many Those dear old book*! There were
ibout four of them; we read
aver and over again.
flat on your back in a bed to be .■‘irk* ting much of their content
nor do you have to be in pain. The 0ne had to be careful handling
most dangerous kind of sickr - i* a thcm: man >’ » t"™ I washed my
general run-doWn condition. Ask hands before being entrusted with
yourself these questions: , the treasured volumes.
Do all my organs function normal- comes the—what shall I call
ly? Am I nervous? Billion*? Irrit- him? Critic? Modernist?—whoh
able? Ka-ily upset? Mentally unde- thp world tho ‘* Tories nro
cidtd? Lack the ability to concen-\ fabc! 1 ,,n not know what he ex-
trate.' Are there dancing spots he- P ,lls to « oin b >’ Buch allegations,
fore my eyes? Do I wake up in the Certainly ho cannot make the world
mnminjr «o Ivey I c -.n barely droit! ”' Uh “ urt ht ' re »>’- tor il ■»
myself about?
physically unfit without
If you feel
of
When good conduct does not pay,
I do not urge it; indeed, I believe
that when a man’s conduct is not
generally profitable, it is not good,
and he should change it. The scheme
of life contemplates a healthy, nor
mal body, and in 05 per cent, of
births is natural inheritance. This
entails food getting, shelter, asso
ciation with pleasing creatures of
our kind, and thus Conduct is born.
As it is good or had, we succeed or
fail.
present you can
rest assured there i* something vital
ly wrong with the mechanism <>f your
body. To realize this is the first
st -p towards prolonging your life.
Don't be alarmed. You may have
all of these symptoms and still not
he ir. a serious condition. You art-
suffering from a common form of
self-poisoning due to absorption by
the colon of the poisons in the waste
food products in your body.
The next step to prolonging your;
life i? to cleanse the colon of its ac j
cumulrtcd derbis and after that to |
keep it free from the life-destroying |
poisons that multiply so rapidly when j
: the colon is congested. This is only
accomplished by regular elimination.
The third step is to live normally.
Work, play, exercise, think, relax,
in just the right proportions. Culti
vate n happy frame of mind and cut
out worry. No doctor or physical
culturist can do this for you. They
may prescribe, hut you must do the
work. Drugs • f any kind will only
exaggerate whatever your faulty 1
condition may be. If you doubt—try
it out and sec. And when you are |
convinced, pa^s this life-giving infor-i
motion along to your children that
they may start right—from the be
ginning.
nothing else! I could excuse a polit
cal muck-raker, but not the vandal
who seeks to tear down the beaut
ful, the good, the inspiring ideals
which my dear mother implanted
within me to stay. I am writing
just ms 1 feel: If more of our boy, a more lmw-mbidin- people for our The Edde is the buok of th
fortified against lying—if more | toture Shame on the defamer of | thologk.l lore dfJSenuUuvia,
of them were given practical illuatra- _ (
tlona of God's power, we might have 'Ideals.
ten by Snorri Sturluson in the
century.
Such Purity safeguards
the pause that refreshes —»
Just as Coca-
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distanced all
other drinks in popular
favor, so have the meth
ods used in its manufac
ture been carried to the
very pitch of scientific
perfection.... Coca-Cola
comes to you pure as sun
light. It invites you to re c t
from work the same as.
from play—to pause for a
minute and enjoy its ice-
cold, delicious taste with
that cool, wholesome,
after-sense of refreshment.
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When most people talk, they nre
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man in Michigun who has long made
a business of giving ndvice about
securing employment, and who has
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all his life in advising others a
health, and is himself ill, and >
ing to others for advice.
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