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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Evening Round Up, by William Crosbie Hunter
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+Title: Evening Round Up
+       More Good Stuff Like Pep
+
+
+Author: William Crosbie Hunter
+
+
+
+Release Date: December 12, 2006  [eBook #20098]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVENING ROUND UP***
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+E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Colin Bell, Bill Tozier, and the
+Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
+(http://www.pgdp.net/)
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+Transcriber's note:
+
+      A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected,
+      but words consistently misspelt by the author have been left
+      intact.
+
+
+
+
+
+EVENING ROUND-UP
+
+More Good Stuff Like PEP
+
+by
+
+COL. WM. C. HUNTER
+
+Author of
+
+Pep--Dollars and Sense--Brass Tacks
+Ginger Snaps--and Other Books
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: the author]
+
+
+
+$1.00 Net
+Published by
+Hunter Service
+Kansas City, Mo., U. S. A.
+Copyright, 1915
+by Wm. C. Hunter
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+                              Page
+
+   Anger                       150
+   Brass Tacks                 250
+   Character                   252
+   Church                      180
+   Closing Note                242
+   Continuous Happiness         86
+   Crying Babies               218
+   Dad                         215
+   Daughters                   138
+   Diet Rules                   71
+   Doing Things Twice           34
+   Dollars and Sense           249
+   Dreams                       97
+   Egotism                     188
+   Elimination                  82
+   Fake Medicines              177
+   Food                        134
+   Friends                     104
+   Geology                     193
+   Ginger Snaps                251
+   Girl                        221
+   Gloom                        46
+   Happiness                    49
+   Home                         68
+   Inventory                   185
+   Insomnia                    156
+   In the Big Woods            124
+   Laziness                    119
+   Leaders                     231
+   Making Plans                 14
+   Man's Danger                108
+   Medicine                     57
+   Mental Pleasures            206
+   Mistakes                    159
+   Mother                      128
+   Natural Law                  18
+   Negative Attitude            73
+   Nerves                       38
+   Observation                  28
+   Old Age                     234
+   Our Bodies                  131
+   Our Sons                    111
+   Panama                      209
+   Patriotism                  197
+   Pep                         246
+   Perseverance                190
+   Personal                     22
+   Pessimists                   43
+   Pills                       173
+   Pioneer Mothers             145
+   Poise                       142
+   Practical Helps              26
+   Reading                      61
+   Real Charity                100
+   Religious Extremes          114
+   Ridicule                    200
+   Salt                        154
+   Self Accusation              89
+   Sincerity                   167
+   Speculation                 225
+   Stars                       228
+   Thought Control              53
+   Time                        238
+   To-day                      212
+   To-morrow                   161
+   Verbomania                   65
+   Walking                      78
+   Wives                       203
+   Woman's Beauty               94
+   Worry                         9
+
+
+
+
+Dedicated
+to Nancy, my wife
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+Each evening, just before retiring, we will have a little Round-Up of
+the day's doings, of the problems in our business and home life, of our
+hopes and ambitions.
+
+We'll try to solve perplexities, dissolve worries, absolve ourselves
+from pull-backs, and resolve to better our lives.
+
+We'll plan and prepare that we may have more poise--efficiency--peace;
+that's Pep.
+
+We'll learn how to establish helpful thought habit that our lives may be
+full of gladsome notes instead of gruesome gloom.
+
+We'll aim at
+
+                            LIFE--LOVE--LAUGHTER
+
+These, then, are the purposes of this book.
+
+                                           WM. C. HUNTER,
+                                              Kansas City, Mo.
+July 18, 1915.
+
+
+
+
+WORRY
+
+The Nerve Racking Pace That Causes "Americanitis"
+
+
+Nervous breakdowns are increasing as a result of the American worry
+phobia.
+
+This high tension Americanitis presumes too much upon nature, by
+persistently forcing the nerves to carry loads far beyond their
+capacity.
+
+So many people are pleasure mad, they become so deadened by excess of
+enjoyment and indulgence that ordinary pleasure is uninteresting. They
+seek unnatural excitement, original methods and unusual activities to
+appease the appetite. Then they become blase and constitutional
+pessimists.
+
+It's a maddening, nerve racking pace they go. To keep up the gait there
+is an incessant battle for wealth, and the struggle wears and weakens
+the nervous systems.
+
+Both men and women go the terrific gait. Men and women having this
+health-destroying worry, mate and marry and they lay foundations for
+deficient progeny that suffers from the sins of the parents.
+
+The phobia is almost universal; it has permeated all classes of society
+from highest to lowest.
+
+Excitement, that's the keynote; for the rich there is society and polo
+and useless functions and conventions.
+
+Society is a game of cards, not only playing cards for money, but the
+card convention of paying calls by leaving pasteboards in lieu of the
+old-fashioned visit.
+
+Society is the builder of fourflushers, the generator of
+insincerity--falsehood and rottenness.
+
+For the poor, the aping of the rich, in dress the wearers can ill
+afford, the picture shows, the cheap theatres, the automobile, bought
+with a mortgage on the home.
+
+It's rush, push, excitement at any cost. The great cost which they don't
+seem to consider is the cost of the nerves.
+
+We all enter the world with an abundance of nerve energy, and by
+conserving that energy we can adapt and adjust our nerve equipment to
+keep pace with the progress and evolution of our times.
+
+The way to preserve and conserve nerve equilibrium and power is to rest
+and relax the nerves each day.
+
+You may rest them by a change of the thought habit each day, by
+relaxation, by sleep, and by suggestions made in this book.
+
+There are few advance danger signals shown by the nervous systems, and
+in this there is a marked difference between the nerves and the organic
+system.
+
+If you abuse your stomach, head, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys or eyes,
+you have distress and pain.
+
+The nervous energy is like a barrel of water; you can draw water from
+the faucet at the bottom until you have almost exhausted the contents.
+
+Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish the
+cistern.
+
+A reasonable use of your nerve force, like a reasonable use of the
+rainwater, means you can maintain a permanent supply.
+
+But you must be reasonable; you must give the cistern a chance to refill
+and replace that which you have drawn out.
+
+You, who have shattered and tattered your nerves, are not hopeless. You
+can come back, but it must be done by complete change of the acts that
+brought on the condition.
+
+Get more sleep. Eliminate the useless, harmful fads, fancies and
+functions, which disturbed and prevented you from living a sane,
+rational life.
+
+Avoid extremes, cultivate rhythm and regularity in your business and
+your home life. Keep away from excitement. Read really good books. Walk
+more, talk less.
+
+Eat less heat-making foods and more apples. Follow the diet, exercise
+and thought rules suggested in "Pep."
+
+Maybe these lines are being read by a discouraged one who is "all
+nerves," which means lost nerve force. To you I say there is hope and
+cheer and strength and courage if right here, now, you resolve to cut
+the action, habits and stunts that knocked you out and follow our
+suggestions.
+
+I know, my friend, for I've trotted the heat, danced the measure, and
+been through the mill.
+
+Now I am fearless, calm and prepared. I can stand any calamity, meet any
+issue, endure any sorrow.
+
+I can do prodigious work in an emergency, go without rest or eating
+when required, because I have Pep, which means poise, efficiency--peace.
+
+I realize nothing bad is as bad as it is painted. Nothing is as good as
+its boosters claim.
+
+I go in the middle of the road, avoiding extremes. I have confidence in
+my heart, courage, hope, happiness, and content.
+
+I've buried envy in a deep pit and covered it with quick lime.
+
+I am keeping worry out by keeping faith, hope and cheer thoughts in my
+brain room, and these are antiseptics against the worry microbe.
+
+I have my petty troubles and little make-believe worries, just enough of
+them to make me realize I have them licked, and to remind me I must not
+let up on my mastery of them.
+
+Worry growls once in a while just to make me grab tighter the handle of
+my whip.
+
+And you may enjoy this serene state, too. There is no secret about it. I
+will gladly give you the rules of the game in this book. Just prepare to
+receive some practical, helpful suggestions.
+
+
+
+
+MAKING PLANS
+
+How to Use Our Assets to Best Advantage
+
+
+You are a busy person, so am I. Busy persons are the ones who do things.
+The architect is a busy man, but he has learned that the time spent in
+preparing his plans is the most valuable employment of his time. The
+plans enable him to do his work systematically and lay down rules and
+methods to get the highest efficiency and accomplishment from those who
+do the work of erecting the building.
+
+If the architect would order lumber, stone and hardware, without system,
+and start to erect the building without carefully prepared plans, the
+building would lack symmetry and strength, and it would be most
+expensive.
+
+The planning time therefor was time well spent.
+
+Few persons have the ability to plan and conserve their talents so as to
+produce the highest efficiency. Men rush along thinking their busyness
+means business. Really it means double energy and extra moves to
+produce a given effect.
+
+The elimination of unnecessary moves means operating along lines of
+least resistance, and any plan or method that will help to do away with
+unnecessary moves and make the necessary moves more potential will be
+received with welcome, I am sure.
+
+With the object of conserving energy and strengthening your force, this
+book is written.
+
+It shall not be a book of ultimate definiteness or a book of exact
+science. There is no definite or exact rule that will apply, without
+exceptions, to any science except mathematics.
+
+But we shall learn many helpful truths, nevertheless, and if I err or
+disagree with your conclusions, just eliminate those lines and take the
+helps you find.
+
+In my previous book, "Pep," I particularly emphasized the importance of
+taking a few minutes each evening and using the time for sizing up
+things, by inventory, analysis, speculation, comparison and hypothesis.
+
+I have received many comments about that particular suggestion.
+
+I find that many of the great captains of industry who are
+accomplishing things worth while, have learned the value of this daily
+habit.
+
+Mr. E. C. Simmons, the president of the Simmons Hardware Company, has
+for about fifty years followed this daily sizing up plan. He takes
+fifteen to twenty minutes each evening in seclusion, with closed eyes,
+and finds the weaknesses of his plans, formulates new plans, and
+generates new ideas for the morrow. He says this habit is one of the
+greatest contributing factors to his success and to the building up of
+the largest hardware business the world has ever known.
+
+I want to help YOU to form the habit of rounding up each day's
+activities in the quiet, relaxed, uncolored, unprejudiced secluded
+environment of your home. Each evening we will together size up
+things--a sort of daily round-up.
+
+I have chosen the evening as the time for our little talks. In the
+evening we can be cozy, comfy and communicative. The bank is closed. We
+met the note and got through the day. We are alive and well; we can open
+our hearts. There is no office boy to disturb us, and the life insurance
+agent is away at his club.
+
+Yes, we can be alone and tranquilly let down the tension, lower the
+speed and with normal heartbeats play the low tones, the soft strains,
+the quieting music, and soothe our nerves.
+
+All day we've heard the band with its drums and trombones and shrieky
+music. The day with its busy whirl kept our analyzing mental think-tank
+occupied with thoughts of gain and game and fame.
+
+In the evening we have time to study logic and to reason, to analyze and
+inventory, to thresh out problems.
+
+So let us relax and reflect in these evening round-ups.
+
+
+
+
+NATURAL LAW
+
+Obedience Is Rewarded, Violation Is Punished
+
+
+Man's nature makes it imperative for him to be interested in something.
+
+That interest is to his help or hurt, according as he directs it.
+
+There is much worry and misery in the world because so many are astatic,
+like a compass that has lost its loadstone.
+
+Man is definitely the result of the materials the body and the mind feed
+upon.
+
+Character is the result of a determined purpose to be and to do right,
+to one's self and to his fellows.
+
+The man of character focuses his attention on truth, and on fact.
