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PROFESSOR CUSTAVE LE BON, author
of "The Psychology of the Crowd" and
. other works, is one of the most distin
guished psychologists in France. . He has con
densed the results of his psychological studies
into a series of aphorisms. Here are some of his
observation on love, the final result of a close
analysts of woman's mind and soul in the psy
chological laboratory:
By Professor Gustavc Lc Bon
Author of "The Psychology of tho Crowd," etc. ,
; When love sees very clearly it is nearly at
an end.
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I' Women would soon lose their power over men
i if they could acquire the faculty of being sincere.
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. All women, even the most virtuous, feel plea's-
ure in an atmosphere of danger. , a " ,
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I ' Love fears doubt, and yet it grows by doubt
: and often perishes from certainty. , . v
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: The sight of misfortune is antipathetic to hap-
piness. Friendship can hardly last between
j fortunate man and an unfortunate one.
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I : Intuition is often superior to reason. It en
j'ables women who reason very badly to under
stand things not understood by men who reason
very wclL ' , '
Woman, being better fitted to feel than to
reason, you do not improve her condition by
teaching her to think. '-'
To keep a love that is dying Is like trying to
stop the flight of time. - ' x
There are only-two doors in every woman's
life. One is labelled Remembrance and the other
Forgetfulness. Everything she has or loses
comes or goes through one or the other,
Moderate passions are the most durable. If
we begin by loving one another too much, we
soon arrive at a point where we cannot endure
one another.
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The strength of sentiment is tW it takes no
account of reason.
Like all the phenomena of life, the sentiments
are in a state of unstable equilibrium, always in
process of transformation. i
Sentiments fight one another with sentiments
and never with reasons.
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In love illusion soon creates certainty.
The truly wise man may muter 11 the im
pulses of his heart, but to be wise is not to be
-happy, . '',
Illusion exaggerates always the value of what
' one desires. That is why happiness consists
rather in pursuing an object than attaining it
The development of the sentiment is inde
pendent of the will. No One is free to hate or
"There aire only two doors to every wbman'sJife Remembrance anoVForgetfulness'
HI loves to enter, the Door of Remembrance, and
fc yet thoro sra many time when It lo necessary to
her peace of mlntf to open tho Door of Forgot. :
fulnoos. Tho door of Remembrance loads her again oo
tid tho brook, whore she wandered wKh her tint
swtethtart. The Door of Forqatfulnssa loads to free
dom from vain Rogrot.. i
- Aa her yoara multiply, more and more one stoke tho
Door of Remembrance, and often and eftoner aho'mutt
pate through tho Door of Forgotfulnooa. A'eli arfoklty.
love at hia' pleasure. The strongest man is with-
out power over the existence of his emotiona!
elements and can only restrain the expression of
them.
. When woman becomes entirely a reasoning
creature the human race will be nearly at an end.
Great thoughts come from the mind and not
tiie heart, bu.t it is from the heart thar'they
draw their strength. '
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An idea without emotional or mystical support
- exerts no power. The pure idea is a phantom
without force and without permanence. - s .
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History vhas always been dominated by the '
mystical and the emotional and not by the ra
tional. ...
Reason is to-day the divinity most often in
voked and least often listened to.
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Sudderj changes of character in a woman are
explained by the fact that there are several per
sonalities sleeping in us which may be awak
ened by events, t
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- To know what one ought to do is not to know ,
what one will do.
. . .
To reflect is useful, but to act without reflect
. ing is sometimes necessary. . Heroic acts are per
formed by, men after little reflection. ' ..
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Great men are like vegetable monstrosities ar
tificially produced. . Their, descendants return
always to the average type of the species.
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A strong will has always strong desires tp
support it. Desir is the soul of the wilL '
. . . ,
We all exist for the sake of our possible off
spring but this final end of the individual is
' more obviously woven into the structure of
women. ' v
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Nature has made women more like children in
order that they may better understand and care-
for children, and in the gift of children nature
has given women a massive and sustained physi- -
ological joy to which there is nothing in men's
lives to correspond. - . ,
...
A woman's instincts are a better guide thin
the average man's reasoning, because she repre- V
- sents the race and not an individual
., .
A man who does not possess character com-
plains that he cannot win a woman by reasoning.
. .
It is the woman with a tip-tilted nose and dim
ples in her cheeks, whose countenance mirrors all
her emotions, who will reject a lover with tears
of sympathy and promise to be a sister to him.
...
; The women who fill the divorce courts are
transparent as glass. They have nothing of the
reserve, little of the mystery that holds their
husbands' hearts in bondage. In a looser civili
tation these women would not have been wives;
they would have been light-o'-loves.
P'i tig m. i ii i . t i - - - t .
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By Professor J. H. Duval .
SCIENCE huil last come to tbe mcue
of baratae4 paroatt wko . bao hltber-.
' to boon obtlsrd to tptnd euny a aloep
Iota al(bi la putUoi babr to aKop. Afaiaat
tbe adrico of moat pbytktaas, the avorafe
parent cannot If nore the baby'a crlea at .
n!f at, end tboatb It eultiritea bad habHs la
the Infant to 4ake It op. that Is what father
utually baa to do In tht end.
Then folio t tho prarerbial pacing the
floor la a vla ondearor to inll baoy to
e'.rtp.
All this la now a thing of tho paat
Bor floor-walking, no more aleaplaaa nlghta,
no more complaining neighbor. Baby Is
aow to b pat to alp automatically!
