Always Keep Cool.

Manawatu Herald, 29 July 1899, Page 2

Always Keep Cool.

Mr John Morrison, a successful commercial traveller, has spent a great part of his career in hotels, and one of his theories has been that the mind can be so trained that an , hotel lire ought not to distract the reasoning faculties when presence of riiind is needed. He impressed his theory strongly upon Mrs Morrison by in. structing her how to act, if they were ever in an hotel that was 'on fire.

He and his .wife were aroused from their slumbers one night by an alarm. The hotel in which they had their rooms was on fire, and there was great confusion and tumult among the guests.

" Now is the time t6 put into practice what I have always preached to you my dear," said the gentleman. " Don't get excited. Put on all your indispensable apparel and take your time. Don't lose your head. Just watch me."

He calmed Mrs Morrison's anxiety, handed her the articles necessary to her toilet, put on his collar and cuffs, took his watch from under his pillow and placed it in his pocket, put on his hat and walked with Mrs Morrison out of the burning building into the street.

" Now, my dear," he said when' they were safe, " dont't you see what a grand thing it is to keep cool, and act with a deliberate purpose in an emergency like this ? Here you are dressed, and over yonder are several ladies' in complete deshabile."

Just then Mrs Morrison for the first time glanced at her husband.

" You are right John," she said "it is a grand thing to keep cool and act deliberately, but if I had. been you I would have stayed in the room long enough to put on my trousers."

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