137.32 T66P the diaphragm and expels a portion of the air from the lungs. Now hold the breath another instant, then make another vigorous Ha, expelling more air, Eepeat the Ha’s in this way until the lungs are entirely emptied of air, taking care to catch no breath between Ha’s. You will note that this exercise bears a strong resemblance to a hearty laugh continued to the point of breathlessness and doubling up. Make it as much of a laugh as you can! And repeat until you feel thoroughly refreshed and happified. Such an exercise may be practiced several times a day with great profit and pleasure — whether you stoop over your work, or not.n7212 ¶1
All ill or depressed feelings are due to depletion of nerve force.n7212 ¶2
All breathing exercises inei-ease nerve force, as a little practice will prove.n7212 ¶3
All depressed or ill feelings mean brace up and breathe.n7212 ¶4
Blessed is the man who, knowing a thing, goes and does it.n7212 ¶5
Listen to WiUiam J ames :n7212 ¶6
"Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience^ in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of forming, BUT IN THE MOMENT OE THEIR PRO- DUCING MOTOR EFFECTS, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new ‘set’ to the brain.”n7212 ¶7
How to Xreat Bugs and People.n7212 ¶8
“Is it aj^ainst the laws of mental science to kill animals, insects or reptiles?” M. H.n7212 ¶9
There is hut one law of mental science, and I Imow no better statement of that law than Jesns gave — you sow so shall 3’'ou reap/^ This is the one unbreakable law through all time, space and eternity, Man glimpses this one unbendable and unbreakable law and forthwith issues a multitude of breakable laws intended to keep himself and his fellow men from sowing what no man wants to reap.n7212 ¶10
Because he glimpsed the one law Moses issued ten thon-shalt-nots which are eqiiivalent to the statement that if you do the things foi’bidden by the ten commandments you will suffer. Moses told his people what not to sow in order to avoid unpleasant reaping.n7212 ¶11
And his people proceeded to sow the very things he forbade — like the children whose mother left them with the parting injunction never to put beans up their noses, and who, having nothing else to do straightway invented a new play of singing with their noses full of beans. Moses’ people pondered over the forbidden things and were not content imtil they had experimented a bit to prove if the doing of them would bring the dire visitations Closes hinted at. In even the veriest coward there is a divine daring which urges him to try things for himself. Of course the breakers of kloses’ laws seeing no immediate ill results, and finding pleasure in the forbidden things, were encouraged to continue in ill doing.n7212 ¶12
Closes’ laws in a great measure defeated their own purpose.n7212 ¶13
And his laws and defeated purposes are reincarnated in every generation since. Especially do they manifest in parents who raise ( ?) their children on the don’t plan. All governments are built on the don’t plan; they abound in uncountable thou-shaltnots, with never a hint as to things one may do with pleasure and profit. And every individual tries to bring himself up on the don’t plan — especially if he is born in New England.n7212 ¶14
Oh, yes, it is all good; all don’ts rouse the I AM to investigation and experience ; and investigation and experience develop reason and intelligence, and make soft the heart of man. If it were not for the don’ts we’d still be lost in the wilderness of ignorance which is not bliss but stupidity.n7212 ¶15
But "(viieii we wake up to mind science we have gone far enongli on the don’t line. Let’s qnit saj^dng thou shall not do an;i*thing.n7212 ¶16
“All ihings are lawful but all things arc not expedient.” Let the individual, so long as he does not inLcrfere with the freedom of others, be his o'wn judge as to what is expedient at anj- particular time or place.n7212 ¶17
The law is this;— What you sow you shall reap. Let ns not obscure the law with countless don’ts. This is the age for fulfilling the law, not for maldng more laws.n7212 ¶18
lliis is tlie do age; not the don’t age. Liet us do unto others and ourselves what in oui' kindest judgment we would have done unto us; for only so shall we sow what we want to reap.n7212 ¶19
To say ‘Hhou shalt not kill insects,” or ‘‘thou shalt not eat lamb” is to interfere with individual freedom.n7212 ¶20
To say, ‘‘if you kill insects or sheep you cannot be a mental scientist, ’ i& futile ; your saying so, or mine, does not make it so. If it is so it will be so without our saying it; if it is not so our saying will not make it so. Then why say it?n7212 ¶21
The fact of the matter is that eveiy individual makes his oym laws of conduct ; which he has a perfect right to do so'long as he does not infringe the rights of others. If we could only be content to stop here !n7212 ¶22
but we don t. Thou shalt do as 1 do, is the cry of the old savage instinct not yet quite outgTown by even us mental scientists.n7212 ¶23
And then, to say “if you kill insects oi’ sheep you cannot be a mental scientist,” is to state what is not so. The best of us is scientific in spots only ; and to lay down that law for another is as unscientific as to kill insects or sheep ; and neither of those (nor any other), inaccuracies of thought can debar us from mental-scienee-hood, any more than our blunders in the school room can debar from the school room and studenthood.n7212 ¶24
Law-making for others is not scientific ; but we all do it — ^because we have not yet outgrown it. But let us not encourage the unscientific in ourselves and others.n7212 ¶25
Let us be free.n7212 ¶26
Let us go in for federation without formulation of creed.n7212 ¶27
Let us be scientific enough to let our next door neighbor kill his potato bugs with Paris green whilst we “treat” ours.n7212 ¶28
What difference does it make anywaj'^, whether we treat the bugs to a violent death in a shower of poison, or merely treat them to get off our potato plants and die of stan-ation? To be entirely consistent on this non-killing line we would be compelled to ti’eat the bugs to increase and multiplj'’ and be happy in our potato patch.n7212 ¶29
If I were a potato bug I'd like that; but if I were a bug and had my choice between a patch treated with Paris green and one treated with the thought that I’d starve out and get off the earth, I’d take the former. A short life with plenty to eat and then a quick death, beats starvation _or a lingering and lonely old age.n7212 ¶30
If I were a farmer instead of a potato bug, I’d probably use hath thought and Paris green. Paris green, like all other “material means,” and indeed the entire visible universe of “matter,” is simply congealed thought, — thought compressed and canned for easj’' use. If congealed thought is easier and more effective as a potato bug exterminator why use so much fresh thought which might be better directed where canned thought is not effective ? Give me a little Paris green and common sense along with my fresh thought at least as long as my next door neighbors use neither.n7212 ¶31
For myself, I believe cleanliness is godliness. I believe in keeping things so clean by the aid of the sort of congealed thought commonly called water, tinctured with other brands of congealed thought commonly termed ammonia or soap, or gold dust, applied with elbow grease and fresh thought — I believe in keeping things so clean by these means that unpleasant insects will hie themselves to the quarters of my neighbors who happen to believe less in the use of these particular sorts of congealed thought. If I were a farmer I ’d use enough cultivation and Paris green and fresh thought to keep the dugs from coming to life on my vines and trees; then I’d have none to be sentimental over.n7212 ¶32
All forms of life seem to generate almost spontaneously when given favorable environment. Dirt and neglect produce the right environment for insects and weeds. Uncultivated corners are the breeding places of reptiles, which flee from cultivated flelds. Moral, keep the house clean, cultivate the earth, and forget not the corners. In due time cleanliness and cultivation will make the whole world blossom as the rose and the woolly aphis will be no more.n7212 ¶33
You may depend upon it that there are no more disease germs, insects and reptile.'^ in this world than are necessary to keep the world from mortifying. Disease germs and insects thrive on dead and dying things. The human body which is alive enough will not support disease germs ; this means that the human being who is alive all over is clean all over — elimination of effete matter is pei'fect — he is active and positive enough to keep his bodj" ‘^throwing off^^the refuse as fast as it is made. The half-alive man is carrying dead and dying matter wliei'e disease germs increase and multiply because they are needed as scavengers ; needed to feed on the offal. Nice, isn’t it? But true. Moral, look alive! Don’t let overfeeding, under-exercising, under-breathing and low thinking make of youi’ body an offal heap for disease germs.n7212 ¶34
