The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1919, Page 6

THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Wrank Crane) FROTTEN!! THAT WAS A FATR BALE KILL, "IM !! KILL 'IM--— a ee LITTLE JOURNEYS | No, 2 in that odor?” piped the country visitor, meaning that subtle atmospheric prevalent “What quinitive of courne, Think 80 minutes every morning after breakfast of things ypu have to be glad over, Sit this half hour in a sun bath of cheer. Shut out all thoughts that hurt, from bad liver to false friends. oa Get the habit! For happiness habit. Abe Lincoln hit the nail on the head, with his usual accuracy, when he said: “I have ge : . noticed that folks are generally about as Get in the way of turning everything so s as we have . af ; that you see its bright side. Fes as they have made up their mind If oh are to be shot at sunrise, reflect! There may be something in temperament, Hanging is much gna has asthma " “res ’ If your wife nags, remember! Sracbare eat Sass ky as in the caus at Build your house on the sunny side of the hill. children who suck their thumb or stutter, Sothi . . it ia habit mostly, Nothing matters—except the way you ‘ i look at it. There may be something in circumstances. Is all this merely jollying yourself, lifting It seems hard to be happy when you can't “ "i yourself by your bootstraps? have another piece of pie, when the girl Not at all. What happens, happens. You you fancy does not fancy you, when there’s | can’t change it. But you can walk around a boil on your neck, or when the boss will ‘ .. to the other side of it. not raise your wages. Still many are happy The only thing you cam control in this under distressing conditions, and many universe is yourself. Why not? se da w frend Ag full of food and att You cannot help the inevitable; then why Vt Tat dressed up. 8 habit, -| not be cheerful about it? . eee SS See Religion ought to produce happiness. So| Think of something else when worry Ien't it perfectly ripping the way/Ought Philosophy, and Money, and Fame,|comes. For it’s the Same Thing everlast- the public commission ts}and Love, and Champagne, and Success. | ingly that drives folks crazy—mad people tearing into the company about its/Qnly they do not, always. cannot get away from their obsession—and aah Gk ab iene | For happiness is not a Gift, not even | it’s Something Else that saves us to sanity. ea! a |Heaven’s. It is not what somebody else You cannot do this? HELPING THE STRANGER |does to or for you, not even God. It is Certainly not. Not at first. That’s the WITHIN THE GATES jwhat you do to and for yourself, in the | point. It takes practice. We oe peerage ng Go most Rei main. You attain happiness precisely as you ee ae gene ct biton taxe|.. Happiness is an Art, not a Science. Aj develop the muscles of your arm, care of themselves, at their own|Science you can learn from a. book, as | Practice. . homes #0 far a# possible, with their|Anatomy. An Art you have to learn by Most of us, re happiness, are like the eating. Owing to thi » of! doing, as the Practice of Medicine. man who was asked if he could play the 1 ine} | | of Drug Menace as Seen by Fiend as ae Cert a is largely a matter annoyance about G Editor: I see in The Star where some of Seattle's anne held a meeting behind closed doors to decide what ) r Oy done with the dope “fiends.” So now they put us Lake relative, game class as criminals. ‘ " ar 6 4” te want to put us in a cell—make convicts out of us, way ee grep tot agg | police haunt us enough as it is, without branding us y Have you asthma?” nvicts. It looks like they were trying to make us + be hee instead of better. Prison will not cure any dope ehemently. | No 1 mds.” The sooner they get that idea the better, be- this ame se jails and prisons make dope fiends. There is more > Po PB Aa A gre tle a in the jails than there is in all of Chinatown, f vend tn wild abandon. “Dut perhape ee served 90 days in the county jail for a “cure, and can tell me, what are thore more dope while I was there than I had outside, for time the sheriff searched the jail he would find Once they found five ounces _ vegpesrtioe poo © guns and needles. Then they kept a close watch oat how it came in, AND NEXT DAY EVERY [D HAD A FRESH STOCK! 4 saw a jail sentence cure anybody of anything. been in jails from New York to San Francisco and done 30 to 90-day jolts for using and having dope, | ever saw anybody helped to a cure in a jail. ils make dope fiends. I know because there was where taught the habit. I was in the county jail in San meisco just before the earthquake and everybody there ge * sed by calling a messenger boy. Yet they were “fiends” there for a cure. was a-fine joke. q fa “fiend” goes to jail, within two hours all the other ds” know it, and there is a package of dope on the his cell. And if one package misses, they will keep until one does get to him, because we know how a ‘addict suffers without his dope. ; | really want to help us, give us a fair chance at a} feigned the Green 1 smell nothing,” retorted the 1c ¥ minds me of have met ed the G. Lr vehemently Some of alr is wor yea,” agreed the 1 arms ur he creatures is that?” looking @ puzzled “Why about us critters are t “Ansuredly r, who had real borhood to sell mo» quitoes in Green Lake district. We put coal off on the water and that-~" these that are swarming it be such large SVE THE [PENNANT ro | EVERETT ft Sa THOU SHALT Nor KIC oxta “There are no had fainted. | service Let the government establish scientific cures, and) for what we are, diseased and helpless souls in can ever force a cure upon us, but if we had a nce we would go willingly for a cure. government would contro! the business, and allow | doctors to prescribe dope, then you could gradually he supply of a “fiend,” grain by grain, week by week, ‘he is down to one or two grains a day, and then the easy. y ‘ if he goes back, after a cure, give him a year at first, give us a chance for a real cure. f ‘us a chance to live. If we get a job and are making me wise fly bull will wise up the boss, and out ‘on the street, whether we are the best man in the not. thing, these Chinese peddlers say they are pay- stion, but they are scared of the government dicks. tt take charge of the dope business and ice graft. j > a Poy, HYPO SLIM (17 years a fiend). ftor’s Note: We believe that this letter from a drug is more solid value in it than all the conferences, sessions, and reform society resolutions in the fellow knows what he is talking about. Most of seek to “reform” the “fiends” know nothing | that a jail sentence never cured anybody of) especially it never helped a dope addict. But made a lot of dopesters. ; addict is a sick man, just as a drunkard is a He needs expert medical attention, long treat- diy care. Throwing him in the bull-pen, where a “fiends” are getting their daily poison thru} ft of some trusty, or petty official, is indecent, as | futil lish real cures. Give addicts a chance to be cured.