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Wandering Minds Attractive Undies
Do not read a word beyond this sen-
tence unless you have a desire to in-
creases your bower of concentration.
If you are going to read on, say to
yourself right now, "I am going to
hold my thoughts from all diverting
Influences while i, read this article. I
shall squeeze the last drop of mean-
ing from every word. If the door
slams, if some one moves near me,
still I shall whip my thoughts along
the path of these words."
Now go back and read the first para-
graph again—slowly, thoughtfully.
You can attain a mastery of your
mental processes. You can gain the
power to snap your mind to a subject
and make it stay there.
White light from the sun may be
broken into the colors of the rainbow
by passing it through a glass prism.
The same sunshine, concentrated by a
shaped glass, will set a fire to blaz-
ing.
Your thoughts, regulated by a wise
will power, may turn to beauty unbe--
lievable, or concentrated upon a life
problem, may light the world with
ideas and wisdom.
Are you following the thought of
these sentences? Did your imagina-
tion cause you to visualize a hand
holding a glass prism to a ray of
light admitted to darkened room?
The person who has gone for years
filing habits of flighty thought of
vague thought, of shallow thought,
cannot expect to change overnight.
The invalid does• not expect to become
a champion athlete in twenty-four
hours. 'We know from physical ex-
perience that we must put in hard
training for many months before we
can bring our muscles to strength
and co-ordination.
Do you want to generate more near-
ly your full brain power? Have you
nerve enough to be a hard taskmas-
ter with yourself.
The first step toward concentration
is desire. The amount of concentra-
tion you achieve depends entirely
upon the strength. and continuance of
desire.
if you are in earnest, ask your
librarian for simple books on mind
training talk occasionally to energe-
tic, forward-looking friends, and calm-
ly study yourself.
Exercises such as follow will help
you achieve concentration.
1. Each week read a non-fiction
article in a high grade magazine.
Read slowly, following last week's
suggestions on permitting each word
to "explode" its full meaning.
2. Attend a lecture or sermon each
week. Work with your mines until
You can listen from beginning to end
with no slack in your attention.
3. Each day write an interpretation
of a difficult paragraph or sentence.
Por example: What is meant by the
saying, "Inattention is voluntary fee-
ble-niindeduess."_ ,_—
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crackling upon their ears and both
CHAPTLki I,
Professor Semyonov, the celebrated men leaped to their feet and stood for
hemist whose profound knowledge of rho fraction of a second staring at
each other. The professor's nervous-
ness had fallen from him and he -spoke
with the calinne.ss of fatalism:
"There, was no lightning. That was
not thunder, but a shot! Come!"
Undies
for
toxicology had more than once been
placed at the disposal of the author=
ities in the solution of crime, tugged
at his by white side -whiskers and
gazed at Sergeant John Barry from The;.zealizati.on of the truth had
the Homicide Bureau. pierced the detective's consciousness
The professor's head with its shock even before his host voiced it and he
of white flair nodded slowly and his s ` prang for the door. As he thing 'it
sl°rewcl eyes twinkled. I open, with. the rotund figure in the
"You tell pie "that there is now 'tattered dressing gown close at his
ealmi ess upon the waters? No crime
or more importance than the average
petty misdemeanor engages the etten-
ion of your bureau? Is that why
heels, he heard unmistakably the
sound of hurrying footsteps below and
plunged for the head of the stairs.
The narrow hail was bat dimly
you have honored me tonight with an lighted and in the unnatural silence
unexpected but most welcome call, and ! which followed the echo of the shot,
in your civilian clothes?" their own feet as they clattered down
"You've got me, Professor Seiny-'the matting -covered stairs drowned
onov!" The detective laughed . again out the lesser sound which had come
frankly. "There's no crime wave` up to them.
threatening to break over us that I The hallway directly below was de -
know of, but a rather curious case has serted and the door leading into the
come to our attention . at head- apartme it was closed and blank.
quarters. Professor Semyonov paused to ham -
The roll of distant but approaching mer upon it but Barry hastened on
thunder broke in upon his words. downward, his eyes striving 'o pierce
"We are going to have a storm." the gloom. Was that a fleeing figure
The professor rose from his chair below hien or just his own distorted
and waddling over to the windows shadow advancing before his reckless
pulled down the shades. He moved descent.
with astonishii.g rapidity and vigor. On the third floor he halted. The
"I do not like to watch it approach; door of this apartment also, which
it fills nee with a sense of suspense, of his host had told him was occupied by
foreboding. It is the electricity in the a woman portrait painter, was closed,
air, I suppose. You shall tell me all but from the line of the sill streamed
about your case, but frst you must see a peculiar, bright light like a beam of
my apartment. My lt.boratories are sunshine. The professor ceased his
quite on the other side of the city, you fruitless efforts and rejoined his com-
kaow, but here on this old square panion just as there came a scft thud
where the aristocracy of forgotten and then from the street level a vio-
generations lived once upon a time I lent ringing and pounding.
find the absolutely different atmos- "Perhaps we were mistaken," Barry
phere which brings relaxation.