+
+He uses theories with fact, to aid his progress, but he recognizes that
+theories, without fact as a safety ballast, is a useless expenditure.
+
+Theories without fact leaves man in a rudderless boat; he gets nowhere,
+he only drifts.
+
+Theories often help to get at facts, but the better way is to get at
+fact by proven experience, of which there is an inexhaustible abundance
+in the world.
+
+Facts are based on natural laws. The study of natural laws is
+beneficial.
+
+We shall strive in our studies to keep close to fact with just enough
+speculation to enliven the interest in facts.
+
+Living the artificial life makes for worry, illness and failure.
+
+Living in harmony with the great natural laws is the helpful way to
+live.
+
+To abide by the law is safety, to violate the law brings punishment.
+
+Every man is better if he follows scientific methods and habits of
+thought and living.
+
+The loafing or astatic mind will fall into morbid tendencies.
+
+The employed, truth-seeking, idealistic, hopeful mind is never dependent
+on people or things for its pleasure.
+
+The acquiring of helpful knowledge, the seeking of worth-while truth,
+are ever profitable employments, paying present and future dividends,
+and meanwhile those acts positively divert the thought from morbid
+tendencies.
+
+The Evening Round-Up is intended to be a companionable, helpful text
+book, a counselor and a friend.
+
+We shall strive to bring helpful knowledge, good cheer and interesting
+facts, for your present occupation and benefit.
+
+If I succeed in accomplishing my purpose even in part my time has been
+well spent.
+
+We have an unchallenged fact to rest our feet on, a fact that shall
+follow us through all the pages of this book; and that is: our thoughts
+NEVER stop, our brains never sleep.
+
+While we live we shall never get away from our thought; so then, we must
+consider that thought current, and reckon with it.
+
+The motive power is turned on and we must grasp the helm if we sail the
+sea of life successfully, baffling storms and avoiding rocks.
+
+Scientific books are usually dry, uninviting reading; they lack the
+human interest. They are generally bloodless skeletons.
+
+We shall try to weave science into new patterns and paint interesting
+pictures so that science will attract and not repel.
+
+This book is different in its suggestions, in its prescriptions, in its
+language, but it is universal with all scientific books, in that its aim
+is helpful truth.
+
+We go by different routes, but our objective point is the same.
+
+We will avoid technical names and symbols and speak the common language
+that the multitude understands.
+
+We shall deal with problems and aspirations that come to us all in this
+busy workaday world.
+
+We shall try to cut the underbrush in the swamp and blaze a plain trail
+out on to the big high road.
+
+We shall keep in step to the drum-beats of truth, we will rest and
+recreate in cool shady places, and then up and on to our purpose with
+smiles on our faces, courage in our hearts, and song on our lips.
+
+Every moment of our journey shall be worth while and positively helpful
+if we take the trip with conscientious applications, and continuity of
+purpose.
+
+Our path is strewn with roses and thorns; we must enjoy the roses and
+escape the thorns.
+
+We welcome you, the neophyte, who has joined us in our pilgrimage.
+
+
+
+
+PERSONAL
+
+Are YOU Pleasant to Live With?
+
+
+Let's be personal; that's a good way to establish a good idea in place
+of a bad one.
+
+Are YOU pleasant to live with? Keep this personal question before you,
+even if you are cocksure that you can answer, yes.
+
+Maybe there are some little jars, rattles, gratings, you are not aware
+of. Few of us are honest when looking for our own faults. There may be
+some sand in your gear box. It won't hurt you to keep the personal
+question alive for a few days,--"Am I pleasant to live with?"
+
+I love the pleasant people whether they are fat, lean, tall, short, red
+heads, brown heads, homely, handsome, republicans or democrats.
+
+The complaining, unpleasant grouch is like a bear with a toothache,
+miserable himself and spreading misery all around.
+
+A freckle-faced, red-headed, cross-eyed man with a healthy funny bone
+will spread more cheerfulness and sunshine than a bench full of sad and
+solemn justices of the supreme court, or a religious conference.
+
+What a different story would be written of Job, if he had only possessed
+a servant who could dance a double shuffle and whistle "Dixie" while
+cooking breakfast.
+
+David was a man after my own heart; he brought gladsome songs into the
+world. He, said "Live the ways of pleasantness."
+
+You can pray, sing, play, work, think, rest, hope, you can be well or
+ill, rich or poor and still be pleasant to live with.
+
+Being pleasant helps you to be strong in body and mind, and it keeps you
+young a long time. It's good medicine, I know it. My little motto, "Be
+pleasant every morning until ten o'clock, the rest of the day will take
+care of itself," has brought sunshine into many homes.
+
+If you frown it will soon get to be a habit--and give you a heavy heart.
+If you smile your face will be attractive, no matter how unlucky you
+were in the lottery of beauty.
+
+Be pleasant and you will never feel old.
+
+Every girl wants to catch a husband. Remember this, girls: A pleasant
+disposition is more benefit than seven barrels of beauty cream.
+
+The pleasant disposition is a sure route to happy land and happy homes.
+
+Old Ponce de Leon lost out in searching for the fountain of youth. If he
+had been pleasant he would have kept the smiles on his wife's face and
+there would have been no excuse to leave her to find the mythical
+fountain.
+
+Hoe cake, bacon and smiles beat lobster, champagne and frowns.
+
+Our land is thrice blessed with its peaceful, happy homes--for "happy
+homes are the strength of a nation."
+
+Be pleasant in your home, make the children feel home is the pleasantest
+place in the world.
+
+Every act and example is written in the child's memory tablet. Let your
+hours with the children be loving, laughing, living hours.
+
+Pat them on the head, joke with them, whisper affection, express love to
+them. Those acts will be remembered in all their years to come, for you
+are planting everlasting plants that may pass onto a hundred generations
+and make children happy a thousand years from now.
+
+Be pleasant to live with and the people will turn to you as you pass and
+shine your cheerfulness like the sunflowers turn to face the sun.
+
+Be pleasant to live with and you will have more pleasant things to live
+for, and there will be kindnesses, kisses, beauty, health, peace, fun,
+happiness and content coming your way all along the great big road of
+life you are traveling.
+
+Be pleasant, don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in the
+household is not pleasant. Do your part; you will likely thereby cure
+the frown habit on the face of the unfortunate disturber of your peace.
+
+Make yourself right before you criticize your life partner. Answer this
+question, "Am I pleasant to live with?"
+
+Don't fool yourself in the matter. Get right down to brass tacks with
+yourself, watch your moves and acts and attitude for ten days carefully
+before answering the question.
+
+If your answer is no, then now is your time to change your attitude and
+try the pleasant plan, and here is my blessing and good wishes in such
+an event.
+
+
+
+
+PRACTICAL HELPS
+
+Dealing With Actual Conditions You Are Facing
+
+
+I have been fortunate in having splendid eye-sight and hearing, and with
+these, a good memory.
+
+I've traveled much and my education has been getting experience directly
+or learning experience directly from those who had experience.
+
+All the while I've had to do with, and about business and social
+problems, and with and about the things which worry and perplex the man
+or woman in the business as well as the home world.
+
+I am trying to stage this book, and our relationship, upon practical
+things we are to talk about. I want you to know and feel I have hoped
+and feared even as you have.
+
+I am in the midst of these things even now as I write this book. I am
+not in a reflective mood, living in the past or glorying in deeds of
+other days. I am writing this today and of today, even as you are
+reading it today.
+
+By day I face reality and problems, and temptations and tricks and
+frauds and deceits, and after the day is over I write these lines and
+try to inoculate myself with a serum or toxin that will serve as a
+safeguard on the morrow to ward off the things which try to annoy and
+distract me from my purpose: to do, and to be, as nearly right and fair
+as I can, in act and thought and word.
+
+Continuity on a singleness of purpose is a valuable thing. Fabre spent
+his life studying insect life. His books on the spider and others on the
+life of insects are the result of a whole life spent on the one hobby or
+study of insects.
+
+My occupation has been full of abrupt changes. Each day is a
+kaleidoscope, and so, as I write between times, these chapters may be
+like the boy who said of the dictionary, "a mighty powerful book but the
+subject changes so often."
+
+I write these chapters as the spirit moves and opportunity allows, and
+you may read the same way. But be sure you make opportunity happen
+often.
+
+
+
+
+OBSERVATION
+
+Sitting on the Side Lines, Watching the Crowd
+
+
+There is fun and interest and diversion all around us. All we need is
+keen observation and we will see much that passes unnoticed to the
+preoccupied person.
+
+What an interesting thing is the great round world we live in. The
+people are as interesting as fish in an aquarium.
+
+See the rushing, surging crowd. Man, pushing along searching for
+necessary things to be done, he builds cities, harnesses rivers, makes
+ships to sail the seas to the uttermost parts of the earth. Man goes to
+war, he builds death-dealing devices.
+
+Man makes the desert blossom like a rose.
+
+Here is the scientist in his laboratory, trying to unite certain
+elements to produce new substance. Here is the beauty in her silken
+nest; here the lover; there the musician; yonder the peanut man and in
+the office building is the captain of industry: All busy bees deeply
+absorbed in their respective interests, and intoxicated in the belief
+that they are important and greatly necessary.
+
+Yet in the broad measure of ages they are mere ripples on the sea of
+time, faint bubbles on the eternal deep, and grains of sand at the
+mountain foot.
+
+Great man by his own measure, minute man by the great measure of time.
+Mammoths to the near-sighted, mites to the far-sighted. Hustle and
+bustle, crowd and push. They tramp down the weaker brothers in the mad
+race after the golden shekels, which are only measures of ability to buy
+and own material things; symbols of power to make others serve you.
+These golden shekels which men fret, sweat and fight for, can only buy
+physical and material things.
+
+Away from the crowd is the little group who have learned a great truth,
+which is, happiness is not to be bought with gold. This little minority
+knows that mental pleasures are best, and that mental pleasures cannot
+be found on the great highway of material conquest.
+
+The puffy, corn-fed millionaire pities the man who is content to live
+with small means and enjoys what he has to the full extent.
+
+The wise man is he who gets the fullness out of life, happiness,
+respect, content, freedom from worry, who is busy doing useful things,
+busy helping his brother, busy training his children, busy spreading
+sunshine and love and the close-together feeling in his home circle.
+
+The corn-fed, hardened, senseless, money-mad, dollar-worshipper knows
+not peace. Smiles seldom linger on his lips. Peace never rests in his
+bosom, cheer never lights his face. He is simply a fighting machine,
+miserable in solitude, suffering when inactive and sick when resting.
+
+The money-chaser is up and doing, working like a Trojan, because
+occupation takes his mind off the painful picture of his misspent
+opportunity and his destroyed natural instinct. When fighting for gold
+he forgets his appalling poverty of the really worth-while things in the
+world.
+
+Like the drunkard in his cups the intoxication makes him forget, and he
+is negatively happy.
+
+Money received as reward for doing things worth while is laudable.
+
+We cannot sit idly by and neglect to earn money to provide food, shelter
+and education for our loved ones, but between times we should seek the
+wealth that comes from right mental employment.
+
+The millionaire thinks, dreams and gets dollars and that is all.
+
+The worth-while man thinks kindness, usefulness, self-improvement,
+brotherhood, love, and he gets happiness.
+
+The man who discovers means to help his fellowman, does a good act, but
+it is the man with the dollars in front of his eyes that commercializes
+the discovery and invention.
+
+In the end the man that helped mankind fares better than the man who
+made the millions.
