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Not seeing what is wanted, — ask.

Handsome. — Whence comes the saying, "Handsome is as handsome does"?

Ans. — In Goldsmith's story of "The Vicar of Wakefield" we find the following paragraph :

"Well, upon my word, Mrs. Primrose, you have the finest children in the whole country."

"Ay, neighbor," she would answer, "they are as heaven made them, handsome enough if they be good enough, for 'handsome is as handsome does.' "

Auto-Suggestion. — What is the meaning of auto- suggestion?

Ans. — Auto-suggestion — self-suggestion; a man's acceptance, for himself, without command or direc- tion from any other person, of an idea that shall presently issue in action. Many persons can awake at a certain hour in the morning by suggesting to themselves, the night before, that they will do so, and it is probable that every one can, with practice, attain to some degree of accuracy in such a "setting" of the mental machinery. Good instances of auto- suggestion are to be found in the literature of sug- gestive therapeutics. One person is cured by a so- called "electric belt," another is invigorated by a band of unknown material fastened to the ankle, a third reads a faith-cure pamphlet and his rheuma- tism ceases.