Barry followed his host through a
spacious, old-fashioned dressing room
and bath to the bedroom at the back.
Here, too, the professor pailsed to
pull down the shades and then opening
a door at the right displayed a mod-
ern kitchenette.
"This house, you perceive, must once
have been a foully mansion but it
has now been made over, .an apart-
ment to each floor," Professor Semy-
onov explained. "A shop of hammer-
ed brasses and other atrocities occu-
pies the street level, a young gentle-
man whom I do not know has but late-
ly arrived on the second floor. His
apartment is larger than mine, how-
ever, for an extra room is built out
over the strip of garden butt sthe ex-
tension ends on the fleor.above his in
a studio with a skylight. It is occu-
pied, that third floor, by a woman who,
paints portraits, Mrs. McGrath tells
me. w` -
"The fourth apartment, that direct-
ly below mine here, houses a crotchety
gentleman with no ear for music; he
raps on his ceiling when I play my
violin at unseasonable hours.
"Above me in an attic studio lives
one of the feminine freaks peculiar.
to the neighborhood in its declining
years; a smocked, thin, wraith -like
creature with bobber hair and a
.painted chin. She plight be 20 or 40,
end d it is understood that she writes
for the eccentric little magazines
which spring up sporadically here-
ahout. So now, my dear sergeant, you
are acquainted with pie- home and its
surroundings. What do you think of
it?„
He. chuckled as he led the way back
to the living room and Barry followed,
at a loss what to reply. The profes-
sor was known on three continents, his
scientific discoveries had made him
rich; he night have lived in solitary
state in a house of his own, or occu-
pied the most expensive bachelor
apartment in town. Why had he cho-
scn to hide himself away in such
dingy, dreary quarters,
"You seem to be nighty , comfort-
able, Professor Semyonov." The detec-
tive spoke as heartily as he could and
his host laughed outright.
"That is the taint!" 'he exclaimed.
"I saw that you were surprised when
you cane, but my wants are simple
and here, you see, .I am just a queer,
old foreigner named Semyonov, who
niincis his business and goes his way
in peace; I am not Professor Semy-
onov, the chemist, to whose laborator-
ies all the world comes. No one knows
of my abode except a few like your-
self to whom I have given my address,
and I ant undisturbed. But now you
must tell me about your case. Is it
an affair of poisoning?"
Before Sergeant Barry could reply
another flash of lightning as keen as
a knife thrust swept beneath the edges
of the window shades and for an in-
stant dulled the electric lights into an
angry orange glow. •
Professor •Semyonov started, , then
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remarked. "It might have been a
fi aces out in the street—"
The professor shook his head de-
cidedly and then pointed to the line
of light beneath the door before them.
"Someone is in here, at any rate.
We will knock."
Suiting his action to the word, he
rapped smartly, waited and rapped
again, but there came no response,
only the steady glare of that garish
light and the banging from the en-
trance on the ground floor. -
Professor Semyonov shrugged and
turned to descend still further, but the
sergeant grasped his arm.
"That's only someone who heard
what we did the officer on the beat,
perhaps—and wants to investigate.
Let him wait. If .in/thing is wrong
in this house it is behind that door!
I'm going to assume responsibility for
breaking it in, professor. Stand back!"
The door itself was a massive one
but the lock evidently old and flimsy
and at his third onslaught it snapped
with such soddenness that he was al-
most precipitated into the apartment.
A single glance sufficed to show the
outlines of daintily carred furniture
and cushions scattered about in pro-
fusion by an obviously feminine hand,
but the room was empty and its only
illumination was that strange ray of
counterfeit sunlight which streamed
through an opened door in the oppo-
site 'wall, a door which led evidently
to that studio built out over the strip
of garden of which the professor had
spoken.
The still, heated air was heavy with
a subtle, cloying perfume but mingled
with it was a harsh, acrid odor that
was not new to the detective and he
sprang across to the doorway of the
studio and then paused.
Facing hire upon a large easel was
the portrait of a woman in a gray
evening gown poised on the third step
of a staircase with one slippered foot
slightly advanced and a hand Of start-
ling whiteness upon which a huge
emerald blazed rested on the Clark,
polished wood of the balustrade. The
painting was only half finished, but
it was indicated in broadsplashes of
color and with the bold, sweeping
lines of the'cartoonist, which rendered
the likeness unmistakable to anyone
familiar with the lineaments of those
in the city's highest society. -
All this Barry to. k in with one
darting glance and then his eyes
traveled to the foot of the easel and
what lay there. It was the huddled
body of -a woman with masses of
tawny hair scarcely dishevelled by her
fall and a spreading stain upon e
breast of her paint -daubed smock.
