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p World Governed by r I suggestion JL Ey Dr. Fcrbas Winslow, Pioneer of PsycfiO'Thera Jt 1 psuiics in England T RAINED observation teaches us that the whole world is made up of one gigantic "suggestion." Some are more liable to it than others. It is in many instances an evi dence of a strong mind to be able to resist -ts influence. There is no such thing as "fashion." What is gener ally understood by that name is nothing more nor less thaa suggestion which many are unable to resist. The craze for the "Chantecler" hat for ladies is pure suggestion, ani nothing else. I consider that more than half the ills to which human flesh la heir could be cured by suggestion, whereas half the world could be laid low by the same power. In politics it plays an important part, many a voter being actually hypnotized by the speaker to vote as he suggests. Every athletic contest is ruled by suggestion. If the captain of any great match, interna tional or otherwise, shows that he is in any way apprehensive as to the re sult, the members of his team take the suggestion, and it is consequently ap parent throughout the contest. In the Etablissement de Psychotherapie, founded by Dr. Berillon in Paris, which I have recently visited, complaints are treated which are supposed to yield to the influence of suggestion. At the clinique held there every pos sible infantile vice is effectually dealt with, and chronic drug takers and in ebriates form a large class of those attending. Those suffering from what is termed "folie de doute,'' or want of con fidence in themselves and- want of control, are effectually cured. Suggestion, like medicine, iequires careful dispensing. It is not every one who is blessed with the power of so acting on the mind cf man as to reflect on the symptoms and alleviate the condition. "Bo You Think I Have Fallen Away Mucli, Uncle Sam ? $M Mil lliwfefe Caitoon by V. A. Rogers, in New York Herald. MANY COMMUNITIES ASK FOR POSTAL SAVINGS-BANKS, BUT SOUTH AND WEST FAIL TO ENTHUSE OVER THEM Jerves and Tears Vy S. S. McComb ttli" OW then can the nervous sufferer help himself? To be 40 gin with, he should ask himself: "What is there in my phy- IT IT sical life which may account for my nervous weakness? is my aiet sumciem in quantity anu nutritious m yuanw . I get enough sleep? Is my work congenial? Is my en vironment in any degree suited to my tastes and aptitudes?" These are simple questions, and yet upon their answer often depends the possibility of nervous health or nervous disease. If tiie sufferer discovers that any of the physical causes of a nervous breakdown are in operation, it is obvious that it is his first duty to fight against these causes, to lessen them and, if possible to remove them altogether. In the next place and this is especially to be noted by nervous women one of the essential conditions of nervous' balance is the control of the emo tions. The tendency on the slightest provocation to give way to a paroxysm of tears is dangerous because it leads to weakness, bodily and mental. No doubt there are moments of poignant agony when tears are nature's benefi cial provision for some relief to an overstrained nervous and mental organ ism, but these moments come at rare intervals in our lives, and, as a rule, 60 far from weakening our mental or moral life, "they uplift and purify it. What nervous people must be warned against is the tendency to let them selves go because of some petty worry or some slight domestic difference or through some morbid impulse to self-pity. Harper's Bazar. tiailroaas ana Manama Canal: Ey Rear Admiral R. D. Euans HE Panama Canal will earn the returns, albeit perhaps in directly, if it is given the chance. But It will not be given the chance if the transcontinental railroads can prevent. The railroads always have been hostile to the canal and they may be hostile to it in the future. I believe their hostility is based on a narrow conception a short-sighted view, but reasonable or unreasonable, it is the fact. We are spending $400,000,000 digging out a canal which ought to reduce freight rates across our continent to a frac tion of what they are now. The commercial justification of that expenditure will never be found in the impetus that will be given our foreign trade. It must be found of benefit to our domestic commerce. For many years we have consented that the railroads should monopolize the transcontinental trade which a canal would have carried at greater epeed and vastly less cost. We have developed our continent thus far with out thought of the possibilities of the greatest transcontinental trade route that via the Atlantic, the canal, and the Pacific and without consideration of the possibilities of our imperial system cf rivers. The canal is going to force attention to these things, if only the country can be aroused to under Btand is immense potentialities. Hampton's Magazine. Golf a Rational Curse By "Pensioner" in London Outlook HAVE no hesitation in saying that in my opinion golf has be come a national curse. No one can maintain that during the fifteen or twenty years that it has had its boom the nation has made any progress or improved its position a3 compared with other nations. On the contrary, the absorption of so many men of influence and education in the unceasing pursuit of a golf-ball has made the way easy for Socialists and Radicals. Tbey at least, with all their faults, do find time to concen trate their attention on what, from their point of view, are questions of public Importance. Amo'ig the causes tending toward national decadence I hold there are none more largely responsible than the golf craze, though probably the bridge craze runs it close. 