WHAT ARE YOU THINKING NOW? Physical Condition Shows in Man's Nervous Dis orders By Beatrice Fairfax "As a man thiuketh in his heart so he is." Physical conditions write themselves on the face and body, and a doctor who is a clever diagnostician can almost read their meaning at sight. So, too, for mental states. The physician who has studied mental and nervous disor ders recognizes certain facial character istics that are symptoms of disease. Who would wilfully print on his face unpleasant signs of unpleasant mental condition? That is exactly what you do when you permit your mind to dwell on morbid things. All thoughts of cruelty, or unkind ness, of fear, of anger or of indecency leave their traces on the human face. This is not theory, it is fact. Tiny lit tle marks and linen come onto the face as a result of mental habit. Who of us has not seen a droop ing, twisted mouth that told of bit ter cynicism? Which of us has not observed shifty, unfocused eyes that betrayed a habit of mental evasion? These are marked conditions, but the lesser ones are there x too. The face betrays mental states. But it is the mental states themselves that are of graver importance. Think along certain lines long enough anu you come almost to exist along those lines. Men tal ha its are dangerous to form. One R.vani]i'e Take the case of suspicion. Suppose you let yourself get into the way of wondering what hidden meaning there is behind what people say, what sly intention there is behind what they do; suppose you begin to question the sincerity of motive of your friends and acquaintances—the habit grows on you, 1 more and more your tendency to ques tion grows into one to distrust and finally suspicion becomes part of your j nature. And once suspicion takes possession of you, you become unable to accept anybody* simply and honestly, and faith and trust become almost impossible for you to know. If you think in terms of sunshine and good cheer, you come gradually to feel in those terms. Contemplating hindness and beauty brings them home to you. Mental habits are fairly easy to form and frightfully difficult to break. All of us who are normal have a choice of controlling our own minds cr letting them run away from us. There is an old German saying that suggests this idea. "Just as you shout into the forest so the echo shall come back to you." And so you get from life fairly much what you have deposited In its bank! Think of the world as a place which appreciates honest endeavor and which rewards merit with success and you will have a cheery willingness to en deavor and a hopeful feeling that suc cess is yours for the taking. This atti tude may never bring you ten thou sand a year, but it will give you opti mism that cannot fail. Morbid melancholy is the result of nothing that sweeps on you from the outside: it is due directly to the way you feel within yourself. What you think about conditions in dicates not what you are, but what you inevitably must be. Look on life as a place where things depend on chance and where fate has been cruel to you and where everything is rather hope less" any way and where to try were vain, and naturally, since your back is to the sun and you have encased yourself in a black canopy of woe, you will never see sunlight. It is dangerous to get into the habit of thinking morbid, unhappy thoughts. And it is perfectly possible to get into the habit of thinking cheerful, optimis tic. hopeful and constructive ones.' What you think about is a matter of choice—and a choice that ought to be carefully and sanely made. A fevered imagination can fancy it self ill. A frightened diagnosis can consider ail hope lost. But a sane and cheerful optimism gives courage to fight and conquer, since it never could imagine obstacles too high to surmount or woe too desperate to be overcome. The man who thinks in terms of success cannot imagine failure. The man who does not know when he is beaten never is finally conquered, since he holds in his heart an indomitable cheer like to that of Browning's hero: "One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." APPOINT VIEWERS Paul G. Smith. James D. Sultsman and Harry Fahnestock were appointed a board of viewers to-day to assess benefits and damages incident to the opening and grading of Lexington street from Malar.tcngo to Division streets. The board will report to the court September 25. SELL NORTH THIRD ST. HOUSE 1521 North Third street, property sf T. M. Mauk. undertaker, was sold at trustee's sale this afternoon in front of the Courthouse for $5,700. DO YOU KNOW WHY-- • A Cigar Has So Much Influence? ~ BY FISHER ———■— f\A/E.LL~ f | i-\P\\/E. (K V/E.R.N "} ( IF XOULL ) WILO f l'i-L SLIP you) UM-NES AND r., 0 _ <^- =) /• - - ! SPILL IT ) ) IMPORTANT THAT STUFF 4ETMETHIS / MAKE ME t Vooo VtS fllu SEE Zl > WM6e 1 , MOBOOM ? i ( LetVieeSi xou 1 nirmic. . ' JOB fLt<(ve t ALTER. MS [ coLOMfttuMA ( I CAN OO FOR. I'i'liftS' 6 "-J (CAN BRIBE I DECISION I | l^^pn^-i —•■«—____ |iMM lQter-nat^jCart^^ THURSDAY EVENING, RAPS EMPLOYERS PREYING ON GIRLS Dorothy Dix Says Wives Who Blame Stenographers Should Ponder By DOROTHY DIX A woman sends me a letter in which she asks me to write a scorching ar ticle to working girls, scoring them for making themselves so attractive to their employers. She says it is the stenographer, and <he salesgirl, and the factory girl who constitute the real home-wrecking crew, and that they fuss up their hair, and paint their faces, and wear up-to-the-minute clothes ,and flirt with their bosses, and go out to dinner with them, and that this breaks the hearts of the poor neglected wives at home. And this jealous wife thinks that something awful, with boiling oil in It, ought to be done to these giddy girls, and that a law should be passed against permitting them to look so pretty, and be so young and gay, while wives get old and worn and can't al ways be dressed up. Perhaps. Heaven knows the busi ness girl who has a sentimental af fair with her employer, and who goes about with him to places of amusement when he is a married man, does a foolish enough and a wrong enough thing, and one for which she : pays dearly enough In the end. But why blame everything on the girls? What about the recreant hus bands who take the girls about? No girl can go out to dinner or to the theater with her employer unless he asks her to go. She can't compel him to treat her to such diversions or to make her presents or to spend j money on her that should be spent on his wife, as any elderly and plain and homely working woman can tes tify. Moreover, it is the privelege of the employer to have only those about him of whose conduct he approves, and if he didn't want little Miss Ste nographer to make goo-goo eyes at him he would send her packing at the very first roll of her orbs in his direc tion. A girl can flirt with a stone saint on a monument in a cemetery as easily as she can with a man who isn't flirtatious himself, and you may be very sure that any husband who gets stolen away from his own fire side has been guilty of, at least, con tributory negligence. Cynically Amusing to Hear Wife Ac cuse Girl of 18 Without Experience When you come to think of it. it is cynically amusing to hear a wife accuse a little eighteen or nineteen year-old girl with no experience of life, no knowledge of the world, of kidnaping a man old enough to be her father, if not her grandfather, and bearing him, struggling and pro testing, away from his once happy home. According to the wives the hus bands, no matter what blear-eyed old ! rounders they appear to be, are mere j innocent, unsophisticated infants, en- I i tirely unable to cope with the arts and i i wiles of any little girl behind a coun- c ter or before a typewriter. Undoubtedly the reason that wives | cling to this theory of their husbands' , inability to resist the hypnotic power ■ of their female employes is because \ it saves their own faces. In their hearts they are bound to know that in every affair between a man and the girl he employs the original insti gator is the man. He is the aggressor, and he is the one to blame, because he strikes the note of the relationship between himself and those~he em ploys. He can make it purely business like, as is the case in the great ma jority of offices. He can nip any sen timentality in the bud. He can dis miss any girl who shows flirtatious tendencies. He can do more. He can form the manners and the morals of the girls h<> employs and teach them to be dignified, self-respecting gentle women, who will know how to avoid even the appearance of evil. The man who is honorable and straight himself is in no more danger \ from the arts and wiles of his girl I employes than a lion is from a sick i mouse. Not Girls, but Wicked Old Employers Who Do tile Preying As a matter of fact, it is not the j wicked little girls who prev upon their | employers, but it is the wicked old employers who prey upon helpless lit tle girls. And this is the more das tardly because the girl who works is not free to resent, familiarities and in sults, as is the young lady in society. The working girl's bread and butter, and often that of those nearest and dearest to her, depend upon her hold ing her job, and her job only too often depends upon her complacency to her employer. Many a stenographer listens, with disgust in her soul, while her fat arid amorous old employer tells her how unhappily married he is, and how happy he would be if he only had a sweet young thing like her to console him. Many a salesgirl and factory rlrl loathes the attentions that a bald headed old married floor walker or superintendent forces upon her, but she has to summon up a smile and look pleased and flattered and jolly along tile man whose favor means her keeping her situation. It's as cruel a dilemma as life of fers, for if a girl is willing to work it shows that she. at least, wants to live honestly, and the pity of it is that she so often finds it so hard to do so. Mother Should Think of Her Own Daughter Before Making Accusations Perhaps it is too much to expect BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT Y£S, "TfJE FARM ON WHICH I SPENT W I W\C/YfiON WAS PRETfv DOLL UNTIL I ARRIVED, \ TdEN I HUMMING * f BUT THIS IS 'HE DID IT! H7l that the wife who hoars of her hus band's attentions to some pretty em ploye will ever be bis? enough to see that he is the one to blame, and not the girl. Nevertheless, such is the plain case, and he is the one on whom the vials of her wrath should be emptied, as she v.