Around half cleaned sinks cockroaches come to feed on the dirt. Plies swarm to fatten on crumbs and the steam and smoke of cooking meats. Eveiy housekeeper and meat market keeper knows what attracts flies. Wooden beds left standing for years, the cracks and creases gradually filling with dead cells from nightly occupants, are fat pasture for unspeakable droves. Walls of old rooms steeped in the effluvia of its steaming residents who batten the windows and stuff the keyhole to keep out the cleansing air, are loud invitations to the sefme unspeakable hordes, which can not thrive in the open air. Moral, — but it is too obvious.n7212 ¶35
Keep your own corners sweet; let light, and air, and wind, and water, and elbow grease, and fresh, interested thought, do their perfect work and you will not need to kill insects, either by poisons or special '‘treatments.”n7212 ¶36
If, when you journey away from your own cultivated premises, a snake should happen to cross your path, why, let it cross. It will not bother you unless you bother it. Neither will it follow you to cultivated land. The spirit of live and let live will charm even a rattler. Set not your foot needlessly upon a worm. If you go in to possess the land hitherto possessed by the worm, do it by cultivating and enriching the earth ; and the worm will flee of his OAvn accord.n7212 ¶37
Let your neighbor kill snakes if he wishes. That is his affair. Snakes are doomed anyway. Don’t be sentimental about the manner of their extermination — a blow from the spade of a farm hand is no worse than the shrivelling of aid age. Even the butcher’s shambles, horrible as they are, are preferable to death by consumption or cancer, or starvation. Mix your sentimentality with a little common sense, dearie, and remember that as soon as possible we shall do away with all killing and aU need of it.n7212 ¶38
In the meantime keep sweet yourself and remember that an ounce of cleanliness will prevent a pound of killing. The very best you can do for this world is to live and let live — to set it a good example.n7212 ¶39
And don’t set it a good example for the sake of no llie example— for effect; or yoix will spoil the effect. Just forget effect and live j'our own sweetest and best life for its own sake — for the sake of your own soul — the place where God sits and smiles “well done” atn7212 ¶40
And in all and through all remember that all life is ONE; that each form of life lasts out its purpose and usefulness and gives place to higher forms ; that no form passes until its usefulness is past; that the fonii of its passing matters little. Remember that the One Spirit informs all manifestations of life, and that when the One Spirit is satisfied with a form of life that form vill be perpetuated. Ever}-^ passing away makes room for a higher expression of life.n7212 ¶41
Who knows but your highest life, or mine, may satisfy so well the One Spirit that it will perpetuate you or me forever? Let ’s live our best and see. Let’s not be distracted by the manner of living of our neighbors.n7212 ¶42
Let’s do unto others as we would have them do unto us; but don’t let us be sappy about it, or we shall be blinded to the real truth of what we would have done unto us. Nothing so quickly and effectually obscures right judgment as a punctilious consideration of surface feelings. Judge not according to the outward appearance of any particular experience or act, blit judge tlie righteous judgment which issues forth at touch of the inner spirit wliich is the true cause experiences and acts ; for no action or line of action is an isolated fact — it is a partial result of uncounted actions which have gone before, not one of which can he rightly judged without its refei’ence to the whole.n7212 ¶43
It is as much as any of us can do to make his own laws and live up to them; indeed I wonder if it isn’t more than any of us can do. Would you thank me for making fui'ther laws for you to live up to— you who have not yet succeeded in living up to your own self-made code of laws ? Of course not. Then do unto me as you would have me do unto you — ^lay no further burdens of laws upon me, but when opportunity offers give me a lift at keeping the laws I’ve made for myself, and which I can’t evade without a smiting from conscience.n7212 ¶44
Wliy, don’t you remember ?— the same Spirit of Good which works in you is moving me also ; and I am responding just as fast as I can. Wlien I am as full grown as j’-ou are in some lines I’ll be making for myself the very laws you have the impulse to make for me.n7212 ¶45
In the meantime, hands off ; unless you are invited to make laws for me — or to keep me from making laws for jmu.n7212 ¶46
JacK Spratt’s "Wife.n7212 ¶47
To reduce flesli the only sneeessful method I know of is that of applying new thought to the reduction of the food supply to fit the real and scientific needs of the body.n7212 ¶48
Too much flesh means too much eating, and it never means anything else.n7212 ¶49
Now don’t point at your skinny neighbor who eats twice as much as you do. He manufactures motive energy whilst you manufacture fat, and he does not assimilate his food as you do. Most of his is simply tin-own out as waste matter, whilst all is blood grist that comes to your mill.n7212 ¶50
It is a matter of “temperament.” Temperament is the simi of the settled habits of thought. You are a “negative,” open to receive and enjoy new ideas. All foods are mental foods. Just as you ai-e “open to receive new ideas” and use them, so your body (your mental statement) is “open to receive” and use and store up food.n7212 ¶51
Not so with your skinny neighbor. He is active, positive, set in his way. When you present a new idea to him he smiles sarcastically, looks it up and down and will have none of it. He accepts one new idea to your fifty. His food is served the same way. You might stall feed him until he died from accumulated refuse, but he simply can’t accept, assimilate, enough food to get fat on. He must first change his temperament before he can get fat— and that is only done by the slow forming of new mental habits.n7212 ¶52
Perhaps your dominant physical function is the digestive. That means that it is easier for jmu to digest and assimilate food than to do anything else. Haven’t you seen women who were so fond of crocheting new patterns of lace that they would sit around at all hours in a dirty room, with rmtidy dress, and crochet lace? I have. Your body has grown so fond of that particular sort of assimilative activity that it will keep on crocheting until it clogs your body up to the fatty degeneration pitch — or lack of pitch; — if you don’t choke it ofi:. Use your “new thought” to command your food supply and your “natural tendencies.” Keep eholdng olf the fat producing foods and using your energies in active physical exercise until you get your body into a healthy, beautiful shape. Begin by living a whole week, or more, on absolutely nothing but unsweetened and un-creamed fniit, and water and air and exercise, and you ^dll have made a rapid stride toward your ideals. Fruit, water and air are the great eliminators ; and the first thing you need is to have all those stagnant fat cells dissolved and eliminated.n7212 ¶53
If you use plenty of vigorous exercise whilst reducing your weight your skin will never become wrinkled or your flesh flabby.n7212 ¶54
Yes, fasting help spare people as well as fat. iilany people eat so much it makes them poor to get rid of the refuse. We all give our digestive apparatuses too much to do. Most of our ills are due to eating more than we a.ssimilate; and there is not a human disease from biliousness, or headache, or the drink habit, to insanity, stupidity, or ugly disposition, which cannot he greatly relieved if not entirelj’’ cured, f>y judicious fasting.n7212 ¶55
For one who is used to three square meals to suddenly stop eating and take a long fast will in a majority of eases produce a physical revolution of serious proportions. All radical and sudden changes are more or less dangerous. Whoever experiences mipleasant effects from fasting has either applied the food bi-akes too suddenly, or he has fasted under protest, thus deranging nature by adverse auto-suggestions.n7212 ¶56
liien, of course, there is the other and ver}’" small class of people udio suffer from the effects of very long fasts taken to outdo some other body^s z'ecord. Anybody can train himself to long fasts ; but when he determines to break some record of fasting, where he sets a stake and determines to reach it at any cost, he (generally she) is veiy apt to overdo the matter and reap serious consecjuences.n7212 ¶57
A fast of twenty-four or forty-eight hours will not only hull nobody, but it Arill benefit anybody. Only adverse auto-suggestions can prevent benefit from such a fast. And every man’s own natural hunger will indicate to him not only the hour but the proper food with which to break his fast. After thirty-six or forty-eight hours the fast should be broken at the first sign of hunger and watering of the mouth, and the kind of food desired is the proper one with which to break the fast, only taking great pains to masticate very thorouglily. This is always easy after a judicious fast broken at nature’s own call. One is never ravenous after a fast, and his food tastes so good he is in no hurry to swallow it.n7212 ¶58
It is the over-fed stomach which manifests in a ravening appetite. A fast will stop the cra^fing;n7212 ¶59