1 H Education C. Msrritt 9iMMfr OYS and girls with no heads for mental advancement are kept idling at their desks until they are set in habits of 2 k -vw listless dependence on their parents for everything. me in the household, and t'ho 'boys mast have some fun away from horus when released from school. iDTess and street or outside display, whatever brings them into notico, arc- fostered, individual abilities of taste and action are suppressed, instead of developed, and man ual ekill and love of the soil are looked down upon. Education is net book learning, but a preparation for the needs of life, and many children who would do credit to themselves and their community it trained scientifically to labor grow up -without aims, and unhealthy, be cause they have been kept to books alone. .It must be remembered that in thi3 land almc-st no home training is given o children who attend public schools. Postmasters Report Savings Seek Place of Deposit--Interesting Pieas From Many Communities for Designation of Branch Banks Foreigners and People in Moderate Circumstances the Most Insistent A Keip to Young Men. . Wasiiingtoi. Perhaps the most in teresting documents now coming into Washington have to do with the ap plications of postmasters who want their postoffices designated as branch postal savings banks. Practically all of these letters, more than 2 00 of which have now been received by the postmaster general, have been written in answer to a demand by the patrons of the postoffices, and in many instances the postmaster gives the reasons advanced by his patrons for asking for a postal bank in the community. It is already evident that the country at large is taking a healthy interest in the new institu tion created by law of the last con gress, and about to be created in fact by the board of trustees, composed of Postmaster General Hitchcock, Secre tary MacVeagh and Attorney General Wickersham. The pleas on hand to date indicate that those communities where a large part of the population is composed of wage earners, foreigners or people in moderate circumstances, are those most insistent for postal banks. Ru ral communities somewhat removed from banking facilities are also de manding the new banks, and the pre diction is freely made by postmasters that the result of their establishment will be to bring new money into cir culation, Increase thrift in the com munity, and inspire a patriotic Inter est in the affairs of the government. Among the interesting letters re ceived, none has been of greater sig nificance than that written by the postmaster at Pueblo, Col. After pointing out that this community is mostly a wage earning community, in which foreigners play no small part in the mining and smelting industry, the postmaster cites actual figures from his records to show that theue has been sent from Pweblo to foreign countries in international money or ders during the last five years more than $1,000,000, which might well have been retained at home. These disbursements, by years, were as fol lows: 1905, $198,000; 1006, $294, 000; 1907, $370,000; 190S, $1SG, 000; 1909, $151,000. . From Jackson, Term., comes a re quest for a postal bank, based on the ground that most of the inhabitants of that city are persons in medium circumstances, who would like to de posit their small savings in a govern ment bank. The postmaster at Bellingham, Wash., a city of 30,000 inhabitants, writes to the postmaster general that he has a large number of roor for eigners as patrons of his office, who will, welcome a postal bank. He writesThat. in his opinion, the depos its in postal banks in that community will increase the money in circulation perceptibly, encourage thrift and help put a stop to extravagance and poverty. The postmaster at Everett, Wash., a city of equal size, has also reported that, in his opinion, a postal bank at that place will bring out not less than $150,000, He bases his es timate on the banking already being done with him in the shape of money orders made oilt in favor of the pur chaser. At Madison, Wis., the postmaster thinks he has found an ideal place in which to try out the postal bank system. He points out that he has a diversified population to serve, rang ing from university professors down to foreign laborers, and he believes an intimate study of the relation of each of these classes to the postal bank system will be highly instruc tive. From North Adains, Mass., comes a plaintive tale that the cotton and woolen workers in the textile mills, most of whom are foreigners, want a postal bank in which to place their savings. There is much human interest In the plea of the postmaster at Breck enridge, Col. He says the town Is small in comparison with many other applicants, but a postal bank is need ed to "help the young men who are far from home and who find it hard to save money." Inasmuch as these "young men'1' are undoubtedly scions of eastern families who have gone forth to seek their fortunes while the fathers and elder brothers remained at home to take care of the long-established business of the family, this in terest on the part of the postmaster in their welfare and in their success gives a touch to the paternalistic side of the postal banks which is interest ing. The postmaster says he will not get an extra cent in. salary for the ettra work involved, but that he is personally willing to work overtime in order that these "young men" may be encouraged in thrift and economy. Superior, Neb., reports that there Is no savings bank within 100 miles of that place in any direction, and it wants the first postal savings bank al lotted to that State, as it had the first rural route. From Great