+
+It's a great crowd surging by, and very few have the good sense to learn
+the value of TODAY. That great crowd I see below my window thinks ever
+of tomorrow and forgets TODAY.
+
+Those who think always of tomorrow will never get the beauties and joys
+from life that comes to the little group, of Today, who appreciates and
+enjoys the real Now, rather than the pictured Tomorrow that never
+comes.
+
+It's mighty interesting to watch the crowd go by and speculate on their
+movements.
+
+Save up your pennies, measure everything by the dollar standard, think
+dollars, dream dollars, work, slave, push for the dollars and you will
+build a fortune. You will never have peace or recreation, or joy; you
+will live only in hope of a some day when you will retire. That's the
+way the millionaires travel life's highway.
+
+Some day the paper will announce the death of those millionaires and
+then the dollars will be blown in by reckless heirs, and so the grinding
+wheels roll on.
+
+Surely there are many ways of looking at things. Surely there is much of
+interest in the crowd. Surely there is an unending fund from which to
+speculate, in that crowd way down on the street below my window.
+
+What passions, what hopes, what joys, what sorrows, are in the hearts of
+that hurrying, worrying crowd.
+
+What noise this din of traffic makes, what activity man has stirred up.
+
+A picture, a drama, a tragedy, a comedy, all these I see in the human
+ants that run along below the hive where I sit and write these lines.
+
+The phone rings and my little Nancy Lou's voice says, "Daddy, will you
+please bring me a pencil and a tablet with lines on it."
+
+So I must needs stop this, whatever you may call it, and push through
+the crowd to get that tablet with "lines on it" for my Nancy Lou; and
+there is some feeling of happiness and content and peace in Daddy's
+heart as he lays down his pen, for Daddy is going Home, and that word
+means a lot in his little family, where they all say "Daddy" instead of
+Papa or Father.
+
+
+
+
+DOING THINGS TWICE
+
+A Common Habit That Saps Nerve Power
+
+
+It is hard enough to do duty once, but doubly hard when you anticipate
+mentally everything you have to do tomorrow.
+
+This doing things twice is a habit easily acquired if you don't watch
+out, and it means wasted energy.
+
+I have just read the experience of a housewife who was resting on a
+couch reading; her eye caught sight of a book lying on the floor across
+the room.
+
+Instantly her mindometer, if I may coin a word, registered, "when you
+get up, pick up that book."
+
+She went on reading, but her mind was not on the magazine she held, but
+on that book on the floor.
+
+So obsessed did she become that she was miserable until she got up and
+picked up the book.
+
+I was talking with a woman who was resting on her porch; her day's work
+was over. She was dressed for the afternoon. Everything in the home was
+neat, sweet, clean and tidy. All serene but her face, and that was the
+window through which I saw worry working overtime.
+
+By strategy I learned the trouble, and here is her story: "Tomorrow a
+lot of fruit will be ready to preserve. I am worrying where I shall put
+it. My fruit closet is full."
+
+The woman had every reason to say to herself "sufficient unto the day,"
+yet she was doing the preserving mentally today and tomorrow she would
+do the work physically.
+
+A tired mind is harder to rest than a tired body, so we must nip this
+advance mental work in the bud.
+
+We have all had mental obsessions of worrying about the things we were
+going to take on our trip; then worrying over the routine of our work
+when we return from our trip.
+
+If the housewife looks over her week's work and washes the dishes, makes
+the beds, cooks the meals, dresses the children, mends the clothes, in
+her imagination, before she does them in reality, she is indeed a hard
+working woman.
+
+It's all right to plan your work; that's economy in mental expenditure,
+for it simplifies, systematizes, and saves work.
+
+Plan your work in advance, but do not keep your mind on the plans until
+the work is done.
+
+When you have planned, then close the mental book of tomorrow's duty,
+and turn to pleasures, rest, relaxation and enjoyment of today.
+
+These little round-ups we have each evening are fine to switch the
+thought current from tomorrow's duties.
+
+It is to get a definite, different thought habit fixed, that I ask you
+to give me these few minutes each day when we may consider various
+phases of life, science, pleasure, morals and mental refreshment.
+
+True we can only have a fleeting look at things, but we'll get enough, I
+hope, to freshen your minds, change the humdrum, and elicit interest in
+things.
+
+Maybe these round-ups we have will help us, and keep us from working
+mentally tomorrow's physical work.
+
+If these evening talks interest you, help clear your vision, help cheer
+you, help rest you, then they are good for you, and be cause they help
+you they certainly benefit me and make me very happy, because happiness
+comes from doing something for others.
+
+I write as the mood strikes me, or as a phase of life comes before me,
+or as an idea strikes in and just won't let go until I grasp my pen and
+let the words flow.
+
+I mean this book is human, and not a studied literary effort.
+
+Just get the human viewpoint and don't criticize the words used or the
+sentences I construct.
+
+I want to reach you right there alone in the room where you are reading
+this, and I want the suggestions, the good, the help, to soak in and I
+want you to pass the good you get to your brother; you won't lose a bit
+by so doing.
+
+
+
+
+NERVES
+
+The Doctors' Most Difficult Problem
+
+
+"She is all right--her only trouble is her NERVES." How often we hear
+that and how little does the person with steady nerves appreciate the
+tortures of "nerves."
+
+A cut, a bruise, a headache, or any of the physical ailments can be
+quickly cured. Nature will mend the break, but tired, worn, stretched,
+abused nerves take time to restore. These nerve ailments call for most
+vigorous mental treatment.
+
+Neurasthenia means debilitated or prostrated nerves and it shows itself
+first of all by worry. Worry means the inability to relax the attention
+from a definite fear or fancied hard luck. Worry leads to many physical
+and mental disorders.
+
+Left alone this worry stage develops into an acute state and brings with
+it nervous prostration, and sometimes a complete collapse of the will
+power.
+
+Before the acute stage of neurasthenia is reached there is noticed
+"brain fag," and brain fag is nature's warning signal calling upon you
+to take notice and change your mental habits.
+
+Worry sometimes develops into hysteria; again it takes the form of
+hypochondria or chronic blues. The hypochondriac has a chronic, morbid
+anxiety about personal health and personal welfare. Frequently this
+state is accompanied by melancholia.
+
+Melancholia is the forks in the roads. One road leads to incurable
+insanity, the other to curable melancholia. Right here is where heroic
+action is needed by the sufferer.
+
+Here is where the sufferer must exert his will power, change completely
+his mental and physical habits and his surroundings. Occupation, changed
+habits, taking in of confidence, faith and courage thoughts--these
+changes are necessary to the victim of melancholia, or he will shatter
+on the danger rocks and go to pieces.
+
+Melancholia is where is offered a good chance for Christian Science.
+Mental suggestion, powerful personality of a friend, and the personal
+help such a friend can give by counsel, example and suggestion, are all
+helps.
+
+I have abundant evidence that melancholia sufferers can be restored to
+peace, efficiency and poise, by proper thought direction, and by proper
+physical employment.
+
+"Pep," which has principally to do with mental efficiency, definitely
+lays down rules and practical suggestions for the employment of the mind
+and body. I have letters and verbal proofs in quantity proving the
+efficiency of those rules and suggestions.
+
+So wonderful have been the results, so numerous the recoveries, that the
+testimonials, if published, would make the fake nerve tonic manufacturer
+die of envy.
+
+"Only your nerves." I cannot understand why the word, only, is used. It
+makes it appear that nerves are of minor importance.
+
+Nerves are less understood than anything in the human anatomy.
+
+Experience has proved that nerves cannot be restored by dope, patent
+medicines, tonics or prescriptions.
+
+The cure must come by and through the individual possessing the nerves
+and by and through the individual's power of will and mastery of the
+mind.
+
+Get the mental equipment right. Let the mind master the body. Let the
+nerve sufferer get hold of himself and fill his brain with faith thought
+instead of fear thought, with courage instead of cowardice, with
+strength instead of weakness, with hope instead of despair, with smiles
+instead of frowns, with occupation instead of sluggishness, and wonders
+will appear.
+
+The little shredded, tingling nerve ends will then commence to
+synchronize instead of fight, to harmonize instead of discord, to build
+instead of destroy.
+
+The building, or coming back to a normal state, is slow; it takes time,
+patience and will power, but it can be done. I know. I have been through
+the mill, and I pass the word to you and try to stir you to be up and
+doing, even as I did.
+
+Your nerves can be steadied, your thoughts uplifted, your health
+restored, your ambition re-established, your normality fixed.
+
+Smiles, love and content are to be yours. Poise, efficiency, peace, your
+blessings. Health, happiness and hope your dividends. All these I
+promise you if you will read carefully this book from cover to cover and
+follow its plain, practical teachings.
+
+The curriculum is not hard, it is not my discovery. I am merely the
+purveyor of facts, the gleaner of truth, and the selector of helpful
+experiences, first of all for my own benefit and having proved the truth
+in my own case and by friends to whom I passed the truths and rules.
+
+I made bold to write books, but the writing has paid me well, not alone
+in dollars, but from having done a helpful thing in writing for other
+humans who have had problems, worries and nerves.
+
+The big books on nerves are discouraging and forbidding by their
+immensity and labyrinth of scientific technical terms. They are fine for
+teachers, but discouraging for the layman.
+
+The great everyday crowd is the class I want to talk to and so I
+endeavor to write in plain human, sincere style from heart to heart,
+with understanding, feeling, charity and sympathy.
+
+I have felt the things you feel, and if I can by example, emphasis,
+suggestion, rule or good intent, be a help to you, then I have done a
+service.
+
+Don't worry or criticize this book. Take my suggestions in the spirit
+offered.
+
+
+
+
+PESSIMISTS
+
+Give Them the Cold Shoulder
+
+
+The calamity howler is found in the midst of peace and plenty. This
+pessimist sows seeds of discord, plants envy, generates the anarchist
+spirit, and is an all-around nuisance.
+
+A man may spend years erecting a building; a fiend can demolish it in a
+minute with a stick of dynamite.
+
+The calamity howler is a destroyer; he doesn't think, he spurts out
+words. His words and arguments are simply parrot mimicry and void of
+intellectual impulse, as are the movements of an angle worm.
+
+These peace destroyers talk of their rights and they expect and demand
+the same privileges and benefits that are earned by the man who uses his
+head.
+
+These ghouls are born without heads; they just have necks that grow up
+and are covered with hair. These brainless mollusks are now telling the
+people that the Sultan of Sulu is to capture Texas and that Japan is to
+invade Indianapolis; Germany is to capture Quebec, and France is to
+siege Milwaukee.
+
+The howlers spread talk of yellow peril and black plague to follow. They
+spread doubt and fear; they tell you the capitalists are awake nights
+trying to starve you and that they employ inventors to discover new
+methods of torture for the poor working man.
+
+They accuse business men of grinding down the farmer, forming pools,
+establishing starvation prices, and ruining agriculture. Yet, as I write
+these lines, fat beef cattle sell for $10.00 a hundred on the hoof,
+wheat is way over $1.00 a bushel, and good farms in Missouri even are
+selling at from $100.00 to $150.00 per acre.
+
+Good farm mortgages are hard to get. The farmers have money in the
+banks, honey in the house, and automobiles in the garage.
+
+Our taxes in the United States are lower than anywhere on the face of
+the earth. Our wages are higher than anywhere in the world. Our schools
+better, our opportunities greater.
+
+And in the midst of better conditions and brighter prospects the
+shameless, brainless, fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere, poison
+hearts and plant discontent.
+
+If these howlers are any better than foot-pads, thieves, grave robbers,
+or child beaters, I can't see it.
