Items of Interest.

Lake County Press, Issue 2182, 15 August 1907, Page 7

Items of Interest.

DEPEND not on another, rather lean upon thyself j trus? to thine own exertions, subjection to another's will give pain ; true happiness consists in self-reliaucc. Whether you be men and women, you will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind, next to honour.—James Allen, If bitterness has crept into the heart in the friction of the busy day's unguarded moments, be sure it steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God's interval for peacemaking. True wisdom consists of being humble, honest, honourable, industrious, kind, loving, generous, self-sacrificing, and willing to grant to every person every privilege claimed by yourself. When people treat you ill, and show their spite, and slander you, enter into their little souls, go to the bottom of them, search their understandings, and you will soon sco that nothing they may think or say of you need give you one troublesome thought, The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of Grod just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that dailj duties and daily bread are tho sweetest things of life. One of the most difficult things to do in tho world sometimes is to keep one's temper. A calm serenity of temper and a self-con-trol which keeps a person unrullled amid the petty annoyances and ills of overy-day life indicate the possession of perfect mental health. Nowadays people aro very fond of saying ' so-and-so ' was 'just mad,' meaning very angry ; but it would be well if temper were more often soriously regarded as madness. Jt may be preventable madness, but madness it is while it lasts, and there is seldom any one who is made more unhappy by it than tho person who gives way ti it. The discipline, training, and expansion which the mind undergoes in the study of its own operations are not benefits to bo lightly appreciated, it cultivates habits of accurate observation and reflection, of patient attention, rigid induction, logical reasoning, which qualify the mind for tho ready pursuit of the knowledge required for the practical and active business of life. It is a mental gymnasium admirably fitted for tho development, regulation, and cultivation of those faculties of the mind on the right exercise of which depends our intellectual advancement and happiness. 1 would go a step further and say that a knowledge of the philosophy of the human mind is indispensable to tho successful prosecution of physical science, and ] that without a knowledge of mental phono- | mena a high degree of perfection and accu- j racy cannot be attained in any of the colla- | teral branches of knowledge.-'Dr. Wmslow.