unci repoutcd, sliort fasts TS’ill cura ony abnormal appetite. Long fasts are rarely needed except in cases of severe diseases of long standing, and sliould alvays be preceded by repeated short fasts, continued until tlie system can stand a long fast with almost no loss of flesh or strength. When a man feels hotter and stronger during a fast than when not fasting, he is ready to lengthen his periods of fasting if he wishes. Of course the non-breakfast and the one-meal-a-day pi'aetiees are the mildest foi*ms of fasting, and it is well to grow well accustomed to these before taking longer fasts. Use gumption and moderation, and you will gain only good from fasting.n7212 ¶60
Xo Heal Asthma, Etc.n7212 ¶61
(■A. ipan wrote to ask me what to do for his wife, who is an asthmatic. In repi}’’ I sent him the following letter — which is about five times as long as I generally write. E. T.)n7212 ¶62
The “Great Deliverer” within her can free her completely if she will do her part. Will she? Does she want to be free’ badly enough to work for it ? I have had many successful cures of asthma among people who have followed my directions. Will she? Here thej’' are.n7212 ¶63
First of all she must drop all meat out of her diet. Nothing to eat between meals. Breakfast of raw fruit alone, unsweetened and un-creamed. Nothing to di’ink but water. At noon a good dinner of vegetables, fruits, cereals, whole wheat or graham bread. Unsweetened grape juice and water to drink. No tea or coffee at any time. She can have ‘ ‘fig prune cereal” or “postum” if she wishes, with cream and sugar, at noon meal only. At night she is to use three or four teaspoons, three probably, of grape nuts, wet with n!is\veetcned grape .iuico and water, half and half; and all the raw fruit f:he can want.n7212 ¶64
Blie is to i-ead Solar Plexus book every day for a iiiouth and get into the spirit of it. and .shine for dear liie all the time! She is to take at least thirty slow, lull, even hi’eaths of outdoor air every day, increasing the number until .she reaches one hundred. Whilst doing Ih.is she is to stand oi’ sit straight, chest out, and hreathc down and out. taking pains to hold the breath and tlien let it out more slowly and evenly than .she took it in. Per.sistence will make perfect in this. She is to do it as well as she can lujlil she can do it as ■'■>(-11 as anybody. ith eacli breath she is to mentally ahirm. I A:\r WaiOLE, or I AM LOVE, or I AM POM EP — using one athrmation for each dajn Solar Plexus hook tells how.n7212 ¶65
If .she is hungry or faint between meals a drink of watei-, hot or cold, as she prefers, and a few full breaths and affirmations will cure it all.n7212 ¶66
Above all and in all she is to wake up and go at it with a VIILIj. To jjut WILL into hodih/ nction, is the cure for asthma. W’'ill is just what an asthmatic is averse to using, vdll and persistence. Asthma means a eui’led-up will, and it is not ea.sy to uncurl it!n7212 ¶67
But it can he done, and if your wife is ready to make the effort, and keep at it, she will completely ontgrow that asthma. She will feel like a new woman inside a month.n7212 ¶68
If she is not readj’’, let her alone. Do not tiy to force or coax her. She must use her own will if she is to get -well.n7212 ¶69
THE EAUGII “Just a year ago a lad}" came into our office CUItE. a ver}? disconsolate look; she came for consolation and advice; her face wore a sorrowful expression, she was 'down at the mouth,’ as the saying goes; her husband was a drunkard. Knowing the power of tiic reflex action of all parts of the body on the brain, we advised her to assume the smiling attitude six times a day a few minutes at a time. She did it until she acquired the laughing habit. When her husband came home drunk she would laugh; when he came home sober she laughed; she laughed at her meals and laughed when she had no meals to eat; she began to see rays of light and sunshine in the house. Her husband became infected with the laughing habit. He laughed himself sober and they both laugh now because he drinks no more ; he finds his home a veritable home, with a smiling wife, and now there is joy, peace and happiness in that home, and the lady declares the Phrenological examination and advice we gave her has been her husband’s and her own salvation. Reader, try this experiment; assume the smiling attitude; the corners of your mouth will turn upward; the reflex action of these muscles will press the psychic button of Mirthfulness and your smile will develop into a laugh. Keep it up every da}". Laughter starts obstructions and removes the impediments to the blood, improves digestion and will lift you out of the slough of despond. The remedy is scientific, it is — Phrenological. Wc charge nothing for this discovery, it ought to be introduced into every home, it costs nothing but the prescription will knock out the blues.” — Human Nature.n7212 ¶70
Before you spend dollars on doctors or healers just give this prescription a thorough trial. The trouble with most people is that they really enjoy being down at the mouth. They are ^^more happy to be miserable than they would be to be happy without being miserable.” So they drift along with their “feelings” instead of taking command of their bodies and compelling them to express pure happiness instead of miserable happiness.n7212 ¶71
The laughter cure is really a specific if vimfuUy and persistently used.n7212 ¶72
Be ye not a hearer onlj’’, but a doer of things. Curl the corners of your mouth up and keep ’em up. By and bj" you will feel lilce keeping them up. Action and reaction are. equal — act a smile from the outside and it will re-act from within you.n7212 ¶73
W^Ken Sins Come -A.-Visitin^.n7212 ¶74
’I have just licard of a man who has had insanity in his family for over twenty-five j'cars. Now will you please tell me what could be learned from that? Because a parent does wrong, docs it look just for the children to have to suffer too? What would 3'ou do if you thought j'ou were going to lose your mind?” Miriam.n7212 ¶75
The other clay I read of a man "who came of the union of two familie.s of cousumptivos. iMother and father and aunts and uncles aitd grandparents had all died of consumption before the ages of thirty-five or forty. The man himself was thin and salloAv and narrow chested, and about tAventy-one or so, Avhen he tnet a Quack Doctor to Avhom he told his tale of AAme and remarked that “of course he must die as his famil}’’ had.”n7212 ¶76
“Not unless you choose to,” the Quack Doctor replied, “ — Hue as iinlilce your family as possible and yon ivill not die as iliey did.”n7212 ¶77
Noav the man really AA’^anted to live, and the Quack Doctor’s AA'ords stuck in his memory. He began to notice Iioav liis familj^ had lived, and to instinctively change his AA^'ays. They lived in close rooms with shades and shutters tight, treiul)led at draughts, bundled themselves up to their noses when they went out. stayed in as much as possible, ate three hearty meals a day, and pieced between times.n7212 ¶78
So the man began to eschew these things, one at a time and as fast as he dared — .just to see if that Quack Doctor did know anything. Barring a few ‘•colds” his health began to improve. He took heart and tried a little more— lived out of dooi-s as much as he could : took down the window draperies, fastened the shutters back and kept tlie shades rolled up; moved his bed into the sunniest room in the house and kept the windows open ; ordered fresh fruit every day (Ins foUcs had almost lived on fried pork and potatoes, and corned beef and cabbage, with pies and black eolfee three times a day).n7212 ¶79
He even began to cultivate a different gait and carriage. TVlien somebody’’ told him he was growing stoop-shouldered just like his poor dear pa he set himself to straighten his shoulders and nuden his chest. When another friend told him he looked at things just as his blessed ma did he immediately hunted for another side of the question to look at.n7212 ¶80
A few months of this changed living made a different creature of him. He not only looked different but felt and thought and acted like a different being, and lie began to feel hopeful and energetic. So lie kept it up "with still more resolution. He went in for early rising and retiring, physical culture, vegetarian and raw food fads, bicycling, golf, tennis, sociability — anything and everything he could think of which he was sure his family never would have thought of.n7212 ¶81
And thirty-five or forty years afterward he hunted up that Quack Doctor and thanked him for setting him on the road to health, happiness, success and long life. He exhibited with pride his biceps and his six inches chest expansion, and dared the Q. D. to produce from anjnvhere a sturdier man of his age.n7212 ¶82
One swallow never makes a summer, nor does a whole family compel one swallow to follow its own bad examples. Environment pretty nearly makes the man : his OAvn way of re-acting on his environment completes the making. Our family starts ns off with a certain definite family environment of thought and action. A mere machine would keep on conforming to family traditions imtil it ran down and stopped in the family burial plot. But a human being is not a machine, and it is his business and privilege to change his environment, to improve on the family thought and action.n7212 ¶83
A Chinaman considers it sacrilege to live better or think higher than his father did. If his father lived like a goose aud died a coogumptive he would deliberately follow. Only the fact that the Chinese are a hard-working, light-eating, out-door-living race ha.s saved them from uttei' e.xtermination throuirh this slavish adhcrenee to the traditions of their fathers.n7212 ¶84