+
+And it is up to you and to me to denounce these peace destroyers,
+ridicule them, show our contempt for them; they have no hearts, no
+souls, they are only decay spots that spread rottenness, disease,
+despair, discouragement, contamination and anarchy, and we do not want
+such guests at our quilting parties or husking bees.
+
+
+
+
+GLOOM CONTAGION
+
+A Little Study of Faces in a Street Car
+
+
+This evening I rode home in a crowded street car. What an interesting
+study to watch the faces in that car.
+
+Discontent, discomfort, worry, gloominess on nearly every face. Tired
+faces, tired bodies from a hard day's work, mouth corners drooped.
+Hopelessness stamped on the countenances.
+
+As the people came in the car some of them had smiles or at least
+passable expressions, but when they got crowded together and saw the
+gloomy faces the gloom spread to their faces, too.
+
+At a picnic all are smiling and laughing. In the street car at six
+o'clock the long procession of workers is a stream of solemn faces.
+Contagion, example, surrounding, yes, that's it--contagion and example.
+
+At six o'clock in the cars all is gloom, blueness and sorrow faces. At
+eight o'clock many of these faces will be changed; there will be joy,
+smiles, rosiness, singing and dancing. Yet the actual conditions of
+finance, health, hope or prospects haven't changed since these people
+were in the car at six o'clock.
+
+Why then such a change in two hours?
+
+It is this: at seven o'clock these workers sat down to supper, they were
+out of that gloom-reflected street car atmosphere. Now they are talking,
+they are rounding-up the day's activities; they are HOME with mother,
+sister, brother and the kiddies. The home ones greet them with smiles,
+the appetizing supper pleases the palate, good cheer permeates, and all
+is smiles and joy.
+
+Gloom spreads gloom. Joy spreads joy. Gloom is black; joy is white. One
+darkens, the other brightens.
+
+Well, then, where's the moral? What's the benefit from this little study
+of the street car passengers?
+
+The lesson is plain: it is that you and I are ferments of joy or acids
+of gloom. We are influences to help or to hurt. To hurt others by our
+example hurts us. To help others by our example helps us. We become
+happier than ever.
+
+In the street car life was not worth living if you judged by the pained
+faces. In two hours by changed thought the example of life was worth
+while.
+
+What changes the mental attitude makes.
+
+    "When a man has spent
+    His very last cent--
+    The world looks blue, you bet;
+    But give him a dollar
+    And loud he will holler
+    There's life in the old world yet."
+
+Next time we get on the street car let's plant some smiles. Let's give
+that lady a seat and smile when we do it.
+
+We can spread cheer by merely wearing a cheery face. Costs little, pays
+big. Let's do it.
+
+
+
+
+HAPPINESS
+
+Hovers Near Us If We Do Not Chase It
+
+
+Some of our richest blessings are gained by not striving for them
+directly. This is so true that we accept the blessings without thinking
+about how we came to get them.
+
+Particularly true is this in the matter of happiness. Everyone wants to
+be happy, but few know how to secure this blessing.
+
+Most people have the idea that the possession of material things is
+necessary to happiness and that idea is what keeps architects,
+automobile makers, jewelers, tailors, hotels, railroads, steamships and
+golf courses busy.
+
+Do your duty well, have a worth-while ambition, be a dreamer, have an
+ideal. Keep your duty in mind, be occupied sincerely with your work,
+keep on the road to your ideal and happiness will cross your path all
+the while.
+
+Happiness is an elusive prize; it's wary, timid, alert and cannot be
+caught. Chase it and it escapes your grasp.
+
+I read today of a friend who walked home with a workman. This is the
+workman's story: He had a son who was making a record in school. He had
+two daughters who helped their mother; he had a cottage, a little yard,
+a few flowers, a garden. He worked hard in a garage by day and evenings
+he cultivated his flowers, his garden, and his family. He had health,
+plus contentment a-plenty. His possessions were few and the care of them
+consequently a negligible effort.
+
+Happiness flowed in the cracks of his door. Smiles were on his lips, joy
+in his heart, love in his bosom; that's the story my friend heard.
+
+Then came a friend in an automobile on his way home from the club. He
+picked up my friend and to him a tale of woe, misery and discontent did
+unfold.
+
+This club man had money, automobiles, social standing, possessions, and
+all the objects and material things envious persons covet--yet he was
+unhappy. His whole life was spent chasing happiness, but his sixty
+horsepower auto wasn't fast enough to catch it.
+
+The poor man I have told you about was the man who washed the club
+man's auto.
+
+The strenuous pleasure seeker fails to get happiness; that is an
+inexorable law. He develops into a pessimist with an acrid, satirical
+disgust at all the simple, worth-while, real things in life.
+
+This is not a new discovery of mine; it's an old truth. Read
+Ecclesiastes, the pessimistic chronicle of the Bible, and you'll find
+what comes to the pleasure-chaser, and you will know about "vanity and
+vexation of spirit."
+
+Do something for somebody. Engage in moves and enterprises that will be
+a service to the community and help the uplift of mankind. This making
+others happy is a positive insurance and guarantee of your own
+happiness.
+
+You must keep a stiff upper lip, a stiff backbone; you must forget the
+wishbone and the envious heart.
+
+Paul had trials, setbacks, hardships and hard labors; he had defeats and
+discouragements and still the record shows he was "always rejoicing."
+
+Paul was a man of Pep. In the dungeon with his feet in stocks he sang
+songs and rejoiced. Paul was happy, ever and always, not because he
+strove to get happiness, but because he had dedicated his life to a
+service to mankind.
+
+The real hero, the real man of fame, the real man of popularity, doesn't
+arrive through direct quest, for any of these things; the result is
+incidental.
+
+The real hero forgets self first of all; that is the essential step to
+greatness.
+
+Washington at Valley Forge had no thought that his acts there would
+furnish inspiration for a picture that would endure for generations.
+
+Lincoln, the care-worn, tired noble man, in his speech at Gettysburg,
+never dreamed that speech would stamp him as a master of words and
+thought, in the hearts of his countrymen. He thought not of self. He was
+trying to soothe wounds, cheer troubled spirits, and give courage to
+those who had been so long in shadowland.
+
+Ever has it been that fame, glory, happiness are rewards, given not to
+those who strive to capture, but to those who strive to free others from
+their troubles, burdens and problems.
+
+
+
+
+THOUGHT CONTROL
+
+"As a Man Thinketh in His Heart so is He"
+
+
+A little child is crying over a real or fancied injury to her body or to
+her pride.
+
+So long as she keeps her mind on the subject she is miserable.
+
+Distract her attention, get her mind on another subject, and her tears
+stop and smiles replace frowns.
+
+This shows how we are creatures of our thoughts. "As a man thinketh in
+his heart, so is he" is a truth that has endured through the centuries.
+
+We are children in so far as we cry and suffer when we think of our ills
+or hurts or wrongs or bad luck.
+
+We can smile and have peace, poise and strength if we change our
+thoughts to faith, courage and confidence.
+
+Our condition is what we make it. If we think fear, worry and misery, we
+will suffer. If we think faith, peace and happiness, we will enjoy life.
+
+Every thought that comes out of our brain had to go in first.
+
+If we feed our brain storehouse with trash and fear, and nonsense, we
+have a poor material to draw from.
+
+The last thought we put in the brain before going to sleep is most
+likely to last longest. So it is our duty to quietly relax, to slow
+down--to eliminate fear-thought, self-accusation, and to substitute some
+good helpful thought in closing the mental book of each day.
+
+Therefore read a chapter or two from a worth-while book the last thing
+before going to bed.
+
+Say to yourself, "I am unafraid; I can, I will awake in the morning with
+smiles on my face, courage in my heart, and song on my lips."
+
+These suggestions for closing the day will be of instant help to you.
+
+The great power for good, the wherewith to give you strength, progress
+and efficiency is within yourself and at the command of your will.
+
+You can't think faith and fear, good and bad, courage and defeat, all at
+the same time.
+
+You can only think one thing at a time.
+
+Your great power is your will, and the wherewith to help yourself is
+your thought habit.
+
+Change your thought habit as you go to bed. You can do it; it's a matter
+of will determination. The more faithful you are to your purpose, the
+easier your task will be. Be patient, conscientious rational and
+confident.
+
+You are what your thoughts picture you to be. Your will directs your
+thoughts.
+
+Don't get discouraged if you can't suddenly change your life from shadow
+to sunshine, from illness to wellness.
+
+Big things take time and patience. The great ship lies in the harbor
+pointed North. A tug boat could make a sudden pull and break the great
+chain or tow line.
+
+Yet you could take a half-inch rope and with your own hands turn the
+great ship completely around by pulling steadily and patiently. The
+movement would be slow, but it would be sure and you would finally
+accomplish your purpose.
+
+Don't jerk and fret and be impatient with yourself. You have been for
+years perhaps worrying and thinking fear-thoughts. You have put a lot of
+useless and harmful material in your brain.
+
+You can't clean all your brain house in a day or a week, but you can do
+a little cleaning each day.
+
+You can take the faith rope of good purpose and start to pull gently,
+and finally you will turn your whole life's character toward the port of
+success.
+
+If you have read "Pep" and followed its rules, you are now in a state of
+poise, efficiency and peace, and realize the truths of this chapter, for
+you learned in detail the rules for your daily conduct, practice, and
+how to apply suggestions.
+
+The great crowd worries; only the few have learned the power of the
+will, and the benefits to be derived from mental control.
+
+Business and social duties call for strong men and women. You can't
+reach mastership if you remain a slave.
+
+Your first duty is to yourself, and success or failure is your reward
+exactly in proportion as you exercise your will power and handle your
+thought habits.
+
+
+
+
+MEDICINE
+
+Proofs That Mind Control is the Best Medicine
+
+
+The doctors are giving less medicine and doing more in the way of
+suggesting diet, and exercise rules, sanitation and preventive
+practices.
+
+Medicine is mostly poison and its effect is to shock the organs or
+glands to bring about reaction. Nature makes the cure.
+
+In emergency drugs are all right, but the doctor and not the individual
+should settle the matter of what drug to use and the time to use it.
+
+When there's a pain or disease it's due to congestion of some organ, to
+infection, or to improper nourishment or improper habits.
+
+Ninety per cent of the aches, pains or ailments can be cured by a
+dominant mental attitude and attention to eating and exercise.
+
+The habitual medicine user is not cured by the medicine but by nature;
+the medicine simply serves as a means to establish mental control and
+confidence that the sufferer is to get well.
+
+Recently I have spent much time in a large hospital visiting a relative
+who had been operated on. I know several of the staff of doctors and
+nurses.
+
+I have seen many operations, some very heroic ones, and my appreciation
+of the good work of good surgeons is greatly augmented by the wonderful
+helps I have seen them bring to suffering humanity. I have talked with
+and watched the cases of scores of patients.
+
+I have by plausible logic, mental suggestion, and good cheer to the
+hospital patients, brought many a smile through a mist of tears.
+
+I have seen wonderful results of mental suggestion to the discouraged
+patients.
+
+To show the effects faith thought will produce, I will relate some
+instances.
+
+One patient screaming for a hypodermic injection to relieve her pain was
+given an injection of sterilized water and the pain vanished.
+
+Another just could not sleep without her bromide. The nurse fixed up a
+powder of sugar, salt and flour, the patient took the powder and went
+to sleep. That was mind control and mental longing satisfied.
+
+Another patient had to take something to stop her pains; she got
+capsules of magnesia. The capsule satisfied her longing, established her
+faith and gave her relief; the relief was through her mind and not by
+the capsule.