Falls, Mont., comes the plea that the city has more wage earn ers in proportion to its population than any other city in the country, many of whom are foreigners. Tho postmaster is certain that the patrons of his office will appreciate a postal bank. The postmaster at Onarga', 111., points out that while the inhabitants of the cities have savings .banks ga lore, the rural population of the coun try in large part is without conve niences of this kind. He suggests that the postal savings bank will be come even more popular in the coun try than in the cities, and asks that they be given a fair trial In the coun try districts, including the territory In the vicinity of Onarga. At Centerville, la., the postmaster reports a large foreign population, which either buys international money ot-ders with its -surplus savings and sends it out of the community, or carries the money around on its person. This feature among the for eigners has already been emphasized In the mining districts of Pennsylva nia, where thousands of dollars have already been reported In the hands of the foreigners working the 'mines of that estate. The postmasters of Pennsylvania feel sure this money will go into the postal banks. Astonishing indifference appears to prevail in the south and west with regard to the benefits supposed to flow from postal savings banks. Those sections were supnoscd, v;hile the bill was under consideration, to be de manding such legislation with great fervor. -Of the 60,000 postmasters in the country but 195 have reported the least interest in their localities in the matter. Of the 14,00 0 or 15,000 banking institutions in the country but 462 have signified a desire to be come depositories for the money to be placed in the postal savings banks. The banks manifesting curosity are distributed through 42 states, and the postmasters who have made inquiries are in 36 states. Texas arid Oklaho ma are the only states of the south where the subject .appears to have aroused much interest. In Texas 2 0 postmasters have written here for in formation and in Oklahoma nine. Postmasters in Louisiana, Missis sippi. Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina have ignored the matter. The officials of the postoffice de partment believe they will be able to establish a few banks by the first of the year 1911. They realize they have a big task on their hands. Thna far, however, there are no indications of any rush on the part of the people in demanding them. Secretary MacVeagh recently urged the banks to form associations to avail themselves of the privileges of the Aldrich-Vreeland currency plan, but thus far there is not one such associa tion in existence. Futile efforts have been made to form them so they may be in existence when the next curren cy pinch comes, but the banks are un willing to even go to the expense of preparing the necessary papers for assoc'-''on. Pittsburg OJIieial Says Mrnicipal Hennery is Needed in One Section. Pittsb-'.rg. Director E. It. Walters of the deportment of public health has diverted Lis attention from the smoke nnirance to hens. He says the negro hill district must have a public henhouse. He found hundreds of families keening chickens in the cel lars of houses. Since they must have chickens, and cheaply, there is only one solution, according to Mr. Walters, and that is a municipal hennery or poultry stock yard and slaughter house. Chicago Now Has Continuous Water Course to the Ocean. Chicago. Chicago is now connect ed with St. Louis and other Missis sippi river ports, and therefore with the ocean, by a continuous water course deep enough for barges and other craft of light draft. The con necting link between the drainage ca nal and the old Illinois and Michigan canal at ' Lockport was formally thrown open. It is estimated that the link will afford a channel with at least five feet of water. Younger Children... 6C T2; KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. Little children, never give Pain to things that feel and live; Let. the gentle robin come For the crumbs vou save at home As his meat you throw along He'll repay you with a song; Never hurt the timid hare Peeping from her green grass lair. Let her come and sport and play On the lawn at close of day; The little lark goes soaring high To the bright windows of the sky, Sinchnr as if 'twere alwava snrinu. And nattering on on untired wing O! let him sing his happy song, Nor do these gentle creatures wrons. MATCHES MADE IN HEAVEN. . One day small Madge-heard her mother say there wasn't a match in the house. "Never mind, mamma," said the little miss; "when I say my prayers to-night I'll ask God to send us a box." v "But why ask God for matches?" queried the surprised parent. " "Cause," answered Madge, "Aunt Jennie says matches are made in Heaven." Chicago News. - LOSING HIS SENSES. r A mischievous boy, having got pos session of his grandfather's specta cles, privately took out the glasses. When the old gentleman put them on, finding he could not see. he ex claimed: "Mercy on me, I've lost my sight!" but thinking the impedi- larga darning needle, or the point of a knife will do, and make hdles on the line all afong. You will then be able to cut out the design very easily. Of course after it Is cutout some smooth ing of the edges will be necessary. You may wish to color tho bed with crayon or water color, end this will make it more attractive, although a white or brown box makes a better bed without being colored. A mattress to fit tho bed may" be made of a number of thicknesses of newspapers. There should be enough of the newspaper to make the mat- AT The Completed Bed. tress come up to the top of the sides of the bed. When the mattress has been made