Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1915, Page 9

THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DEC MBER 1015, W The Becs Home Madazine D&l New Thought Creed Meets Every Situation By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1915, by Star Co The wife of a clergyman has been | reading New Though Literature. 8he writes me in much distress because, | while she is personally happler and more broadly relig'ous than ever before, she | ds herself accused of being a “heretic,” A “dissenter,” an “atheist” and unbe- | and many more unpleasant | s aro hurled at her by her hus- band's congregation This 1s an unfortunate situation, but it is one which will occur more and more frequently in the next decade. Annie Hesant passed through a s'milar ex- perience in England, when she tound her self unable to believe In the doctrines i reached by her hustnd. Unfortunately the dally enviror ~ent of Mrs. Beeant angd her husband's peculiarities of dis vosition caused her to doubt her Creator r a time and sent her over into the ranks of the infidels, but she finally swung Ints line with true, practical re. liglous thought and devoted her life to helping humanity to higher ground. Some centuries ago Vasco da Gama | was into prison for declaring there could be any country other than that memtioned in the Bible. He asked for ships to Ro ang seek the lands he knew existed, and the council of whom he reked the faver put nim ‘n chains. The world grows wiser slowly, and we ot try to force its development Neither iUSt we arrest our own velopment to please any individual any organization of Individuals. The lady who has written me ought to apply the New Thought principles to or situation and learn the power wh'ch s in serenity. She shoulg think more than she talks. The creed of this New Thought Is the most simple and beautiful and can only help her to conquer all seeminzly aggressive and unfortunate conditions if she will be patfent Tet ler say s'lently every day and many times a day: | “God is the Spirit—Love. All things and beings came originally from love. 1 am an expression of this infinite lov. and nothing but love and goodness can | &0 from me or come to me." | 1f she lives up to this thought every | hour In the day she will not long be unpopular in her husband's congregation. She ghould avold argument regarding creeds and dogmas, If obliged to listen| to them let her say her littie rosary over | and over, mentally, until it absorbs all other fdeas. { When asked point blank just what her | bellef is ahe should answer: “I love my Creator with all my| strength; T love humanity as myself, and | strive to do as 1 would be done by al-! ways. When I fail T only renew my of- forts. T belleve in the divine nature of every creature and my desire fs to oul-! tivate that element in humanity and in| myself, 1 believe all of success and, health and continual kindness and un- selfishness and cheerfulness and pa- tience and unlimited love are the meth- ods for development, “T make it a rule to never go to sleep with a resentful or angry or jealous feel-| ing in my mind, and when these emo-| tions seek me, as they do at times, I (rive them out with mental assertions of | Mve and kindness. I fear nothing but indulging in eruel or unkind thoughts, and I belleve my thoughts are shaping my future in this world end the next and that ] must save myself.” It the questioner is not satisfied with this creed it will be useless to carry the discussion further and it should be drop- ped. Disputes on religlous subjects are| a proof that both the disputants have no religion worth talking about It is the dafly life in the home, in the| neighborhood, in the market place, in the | shops that proves the worth of religion. | Live the new thought and you shall be| loved and respected by the worth-while| members of all denominations and all| creeds and all men, And those who know you will cease to ask what your faith is, since your life will show It is the creed of love for \sod and humanity, It is not a one day religion, or one which dependg upon a form or a dogma it 1s one which must be hourly lived ¥ it and the world must recognize its worth and respect you m de- or In-Shoots Be sure right and then prepare for a lot of knocks you are takes himself too seri- unhappiness. The ously man wh is courting As a rule the wealthy man never gets credit for the honesty in his make-up faced no man oward or not Until an emergency knows whether he is & A fair exchange is no robbery. But what's the use of trading without profit? It is well a be forgiving, but do not lick the hand that smites, unless you are a dog. Oceasionally the male with a deep volce can shoot out & lot of falsetto sense non- If wicked man cannot sprout wings, he should at least try to cover up his tracks. The philosopher is usually the fellow who provided “don't worry” rules for the rest of us Unless & paid member of the band, don't waste time tooting the horn for | the other fellow, The scandal monger, like the skunk, “an for & time polson the atmosphere. | But the odor soon blows away. There is no conceit lke that of the shap who imagines he can win the affec- tlon of & girl by simply toasting hix | shins before the old man's fire every | uight. | the facts fn his case, ulated by the Department of Agriculture, appear to establish beyond question his And there’s an “Layin’ for Him" o RS S e e e Copyright K s Intern’l. News Servi Dex! By Nell Brinkley ‘ LT A T lml anxious and sleepy mother listening at the crack of a door, with her arm through their Dad’s, and wiisper- By GARRETT P. SERVISS, T ralse a volce for the generally de- spised toad. The toad is, personally, no tavorite of mine, but I speak for him under a sense of plain justice, because officlally accum. right to be treated as a friend and ally of man in the struggle for existence. This being true, the well known and cure- less ugliness of the toad can no longer furnish an excuse for the contempt and disliko with which he {s almost univers- ally regarded. The blemishes of a friend, says an old philosopher, are comely to the eye of affection, There 16, perhaps, no other of man's animal contemporaries that has been the object of s0 many baseless calumnies and supertitious notions as the toad. He has been denounced as a polsoner of chil- dren with his breath; as a producer of warts on all hands that touch or ap- proach him: as & bringer of untimely rain; as a wanderer of the brute world who cannot die, though imprisoned for ages in solld rock; as a natural magl- cian, carrylng a necromantic stone in his head with which mystical cures can be performed This last is referred to in Shakespeare's line: “The toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.' Dr. Brewer, in his “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,” quotes an old English writer as saying: “There is to be found in the heads of all old and great toads a stone they call borax, or stelon, which, being used as rings, gives forewarning against venom." These fabled toad-stones, for no na- turalist of today will grant that any such thing really exiss, were said to bear always a figure resembling a toad on their surface, and it was believed that a touch of & toad-stone cured the bites of venomous animals In a collection of antiquities at Londesborough there is a silver ring with a reputed toad-stone sot in it, and the legend connected with this ring avers that the stone ‘‘wweats and changes color when any polson brought near it But, while most of the strange beliefs have only a fanciful foundation, that which concerns the remarkable longevity of the toad and its ability to resist star- vation and close confinement derives a little support from sclen*if'c experiments In 1777 M. Her:isant imbed ‘ed t*ree toad in plaste:, and placed them for safe Our Ugly Ally, the Toad keeping iIn the archives of the French | Academy of Sciences. After elghteen | months, when the plaster was broken | open, two of them were still living. The | English geologist, William Buck and, im | randstone and limestone. Those iIn the sandstone were found dead after thir- teen months, while those shut up in the | ‘imestone lived nearly two years. Popu- | 1ar stortes of toads jumping out of rocks | that have been blasted open, and in which they must have been enclos d for cen | turles, are common, but selentifically un authenticated. Still, there is ne doubt | that toads are long-lived and very re- | sistant to ordinary causes of death other than violence One fact which gives them a oertain | title to human sympathy 1s that they are great lovers of home. Where they were born they stay, if they can. Mr. A H Kirkland of Boston, who is one of th ch'ef champions of the toad as a useful animal, says that he has convincing evi- dence that two toads have occupled door- | mured a number of toads in cavities in | and twenty-three years, res e tive y The widespread bellef that little toads sometimes rain down fr.m the sky i | based, Mr. Kirkland thinks, on the fact |that young toads have la'n concealed nder stones, rubbish and leaves during | the sunshiny ho.rs will suldenly come forth by hundreds when an unexpected shower ocours. But now for the evidence that the toad really an ally of man in his war aguinst noxious insects. This depends | | entirely upon examinations of the food | that toads consume, as shown by inspe tion of the stomach, carnivorous,” cent of thelr food s of animal origin and consists mostly of insects noxious to man It remains to tell how he gets them, since most of them are alert and lvely fellows. The secret of his success fs in his tongue, which is long, and, what is even more to the purpose, is hung at the inner instead of the outer end Conse quently it acts Iike a lasso, which he flings with Mghtning speed and unerring yards in two different towns for twelve | aim The Locked | By ADA PATTERSON. Have you & locked in heart? Whether |or not you are sure about it, let me tell you the story of the locked out chil- dren. A congressman’s wife was suffering one morning from the locked in condition of the heart, which some of us call worry, and which others call self-centredness. At all events, there are moods in which we are apt to lock the world out and | ourselves in and brood upon these things | which are not as we would have them. | And the last state is worse than the first, for no good ever comes of such brood- ing. The locked in condition is always | & bad one. Our spirits, like our physical selves, need alr and wide spaces and freedom of movement, and the eye of [the soul need to look outward rather |than inward. A friend called, bringing | in with him & fine whitf of bracing outer air and told a story ‘Such an unplessant thing happened in the nelghborhood. Net two blocks away from either of us half way be Uust tween your home and mine. | wieh aptece since 7 It's true that I Out Children one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives." What is the story?” The congressman’s young wife felt the turning of a key in the lock, The door of her heart was opening. a little “It happened in one of the rear ter ments. The woman 15 & widow. She a two children, & little girl, aged 4, nna another little girl of 6. She has tc out every day to work. She is afr that If the children are left in their mis erable home something may happen t them. The house might be burned cr eome heavy plece of furniture migit full upon them. She is & poor, shy thiig who doesn't know her neighbors. Sne doesn't speak their language. The kn dergarten in the nelghborhood is full B0 she did what she thought was best She locked the little ones out. A nelg: bor found them orying in the hall tn th evening at 6 o'clock. They had been staying in that dark hall with a eand 7 o'clock that morning The door of the listener's heart swung wide. Something must be done,” she sald They are decidedly | since no leas than % per | J | L " , W/ N WS ing whimsically, “Will they ever go to sleep?”—and “wouldn’t they be long gone on any other night but this?”—Nell Brinkley. And the beat time to do it will be dur-| tween, from 10 in the morning until 9| gloom-tilled. The key may be rusty. Ing Christmas weok.™ \u night But why not let some little child tur She emptied her heart of other con-| A Christmas tree and playground and | that key? siderntion. She filled every vnber of | sand plles and warm luncheons and com- What if you have a quarrel with life with the little locked out children. | fortable fires will be provided for the| What though its conditions are not wha | There were many of them in her dis-| locked out children and thelr kind. | ¥ou would have them? Try to get som trict that her husband represented, The week will be one great throbbing | child's feet upon a happler path. Let | found. She set to work. She ener | Joy to the children who would otherwise | turn he grating key. You will be sur tremendously upon that problem s Christmusless and joyless. prised at the strength of its weak lit:l The result is that a huge new armory | Isn't that the way, I wonder, to unlock | fingers. So strong are they it may b buflding in that quarter of Greater New | the locked in heart? Isn't the key of it| that they will make you forget why c. York will be open on Christ and | a little child's craving for joy? locked that door. 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