All the Chinese are not confined to China— more’s the pity. How many of us Americans are aihicted with family pride? How many limes a day do we hear the statement that this trait or that is “inherited”? Hoxv many parade their resemblance to some grouchy or cholerie old ancestor Avho happened to have “come over in the Haytlower,” or who was “the bully of his regiment”? How many of us actually look for family peculiarities aud pride ourselves upon family resemblance? How many look with complaisance upon even the worst of family failings, merely because they are family failings? How many preseiwe old recipes and customs and costumes aud furniture, and shut out the sunlight and jaiin the family digestion to do it? How many whose remote ancestors have been lost in the American shufile, have set up new family traits and customs based upon the peculiarities of parents or some relative who has made his pile? Plow many boys are allowed to grow up without ‘ ‘ picking up ’ ’ after themselves simply because father was just so?” How many girls are humored in every whim because they are “just like Auntie Alice who could never bear to be crossed?”n7212 ¶85
I know a woman who has been a miserable invalid for years. Once I asked her why she did not try Christian Science or mental science, and told her of some remarkable cures. “Oh, I couldn’t take up with such things,” she replied, “I feel that my dear mother would not approve of it if she were here — she was such a good Methodist— and I would rather suffer than to use any means she ’d not approve. ’ ’n7212 ¶86
Talk about Chinamen !n7212 ¶87
That is the sort of spirit through which we “in- ' herit” the diseases and deaths of our family. The father’s sins are visited upon the children even to the third and fourth generation because the children hug their fathers sins. The fathers’ sins are visited upon the children because the children make a virtue and a business of entertaining them.n7212 ¶88
They can be got rid of as any other unpleasant visitors can be, by firing them. If we keep on entertaining them it is our own fault, not our fathers’; they are now our visitors, not our fathers’; and the ill results are our own fault, not theirs.n7212 ¶89
If you want Bible authority for this, turn to Ezekiel xvni, where you will find the matter explained at length, in the words of Cod himself. You will find yuiirseir forbidden lo say tlint “the fathers have eaten sour •ri'ajjes and the ehildren’s teeth ai-e set on edge,” —forbidden, hecanse tliat proverb is a lie. In verse twenty God says tlirongli Ezekiel this:n7212 ¶90
The soul that sinneth, if shall die. The son shall not hear .the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father hear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous .shall be upon him. and the wiekedncss of the wicked shall he upon him.”n7212 ¶91
The sms of the fathers are visited upon the children as long as flic children inviie such visilafion— invite it by living and acting and thinking as their fathei’s did.n7212 ¶92
The young man who listened to the Quack Doctor simiil^" made things so lively around his hou.se that the consumption of his fathers was glad to hilie.n7212 ¶93
The man who has had “insanity in the family for twenty-five years” can get it out of the family by the same means. He can quit living and acting as his erazj’' relatives did.n7212 ¶94
Good healthy outdoor activity is the greatest insanity-squelcher in existence. Insane people naturally hug dark corners and think about themselves and their feelings.n7212 ¶95
I knew a big family in Avhieh one girl went insane. They lived on a farm, and the parents and ten of the children lived active farm lives. But this girl who went insane hated work as a eat hates water. She loved to sit in the best room and devour novels, and a call to help wash the dishes or niillc the cows made her angry. Her mother was one of the easy-going kind who hated rows. So she never called on Anna except in extreme need, and Anna soon learned that a show of temper would get her her own way. She cultivated rages and sentimental reading and grew thin, anaemic and eczemic. And eveiybod.y excused her because she was “so odd’* and “so intellectual”— and because it was harder work to get her to do anything than it was to do it themselves.n7212 ¶96
A tall smooth stranger came courting Anna. Nobodj' knew him and mam’' distrusted him. Her father opposed his coming, but Anna threw such a fit that the opposition was withdrawn and Anna married him.n7212 ¶97
Tlien there was nobod3" to do Anna’s work, and she found a hard row to hoe. IBabies came, and moi'e work— which was not done. A.nna would read; babies cried; husband cursed, and finallj’- took to whipping her. Poor Anna’s rages availed nothing. She hugged the dai’k corners and cried over herself as over the abused heroines of her favorite stories. House grew dirtier; babies more numerous and fretful; hTisband tidier. Thou Aaua “ivent e^az3^” And never recovered entirelj’.n7212 ¶98
I Imew another family with insanity in it. The mother wa.s in youth just such another as Anna, and her mother and an aunt or two had been harmless lunatics, But her husband was a man of some character, with such a disposition as that of Anna’s mother. He did all his ovm work and what ho could of his wife s. He “saved” her and humored her to the last degree-almost, Babie.s came with regularity, three girls and then three boys. The Inrsband wa.s modestly wealthy and the entire family wanted for nothing material. But the wife found things to brood over —as anybody will who hates activity and loves novel reading. She wore charming invalid gowns and “eouldn ’t bear the least bit of light or noi.se. ’ ’ The doctor was hired by the year. Almost from the cradle the children were taught to fetch and cany for their mothei’, to save” her feelings and nerves.n7212 ¶99
Before the youngest girl was in her first teen the mother went into “harmless in.s.anity” — the familv inhentanee!— “they were always afraid of it of course, and had done everything to prevent it, but of eom’se It was her inheritance— msanity in the family, you loiow/’n7212 ¶100
And of course her dear children were in the family too. So they all resolved to devote themselves to mother, and never to marry, waiting for the inheritance to visit them too. Mother had to he kept in seclusion; so the family was secluded. Not one of the girls ^vas ever a child or a young girl. They lived in smi-darkness and walked a-tip-toe that mother be not disturbed. The boys went into business and nobody ever saw them smile. At night they went home to the Family Skeleton. The mother lived until the girls were three solemn, silent old maids. After her death they lived in the same old house, with the same old furniture and Skeleton, and with absolutely no object in life, now that their “care’’ was gone. How could they help being a little crazy themselves ? They hid themselves away and waited for insanity to get them. And it did. They were all a little “touched,” but not violent. The boys grew into melancholy old maids, too, and one of them committed suicide.n7212 ¶101
There was no reason in the world for even one of those children going insane; and no excuse for it except their individual ignoran.^e and consequent individual choice of the modes of life and thought which induce insanity. Each gu-1 went mildly mad, not because her mother was insane, but because she chose for herself the ways which lead to insanity. The boys had to live a little more rationally— business association compelled it. They lived the home life only half the day, while the girls lived it all the time. This leaven of common sense business kept the boys from ever slipping quite over the edge from mere sentimental melancholia into the abyss of real insanity. A little business interest would have saved the girls too. And a little rational living would have ended insanity in the family/^n7212 ¶102
Note any person inclined to insanity and you will see first of all a strong disinclination to physical effort. He gravitates to quiet, dimly lighted cozy corners and novels. Poor and fmcultured people are less apt to go insane than well-to-do ones, because life compels them to physical effort vdlly niUy. When poor people go mad it is generally a case of some woman shut in with a lot of babies and no help ; or a man or woman who has drudged long and hopelessly at some one land of indoor work.n7212 ¶103
Harping on one string is a characteristic of insanity, as well as a producing cause.n7212 ¶104
Unnatural living of any sort tends to insanity.n7212 ¶105
If I had “insanity in the family,’’ or any other disease of mind or body, I’d snap my fingers at it and turn my back on it.n7212 ¶106
I would follow the directions of that old Quack Doctor.n7212 ¶107
I would cultivate sensible habits of mind and body.n7212 ¶108
I would cultivate sensible, hajjpy, healthy people.n7212 ¶109
I he Anna whose story I have told you had one brother-in-law who was criticized for refusing to receive Anna in his home. “No,” he said, “Anna is like her Aunt with whom she wns much associated; I will not rislf my own little girls in the same house with Anna lest she influence them in undesirable ways; my firsi duty and desire is toward my children ; I will not run the risk of saerifleing them simply to please Anna.” I-Te was rigid. Children especially should be kept from association wilh the sicklj’’ or melancholic or unnatural of any sort.n7212 ¶110
