Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1911 — Winning Success [ARTICLE]

Winning Success

TUDGE SEWELL, of Massachusetts, once said: “Home is that place to which a man, having returned, he is no longer abroad.” Home Is made by all the minds of the family. Each member of the family thinks of the home as a whole or of a room in the home, and straightway the home or the room pictures these thoughts; not always clearly, to be sure, for no picture is ever quite ae curate. a

This la the reahon that you do not look like your photograph all the time. The original is always a sharper or a little different. But w«, may truly say that the home Is made by the thoughts of all who live in it. But the home changes? "Tes, It changes Just as family thoughts change. One day some member of the family brings in the thought of a new chair for the parlor When, after a while, every one in the family has that chair-thought, the chair comes.

Or, the daughter of the family wants a new bureau. She talks about it until she wakes up enough bureau thought In the family to get a majority, then the new bureau arrives. The real man back of mind and body owns both and should make them work for him. In the same way he must learn that home and surroundings are his to work with. They are his to make and to mold exactly as he sees fit. It is clear, then, that if a inan wanti to be surrounded by good things—that is, things worth having —he must think of them HARD ENOUGH TO WORK FOR THEM. When we come to talk about education, we shall see more clearly how this is to be done But we can see now that true e&uca tion has to do with many things besides books. It being with self-mas-tery, which means control of mind, control of body, and a knowledge how thought can make a pleasant place tc live in. Can it be done?

Anything can be done with patience A man learns a great deal by gainini the mastery of his own thoughts. Ani one of the first things he learns it this: A passing wish or a sudden notloi is not a thought. A rfoal thought is a powerful thing It acts with great force. There is at much difference between a thoughl and a passing wish as there is between a flash of lightning and a firefly. A real thought forces you into ac tion. A caterpillar surrounds Itself with a cocoon for the purpose of becoming 8 butterfly, later on. However, much a caterpillar may wish, in the morning, to be a butterfly in the evening, ii mußt go into the coeoon, and wait patieiUy to be Changed over to the new form.

A real thought, is like the caterpillar. It must make up its cocoon of the principal thought, and of all othei helpful thoughts that can be gathered about it. Then it must wait, and the thing for which the cacoon stands will come forth in due time in all its beau ty. The Norwegian writer, Bjornson once said this: “The EXPRESSION is the thought.” This is worth remembering, for it means that the thoughl does not reach its end nor fulfill its purpose UNTIL IT IS WORKED OUT Hence, thought, like iron in a forge must be heated and hammered and put into shape, and when the object ii made, the thought has reached the end of its career AS A THOUGHT but it is just beginning its career as a THING.

Home, then, shows perhaps mori clearly than anything ' else just wha> thoughts are actually heated and ham mered into shape by a person or 1 family. And back 'of his truth li« many things and conditions, mrbyatoobfmj Of these, the first is this: Homt should picture real thoughts, and no> mere wishes and notions. Thought! are things ye work for, strive for, anc pay for. Wishes and notions lead uj Into debt, or into a struggle with "tht Installment plan, or into the folly o. trying to picture somebody else’i thoughts who can produce a new bureau because she Is ready for it. A man who mortgages his furnltun to buy an automobile is trying to pic ture the thoughts of another man win can- perhaps afford it. He is making home and property tell a lie about him This untruth arises because he 1not able to govern and command hb thoughts. If he could command them he would not think of the automobll* until he was ready for it. Hence, to begin with, home TELL} THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYBODY IN THE FAMILY. How, then, can a poor man have , beautiful home? There are two wayß. The first Is this: The home of : poor man must always tell the truth It must not spell debt and foolishness It can be as neat and tidy* as homellki and aB comfortable as any other man’i home. Bit by bit, one who owns the homi can think It into a new and fairei form by thinking new and fairei thoughts about It. These thoughts will come true. There Is another important thlnj about home. It is almost as much 1 part of us as the body itself. As w. make It, so It helps to make us. Fo that reason It should always show th< best of us, In order that the best o us may keep coming back to us, as 1 reminder. Mind, body and home are the begin nings of mil success in life. The mini Is the power that governs the bod) and the hone. As a man runs hli body machine, so he makes progrea in his work. As he makes home » more and more perfect copy of hfc true thoughts, the more it will lnspir him. As home is a little world created b; a man or by a family, it should be ' little world at beauty and of slmpll city. It will become more lovely a thought Is given to it, and aa the lor* Uness of the thought increases, th> loveliness of home follows. Then home becomes a place 4 beauty, and an inspiration to thoe who live in It, because Lnspl ratio makes it what It is. ' \