+
+I have seen several weary, despondent patients fretting and wearing
+themselves out over their so-called weakness and condition. I have
+placed copies of "Pep" in their hands and watched courage, faith, cheer
+and sereneness come to them.
+
+The reading of "Pep" diverted their minds from self-thought and
+self-accusation to faith-thought and courage.
+
+"Pep" is simply powerful common-sense, practical, digestible, hope,
+faith, cheer and courage. One brain cannot at the same time hold its
+attention on faith and fear, on joy or sorrow, on smiles and tears.
+
+You can only think one thing at a time, and "Pep" or any other book that
+can change the habit thought from fear to faith, from worry to peace, is
+doing a service.
+
+I've been in shadowland in the hospital to see for myself the actual
+help that mental control will bring to sufferers and the evidence is
+far above my powers to describe.
+
+I'm mighty glad I wrote "Pep" for it has helped many a brother and
+sister out of darkness into sunshine, and proved the value of right
+thinking and mental control.
+
+I've seen the lifting up of a patient's hope, when the cheery surgeon
+came with hope, smiles and confidence on his face.
+
+I've seen the drooping of spirits when well meaning but poor expressing
+friends came into the patient's room and condoned and sorrowed with the
+patient.
+
+Verily "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
+
+Verily good cheer and good thought are good medicines.
+
+And to these truths all good doctors say "Amen!"
+
+
+
+
+READING
+
+Let Your Final Evening's Reading be Good Stuff
+
+
+When you spend the evening playing cards, the chances are you come home
+late, and when you retire it takes perhaps an hour or so before you fall
+to sleep.
+
+And during the night you dream of cards, of certain hands, of certain
+circumstances, or certain persons, that were prominent in the evening's
+game.
+
+The reason you do not go to sleep after an exciting evening is because
+you have set your nerve carburetor at high tension and forgotten to
+lower it before you go to sleep.
+
+On the other hand, when you have been reading a restful book, full of
+good thought, you establish an equilibrium, a relaxed state of nerves
+and particularly you have switched the current or direction of your
+day's thoughts. That change spells rest, and you retire and go to sleep
+easily.
+
+In "Pep" one of the most beneficial suggestions was that you read its
+chapters one or two each evening, after you had undressed, and just
+before going to bed.
+
+You will scarcely believe what a wondrous change for the better will
+happen to you if you make it a rule to have a brain clearing, mental
+inventory, and nerve relaxation every night before you sleep.
+
+Your brain works at night always; oft-times you have no remembrance of
+your dreams, but if your last hour, before retiring, was an hour of
+excitement, tension or unusual occupation you will likely go over it all
+again in your dreams.
+
+If you will let nothing prevent your period of soliloquy, or evening
+round-up, you will establish your mental habits into a rhythm that will
+give you peace, rest and benefit.
+
+In the olden days, when most families had evening worship or family
+prayers, the members of those households slept soundly and restfully.
+
+Particularly was this so because of the habit formed of getting the mind
+on peaceful, helpful, comforting, soul-satisfying thoughts that remained
+fresh on the brain tablets as the members of the home circle went to
+sleep.
+
+One of the common practices in the home circle is reading, and generally
+the books or papers read are of the exciting, fascinating, highly
+colored imaginative type; people read stories of love, adventure, plot
+or crime, and they dream these same things most every night.
+
+I have found that it pays to read two classes of literature in the same
+evening. First read your novel, story or fascinating book, and fifteen
+minutes before you are ready to go to sleep, read some good, wholesome,
+helpful, uplifting book, and that good stuff will be lastingly filed
+away in your brain.
+
+Finish your evening with books that are interesting, yet educational.
+Such books as "Life of the Bee" by Maeterlinck, or any one of Fabre's
+wonderful books on insect life; "Riddle of the Universe," by Haeckle;
+Darwin's books; Drummond's "Ascent of Man;" "Walks and Talks in
+Geological Fields" is a splendid mental night cap; "Power of Silence;"
+"Physiology of Faith and Fear;" Emerson's "Essays;" Holmes' "Autocrat of
+the Breakfast Table;" Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Tom Moore's Poems;
+"Plutarch's Lives;" "Seneca;" "Addison;" Bulwer Lytton; Hugo; Carlyle's
+"Sartor Resartus." This latter book will not fascinate you like
+Carlyle's "French Revolution," but you will learn to love its fine
+language, its fine analysis of character, of times, and of things.
+
+There are countless books of the good improving kind. Always save one of
+them for your solid reading, after you have read light literature or
+novels. If you will get the habit you will notice great benefits and
+rapid advancement in your mental apparatus.
+
+You will sleep better, think clearer; you will learn to enjoy mental
+pleasures more than material pleasures.
+
+Fifteen minutes then to be yours, yours alone, in which you quiet,
+soothe, strengthen and pacify yourself and add abundant resources and
+assets.
+
+Let the last reading in the evening be something worth storing up in
+that precious brain of yours and the good worth-while deposit will grow
+and produce beautiful worth-while mental fruit.
+
+
+
+
+VERBOMANIA
+
+A Widely Prevalent Modern Disease
+
+
+The malady Verbomania is spreading rapidly. What's that? You have never
+heard of Verbomania? Well, then, it's taken from verbosus, the Latin
+word meaning abounding in words, the using of more words than is
+necessary. Mania, also Latin, means to rage--excessive or unreasonable
+desire; therefore, Verbomania is the excessive desire to use more words
+than are necessary.
+
+There is too much talk nowadays and too little thinking. Some persons
+start their gab carburetors and they talk and talk mechanically, without
+any effort on any thought, just like walking, the motion just goes by
+itself.
+
+Scientists have suggested that perhaps too much talking without thinking
+is a disease. I don't see why there is any perhaps about it. Disease is
+an unnatural condition, or function out of its natural order of working.
+
+We know we can sit down and run ideas through our brain without words
+and we can use a lot of words without ideas.
+
+You have read whole pages in a book without receiving an idea. One can
+rattle off words and not have ideas. When the fountain of words flows in
+a desert of ideas, it's Verbomania.
+
+People in all walks of life have the disease; they talk together too
+much without any reason other than to take up time or make themselves at
+ease.
+
+Pink teas, receptions and society functions are great rookeries for
+these Verbomania birds to gather and indulge in their gabfest.
+
+The pianist through long practice is able to play a difficult
+composition without thinking about it; it's automatic; it's habit in
+action.
+
+The society dodo bird is just as dexterous in spinning words without
+thought, as the pianist with his difficult piece.
+
+Our rapid mode of living, our conventions and customs are responsible
+for much of the Verbomania.
+
+I should like to take my Dictophone to a fussy "afternoon" and record
+the word evacuations, the footless conversation, the forced
+pleasantries, the set sentences that mingle into a hum and buzz. A
+wilderness of words in a barrenness of ideas.
+
+This useless abuse of the use of speech makes headaches, weariness,
+worry, unrest; it saps strength, lowers pep, and lessens resistance.
+
+The cure for Verbomania is to keep away from these butterfly buzz bees;
+put the clothes-pin of caution on your lips; spend more time alone with
+your thoughts. Nourish your idea plants that have been starved; prune
+your word plants.
+
+Read the first few chapters of "PEP," particularly the chapter in the
+book about solitude and sizing up things.
+
+Don't expose yourself to the crowds where the Verbomaniacs gather. The
+disease is contagious; it's easy to acquire and hard to retire.
+
+These are ideas put in type to convey a truth for the benefit of all who
+read these lines, and it is some truth, too.
+
+
+
+
+HOME
+
+Don't Mistake a House for a Home
+
+
+Love builds homes, gold builds houses. The home has a mongrel dog which
+is called Prince, and all the family love it. The house had a pedigreed
+bull pup that is kept in the barn.
+
+There is all the difference between the family which has a home and the
+family which has a house.
+
+In houses we find broken hearts, worry, nervous prostration, because
+there is idleness, artificiality and aimlessness. In homes we find warm
+hearts, happiness and love, because those in the home have natural,
+helpful occupation.
+
+In the house is cold reserve; the occupants read when compelled to stay
+in doors; they grow crabbed and cross and get into a state of habitual
+dumbness and selfishness.
+
+In the home there is unselfishness, thoughtfulness, and love expressed.
+Meal time is joy time; it's the get-together period of smiling faces.
+
+In the house the breakfast table is merely a lunch station in the
+hurried trip from the bedroom to the office.
+
+The sensitive wife of the house gets stinging remarks that abide with
+her after the lord and master of the house has departed.
+
+In the home the family gets up plenty early enough, songs and jokes,
+kisses and love pats are found, the family is on time, and there is
+happiness all around.
+
+Homes are sweet, because love is present. Houses built by gold are just
+hotels.
+
+I've noticed the difference when a friend invites me to come to his home
+or his house; the word he uses, home or house, indicates to me what I
+will find when I go there.
+
+In the house I meet a maid or butler at the door. I see conventional
+furniture, conventional rooms. I am shown into a conventional waiting
+room, and I wait conventionally for the hostess to come forward with a
+stiff backbone, a forced smile, and a languid hand shake.
+
+When I go to a home built with love, I find a tidy dressed wife at the
+door, rosy children, and I get a warm old-fashioned hand clasp, and a
+beaming smiling face that spells welcome.
+
+And the dinner, that too, tells the difference between the
+"depend-on-the-cook" housewife and the "wife-who-is-the-boss" home.
+
+At the house is formality and frigidity; at the home is ease and
+enjoyment. The children of the home make breaks and we love them for it;
+it's natural instinct and frankness.
+
+In the house is worry; in the home is happiness.
+
+Verily there's a difference in the atmosphere of the house built with
+gold and the home built with love; one is worthless existence, the other
+worth-while living.
+
+
+
+
+DIET RULES
+
+Seven Sensible Simple Suggestions on Eating
+
+
+I haven't time in this book to give reasons or show proofs for
+everything I suggest. I have explained much in detail regarding the
+matter of food, thought, habit and exercise in PEP, but I want right
+here to give you a few definite, short, positive, helpful rules that
+will pay you most wonderful dividends in health and happiness.
+
+First--Drink two or three glasses of warm, not hot water the first thing
+when you arise.
+
+Second--Repeat this resolve as you are drinking the water, "I will be
+pleasant this morning until ten o'clock and the rest of the day will
+take care of itself."
+
+Third--Walk to your office or place of business unless it is over four
+miles, in which case walk the first three miles and ride the remainder
+of the distance.
+
+Fourth--Eat one or two apples every day, and do not insult nature's
+proper adjustment by peeling the apple. You want the skin because it
+has things in it you need for your body, and especially for your brain,
+and you need especially the roughage the skin gives.
+
+Fifth--Spend eight or nine hours a day in bed. I belong to the
+sixty-three hour club; that means nine hours a day rest, seven days in a
+week, which is sixty-three hours. If through business travel or other
+circumstances I stay up late one or two nights a week, I balance books
+before the week is up by taking a rest on Sunday afternoon or going to
+bed earlier one or two nights.
+
+Sixth--Don't stay in bed Sunday morning. It will make you tired, loggy,
+stupid and cross. Get up Sunday, say, a half hour or an hour later than
+week days. Later in the day take a nap if you wish.
+
+Seventh--Spend fifteen minutes just before going to bed in quiet,
+relaxed solitude. This is the time to slow down your tension, relax your
+muscles and soothe the nerves. These rules you can easily remember and
+if you follow them as I hope you will, the red blood will course in your
+veins and joy will be in your countenance and the halo of happiness will
+be around your face.