cut the sheets from plain white paper. Fairly thick white pa per is best, but this is sometimes dif ficult to get in pure white, such as should be used for bed linen. Tissue paper will do if you cannot get the thicker white paper large enough. (DED'CUT OlTAUD no A Til MS? ' IS CARD0OA1O fOlD- kn ) fiaTffa lN5 PO T TED f UN 5 5 'HO W HOW ' TO - CUT BOX. ' Jltr r'itf ment to vision might be the dirtiness of the glasses took them off to wipe them, when, not feeling them, he, still more frightened, cried out: "Why, what's come now? I've lost my feel ing, too." Ideas. HOW TO MAKE A BOX BED FOR THE PAPER DOLL. It is quite easy to make a very nice bed for the paper dolls, and even for other dolls if you so desire, from a pasteboard box. The bot may be quite small for the paper dolls, but It may be as large as you wish for the others. It should be about half as high as it is long and about three . quarters as wide as it is long. The width does not make fo much differ ence, since you may have a double or a single bed, but the height is impor tant. It is all right to have the box more, than half as high as It Is long, because you may cut off as much as you like, but if it is less than half as high it will not be satisfactory and you would best wait to get another box. Remove the lid of the box and cut a design after the pattern marked out by the dotted lines in the illustration. Before cutting out the desig'a you should draw lines to show exactly where the cut is to be made. To make the lines straight put the box over the end of a piece of board or put a book inside, so that you may draw the line steadily. Use a ruler and be sure your lino Is straight. As you will see by the illustration, you cut out the lower edges of the box to make feet. A piece Is cut out from all four sides of the box on the lower edges. This causes the bottom of the box to fall out except a't the four corners, which form the feet. If you leave the bottom in there it makes the bed stronger. As you see, the lower edges are not cut very far from the floor. If your box is eight inches long and four inches deep less than one inch is suffi cient to cut away the lower edge. The upper end of the bed is left high to make the headboard. It has panels drawn or painted to make a design. The footboard i3 cut off about half an inch to make a differ ence between it and the headboard. The sides are cut down about two Inches, as shown In the design. This, in the size box referred to, leaves about an inch of cardboard along the sides. The springs to hold the mattress are made of a piece of cardboard net quite so wide as the bed and enough longer to turn over at both ends and stand on the floor, not quite so high as the sides of the bed. To turn the end run a knife lightly over the card board, but do not cut half wray through. The board will then bend easily. The springs or mattress sup porter is then placed inside the bed and stands on its ends, reaching al most to the top of the sides. You may find difficulty in cutting the cardboard. If so, after you have drawn, the lines, for cutting take a If you use tissue paper first cover the newspaper mattress with it, so that the black will not show through. The sheets are long enough to tuck in at top and bottom and sides. After the sheets have been made you may make the pillows. . These may also be made of newspaper. The pair of pillows should be large enough to fit exactly in at the head of tho bed. Cover them with white paper, using mucilage to make the pillow cases. Then have shams of the paper also, with scalloped edges and em broidery. To make the embroidery, fold the sham in four sections. You make sev eral small triangles, squares or cir cles, and when you open the sham the design will be uniform. . A counterpane for the bed maj be made in the same way. This should be just large enough to fit the top of the bed and the edges all scal loped. Fold the counterpane and cut a design as yo; did for the sham. Also cut a design in v.he centre of the counterpane. If made of heavy whit9 paper the spread will look like a heavy linen one. If you make it of tissue paper you may put a pink or blue spread under it and then the de sign will saow beautifully. The same effect will be very pretty for the pil low shams. CHAMELEONS. Chameleons can be kept alive for years by making a frame o fit over a plant in a flowerpot and covering it with mosquito netting, which must be long enough to tie with a string about the pot. Keep the pot in the sunniest window and water the plant every day through the netting. You will be surprised to see how eagerly the little creatures will drink the run ning water after they get over their fear. Set a wire flytrap for flies, which you can liberate under the net ting. The chameleons will not be backward about helping themselves. In winter they do not require much food, but will relish a meal worm oc casionally on sunny days. Meal worms can sometimes be got at the grain stores for the asking, or can be purchased at the bird stores, or small spiders can be found in cracks and crannies, asleep for the winter; they may be frozen stiff if found out of doors, but they revive in a warm room. Chameleons enjoy a place to sleep in nights and winters. Take a piece of red flannel four inches wide and eight inches long; roll it over a stick as large around as your finger, and sew it while on the stick so it will not come unwound; then slip off and run a wire through it long enough to sus pend it from one of the branches on the plant. The chameleons will crawl Into this cosy bed and go to sleep.- St. Nicholas. There are about 275,000 automo biles owned by individuals in th United States, or one for every four hundred population.