Somewhere in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland.n7212 ¶111
I think, there is a whole fawning center where eveiy family takes an insane patient or two to heal. The insane one is set down in the midst of a family of healthy, hard-working, hard-headed, thrifty and happy farm workers. He is accepted and treated as a member of the family, eveiy one of whom looks out for him without seeming to The “patient” is given light work to do and plenty of it— out doors. His erankisms are persistently ignored. In a little while he catches the ^dbrations of his sane surroundings and goes away cured— unless, as many do, he elects to remain and continue the iarnier's life. It is said that tlieso people succeed with almost every case taken.n7212 ¶112
Surround tlie mentally weal.- with an environment of positive liealth and sanity and they will certainly come out strong and sane. Children and fools need the same wholesome treatment. If you are positivelj’- sane and live naturally, as those farmer folk, you can with impunity, and with positive benefit to them, associate with the mentally unbalanced. But if you hai e insanity in the family ’ and a little fear in yoiu' heart, Iceep as far as possible away from crazy folks, sentimentalists and pessimists and iJicir modes of thongJii and, action.n7212 ¶113
Plain living ; plenty of useful work and outdoor exercise; association with sensible, happy folk; denial of unliappy thoughts; affirmations of health, happiness and good; control of the emotions; — the man or woman who cultivates these will live long and well and relegate the Family Skeleton to the family ash heap.n7212 ¶114
TTo Command Yourself.n7212 ¶115
“My teacher wants me to sing at a recital the latter part of September, but fear or something else keeps me from singing before anybody. I do so well alone or at my lessons, but when I come to sing before people I tremble and shake so that I flat all, or nearly all, of my beautiful tones. Do tell me what ton7212 ¶116
Not one beginner in a thousand, or perhaps ten thousand, escapes such experiences. Not one enjoys fear and trembling, and not one but winces from hurt pride, at the thought of a flat tone. Fear and trembling and hurt pride are no disgrace, and no human being ever went through life without them.n7212 ¶117
But to let such things keep one from going straight ahead on the line of his de_sire IS a disgrace. To let the fear of fear and flatting hinder one’s song is a shame.n7212 ¶118
The only sensible advice to such a one is the injunction to sing in companj’" every time he or she has an opportunity, until it can be done with perfect ease. There is no other way. But it is a shorter, easier way than the fearful one iinagines-a ^vay where anticipation is a monster and realization a lamb.n7212 ¶119
And the way may be made short and eas3% The more firmly one resolves, and adheres to liis resolve, to miss no opportunity of singing in public, the surer and swifter his progress. To Icnow that one's bridges arc Inirned behind him mclaphorically speaking, is°to talcc away all incentive to waver between going back or going on; and nhieiy-nine per cent of all our iremhhnys arc due io indecision as io tvhcfher io go ahead or io ruv lihc a coward.n7212 ¶120
So, say yes the minute you are asked to sing, and never permU a regret.n7212 ¶121
Never look bade. He disgraces himself who hesitates when asked to do that which his high ambition encourages.n7212 ¶122
Fust, then, resolve to sing every time.n7212 ¶123
Then resolve io ENJOY doing it.n7212 ¶124
When practicing accustom yourself to the thought of an audience, and tell yourself that you love to give pleasure. Think well of yom-self and your voice, and think nothing at all of a mistake, a ti’emble, or an occasional false tone. Such things are common to all manldnd and angel-kind too, and by practice you will outgrow them.n7212 ¶125
Resolve that you don’t care if you make a mistake or two, that you will do your best and enjoy doing it, so there.n7212 ¶126
When the recital comes and your number approaches, control youi’self by full, slow, even breathing. Close your lips and inhale very slowly, filliug the louder part of the lungs first; hold the breath a moment, epiglottis open ; then see how venj slowly and evenly you can exhale, emptying the loAver part of the breathing cavity first. With each breath say to yourself. Peace.n7212 ¶127
Do this easily enough so that you will not need to “catch your breath” in between. Do not fill the lungs too full, nor hold the breath too long. Keep up this even, easy, full breathing with mental statements of Peace, until you have deliberate^ mounted the platform and opened your mouth to sing.n7212 ¶128
This simple little exercise has aeeomplished wonders for hundreds of my correspondents. Use it persistently, and you will be amazed at the degree of selfcommand it imparts.n7212 ¶129
Use the same breathing exercise for five or ten minutes night and morning. It will enable you to do wonders in voice control.n7212 ¶130
Last but not least, afSrm to yourself every time it comes into your mind, that you are not afraid to siiijr in public, that yon Jove to do if, tliat yon have good voice control which is rapidly perfecting through practice. Affirm this many times even- day. for weeks.n7212 ¶131
Go in to win and siicl: io it. Sncce.ss is sure, and <iuick in proportion to your resolution.n7212 ¶132
This same exercise in brealh-control will give 5'’on conn*, id of yoni-sol" in any lime of slrc.ss or strain. T'-y it. And its persi.stent daily use will enable you to meet with ccjuanimity. power and presence of mind any exigency with which life raaj- present you.n7212 ¶133
Physical Culture.n7212 ¶134
If we live active lives, using all our muscles enough to keep them in good order, we need no special physical crdture exercises. Children and Indians gain splendid development without seeking development as an end. This is the natural way, and the nearer we can live to it the better for us, and the less special work we shall need to do to keep our bodies strong, straight and supple.n7212 ¶135
In proportion as we desert the walks of life where the body gains development through useful and happy exercise we have to resort to artificial exercise to keep the body strong, straight and supple. If we refuse both useful work and artificial exercise we grow old, stiff, fat, wi’inkled, unsightly, ungainly, and nature dumps us with a sigh of relief.n7212 ¶136
Indoor life causes stooping as well as weakness and stiffness, because, no matter how much work we do it is all done in one stooping position. The first principle of special exercises sliould tlierefore be the correction of stooping.n7212 ¶137
When walking one slionld always walk straight, bead up, chin and abdomen in, chest out, weight on the balls of the feet; and one should sit or stand as erect as possible when working. This is the normal attitude.n7212 ¶138
But the mere attempt to assume the normal position when walking, even though one wallcs a great deal, will not entirely overcome the effects of daily hours at the desk, sewing machine, fancy work, dish washing, during which the bodj'- is receiving an abnormal set forward. To overcome one extreme go to the other. MX BEST Before dressing in the morning and EXERCISE, after disrobing at night use this exercise. Windows open, of course. Stand straight, facing a corner of the room, with bare feet about fourteen or fifteen inches from the corner itself, arms straight out, even with shoulders, or perhaps two inches below, hands resting on the two side walls, chest out, abdomen in. Now lean forward toward the corner, without moving the feet or bending the knees. Aim to lightly touch the corner with the chest, while holding the head and ahdomen as far hack from the corner as possible, arms and hands slipping forward on the walls in a straight line with shoulders. Resume first position without moving the feet or lowering the arms, and repeat. L'lake the forward movement slowly, at the same time inhaling through the nostrils a slow, full breath; put your whole effort into firmlj' stretching the chest fonvard and uinvard (careful not to bruise yourself against the walls) and head and abdomen backward, thus straightening the back at the shoulders. Hold the chest to the corner a moment, holding the breath likewise, then sloAvly resume original upright position, slowly exhaling through slightly opened lips, at the same time bending the head forward toward the chest. As you lean forward toward the corner mentally coimt one; as you resume the upright position, exhaling and bending the head forward, mentally affirm I Love, and think of yourself as breathing forth love to all the world as well as generating enough within you to enable you to meet today’s emergencies in a wise and loving manner; think of yourself as inbreathing and outbreathing God, as receiving and giving love, as gaining in all desirable qualities and the ability to use your growing powers.n7212 ¶139
