A SUCCESS MOTTO
“Don’t grumble, don’t bluster, don't dream,
and don’t shirk,
Don't think of your worries, but think of
your work;
The worries will vanish, the work will be
done;
No man that faces the
sees his shadow
sun.”
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let me sleep in the hay loft; let me stand
up in the corner; anywhere but on the
feather mattress on the spare bed in the
spare room,
Did any one pass a winter night in a
spare bed such as I have vainly endeav-
ored to describe, without waking up
with a start under the impression that
a dead man was pulling at his chilly
nose? We must suffer in silence. This
spare bed is lovingly reserved for those
whom the family most esteem.
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SPARE MOMENTS
Earnest Lloyd
WAS reading the other day
about the value of gold-dust
or filings that fall from the
work in jewellers’ shops.
The writer said an old
waist-coat would be worth
more than a new one. That,
in fact, the story of Aladdin
and the magician who offered to ex-
change new lamps for old is paralleled
in modern times by the second-hand
clothes-men, who give new vests for old
ones, because of the quantity of fine gold
which
the cloth. and
which is collected again and sold.
accumulates 1n
Spare moments are the gold-dust of
time. Of all the portions of our life,
spare moments are the most fruitful in
good or evil. They are the gaps through
which temptations find the easiest ac-
cess to the garden of the soul. And
they also afford the most precious op-
portunities for doing good. Yet how
much we lose of this gold-dust, scatter-
ing it not in single grains, but casting
it away by the handful. Men of busi-
ness say that time is money; but it is
more: the proper improvement of it
is self-culture, self-improvement,
growth of character. * Lost wealth may
be replaced by industry, lost knowledge
by study, lost health by temperance or
treatment. but lost time is gone forever.”
and
T.earn to improve the time until it
becomes a habit. Hundreds of eminent
THE WATCHMAN
characters attribute their success, not to
genius, but simply to the careful em-
plovment of those invaluable fragments
of time called “odd moments.” The
hours perish, and are laid to our charge.
How sad to think that such a gift from
(God should be wasted in thoughtlessness.
* Only a few minutes; only a few hours;
only a few days;” only a few days —
why, the whole of man’s life is but "a
few days;”
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and he has to prepare in
them for eternity. Il.et us strive to re-
deem the few that may still remain.
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THE ABSORPTION OF WATER
Few people understand that water, as
well as food, requires to be assimilated
in order to perform its work in the body
properly. In order to be taken into the
blood, and incorporated with the blood
serum, there must be a real need for
water, and this is best created by means
of brisk exercise carried to the point of
perspiration. © Fever also creates a de-
mand for water, and vigorous sweating
in whatever way produced.
Water taken into the stomach without
the drinker being thirsty or having a de-
sire for it, lingers in the digestive tract,
even producing a feeling of weight and
discomfort, accompanied by splashing,
gurgling noises, which are very annoy-
ing; and unless exercise, hot baths, or
sonie other means are used to create a
demand for water, it is not advisable to
force too much on the system.
class on rising, before dinner, at tea-
A single
time. and again at retiring, will wash out
the stomach, and supply the needed fluid
to the body just as well as several glasses
hurriedly swallowed, with a feeling of
actual repugnance to water. It 1s ab-
normal not to experience thirst, inasmuch
as the body consists so largely of water;
but the treatment consists in establishing
the physiological need for water in the
svstem, rather than in forcing this fluid
upon the unwilling digestive svstem.—
Good Health (Australia).
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THE CREEP CURE FOR CHILDREN
ProrEsSOR Krapp, of the University
of Donn, believes that creeping is the
true and natural remedy for half the
troubles of infancy. Every child should
be allowed to creep freely before it is
taught to walk, he says; it is nature’s
law, and when this is neglected he pre-
scribes a return to creeping to undo the
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injuries to the spine, joints, and muscular
system that result from a premature habit
of standing erect.
His attention was first called to the
subject by dogs which had suffered ner-
vous breakdown and showed symptoms
of paralysis as a result of training in
He
undertook to treat some of these, and
naturally began with a rest cure, includ-
ing stoppage of the requirement to stand
upright on their hind legs.
To his surprise he found that the dogs
recovered strength and nervous tone
without further treatment, and he con-
tricks for the stage or circus ring.
cluded that the strain on the spinal col-
umn from the unnatural erect position
was the sole cause of the symptoms.
From this it was an easy step to the de-
duction that children of from one to four
vears of age who showed nervous symp-
toms and general breakdown were victims
of strain placed on the vertebral system
too soon, too suddenly, and before they
were fit to bear it.
He experimented with a
treatment, and it is said has achieved such
results that several children’s hospitals
are adopting the system that he has in-
troduced in Berlin— Cleveland Plaiii-
dealer.
creepmy
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GETTING EVEN—WITH WHAT?
WHEN one person has wronged an-
other, the unjustly injured person is al-
wavs, for the time being, on a higher
plane than the one who has done the n-
jury. The wronged one has not lost
what the other has lost. The only way
to make the loss equal is for the injured
one to Then, in addition
to his hurt feelings, he has the satisfac-
tion of knowing that he is now no bet-
ter than the other fellow. What an in-
genious tempter Satan is, to persuade
us to add injury to insult unto ourselves!
For that is what * getting even ” accom-
plishes ; it is lowering ourselves and our
standards to the level of the one who
has wronged us. How much better to
help the other to “get even” with the
higher standards which Christ alone can
enable us to hold to — love and forgive-
ness.— Swunday-School Times.
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get even.
[ rink vou might dispense with half
vour doctors, if you would only consult
Doctor Sun more, and be more under
treatment of these great hydropathic doc-
tors — the clouds.— Beecher.