Pj CX)VER DESIGN "THE BARNYARD LORD"
Mr. II. Addinuton Bruce
Thinking Hard and
Keeping Young
By H. Addington Bruce
FROM n purely physical point of view,
Charles W. Kliot, President Kmer
itus of Harvard I'nivcrsity, is un
questionably ono of tin most remarkable
moil ia tho United States. Approaching
his eightieth year, everybody marvelled at
his temerity in wiulertakitijr u voyage
urouiid the world ; everybody marvelled
still more at his speedy recovery from a
dangerous surgical operation, performed
before his world journey was half done,
but not preventing him from carrying it
to a successful completion.
Naturally, people wonder how he does
it what'thc secret is of his health, his
longevity. No doubt the blessing of a
good heredity has had somewhat to do
with it; no doubt also he has been aided
by always leading the temperate life.
Hut there is another factor that has
counted for more than either of these
and that is the fact that President Kliot
think. Thin is something that we can not
too firmly bear in mind, or take too ill
rectly home to ourselves in drawing up
New Year resolutions.
Mental Exercise Pays
"PXKRCISH your body if you will -
that can not harm you, and is pretty
suro to du you a great deal of good. Hut
whatever else you do or neglect to do,
keep thinking. Tho well-established law
of tho physical universe that a machine
tends to rust out more, iptickly than to
wear out Holds equally good in the psychi
cal sphere.
It it) no mere coincidence that most of
tho great thinkers of the world whether
in philosophy, science, industry, litera
ture, or tho arts liave lived to lie old
men, despite the fact that in youth they
were in many instances physical weak
lings. .Significant, too, is tho fact that
the, majority of them began to think,
began to exercise their minds along the
lines in which they ultimately achieved
greatness, while they were still young.
There is here a pregnant hint for parents.
Whatever aptitude, whatever special
interest, your child chances to display, en
courage him in it. Don't deaden his de
sire for knowledge, his instinctive ten
dency to think, by indifference, by failure
to answer his incessant bombardment of
questions. 1 father thank (lod that your
child has an active mind, and set about
training him in the proper use of it.
Teach him the, principles of observation,
of analysis, of synthesis the principles,
in short, of truly effective thinking. Ac
custom him to 'thinking things out for
himself, and seek to interest him in what
ever it is well for him to know. You
need not be afraid that he will overtax
his mind. No child's mind and no
man's either -is overtaxed by anything
in winch a real inteiest is taken.
cere
Deep Thought is Wholesome Thought
HPHK trouble with most of us is that
we arc not reallv interested in any
thing. We have interests, to be sure; but
THINKING HARD AND KEEPING YOUtiG Editorial ....
II. ADD1NGTON BRUCE 2
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT NUMBER 2
THE BRASS TACKS OF ADVENTURE . JOSEPH BOARDMAN. JR. 3
Illustrations lv Frederic Dorr Steele
SCENTING BIG GAME .
Drawn by ALICE BEACH WINTER 4
HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR HOLIDAY POULTRY ANNA BIRD STEWART 5
Illustrations from Photographs by Helen I). Van Knlon '
THE CONFIDENCES OF ARSENE LUPIN . . MAURICE LEBLANC 6
THE INVISIBLE PRISONER
Illustrations bo Adrien Mnchefeit
HENS THAT CUT THE COST OF LIVING . EDWARD I. FARRINGTON 8
Illustrations from Photographs
NEW WRINKLES 10
they are diffuse, thin, weak they do not
grip us. That is why comparatively few
of us ever think in the true sense of the
term. That is why. when we are called
upon to do anything in the nature of sus
tained mental effort, we are overwhelmed
by doubt, fear, worry; and mayhap have
finally to call in the doctor with his sagt I
pronouncement: "Poor fellow, he has J
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fact, we have not been thinking at all,
simply because we have iiut been inter
ested enough to think.
J.et us get truly interested in somi
tiling no great matter what it is in
terested in it in the wav President Eliot
has been interested in his problems
university administration anil social re
form, and we shall find that we can think
about it easily enough. And, thinking
about it definitely, tirelessly, earnestly
thinking about it we shall find ourselves
grow both in mental and bodily vigor.
Aiherllnliic la Ilie giilr-u li n wise iiiirilinsr
Looking Forward to the Next
Number
HELLO IS SO much more genial and
easy to say than (lood-bye that we
will not take space in reviewing
the twenty-four semi-monthly entertain
ments the Magazine Section lias given
its great family of readers and friends
during 1 i 1 U. Thousands of letters from
all parts of the woild arc the best evi
dence as to our widening family cin-le
and its unanimous feeling. So we will
step right into liilli with the promise of
twenty four better and brighter, if not lug
ger, magazines than ever have gone into
the neatly two million homes that the
next Semi Monthly starts in visiting.
As a smiling introduction is an J. 10
Owen .lohnson story A'niiiir; I'p uiti
II attn illt a storv taken verbatim from
the Log of the Bar and Bottle Club.
Mark Twain, were he still walking the
world, might humorously regret having J
neglected to write this story himself. 1
v attiv die, incidentally, is not the name
of a town, but of a man a very club
bable man who sleeps in Philadelphia and
lives in -New v ork. 1 1 is wakiuir hours.
with which this waist-straining story is
exclusively concerned, are a rollicking
revelation. The story, by the author in
Mover ill J iiic, among many other gooil
things, is wittily illustrated by Oscar
Cesare, the famous cartoonist of the Sun.
Continuing the exploits of November
Toe: Woodsman Detective, is Tin- .li.t
terji of Flilvlicr Iluclman, by llesketh
I'richard another thrilling adventure in
crime and its detection in the Canadian
wilds. Mr. I'richard, in his series of
new-idea detective yarns appearing exclu
sively in the Semi-Monthly Magazine
Section, has succeeded in making each
successive tale a bit more intense and
compelling in interest than the ono pre
ceding. The illustrations are by Percy
K. Cow en.
In Xrcdrd More Thau tl Fahtaffiaii
Army, Major-lieneral Leonard Wood con
tributes an editorial with a ringing note
of warning. War, pleads the Chief ol
StalV of the raited States Army, comes
in a Hash, not gradually and prepared
ness is the only thing that approximates
insurance against it. (ieaernl Wood urges
the necessity ot (iOO.O(M) men being suit
ciently trained for battle service on short
notice.
Hardly so furious, as tho title indi
cates, is Frivolous Huxiiiex, a neverthe
less reinemberable article by Charles W.
Mears. It has in it food for thought as
well as for chuckles and so have the
very ingenious pictures drawn by Horace
Tavlor. Then but whv show all the
.ards in the index! Tt 's studded with
trumps, not only for the next number,
but fur tin- next year ea.-li number
ahead having the promise of being lietter
.ind brighter than the one behind.