+
+
+
+
+NEGATIVE ATTITUDE
+
+A Frequent Crossed Current That Makes Misery
+
+
+Every once in a while the human has a negative day. Every act, thought,
+or spoken sentence has a but, a don't, a can't, or some other negative
+attachment to it.
+
+The children laugh, play and cut up in the morning and mother says, "I
+don't know what I shall do with you, you are just wearing me out." This
+puts a fear thought and a weakness germ both in mother and the kiddies.
+
+On Sunday afternoon the family is resting; mother maybe gets the blues,
+and says, "What's the use, I never get anywhere, go any place, it's just
+grind, work and worry all the time."
+
+Mother worries because there's a leak in the roof and the water stained
+the paper in the spare room. She worries because she lives in a rented
+house and says, "I have no heart to fix things up because this is a
+rented house."
+
+This negative thought indulged in brings on a misery state; it's worry,
+and the worry comes because you dwell on the off side of things. You
+rehearse your problem, you go over your work, you count your obstacles
+and pile up the negative and fear thoughts.
+
+Bless you, my dear sister, I know what this negative can't, don't, but,
+and what's the-use thought is and how it brings misery. I know how the
+children get on your nerves and make you say, "don't," all day to them.
+
+There's only one way to drive out this negative thought and that is to
+switch your will power to the positive current.
+
+Next time you have a negative day and the fear thoughts come, just start
+in one by one and count your blessings of health, blessings of home, and
+blessings of love.
+
+Nothing can hurt you. You've been through these negative days time and
+time again; the clouds gathered, you were blue, lonesome, homesick and
+heartsick, but next day you got busy with work, and occupation drove
+away the clouds and the sunshine came. The next Sunday you get in this
+negative state, just put on your hat and go out to see some neighbor or
+go to the park or take a walk.
+
+Don't sit and stew and fret over your magnified troubles.
+
+Let the children play and laugh; they are not hurting anyone. God bless
+them. They don't have worries, their little lives are all too short.
+Their example of smiles and laughter should make you happy. Soon, too
+soon, they will grow up and go their ways in life and how precious will
+be the memories of their carefree, golden, happy childhood days.
+
+Cut out envy; that's a mighty bad negative wire. It's the devil's
+favorite food to make worry and discontent.
+
+Many of the people you envied in the past are dead and buried. Many of
+the people you envy now are at heart miserable, and you wouldn't envy
+them if you could look through the artificial outside and know their
+real hidden thoughts and lives.
+
+"What's-the-use;" that's a bad thing to say, it plants worry seed.
+
+You are all right, you have far more blessings than sorrows. You can
+never be free from troubles, cares or little irritations.
+
+Rise superior to these things; those around you are affected and
+susceptible to your influence and example.
+
+If you have a "but," and "if," a "don't," tied to every command to your
+children, they will recognize your uncertainty and your negative hurtful
+attitude, and they will take your threats, as well as your promises,
+with a grain of salt.
+
+Be careful in giving commands; don't put a Spanish bit in the children's
+mouths to jerk them and torture them.
+
+Be positive, make your promises and orders stick, and the kiddies will
+soon know you mean what you say.
+
+These negative "driving me crazy" sentences and attachments to your
+commands spell weakness and make you drive, cajole and spin out your
+orders and the children hesitate, and are slow to obey.
+
+Let them see your positive side. Let them learn to obey with a "yes,
+mamma" spirit and your orders will be less frequent, shorter and they
+will be obeyed on the instant.
+
+The kiddies learn to size you up, mamma, and if they see a wobbly,
+worried, despondent, unsure attitude in you, they will discount your
+threats and make allowances, saying "that's mamma's way."
+
+Don't show your cry side but show your smile side.
+
+Sunday is a great trial day for you, mamma, but don't let your negative
+wires get the best of you.
+
+Sing as you make the beds and tidy up; let sunshine in and drive out the
+gloom.
+
+Blue Sundays are horror days for the children; you can't expect them to
+sit still like older folks. They are full of red blood and active
+muscles.
+
+Don't make Sunday a day of punishment to your children. They get their
+cue from you. Don't you be negative and cross, and gloomy. It's bad
+business for you and all the family.
+
+
+
+
+WALKING
+
+The Best Exercise I Know of
+
+
+The benefits of walking are so quickly apparent that I hope to get you
+to make the start and keep it up for two weeks, and then you will
+require no further urging.
+
+In walking there are two things most important to do in order to get the
+greatest benefits: first--walk alone; second--walk your natural gait.
+
+So many people tell me they would like to walk all, or part of the way,
+between their home and office if they had company.
+
+Company is the very thing you don't want in walking, and there are two
+reasons for this: one is if you walk with a friend you will hold
+yourself back, or else you will be walking faster than your natural
+gait, and in either case it is a conscious effort, and this conscious
+effort to a large degree will cause you to lose much of the benefit from
+your walk.
+
+The most important reason, however, is that if you walk with a friend
+you are sure to talk and thus you are using your nervous energy and
+tiring your brain--the very thing you should rest.
+
+Walking gives you physical exercise which is absolutely necessary for
+health. It is the best exercise I know of because you do not overdo your
+strength.
+
+Walking is beneficial because when you walk alone you give your brain a
+rest. You cannot read the papers, you cannot talk, and your mental
+apparatus gets complete rest.
+
+As stated in PEP I walk from my home to my office, something less than
+four miles, and it takes me about an hour to make the trip. I walk
+through a beautiful park and every morning I see something new and
+interesting in bird and animal life, in the vegetation and in the
+geological formations through which I pass.
+
+I recommend that you walk anywhere from three to four miles in the
+morning.
+
+If your home is more than four miles from the office, walk three or four
+miles and then take the car.
+
+Do not walk home in the evening unless the walk is a short one. In the
+evening you are tired and you should conserve your strength. In the
+morning you are fresh and the exercise comes to you at a time it is most
+needed. It will give you strength, courage and help to keep you in a
+good mood all day.
+
+I cannot too strongly emphasize the importance of walking alone, for
+then you have shifted your nerve energy from the dry cell battery of the
+brain to the magneto, which is the spinal cord. The spinal cord works
+automatically and it doesn't wear itself out. The brain tires if it uses
+its energy.
+
+In walking you use the thought and the brain impulse to start the
+magneto then the spinal cord action is automatic.
+
+This automatic action of the spinal cord is a wise provision of nature
+to conserve strength.
+
+The spinal cord energy is what you might call automatic habit.
+
+For instance, in dressing and undressing yourself you will recall that
+you put on or take off your clothes in regular order without giving the
+matter any thought. It is just habit.
+
+If you wish to demonstrate the difference between the control of the
+physical body by brain impulse and the spinal cord impulse, try this
+some morning: Start out on your walk, and mentally frame sentences like
+this as you walk, "right step, left step, right step, left step," and so
+on; give thought to each step you have taken and notice how tired you
+will be when you have gone half a mile.
+
+The next morning start to walk, walk naturally, give no thought to
+walking, keep your mind on the beauties of nature by which you are
+passing or in pleasant soliloquy and you will feel no fatigue.
+
+There isn't a bit of theory in this chapter; it is positive practical
+sense I have proved by my own experiences and by the experiences of
+everyone to whom I have made this suggestion of walking alone.
+
+The moral is this--walk every morning and walk ALONE.
+
+
+
+
+ELIMINATION
+
+The Body's Safety-First in Keeping Health
+
+
+The body is made up of billions of little cells. These individual cells
+are in a state of perpetual activity. They exhaust, wear away, break
+down with work and rebuild on food and rest. Every process of life--the
+beat of the heart, the throb of the brain in thought, the digestion of
+food, the excretion of waste--all are due to the activity of groups of
+highly specialized individual cells.
+
+Every cell uses up its own material and throws off poisonous by-products
+during activity. These by-products, or wastes, are very poisonous to the
+individual cell as well as to the entire organism. To get rid of this
+waste is one of the first duties of the system.
+
+It is with the body, made up of its countless millions of individual
+cells, just as with a city and its myriad people: the sewage of the
+community must be collected and disposed of. The city forms its poisons
+which we call sewage and the body its poisons, which we call excreta (or
+carbonic acid, urea, uric acid, faeces, etc.) It is no more important
+for a city to gather up and get rid of its poisonous sewage than for the
+animal organism to collect and excrete its cell-waste. Hence, the
+importance of maintaining normal and constant elimination throughout the
+body.
+
+Elimination is kept up by the alimentary tract, the kidneys, the skin,
+and the lungs.
+
+These four are the great pipe-line sewerage systems so to speak, by
+which the body throws off its gaseous, liquid and solid poisons.
+
+The lungs momentarily strain carbonic acid out of the blood and throw it
+out in the expired air. They likewise exhale other noxious matters from
+the system.
+
+The alimentary tract throws off faeces, made up of the waste tissue from
+the whole system, especially the digestive organs, as well as
+indigestible and non-nutritious portions of the food.
+
+The kidneys strain out urea, uric acid, and certain other poisons from
+the blood and eject them through the urinary tract.
+
+Finally the skin likewise is an excretory organ and exhales a very
+definite amount of gaseous and fluid waste in the course of each
+twenty-four hours.
+
+The skin throws off from a pint to two quarts of liquid each day in the
+form of vapor.
+
+Thus, to carry on normal elimination from the body, the breathing,
+digesting, urinary and cutaneous systems must be kept working normally.
+To impair the work of any of these is to retard bodily drainage. To
+insure that elimination is going on naturally it is necessary to secure
+perfect functioning of lungs, bowels, kidneys and the skin.
+
+Any stoppage in the process of elimination means that some fault has
+crept into the work of one of these excretory systems. It must be plain
+now why a disorder of any one of these organs of elimination means so
+much more profound disturbance to the whole organization than merely
+disease in one structure; it means that waste products are retained
+which ought to be thrown out of the body; so straightway every cell in
+the body begins to be more or less affected. Some poisons disturb one
+organ more and some another, but in the end the whole body must be
+affected.
+
+Lack of exercise, bolting of food, eating soft, starchy things, failure
+to chew properly, failure to get enough roughage, insufficient water,
+insufficient fruit, these are the general causes of stoppage in the
+elimination processes.
+
+Drink one or two glasses of warm, not hot, water first thing in the
+morning.
+
+Eat one or two apples, skins and all, every day. Eat toast, especially
+the crust, eat cracked wheat or whole wheat bread often.
+
+Exercise plenty. Keep cheerful, eat regularly.
+
+Very likely you eat too much. You don't need three big meals a day
+unless you work out doors at hard physical labor.
+
+Your body is an engine. No use to keep the boiler red hot and two
+hundred pounds of steam if your work is light.
+
+Good health depends upon proper assimilation and elimination as nature
+intended.
+
+Eat less, exercise more, you who work indoors. If you don't use this
+caution you are just slowly killing yourself.
+
+
+
+
+CONTINUOUS HAPPINESS
+
+An Impossible State, and It's Well It's So
+
+
+I am often asked, "Are you happy ALL the time?" My answer is no.
+
+A continuous state of happiness cannot be enjoyed by any human. There
+are no plans, no habits, no methods of living that will insure unbroken
+happiness.
+
+Happiness means periods or marking posts in our journey along life's
+road. These high points of bliss are enjoyed because we have to walk
+through the low places between times.
+
+Continuous sunshine, continuous warm weather, continuous rest,
+continuous travel, continuous anything spells monotony. We must have
+variety.
+
+We need the night to make us enjoy the day, winter to make us enjoy
+summer, clouds to make us enjoy sunshine, sorrow to make us enjoy
+happiness.