| “backslide, give them another chance. And let o after the dope runners as hard as he does} hiners and in five years there will be no dope m in this country. the drug habit is everywhere, and chiefly _ en since the advent of national prohibition. | date we have done nothing to help these helpless, | the innocents that are surely due for the Read This to Yours ll | have children, read this to them. Read it several » Impress it upon their memory. For it may be the of warning little children in crowded city streets Too many of them are being hurt—AND KILLED ‘ accidents. is all well and good to warn drivers of automobiles, and delivery wagons. They MUST be careful. They help us guard the lives of our children. But let us irget to teach the lesson of safety to our children. @ lesson is contained in the following suggestions Raymond W. Pullman, superintendent of police, ington, D. C. He asks children: mot play in the street where there is heavy vehicle lever step off the sidewalk into the street without first up and down the street to make sure no vehicle of 4 d is near. © not cross the street diagonally or in the middle of the ti Wait until you come to a crossing at the end of and then cross at right angles. no condition catch hold of any moving vehicle. children are maimed and killed each year as a result practice. Do not attempt in any way to steal a! any vehicle. | not touch any part of an automobile standing in the| out for motorcycles; look both ways, for the motor-| | comes quickly and often without warning. not play on street car tracks or near them. d0 not put your head or arms out of the open window 1 car. Do not try to get on or off of a street car while it is ng. Wait until it stops. not cross close behind a street car or automobile. | fething may be coming from the other direction. Not run across in front of a street car. be coming on the other side, not play or walk on railroad tracks, or climb on freight enger trains. Yo not play with matches. Work to prevent fires. 9 not get close to a bonfire started in the open, not light a match if you smell gas in a room. older person and tell him. 9 not climb on ice wagons after a piece of ice. Find This ngerous. The horses may start off suddenly and you ay be crushed by falling ice. ‘Never, at any time or place, touch a swinging wire that the air or on the ground. Do not go near such a} for if it is a live electric wire, with the power on,| may be killed or badly burned if touched by it. em There are very few men in the. world too degraded to we in the Golden Rule for the other fellow. Satire is mostly ire, Something | ‘ : D’Annunzio BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Soul of the eagle and brain of the hare, Dicer with death and an ace of the air What is the charm of your devilmay-care? Tho’ I've no love for the thing you are doing, Though it's the devil's own broth you are brewing, With viper and hell-cat combined in the stewing, Yet, tho I hope that they soon will have canned you, ‘Tho I tneist we must all reprimand you, Still there is something we also must hand you! For, when a poet has got the world floored By beating his fountaln-pen into @ sword, ‘The world may be peeved, but the world len't bored! And, when a man so asrerts his own ego ‘The he won't travel the way in which we go, Many a hail he will hear of “Amigo! Such t* the charm of you, rampant and racy, Something of Robin Mood, something of Tracy, And we'll all say “Too bad!" when you finish a ee “I jedge that this feller Denunshio,” in secret covenants openly connived at.” (Copyright, 1919, N. B.A) lke Casey! says Uncle Ichabod, “believes may not be profiteers in other coun- tries hoarding the daily neceaattios of life? 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In 1701, on Oct. #, a charter for a ~-Eldora (1a.) Leader one | ‘The cheerful giver always has a cheerful liver eee Another uncertain thing In base ball is the size of the profits. |by the general assembly of that state. The college was started in |the town of Saybrook on the Con |necticut river, The attendance for |the first six months was limited to one pupil, Jacob Hemmingwa 1716 the col Haver But, as the contortionist remarked when patting the top of his head with the soles of his feet, “Som people may find it difficult but I have no trouble in making both ends meet.” eee “It is possible that I will be in Washington when King Albert is| there,” writes A. L. 8, “and @ friend of mine in the State Depart ment says he can fix it for me to be presented to him. 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Of Santiago, was born college in Connecticut was granted), O" October 9, in 1867, Alaska was The merchandise was sold) for building the first structure of| On October 9, in 1779, the Ameri-| The attack, which last-| | | | the judge candidate for re-jhalf square miles in the heart of election | the city were destroyed, 260 lives So devote some time every day to Set- nt, that you take ting Up exercises in happiness. violin, and replied: were lost, and 100,000 persons were| made homeless. In Homer, She tral On October the ened transferred to Sign in a ab “Microscopic have been a r Li sity Turkish and Domestic Tobaccos ~Blended 1830, on October 9, Harriet . 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