FROM THE CHIN UP

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6520, 16 September 1924, Page 8

FROM THE CHIN UP

-7 0 MOST VALUABLE PART OF MAN From your chin down you are worth about a dollar and a-half a day. From the chin up you are worth — anything. There’s no limit. Without your headpiece you are just an animal, and about as valuable as a horse—maybe. You have a mistaken idea. You think you’re paid for your work. You are not. You are paid for what you think while you work. It’s the kind of brain that directs your hands that gives you your rating. And what causes you the most concern; the contents of your skull, or the mass below the collarbone? You exercise your body, keep your arms strong, and your legs limber,’ and your waistline supple—but do you regularly exercise your cerebrum ? And what causes you the most concern; the contents of your skull, or the mass below the collarbone? Are your thoughts flabby, uncontrolled, wayward and useless, though you are expert in tennis or golf ? Is your thinker as keen, alert, disciplined, accurate and dependable as your hands? Suppose it were possible to live after the head had been severed from the body; which part would you rather be, the head part or the meat part ? What are you, anyhow; an animal, pestered with a mind; or a soul, prisoned in a body? Do you know that the gist of culture consists in transferring one's habitual amusements from below to above the nose?