+
+But, dear reader, mark this: we can be philosophical and have content,
+serenity and poise between the happiness periods.
+
+When you get blue, or have dread or sorrow, or that undescribable
+something that makes you feel badly; when you have worry or trouble,
+then's the time to get hold of your thinking machinery, and modify the
+shadows that come across you.
+
+Occupation and focusing your thoughts on your blessings, these are the
+methods to employ.
+
+As long as you dwell upon your imagined or your real sorrows you will be
+miserable and the worries will magnify like gathering clouds in April.
+
+Take the stand of changing your thoughts to confidence, faith, and good
+cheer, and busy your hands with work. Think of the happiness periods you
+have had and know there is happiness dividends coming to you. Keep this
+sort of thought and with it useful occupation, and the sunshine will
+dispel the clouds in your thoughts like the sun dispels the April
+showers and brings about a more beautiful day because of the clouds and
+storms just passed.
+
+When trouble or sorrows come, sweeten your cup with sugar remembrances
+of joys you've had and joys you are to have.
+
+Envy no one; envy breeds worry. The person you would envy has his
+sorrows and shadows, too; you see him only when the sunlight is on the
+face, you don't see him when he is in shadowland.
+
+No, dear ones, I nor you, nor anyone on earth can have complete,
+unruffled, continued happiness, but we can brace up and call our reserve
+will power, reason, and self-confidence to bear when we come to the
+marshy places along the road. We can pick our steps and get through the
+mire and sooner than we believe it possible we can get on the good solid
+ground; and as we travel, happiness will often come as a reward for our
+poise and patience.
+
+My friends say, "you always seem happy," and in that saying they tell a
+truth, for I am happy often, very, very often and between times I make
+myself seem to be happy. This making myself "seem to be happy" gives me
+serenity, contentment, fortitude, and the very "seeming" soon blossoms
+into a reality of the condition I seem to be in.
+
+You can be happy often and when you are not happy, just seem to be happy
+anyway; it will help you much.
+
+
+
+
+SELF ACCUSATION
+
+If You Do This You Will Always Be Miserable
+
+
+Many have the habit of keeping their minds on their weaknesses or their
+shortcomings.
+
+If they read of some one doing a great thing or making a worth-while
+accomplishment they say, "I never could do such a thing."
+
+These persons are always saying, "I never have luck. I can't do this. I
+can't do that."
+
+Always knocking, always thinking can't instead of can, will make fear,
+irresoluteness, uncertainty and weakness of character.
+
+Saying "I can't, I haven't the ability, I am unlucky" and such like
+makes you weak and knocks out all chance for doing things.
+
+Nothing comes out of the brain that wasn't burned in by thought. If you
+accuse yourself, belittle your capacity, or drown your good impulses
+with doubt and self-accusation, you are putting away a lot of bad
+thought in your brain and no wonder you will lack in initiative,
+ambition and courage.
+
+To those who claim to be unlucky I want to say you are not unlucky, you
+simply lack pluck.
+
+You start at undertakings with a handicap of fear, and a made-up mind
+you can't accomplish. No one ever got anywhere with anything with such a
+millstone around his neck.
+
+Many a man has been whipped in a fight, defeated in a contest, or beaten
+at an undertaking, but he didn't show it or let the other fellow know
+it; he just kept on with a brave front and finally the other fellow
+quit, mistaking grim determination, pluck and perseverance for strength
+and victory.
+
+Ethan Allen with his handful of men was asked to surrender by the
+British general with his superior force. By all rights and rules of war
+Ethan was licked, but he didn't give in. He replied, "Surrender h--ll;
+I've just commenced to fight." If Ethan had accused himself and said, "I
+can't whip that big bunch, there's no hope," he would have been whipped
+to a finish.
+
+Don't show the enemy, or the world, your weakness. Don't admit anything
+impossible that is capable of accomplishment.
+
+It's the "I can" man who wins. No man ever won a fight if he started out
+by saying, "I can't whip him, he is too much for me, I am no match for
+him, but I'll try."
+
+No person ever made success in business if he started in with
+uncertainty, lack of confidence and unbelief in his ability.
+
+Knock yourself and the world will accept you at your own estimate. Show
+streaks of yellow cowardice and the mob will pounce on you like a pack
+of hungry wolves.
+
+Accuse yourself, curse your luck, belittle your worth, be afraid, and
+you will remain a mere bump on a log, unnoticed, uninteresting,
+uninvited.
+
+The world welcomes men who do things. The world judges by outward
+appearances. If your heart is sick, if your courage is low, don't show
+it. Put up a stiff attitude and act with confidence and that attitude
+will carry you over many a pitfall and past many an obstacle.
+
+Show strength and the world will help you; show weakness and the world
+will shun you.
+
+You are prejudiced when it comes to judging yourself. You compare your
+weakness with your friends' strength and this comparison is unfair; it
+makes you lose confidence.
+
+Nothing hurts one worse than doubting one's own ability, assets, and
+character.
+
+When you find yourself experiencing doubt, or inability, or hard luck,
+turn square around and say "Begone, doubt; henceforth I have belief."
+
+Suggest and say "I have ability; I have pluck and pluck means luck."
+
+Always express confidence, faith, courage, and cheer thoughts, whether
+you feel them or not. Do this heroically and persistently and soon the
+fear shadows and weakness feelings will leave you and you will be in
+reality strong, courageous, active, and you will do things you never
+thought possible.
+
+"As a man thinketh, so is he;" always remember that.
+
+Get hold of your thoughts; make yourself think up, and have faith and
+courage. Hold to your resolve and the whole world will change. You will
+prosper, you will have poise, and every once in a while happiness will
+come as a reward.
+
+No man will be surprised at your complete change of attitude and
+character more than yourself.
+
+Your problems can only be solved by yourself. Friends can advise, I can
+suggest, but YOU must act.
+
+Henceforth never accuse yourself, never feel sorry for your condition or
+position, cut out fear thoughts,--be strong.
+
+Think faith, courage, cheer, confidence, and strength, and by-and-by the
+habit will be fixed, and natural.
+
+This is as certain truth as I have ever experienced. I know it. I've
+tried it. I've watched others and the results are always good.
+
+Don't be passive and forget this chapter. Start right this minute to
+THINK RIGHT.
+
+And you will never regret and never forget this chapter of
+Self-accusation.
+
+
+
+
+WOMAN'S BEAUTY
+
+Every Woman Will Be Interested in These Pointers
+
+
+Sisters, it's your duty to keep your good looks as long as possible, and
+to do it you must spend time each and every day on the care of your face
+and hair.
+
+First of all, you must keep your skin clean, and that's a particular
+job.
+
+You have nearly thirty miles of pores in your body. These pores are
+sewers; they discharge in a healthy person nearly two pounds of waste
+material every day.
+
+If these pores are stopped up or clogged, the waste material is secreted
+in the skin.
+
+The stopped pores secrete the greasy waste matter. This greasy substance
+attracts dirt, dust and germs, and soon blackheads, pimples or blotched
+skin will result.
+
+Washing the skin with strong soap is not good.
+
+To keep the skin clear and healthy you should massage it with cold cream
+and rub gently but thoroughly. This rubbing or massage quickens
+circulation, strengthens the little capillary veins and brings that
+beautiful pink glow that is so attractive.
+
+The cold cream softens the dry waste secretion and makes it easier to
+come out.
+
+After the cold cream application, rub all the grease off with a rough
+towel.
+
+Don't forget the daily massage; it will work wonders in your appearance.
+It will help give you that fresh, healthy appearance nature intends the
+fair sex to have.
+
+Don't be afraid of the sun. Tan is health to the skin and tan with pink
+shades beneath it is a pretty combination.
+
+In washing the hair do not use any compound that has ammonia in it.
+Ammonia will bring on the gray hairs.
+
+Occasionally you must wash the hair with soap, but let the soap be mild.
+
+Raw eggs make an excellent shampoo or hair cleaner. The egg does not
+take out the natural oil necessary to good hair health.
+
+Glycerine and water and lanoline makes a good wash; after using rinse
+the hair with hot soft water to get out all the glycerine and lanoline.
+
+Rub the roots of the hair frequently with the ends of your fingers, move
+the scalp in circular motion; this is to stimulate the scalp nerves and
+blood vessels and the glands and roots of the hair. Scalp massage is
+wonderfully beneficial.
+
+The foregoing are the mechanical things to do for the skin and hair.
+They help, but the real benefit to your looks comes from the bodily
+health and natural working of the organs, particularly the stomach,
+lungs, heart and kidneys and bowels.
+
+The most important organs to watch are the kidneys and stomach; their
+ailments quickly show effects on the face.
+
+Drink plenty of water, cool, not cold; get plenty of air and sunshine.
+Eat plenty of fruit, especially apples, skins too.
+
+Take exercise in the open air every day. Walking is the best exercise.
+
+Air, water, sunshine and exercise will do more for your looks than a
+barrel of beauty preparations.
+
+The only way to get health out of a bottle is to keep out of the bottle.
+
+You can't buy beauty at the druggists.
+
+We love our friends for their character, not their skin beauty. Have
+good wholesome health and wholesome character and you will look mighty
+good to the world.
+
+
+
+
+DREAMS
+
+Hitch Your Wagon to a Star, and Stay Hitched
+
+
+The great colleges are just now turning out their thousands of graduates
+and the great newspapers have much sport ridiculing them with funny
+pictures.
+
+Every great man was once a boy with a dream, and that dream came true
+because the boy had pep that made him stick to his ambition and kept him
+from being discouraged because of ridicule or obstacles.
+
+Thomas Carlyle, the poor Scotch tutor, dreamed he wanted to be a great
+author. His clothes were threadbare, his poverty apparent; friends
+taunted and ridiculed him until, goaded to indignation, he cried, "I
+have better books in me than you have ever read." The crowd laughed and
+said, "poor fellow, he's daffy in the head."
+
+Carlyle stuck to his dream and the world has the "History of Frederick
+the Great" and the "French Revolution" and "Sartor Resartus." When he
+had finished the manuscript of the "French Revolution" a careless maid
+built a fire with it. He wasn't discouraged, but went to work and wrote
+it over again and very likely better than he wrote it the first time.
+
+Bonaparte in the garden of his military school dreamed of being a great
+general. He stuck to his dream and he realized his hopes.
+
+Joseph Pulitzer, a poor emigrant, crawled in a cellar way to sleep in
+New York, and he dreamed of owning a great newspaper. His dream came
+true and the newspaper is printed in a building erected on the spot
+where he dreamed in the cellar way.
+
+Livingston dreamed of exploring darkest Africa; his dream came true.
+
+Edison dreamed of great electrical discoveries. His monument is Menlo
+Park with its great laboratories.
+
+Ford dreamed of making an automobile for the purse-limited masses--he
+was jeered; today the world cheers him.
+
+My friend Bert Perrine was chucked off a stage in the middle of Idaho's
+great sage brush desert. He said to the driver, "Some day I'll own that
+stage and I'll use it for a chicken house."
+
+He dreamed and schemed and today the desert is the famous Twin Falls
+country, blossoming like a rose, and on his beautiful ranch at Blue
+Lakes that old stage is used for a chicken house.
+
+Rockefeller dreamed, Lincoln dreamed, so did Garfield, Wilson, Grant,
+Clay, Webster, Marshall Field, Richard W. Sears and all the other men
+who have done things worth while in the world.
+
+The great West is the result of dreams come true.
+
+Dream on, my boy; hitch your wagon to a star and stay hitched. That
+dream and that determination are the things that are to carry you over
+obstacles, past thorny ways, and through criticism, jeers and ridicule.