Make these movements always slotvly, deliberately, ivith closest attention. Begin with only five or six movements at one exercise, first thing in the morning and last thing at night, oftener if you wish. Increase yrraduallj’ until you ai-e using twenty or more at each time. I tried using ten at first, and it made me quite lame.n7212 ¶140
This is tlie very best and most helpful spiritualmental-phj'sical breath exercise I know, my own hivention, or rather combination ; the one exercise which wears longest without becoming perfunctory and nonelfective. I have used it regularly, twenty movements every night and morning, for nearly two yeai-s, and e.xpect to conthiue its practice for years more. Out of the hundreds of different phj’'sical exercises and mental “formulas’' used in the course of my development, not another one has lasted more than six months or so, until I ‘felt it had accomplished its purpose in 3ne and its use would better be discontinued. This exercise corrects the tendency to stoop, which comes Avith much writing and indoor work of- any sort ; at the same time it lifts the chest and strengthens the lungs, conduces to fine carriage of the body ; combines all the advantages of ordinaiy breathing exercises; strengthens all the bodily muscles, deA'^eloping chest, neck and shoulders ; tends to reduce the luisightlj’’ double chin; strengthens abdominal muscles and reduces the waist measure; at the same time it expands the solar plexus, admitting loA^e and AAusdom; and rests the mind upon the universal. It wears so AveU because it ministers not only to the spiritual and mental man, but it serves best to correct the most obvious downward tendencies of the body. And it is economical — ^the greatest good in the least time.n7212 ¶141
I was growing round shouldered when I evolved it, in spite of my always erect carriage and many physical and breathing exercises. No other exercise was enough to correct that stoop. I lamented to William that I seemed to be stooping in spite of myself, and he remarked that he had heard a doctor tell an applicant for iQSurance to stand in the corner, arms out and lean forward several times, as a corrective. This exercise I combined with breathing, mental statements and spiritual conception. It has done far more than I expected, besides completely overcoming the tendency to round shoulders. Its persistent use will prove a blessing to any man or woman.n7212 ¶142
If you are very round shouldered it will take some time and work to correct it by any method, but it can be done. If you are in a hurry to straighten up send for the $10.00 apparatus of The Cartilage Company, Rochester, N. Y. I know one of America’s famous literary women who, by its use, has, in a few months, increased her height an inch besides correcting all tendency to droop at the shoulders. I consider it a great thing and mean to have one myself. The contrivance is simple and easily used, and requires but little time.n7212 ¶143
Here are other exercises for the correction of the drooping tendencj^ :n7212 ¶144
wall. Place the palms on the wall level with shoulders; without moving the feet or bending the body lean forward, slowly, inhaling slowly as you do so, until the chest touches the wall, head back; then push yourself slowly to an upright position, slowly exhaling as you do it. Repeat ten times or more.n7212 ¶145
Clasp the hands behind ; as you slowly inhale extend the clasped hands slowly downward as far as possible, straightening arm at elbow and lowering shoulders as much as possible at the same time extending and lifting the chest as far as you can. Hold the breath and the position a moment only, should- CTs down, chest otd and up, abdomen vt/ then release the hands and slowly exhale. Repeat only three or four times at first, then after a week or so increase gradually to ten times. A rather vigorous exercise, so go slowly.n7212 ¶146
Stand about two feet from an ordinary table. Place hands on the edge; inhale slowly through nostrils, at the same time lower yourself forward without bending body, until your body touches the table, elbows close to sides, chest out and upward, head back. Slowly exhale as you raise yourself, body straight, to upright position. Repeat four or five times at first, gradually increasing to ten or more.n7212 ¶147
OTHER PHYSICAL Besides the above exer- ANB eises the last three ofn7212 ¶148
HREATH EXERCISES, which I use irregularly but the first always^ twenty times night and morning, I nse every morning the following movements, ten times for each. These movements are intended to give all the muscles of the body enough exercise to keep them in supple condition, and to give special activity to those muscles least used in the course of the day. In addition to tiiese I rarely miss taking a u'alk eveiy day, -wanter or summer, or a short ride on the bicycle, lly aim is to take barely enough special e.\'ei-cises to supply the place of natural exercise for which I have not the time. The exercises I now use are the result of much e.xperimentation and elimination. I expect to keep on trying new exercises, evolving, changing, improving, condensing. I advise you to do the same. The more thouglii, the more mieresi, you put into your exercises the better results you get from them.n7212 ¶149
After the first exercise in the corner, I use the folloAving in the order given, always in my night robe :n7212 ¶150
pvp?f,!iu, mirror head up, arms e.xtcnded qWvi ' fi shoulders ; tense muscles of right arm, doubling o ^ ^ I’i*"' ""t'l the clenched fist touches the shoulder ; at the same tensing the neck muscles, chin up .and turning the head slowly to face the clenched fist. As you straighten the right arm tense the muscles of the left and bring the left clenched fist up and over until it touches ^,9 left shoulder, at the same time slowly turning the head, chin high, neck muscles tensed, until you face the left fist Repeat ten times, taking care not to let the arms from shoulder to elbow droop from the horizontal position*n7212 ¶151
Stand straight before the mirror, hands at sides : bend as far over to the right as possible, slowly; then to the left as far as possible. Repeat ten times.n7212 ¶152
Stand straight; droop and double as far forward as possib e without bending knees, taking pains to exhale as you double, and to make the torso and arms as limp as possible; straighten slowly and lean as far baclcward as possible, inhaling fully as you straighten; do not hold the breath. Repeat ten times.n7212 ¶153
Stand straight, arms at sides; lean as far forward as you can without bending the knees, and roll the body clear around in a circle to llic right; repeat five times; then roll it five times to the left.n7212 ¶154
Stand straight; extend arms easily in front; wave them backward and upward in a sort of reversed swumming movement, until they meet overhead; at the same time bending backward as far as possible; at the same lime slowly inhaling a full breath ; now bend fonvard, at the same time exhaling, taking care not to bend the knees, until your fingers touch your toes, head hanging as low* as nossibic, torso and arms as limp as possible. Resume upright position, and repeat ten times. Keep the knees straight through all. Aim to stretch the entire body and bands uf'Tcard and bockxvard as far as possible, w'itli the upward motion of the arms. If you can't touch the door w’ilhout bending tlie knees just come as near it as you can. Practice w*iil limber 3*011 up until vou can do it. Keep at it.n7212 ¶155
Stand about two feel from the side of the bed, heels nearly touching; now* squat quickly down, and up again, touching tips of fingers to the bed if ncccssar}* to balance yourself; take pains to squat clear dow*n, not simply half way." Repeat.n7212 ¶156
Another splendid exorcise for strengthening and suppling the legs and strengthening the back, is tin's:n7212 ¶157
Lie full length on the back on the floor, hands clasped under head; tense the muscles of the right leg, raising the knee slow’Iy until it touches or almost touches the hod}*, at the same time bending the foot dozvuxvard as far as possible, stretching the toes tow*ard the floor; now slow*ly lower the right leg, still tense, toward the floor, turning the toes upward tow*ard the bod}*, at the same time raising the left leg, tensing muscles, knee to chest, toes stretching dow’nw'ard; as the left leg goes down, point the toes and foot toieard the knee; five times, gradually increasing to ten limes or more.n7212 ¶158
After a few months’ steady nse of this exercise I found I could bicycle with ease up hills which I could not touch before, and could climb onto the highest trolley udthout apparent effort.n7212 ¶159
the bath. After completing these exercises I feel as fresh and bright as a new blown rose on a de^vy mom. Then I take my bath, which is also a sort of new invention. It takes only ten minutes fj’om the time I go into the bath room nntil I am out again, feeling like two roses! This is the way I do it: Turn on the hot water and let it run until it is about two inches or two and a half deep. Add a little tincture of benzoin to soften the water. This will help to keep the skin smooth and soft.n7212 ¶160