-ill comprehend If she will reflect how helpless her own young daughter would be under sim ilar circumstances. She would know who would do the leading astray if it was a question between her own little Sadie or Mamie and some experienced, worldly wise man in whose office she was employed. However, there is no denying that the advent of the attractive girl into business has introduced a new rival into the domestic arena. Beside the other charming women that her hus band might casually meet in society, there is now the trim figure of the business girl whom he meets inti mately in his office or store, and who Is paid not to argue with him or contradict him, as is the habit of wives, and so perhaps the jealousy of the wife is inevitable. But let her remember this —that faithfulness is from within and not from without, and that there will never be any danger to her from her husband's employes until he lets down the bars. He's -to blame, not the girl. VTKWERS HEAR TESTIMONY Testimony incident to the opening of Fifth street from Reel to Mahan tongo was heard to-day by the board of viewers. The session was brief. 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I - _ S&.^p?r2*»-T I 1 f * ("M.L TVte CVJ6R To MARTHAS VINEYARD ALWAYS IM ThE MiDOuE —^ l i "&** HC A>lD TAKE THE FAM-I- LEE „.- GOOX> VARM A PORTER *WITH - MHI ~c VJONDEHS *- C6 A BRUSH "TO make -rfoo Move So He cakj C >SV /v *W~'jf ~ J/bJI jf __«€ <=A* cajsasj That piece <*= r_oor "rtw on —' \~— (2G!it> M, <jL Xl^.^ T , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Meaning of Reasonable Medical Attention Up More than a score of physicians, In surance men, representatives of indus tries in the State and members of the j Workmen's Compensation Board met ! this afternoon in the Masonic Temple to discuss the recommendations made I by the Bureau of Medical Education jand Licensure in regard to what is ] considered the proper medical atten tion an employer should give an em | ploye injured while at work. ! Chairman Harry A. Mackey opened the discussion and chained that the Compensation Board would take no action until all parties concerned had been heard from. He stated that the j meeting was called for this purpose | and called on Dr. J. M. Baldy, presi -1 dent of the Bureau of Medical Educa- I tion, to explain several points in the ! bureau recommendations. Dr. Baldy said that an employer re ! moves his responsibility by sending the j injured employe to an incorporate j hospital; turns him over to a licensed physician, or gives proper tirst-aid at | the plant. He laid stress on proper first aid j work and declared thai the Bureau of ! Medical Education would prosecute j anyone who was not licensed and at- J tempted to give more than first aid. j Dr. Baldy explained that first aid meant that such attention should be given the injured person as was neces sary until professional attention could be given by a person properly qualified for the work. Among the men who asked for ex planations of various clauses were J. B. 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Shoe maker, of the Pennsylvania Manufac turers' Association Casualty Insurance Company, of Philadelphia. TENNIS AS OUR AMERICAN GAME Tennis is as old as the hills, basi cally, though it has undergone many changes for the better. It was played JULY 6, 1916. by the Greeks and Romans under the names of "Sphairists" and "Pila." As "Paume" it is mentioned in the Arthu rian romances and in the earlier rec ords of the Dark Ages. In the 15th century it enjoyed great favor in France, and in England from the 16th century to the present time. As it seems to be more or less mixed up with about every sort of race, it may be called truly American, especially as we have poured it into our melting 11 pot to boil and simmer, and have sea soned it to our liking! But, as an adopted pastime, we can hardly call it our national game, as national seems to imply home-grown or native. Yet we have developed tennis, speeded it up, perfected it, Americanized It so successfully that the game as we play it to-day typifies the restlessness, en ergy and competition of our national spirit.—Norman Harsell in The Coun tryside Magazine for July.
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