Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1917 — Let Old Wounds Heal. [ARTICLE]

Let Old Wounds Heal.

„ ‘‘By the time a map has reached forty the chances are that something has happened to him to destroy his peace of mind." These words were spoken by one of the wounded who didn’t know how to take care of his mind. He kept the wound from healing by letting his mind dwell upon it—by making it a controlling circumstance in his life. Recovery was possible for him. He might even have been a better man for the wound. But he chose to take harm out of it instead of taking good. Here lies the greatest danger for the wounded. If they let the wound poison the. whole system it will, indeed, spoil their lives. But there is always something else to do —to put the system into such a condition that the wound shall inevitably heal and perhaps not leave even a disfiguring tsace on the

mind.-

John D. Barry.