Overhauling Our Lives.
Few are determinedly bad, corm pared with the host that are carelessly bad, but the results in the latter cases are just about as wretched as in the former. We are not strict enough with ourselves, we do not examine ourselves often enough. Once a year an automobile should be overhauled. This overhauling is more than the casual garage repairs which are likely to be required throughout the year; it means the removal of the body of the car, the taking apart of the machinery, and the careful inspection, cleaning, repair, and readjustment of all its more than one thousand parts. Gears become worn. Electric contacts become fouled. Pipes become clogged. Screws and nuts get loose. Oil leaks develop, and gasoline leaks. Joints need packing in grease. A car that is not overhauled, regularly and thoroughly, soon goes to the scrap-heap. And so does a man.