Kneeling beside it he gently raised
the head, which rolled backward in
his hands and the curiously long, nar-
row, half -opened eyes stared up sud-
denly into his with a dull, unwinking
gaze.
"Dead!" the professor announced_
beside hint. "She was at work when
the shot pierced her breast. See, het
thumb is still thrust through the pal-
ette and the maulstick and brush. have
but just fallen from her hands."
The Thrift Habit
Just because the late Edward W.
Bok picked up and took home a stray
potato, and because a friend didn't
bother to save the strings from opened
parcels, Mi'. Bok- is now successful,
famous and well off financially, and
the friend is only a clerk in a depart-
ment store. Of course, Mr. Bok,
who told the story in Collier's, does
not mean that the potato and the
string actually determined any one's
future. But he insisted that the
habit of thrift and economy in con-
nection with the small affairs of early
life is likely to lead on to fortune. He
told another anecdote in 'this connec-
tion:
An investment opportunity of the
kind which comes only once in a life-
time was recently offered to a ratan..
He went to a very close friend with
whom things had not gone well, and
said to him: "You take this chance.
It will fix you. and your family for
the rest of your lives. I don't need
it. I have saved. I am fixed.
After a week the friend came back,
and said he would have to let the
chance pass hind by. 1 -le would give
no explanation, and he' refused as-
sistance. "No," he said. "It was
coning to me. It is a life -lesson that
I must accept."
What was back of it? He lead not
sufficient liquid funds or securities
for a loan, and the banks did not con-
sider his account sufficient to justify
the venture.
Thrift doesn't mean being penuri-
ous .or close, says Mr. Bok; "but it
does mean not to live up to an in-
come, no matter Ilow small that in-
come may be." As the former
tor of the Ladies' Home Journal again
turned to reminiscence,
When. I earned 50 cents per weed:,
I saved five cents of it. It was toe
Principle that I respected; it was the
habit that I formed. To -day I am
just as careful to turn out an unneces-
sary electric light, even in a hotel, as
I was in early clays not to light the
i All life is good. "Gori is light and
in Him is no darkness at all.' All life
is light, and joy, and gladness, and
illumination. And when it seems the
reverse to us.it is because we have
gotten "off the track," as people some-
times say, and the phrase is expres-
sive We have missed the way.
Laziness stifles ambition, strangles
self-expression, dwarfs men, and keeps
hosts of young Men of great natural
ability on the toboggan a]1 the time.
"Wile: a girl sloes when she is pur-
sued is usually around sixty."
Worrying over past mistakes paves
the way to permanent failure.
lamp a moment before it was actually.
necessary.
And besides the effect on one's
own mentality, It is important to
create an impression -of thrift:
A wife mentioned to her husband
the care with which a certain young
man, a friend of the son of the hcnse,.
always turned off every light when he
left his room, and how punctilious he
was in the little things about his room,
and the bathroom. The husband said
nothing. But when the boy was,'
graduated from college he asked him'
to come into his business—in which
he is now a partner.
There are few acts of conduct so:
small that they go unnoticed. There
are few so lowly and humble that the
eyes of some one are not upon them.
It is hard to believe this, but it is so.
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shrugged.
"That was nearer, eh? I ata as bad (To be continued.)
perhaps as a hysterical housemaid, but I
does it not seem as though every , Check Fairing Hair with M!nard's.
atmosphere waited for the breaking
the storm?"
"Ibis like the report of gunsl" The
professor pulled his worn, gorgeously-
hued dressing gown more closely
about him as he sank once more into
his chair. I have head them in my
own country many years before the
late War and the memory of them is
with me always, But let 00 forget the
storm if we can. The case you 'men-
tioned, is it murder?"
"Frankly,, I don't know." Barry re-
sponded. "It is similar to that Tudor
affair at Sandy Cove last summer-"
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OUR DUTY
Let us do our duty in our shop or
our kitchen; in the market, the street,
the office, the School, the home, just
as faithfully as if we stood in the
front rank of some great battle, and
knew that victory for mankind de-
pended on our bravery, strength and.
skill. When we clo that, the humblest
of us will be serving in that great
army which achieves the welfare of
the world. -
ISSUE No. 7••- '30
"I've just spanked you because you.
played' truant. Don't ever let it hap
pen again." -
"Aw, it didn't happen—I did it on W.
purpose."
A GRAND CATHEDRAL
Christian faith is a grand cathedral,
with divisely pictured windows. Stand-;
ing without, you see no glory, nor can
possibly imagine any; standing with-'
in, every ray of light reveals • a h ,
mony of unspeakable splendours.---
Hawthorne.
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Unnecessary, because there is an antidote.
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