By the aid of a new dtrice. tho work of,
a well-knowa Froach Inrentor. tho wondora
of wlnleas electricity may now bo employed
to entet baby. Thla Inrrntioa ts called tho
nnto-paaj-ciaama-cradle.'' tor. aa Ita aam
laipUoa, It eabodies aa automatic cradle, a
The New Wireless Cradle
in Operation. The Baby's
Cries Recorded by the Disk
. Above lu Head Start the
Electric Wave That Set
the . Rocking ' Mechanism
. Going. The Same Wave
Start tbe Phonograph, the
niumiMted (Pictures svbmI
Ring the Wireleee Telephone
in MotWs and Notc's Room.
phonograph and a claematograph or moini
pletar machine. " ' '
Tho eradle proper la Utile different from tho
familiar baatiaet When the baby who hat
been put Into It commeneea to cry. the vibra
tions of Ita voice act upon a wireleta appa
ratus, which to placed that it etarte aa .
electric tjttem, which, in turn, puts tbe
cradla In motion and atarta a phonograph
and a cinematograph.
There la nothing particularly nnutual '
about thia from a acientlne standpoint. Juat
at tho aound wtTea coming In contact with
the diaplragm of a telephone transmitter Im
part, the neceatary vibrailona to tht dia
phragm of the rocelTlng apparatna and thua
reproduce the eoLads at the end of tho lint,
ao the baby'a cries net op the necetaary rt- .
b rations to oUrt the electrto apparatua et
the auto-phono-cinema-cradle In motion.
A gentle twinging motion Is Imparted to
tho cradle store gentle perhapa than even the
hand of a mother might produce, and. cer
tainly more ell ec tire than the treatment to
bo expected from aa aroused father. In ad
dition to that there is the phonograph, which
atarta with gay. Jingling little tunes, and
eventually, aa the baby begina to entet down,
produce the most soothing of lullabies.
Under ordinary circumstaneee the rocking
' and the muaio alone would be tufflcient to
quiet any baoy, but to make utnranc doubly
snre a third feature la added a moving
picture machine. Of coarse, the ordinary
photographic Alms with which every one it
familiar are not ned for-tht eradle appa- ;
ratna. Indeedofaey woeld have little effect n
a crytag' babr. Instead, special designs hare .
been prepared revealing the most etartung
succession, of brilliant colors and (gores.'
It not believed that any child, however
- fretful, could long withstand the efeet of
thia combined entertainment. .
The machinery la so regulated that the
entertainment dota not cease tbe moment the
baby stops crying, nut continues for at least
Ave minutes after it has emitted Itt last cry.
At the Brat "yip from tbe Infant the. cradle
swings, the music plays and the pictures
move, and though the baby becomes still
again almost Instantly, the entertainment
lusts for five minutes. It the baby cries Tor
tiree minutes steadily and then stops, the
entertainment Usis for a full eight minute.
The room In which the cradla is used must
he kept relaUvely quiet, so that there will
be no other vibrations of tufflcient range ta
set the apparatua In motion, but the ordinary
faint sounds coming from without do not af
fect the apparatus at alL Then, again, the
phonograph plava very softly, so that it can
not act upon the machine and keep It going
Indefinitely. ' J
When, despite the entertainment provided
by the machinery, the baby'a crying persists
for certain length of time, indicating that
the cry It one of pain or hnnger, the name
or mother notified automatically by meant
of a telephone eystem which carries baby's
cries into the room where the an roe or moth
er is sleeping. Unless the crying continues
uninterruptedly for at least tea minutes, how
ever, this telephonic commnajcatlon is not
establish
Only -a small electric motor la required to
supply the necessary electric current, and
tbe expense of maintaining the outfit ta not
great, therefore, aa might be Imagined.
-The price of tho apparatus ranges from
to j " - -
- But this invention h aarfo! not only to
quiet baby automatically, bat to send her to
steep is the first place and to amuse her la
the daytime. When bedtime arrives and baby
baa had her' bath aba (a placed la tbe cradle
end the machmery is started. It la t
asrv for the tired mother to spend half aa
hour or more rocking her child to Bleep the
wireless apparatus does it automatically.
In tbe daytime, of coarse, both the moving
picture end tbe phonograph afford the baby
constant amusement. Both tbe pictures and
the melodies can be changed from time to
time, although it has been found that those
with which tbe Infsnt is familiar are more
effective than new one.
The auto-phoocioema-cradIe has bees in
stslled in tbe homes of a number of well
known Parisians. -
"It is such a relief," exclaimed one mother
who has turreodered her ancient privilege of
rocking baby to sleep la favor of tbe wireless
. apparatna, "to know that one can leave home
without worrying that baby win wake np and
disturb a neighbors with its erymg.
"Of coarse, I bsve slways considered It a
. pleasure to put baby to sleep, bat sometimes.
' of course, social duties make it necessary tor
me to be away at baby'a bed time and I am
glad to know that my automatic cradle east
be relied upon to- put tbe baby to sleep a
well or even better than I could myself,
la the middle of the night of coarse, tbe
value of tbe antomstie eradle is most re
alised. Many a night before I obtained thia
eradle I hare bee swskened by baby's cries
s'od thought bow mocb I would give for a
aingle night of undisturbed rest."
Jfor tbe benefit of tho wbo cannot afford
- to bay tbe apparatna outright a company la
; being formed to rent them out at a rvaseo-
sMe rate. Indeed, ensne of the charitable or-
- gsntsatioo are thinking of adding the device
- to thelf equipment for helping the poorvfam
lliee that coste aader their care, for it Is realised-
that ao greater blessing can be con
ferred upon a woman who has to en in bread
by day thus to assare her undisturbed rest
at night.
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