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.
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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
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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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o'clock yesterday by Alderman Hover
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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. Douglas, of the United Gas Im
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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
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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.