OL. V OCTOBER
No. 27. 1913

_There will come a day when physiologists, poets, and
philosophers will all speak the same language and understand one
another._--CLAUDE BERNARD.

AN INDICATION.

Just as there is a pride that apes humility, so there is an egotism
that apes selfishness, a cowardice that apes stoicism and an indolence
that apes effort. This is especially apparent in matters pertaining to
health.

How often, on the plea of not causing worry or expense to others, does
a man or woman not put off taking necessary rest, or consulting a
doctor, until a slight ailment that once would have yielded to
treatment becomes an irreparable injury.

Such conduct is often admired as unselfish, but for unselfishness and
stoicism a psychologist would read fear, indolence and egotism. Fear
of being thought hypochondriacal and fear of facing facts; shrinking
from the exertion involved in the effort to become healthy and from
the pain involved in witnessing the possible distress and anxiety of
friends should the complaint prove serious--regardless of the fact
that its neglect and resultant incurability would cause infinitely
more distress; above all, that mental egotism which breeds in its
victim an unreadiness to acknowledge that he does not _know_ what may
be wrong and to take prompt steps to remedy his ignorance.

It is not fair, of course, to attach too much blame to the patient.
Such faults as those cited above are in themselves symptoms of nervous
disease. Body and mind act and react upon one another. Nevertheless,
the practice of the virtues loses its meaning when there is no pull in
the opposite direction.--[EDS.]

IMAGINATION IN INSURANCE.

_Regular readers will recognise in this article a continuation of the
series previously entitled "Healthy Brains." The author of "The
Children All Day Long" is an intimate disciple of one of the greatest
living psychologists, and she has a message of the first importance to
all who realise that true health depends as much on poise of mind as
on physical fitness._

It is an unpleasant subject, but have you ever faced the fact that
your widow might be left in poverty?

We all know the phrases that come so glibly from the lips of the
insurance agent. Perhaps the very fact that it pays companies to spend
thousands a year on the salaries of agents, and other thousands on
broadca