While the water runs clean the teeth, snuff a little V atci up the nose, and drink at least one glass of clefir, cold water. Turn to the bath tub and scour the finger nails well with soap and a nail brush, then clean the nails and push the cuticle back with an oi’ange stick kept with the brush and soap. Now the water is ready. Let it 1)6 as hot as comfortable. Use a soft wash cloth and good soap — nothing better than the host white castile. Wa.sh the face, arms, etc., sopping as much hot water on the face and neck as possible. Now turn on the cold water and rinse your face in that, sopping plenty of it on the face and neck. Turn the cold water on full foi'ce and let it cool the bath water ; draw yourself up to the foot of the tub, Imees doubled, then lie back and push yourself up toward the head, thus mixing the hot and cold water ; push yourself to sitting position again; and repeat, tintil the running cold Avater lias cooled the bath as far as you can stand Avithout too severe a shock. Aim to get it a little cooler CA'eiy time, until you can stand it quite cold. This gh-es you all the adA-antages of the cold bath Avuthout the shock, and giA'es you a bit of etfectiA'e physical exercise into the bargain, AAdiich Avill strengthen and supple hack and Avaist and exercise the abdominal miiseles. Eub doAAui quieldj' AA'ith a turkish tOAA'cl.n7212 ¶161
A AA-arm hath is relaxing, and should never be taken in- the morning AA-ithout finishing Avith cold Avater. And yet it takes hot AA’ater and soap to really clean the bod3^ In combining these tAvo ideas I hit upon the ahoA'e plan, AA'hich I consider fills the bill exactl3\ "i^Tien so situated that these directions cannot be folloAA'ed use a boAA'l of hot Avater and a Avash cloth and soap for cleansing, and top off Avith a quick sponge of as cool Avatcr as jmu can coax j^urself to stand.n7212 ¶162
A hot hath is good at night to relax nerves and muscles and induce sleep.n7212 ¶163
Sometimes in the fall the cold Avater THE SKIN. causes a tendency to chapped skin.n7212 ¶164
If so use the folloAving lotion, applying immediately AA’hile the skin is still not quite dry. Eeep a bottle of the same preparation near every hand basin and rub a tiny bit into yonr hands after every washing. If yon use it as directed, rubbing a little in after every wetting, it will keep yom- hands soft and white in all weathei’s and under any conditions. William’s mother has suffered all her life with chapped hands and cracked fingers, until she began to use this lotion. Now she has no trouble winter or summer, though she has lier hands in water a great deal and wears only silk or wool gloves when out of dooi's. The same liciuid is effective for the face, too. Wash the face first, wipe dry and rub in the lotion immediately. Here are the directions for making :n7212 ¶165
Cut four ounces of glj'ccrinc with four ounces spirits of cainpho^ shaking thoroughly and allowing it to stand over Tr r plnf of rose water shaking thoroughly, if after standing there is a scum of camphor gum strain through a cloth. A simple preparation, is it not? But the most effective thing I ever found for the purpose, and the ver}' nicest to use. If you wish to whiten as well as soften the hands dissolve SIX grows of corrosive sublimate in a little alcohol and add to the mixture before pouring in the rose water. Corrosive sublimate is deadly poison, but this tiny proportion is harmless as the proportion of strychnine we are told our bread contains.n7212 ¶166
CARE OF the bath your face may appearn7212 ¶167
THE PACE, sliiny. In that ease give it a vigorous rubbing with tbe palms of the hands, taking care to tense the muscles of the face as you rub. Rub the cheeks up and down, the chin and jaws across; rub across the face above and below the lips, “making faces” to harden the flesh as you rub. Rub up Jiiul down at the sides of tlie nose, clicelcs tensed, inoutli drawn down. Squint the eyes tiglit, tense tlie cheeks, and rub vigorously towaixl tlie nose, around over the forehead, more lightly down at the temples, and vigorously across under the eyes and up again. Smooth the forehead upward with the palms of the fingers turned sidewise. Eub across the tight closed eyes three or four times, from temples to nose, slowly, firmly but not too heavily.n7212 ¶168
Never rub the skin into folds; where you cannot tense the muscles enough to hold the skin smooth under the rubbing, see you rub more lightly. Rub the neck too, throwing the head back and tensing the muscles. Tense your double chin and rub vigorously back and forth from right to left and left, to right, with the palms of hands and fingers; taking pains to rub deftly enough, and tense the neck hard enough, to prevent folding and rumpling the skin. Thirty oi* forty such rubs of a double chin, night and morning, will soon dissipate it.n7212 ¶169
Rub the face like this each morning, to a healthy glow. It will clear your skin amazinglj^, and take ofi! the shiny look. But most of the rubbing should be done before the bath, not after it, with face and hands perfectly dry. After the bath wait until the face and hands are dry, then I’ub only enough to take off the gloss. AViping with a bit of chamois skia will take off gloss. Or wipe the face with a soft linen cloth clipped in the following, let it dry and wipe again with a dry cloth or chamois. Here is the face wash, the recipe for which was given me by a friend:n7212 ¶170
Boil one quart of rain water and pour it over one pound of Epsom salts and one and one-half ounces of glycerine. When cold add two ounces rose water and twenty drops of benzoin. If you cannot obtain rain water buy distilled water of some druggist.n7212 ¶171
The same sweet friend gave me the recipe for a delicious massage cream which is readily made. It is a satisfaction to make your own creams and to know that they are clean and healing. This one may be used with success for any purpose for which cold cream is ever used. Here it is :n7212 ¶172
Melt one ounce spermaceti, one ounce white wax and four ounces almond oil in a double boiler. Then with a Dover egg beater beat in drop by drop four ounces rosewater and ten drops tincture of benzoin. The same rule holds good as in making mayonnaise dressing — the more beating you give it the whiter and lighter it will be. If you want a cucumber cream express four ounces of juice from fresh peeled cucumbers and beat this in instead of the rose water. Put away in air tight jar.n7212 ¶173
Do you want to whiten the skin, or remove moth patches or tan or freckles from the face? The best thing I have found to supplement the washing and rubbing described, is lemon juice. To one tablespoonful of fresh strained lemon juice add four tablespoonfuls rain water, or distilled water; or, if you must, use boiled yvatcv. Dabble Ibis on your face -n-itli a soft cloth, night and morning, and let it dry on. Use for a week, then discontinue for a week, then use again. ■Wlien the face is dusty from riding, etc., nothing is more refreshing and cleansing than to wipe the face vnth a soft cloth wet in this mi.xture. Leinon and M-ater thus combined will stay fresh only three or four days. If your skin is exceedingly tender add five parts of water to one of lemon juice.n7212 ¶174
Another good bleach is cucumber juice. Rub the face thoroughly at night, after washing and drying, ^yilh a piece of fresh cucumber.n7212 ¶175
Both these cleansing and bleaching remedies are slightl}' astringent and tend to do away with enlarged pores, flabbiness, blacldieads, pimples, etc. They are all the remedies needed by a woman who exercises and bathes enough, inside and out, to keep her circulation positive. Unless she bathes often, drinks plenty of water, exercises sufficiently, lives on plain foods properly masticated, and thinks high and sweetly, she may use all the remedies in a beauty doctor’s shop without having a good complexion. It is cheaper and less trouble, as well as more effective, to live right.n7212 ¶176
A little pure lemon juice dabbled on corns or warts night and morning will take away all soreness and soon heal them.n7212 ¶177
If you wish to protect the face from the wind, powder it ^vith a little pure powdered French clialk and then wipe off as clean as possible with a soft linen cloth. I met recently a lady who went ag-ainst all mj’’ prejudices against powdering. She is a dainty little aristocrat over fifty years old and has the most beautiful fine slvin. “^Y]la( do you do to keep your skin so dainty?” I asked. “I x>oicde7',” she replied, “I have used pure French chalk ever since I can remember, and my mother used it on me from the time I was born : she and my aunts and my great aunts all used it in the same way, and they all had the finest rose leaf complexions; the use of French chalk to protect the skin against the outdoor air is a tradition in ouifamily.” She bathes daily and always i^owders.n7212 ¶178
“Why, I wouldn’t feel clean without it,” she smiled. “And I wouldn’t feel clean with it!” I laughed.n7212 ¶179
CAKE OF Many people ask me what to do for THE HAIK. the hair to keep it clean and bright and growing. Good hair, like all other good health, begins with healthy blood and circulation. Healthy blood results from healthy thought and correct diet. What is correct diet for one person in one walk of life maj’’ be decidedly Avrong for another in the same place, or for either under other conditions.n7212 ¶180
Temperament, exercises, etc., all affect tlie eliminative functions, ioo mucli starchy food, Avlucb, being undigested and un-eliminated produces unhealthy ferments, is probably the greatest cause of all blood troubles and their effects, such as falling hair, Avrinldes, etc.n7212 ¶181
To correct any physical fault begin with the whole system. Use less, far less, starchy and heating foods. Replace these with quantities of fresh, i*aw fruit at the beginning of eVery meal. Let tea and sugar and ci*eam severely alone. Take more physical exercise, and especially fresh air breathing exercises. Take moi’e baths.n7212 ¶182
Exercise the scalp by daily massage, by rubbing briskly with the finger tips, and by pressing the firmly' down and moving the scalp around as muen as possible on the slcull. Shampoo about once a month. If your hair is diy use egg shampoo, and brush the hair daily. If your hair is oily use the best white castile soap with a tiny bit of borax, and use the brush less.n7212 ¶183
If you want a specialist ^s adduce and something to use on your scalp send a few combings, with the roots intact, to Cranitonic Hair Pood Coinpaiij’’, 526 West Broadway, New York City. They will send diagnosis and prescription free of charge. Theirs are the nicest hair preparations I ever saw, and the onty ones I like to use. The liquid is colorless like water, and contains no alcohol, and their shampoo soap is delightful. I have used these preparations for several years, and I have likewise been doing all the other things here recommended, and my hair is decidedly thickened and greatly improved under the treatment.n7212 ¶184
Of course I attribute most of the improvement to the change in diet and the massage, but the Cranitonie stuff is certainly a help, and a pleasure as well.n7212 ¶185
And now, remember this,— it takes time and resolute 'persistence in well doing, to make much impression on a head of hair which has been long neulected. But results are sure.n7212 ¶186
Perhaps you will ask me “what thought you are to hold” for dying hair. This is written presumably for those who have loen “holding the thought” without apparent results— as I did several years. Then it came to me that I must express “the thought” in action. So I went to studying causes and thinking out what to do. I’ve been doing it. Faith and ivories will accomplish anything. The only thought to hold for dying hair is the thought of LIFE. Keep thinking it right in with every rub of your finger tips, until it gets to thinking itself without special effort.n7212 ¶187
But the most niarlced improvement in my hair has come from pulling it. I believe Bernarr McFadden originated this treatment. I had read his book on “Hair Culture” (price $1.00) and felt quite enthused. But not enough to move me to practice. Then one day about a year ago I came across the following letter from Dr. 0. W. Toung to the Osteopathic World:n7212 ¶188
to leave me in liberal S I was becomingn7212 ¶189
T t to a suggestion m McFadden’s Physical Cut-n7212 ¶190
Titi/r my hair. A good sized quantity came out, hair and^^^ef bnl!? I would run the fingers into the in ^ quantity and pull hard enoughn7212 ¶191
T I also gave the scalp thorough massage.n7212 ¶192
I stretched all pacts of the occipito-f rental is muscles very thoroughly. I brushed the hair frequently and once a week washed It thoroughly m castile soap and water. Every morning when taking my cold bath I rubbed the hair with ZiriteTfniort Of cold water, but not enough to get it thoroughly soaked. Very much water seems to have a deleterious effect. In a tew weeks the hair stopped coming out and in a few months the partially bald area began to disappear. Now I think I have a good head of hair. I have had a child weighing ninety pounds catch hold with her fingers in that part of the hair which used to be the thinnest and I have lifted her off her feet and ^whirled her around in a half circle, j\ly hair ^vas dying because I seemed to have no use for it. I was housed a great deal and when I did go out I had a nice protecting hat The resistance to my pulling saved its life. It stimulated the circulation of blood m the scalp and forced nourishment into the dying roots. I knew a man they called *HoIy Joe.’ As a penance, required by a priest, he walked the streets bareheaded summer and winter and in all kinds of weather. As a result, he developed a magnificent head of hair. What is true of the hair is true of every other portion of the body.”n7212 ¶193
Ever since tliat I have been pulling my hair vigorously night and morning. My experience with this method has brought splendid results. In the morning after pulling I comb out thfe hair and coil it in a very loose knot on top of my head. Then with a wash clothn7212 ¶194
M'rmig out of cold water I dabble the hair and scalp all around the knot, leaving the Icnot itself dry. The hair is thus dampened without soaking. Afterwards I fluff” the hair thoroughly with the finger tips, without undoing the coil, and leave it to dry thorongWy before combing and dressing. I keep up this ^\’ettiug every day for a week or two at a time, then let it go for a week or weeks. But every night and morning I do the pulling act with a will. At first I shampooed with Cranitonic soap once in three weeks. Now I can go for two or three months without needing a shampoo to remove grease and make the hair fluff.n7212 ¶195
This treatment actually brings the hair to life. Its persistent use will overcome the most stubborn case of falling hair. But yon must be more stubborn than the hair! — ^jmu must Jceep pulling.n7212 ¶196
To gain enthusiasm for the hair pulling, or for phj'^sieal exercise, or rational diet, and for new ideas as to methods of jJractice, take some good magazine. Subscribe for Physical Culture, price $1.00 per year; or Beauty and Health (for women), price fifty cents; both edited by Bernarr McFadden, 29-33 East 19th street. New York City. Or take Health-Culture, price $1.00 per jmar, edited by Dr. W. E. C. Latson, 151 West 23d street, New York.n7212 ¶197
-A-fterword.n7212 ¶198
The one difficulty with a book like this is that it is apt to be bolted at one gulp by the reader, the consequence being a fit of mental indigestion during which the book is loaned to some friend who fails to return it. The same chapters sent out in the form of “Lessons,” the reader receiving but one lesson at a time, gain their proper attention and use, and accomplish in the majority of cases far more good. Simply because each chapter would be leisurely read and re-read, and practiced and re-practiced, before the next was received. Each would be properly masticated before bolting, thus insuring perfect assimilation.n7212 ¶199
This same little book sent out as a $50.00 or $100.00 set of “Lessons” would be well worth the larger price. It is the result of years of experience and reading. The author has read, and practiced, too, scores of expensive “Courses” in all manner of new thought. She assures you that not one of the sets of lessons contains a single idea or mental exercise which is not as plainly described in books. Many of the new thought books sold now were originally issued as “Lessons,” and sold at from twenty to one hundred times the price. They were, and still are, worth the higher price to anyone lolio has self-command enough to masticate their contents.n7212 ¶200
I want you to masticate this book and let it prove its value. It will take jmu at least a year to do it. I have been practicing it for ten years or more.n7212 ¶201
Read the book clear through without stopping, if you want to. Then re-read it a little at a time, every day, for at least a year. Have a special time for this, and after reading go into the silence and listen to the spirit.n7212 ¶202
Take up only a few of the exercises at first, the ones which strike you as best adapted to j’^our present needs. To try to use all those exercises at once would be too burdensome, and you would surely fizzle out. I practiced meditation and silence several years before adding even the breathing exercises. Then I added one little breathing exercise, when I loanted to. Later I picked up the physical exercises, daily bath, etc., in the same way, adding one at a time as I felt I wanted to. Always I have avoided burdening myself to the point of drudgery. Always I have sought the joy of it, varying the exercises and jollying myself along a little at a time, getting as much fun out of it as I possibly could. Ahvays I aimed to get the most good with the least number of exercises and movements. And it takes thought and interest to do that. One exercise done with interest and enjoyment is worth a dozen duty exercises.n7212 ¶203
So aim high, dearie, but don’t climb faster than you can ivith pleasure. You have all eternity ahead ! And every inch of eternity is just like now; so get all the fim you can out of the one exercise you are doimr note.n7212 ¶204
The vdsest man is the one who gets the greatest joy from the thing he chooses to do now. Cultivate the art of jollying yourself!n7212 ¶205
Of course in your daily reading you are not to take the book consecutively. Dip into it wherever you can gain the most inspiration. The first half, or more, of the book will bear many readings, with profit to the reader. It is here j^ou gain that which makes you waoit to do things. Read the latter chapters once in a while, to refresh your memoiy. Every time you re-read new ideas ivill co^ne to you. Ash the spirit in you for new sermons daily on my texts. This is the means by which you will gain the true value of this book, and grow in grace of soul, mind and body.n7212 ¶206
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