+
+Your time will come. Dream and scheme, and make your ideals materialize
+into living, pulsating realities.
+
+
+
+
+REAL CHARITY
+
+Let Me Help Where I Am Rather Than Help in Siam
+
+
+There are many persons who act and advocate ideals merely for
+effect--they are hypocrites.
+
+Here's a little true heart story that probably passed unnoticed
+excepting to a very few persons.
+
+Little Spencer Nelson, a poor boy, eight years old, recently died in a
+hospital with a little bank clasped to his breast. The bank had $3.41 in
+pennies the boy had saved to buy presents for poor children.
+
+The little hero had fought manfully through three months' suffering,
+enduring the torture of five lacerating operations. The pain failed to
+dim his spirit of unselfishness that burned brightly and clearly in his
+tired, fever-racked body.
+
+After each operation his mind became more securely fixed on his project
+to help bring cheer to poor children.
+
+A little savings bank was his companion and each visitor was asked to
+contribute to his fund.
+
+Three hours before he died a smile beautified his thin wasted face as
+the nurse dropped a dime in his bank. His last words were to his mother
+and the message was in a scarcely audible whisper, asking her to
+remember to use the money to make poor children happy.
+
+That was real charity; that boy had no hypocrisy in his heart.
+
+The daily paper chronicles sensational charity, where men vie with each
+other to see who can give most and get the most advertising. They
+overlook the wonderful love and charity they are capable of, if they
+would look into out-of-the-way places and get direct connection with
+pain and suffering.
+
+Little Spencer looked from his cot and saw the suffering of other little
+children and he wanted to help them, and the very resolve and impulse
+made him forget his own pains and misery.
+
+In the Book of Good Deeds the name of Spencer Nelson will be recorded as
+a sweeter act of charity than any million-dollar gift to a great
+institution.
+
+What one of you who read these lines can read the story of that little
+hero and not be touched by the generous love and beautiful conception of
+charity he possessed.
+
+He did not need sensational stories in newspapers or solicitors of
+charitable organizations to stir him to action.
+
+He found opportunity at his door, close at home, near by, where all of
+us can find it if we only look.
+
+I don't believe much in this far-away charity idea so many have.
+
+I believe in helping those near where I am rather than sending money to
+Siam.
+
+It may be a pleasurable sensation for you to contribute fifty dollars to
+a missionary scheme in Siam, and get the Missionary report of the budget
+made up from the foreign missionary fund.
+
+I know that a bucket of coal in an empty stove, a basket of bread and
+liberal hunk of round steak to the starving family around the corner
+brings the donor a better sensation.
+
+Take a trip to the hospitals, learn about the homes of the suffering
+patients in the charity ward, and you will resolve it's a better act to
+send flour to the poor than flowers to the rich.
+
+Little Spencer Nelson had the right idea of charity: definite, immediate
+help to those he could reach right where he was, rather than sending
+money to sufferers far, far away.
+
+Let your gifts be principally flour and beef; they help those who need
+help. Flowers are all right in their place, but there are more places
+where flour can be used to better purpose.
+
+I'm keener for filling the coffee can of my suffering neighbor than
+filling the coffers of the big charity five thousand miles away.
+
+I try to help both ways, but the home help pays the bigger dividends.
+What do you think about it?
+
+
+
+
+FRIENDS
+
+A Most Abused, Too Often Used Word
+
+
+You have found a friend who has been so much help and comfort to you. I
+have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and
+write him a letter like this:
+
+This is to You. It is for You. It is about You. You I have in mind and
+the good influence you have had on me. It is a happiness and
+satisfaction to know you, and to bask in the atmosphere of you.
+
+The world is better because of you. You have helped to raise the
+average.
+
+You and your goodness, you do not appreciate what that means. You are so
+modest, so loath to think of yourself, so unselfish in this respect that
+I must tell you of you and about you.
+
+You have a warm heart that throbs for others' woes and holds sympathy.
+The great world is cold, selfish, and cares little for others. But you
+are different; you are a great pillow of rest on which I and others who
+love you may lay our tired, weary heads, and you wrap your arms of
+friendship and goodness about us and feel our very heartbeats.
+
+You with your great goodness, your quiet, sympathetic understanding, you
+soothe our troubled spirits and make us glad of you and glad we have the
+precious privilege of knowing you.
+
+Even now as I am telling you how I love you, you are trying to wave me
+aside and stop me, but I am in the mood and I want to express myself.
+You know that there is a great sin of omission, which is the refraining
+of expressing gratitude for goodness extended to us.
+
+I want to express my gratitude. I do not want to be guilty of the sin of
+omission.
+
+So here then for you is this little message, to tell you I appreciate
+you, I love you, and these words will last after you are gone and after
+I am gone, to tell those of tomorrow about you and what those of today
+thought about you.
+
+You life, your goodness, is an everlasting plant that will flourish in
+many hearts. Your influence will last beyond the calendar of time; it is
+indestructible. You have a great credit in the universal bank of good
+deeds, where you have deposited worth-while acts, deeds, kindnesses,
+cheer, help, friendship, sympathy, courage, gratitude, and all the
+precious jewels worth while.
+
+I am happy the very moment I think of you. I try to express myself but
+feelings and emotions I would describe have not words or sentences to
+express them. You understand, you are so big in heart, so sensitive in
+fabric of feeling, so wise in understanding, that I want you to think
+and feel all the genuine, noble, lovable, appreciative thoughts you can
+gather together about the one you most appreciate.
+
+Think hard, sincerely, deeply, about that one, with all your resources
+of beautiful thought. Think hard that way and now you will begin to
+understand what I feel about you, and how I appreciate you.
+
+You, my inspiration, you who are so sensitized to feeling, so delicately
+adjusted to read heart vibrations, you must feel this within me I am
+trying to convey to you. Not the love between sweethearts, not the love
+of kin, not the love of friends, but a great universal love I have for
+you--a love all who know you have for you.
+
+It is a love you cannot return to me in equal measure, because you have
+not the object in me that can merit such love. That you should love me
+in the way I love you, even in the most diminished proportions, is
+satisfaction supreme.
+
+It is glorious to know you. You water the good impulses I have, you
+encourage all that is noble, elevating, and bettering, in me. I shall
+try to be like you, that is, so far as I can. You are my model, there is
+but one you. Many may copy you, none equal you. You my comfort, you my
+joy. A great glorious you, that a little I am trying to paint a picture
+of.
+
+How futile my efforts. I might as well try to improve the deep beautiful
+colors of the morning glory, or try to retint the lily with more
+beautiful white.
+
+And so I bid you good-bye, happy that there is such a you in the world,
+more happy that I know you, and most happy that I know how to appreciate
+you.
+
+The sum of all good things I can say, is I love you, and the word "love"
+I use in its greatest, broadest sense, which covers all the good
+adjectives.
+
+This is what I think of YOU.
+
+
+
+
+MAN'S DANGER PERIOD
+
+In the Midday of Your Life, Look Out
+
+
+There is a time in the business man's life between the age of 48 and 52
+when the man undergoes a pronounced change in his life.
+
+More big men are cut off at 50 than at any other age between 45 and 60.
+
+At 48 to 52 most men change vitally in their physical and mental
+make-up.
+
+Many men, hitherto straight, moral men, go to the bad at this time, and
+per contra many men quit their immoral and health hurting habits and
+change to moral men.
+
+This danger period is when the newly-rich find fault with their wives
+who have helped them to their success. They grow tired of their wives
+and seek the companionship of young women.
+
+The divorce courts give most interesting figures on this point.
+
+At this danger period men who have been high livers, voracious eaters
+and heavy drinkers find themselves victims of diabetes, Bright's
+disease or other forms of kidney troubles.
+
+Most every man between 48 and 52 who works indoors, eats too much,
+exercises too little, sleeps insufficiently.
+
+Here are a few things for the 50-year-old man to do:
+
+Drink two glasses of warm, not hot, water immediately on arising.
+
+Eat an apple before breakfast; positively you must eat the skins too.
+The skins have the phosphorus, phosphates, and brain food. The skins
+make roughage and keep the alimentary tract active.
+
+Eat for breakfast a little bacon, cooked rare; crisp bacon has all the
+good fried out, and you simply have ashes left.
+
+One cup of coffee, an egg or two, some cereal and toast, no red meat, no
+potatoes.
+
+Walk to your office if it is less than three miles; if over three miles
+ride the extra distance, but walk three miles anyway.
+
+Walk alone. This is most important; it relaxes your brain. Walking with
+company makes it a physical exertion and a mental pull as well, for a
+man will talk when he has company.
+
+Eat a light lunch; be sure to eat an apple; with it drink two or three
+glasses of water, cool but not cold.
+
+Let your hearty meal be supper, eat slowly and don't talk business.
+After supper play with the kids or joke with your wife; get a smile on
+your face.
+
+Just before you retire read a chapter from a worth-while book. The last
+thoughts which you take in at night are the ones which stick.
+
+Leave your business in your business clothes, and get in a good night's
+sleep.
+
+Keep a sharp look-out for tendencies to change your habits and morals.
+
+At 50 you are walking on thin ice; look out, danger is near.
+
+After you are 55 your habits are pretty well established. If you have
+lived rightly till then you're safe thereafter and likely on your way to
+a good ripe old age if you take reasonable care of yourself.
+
+
+
+
+OUR SONS
+
+They Pattern After Us; Be Worth Copying
+
+
+We love our own the best; maybe that's why we indulge our own too much.
+Our duty to our boys: that's a subject old as the hills and it is as
+important as it is old.
+
+Today I had the boy problem forcibly presented to me. Today in court
+twenty-four boys were brought before the Judge charged with petty
+crimes. Three were sent to the penitentiary, seven to reform school and
+fourteen let go temporarily on good behavior.
+
+A friend of mine interested in criminology tells me the great bulk of
+hold-ups, thefts, burglaries and murders are committed by boys between
+16 and 22 years of age.
+
+These twenty-four boys I mention were just ordinary boys, capable of
+making good citizens if they had had the right kind of home treatment
+and surroundings. Most of them got in trouble through their association
+with "gangs" or "the bunch," or the "crowd," and this because daddy
+didn't have his hand on the rein.
+
+That boy must have companionship; he must have a confidante to whom he
+can share his joys, his sorrows, his hopes, his ambitions. If he doesn't
+get this comeraderie at home he gets it "round the corner."
+
+We know where the boy is when he is at school, but how few know the
+boy's doings between times.
+
+Pool halls tempt the boys, and these places are breeding places where
+filthy stories, criminal slang and evil practices are hatched.
+
+Pool halls and saloons invite and fascinate the boy. He sees the lights.
+There is a keen pleasure in watching the pink-shirted dude with
+cigarette in his mouth making fancy shots.
+
+There is no one to nag him or bother him; it gets to be his "hang-out,"
+and soon he drifts into a crowd that knows the trail to the red light
+district.
+
+Painted fairies dazzle the giddy boy. It takes money to go the pace.
+Crime is gilded over with slang words. Stealing is called "easy money."
+Robbery is "turning a trick," and so on.
+
+A boy becomes what he lives on mentally and physically; that's the net
+of it.
+
+If Dad is his chum, if sister shares with him his amusements, if the
+family work and live on the "all for one and one for all" plan, if the
+boy is kept busy and interested, he can be easily trained.
+
+Neglect him and he will neglect you. Love him and he will love you. Meet
+him half way; he's impressionable.
+
+Show him kindness, he will respond. Show him example, he will follow.
+
+You have to be with him or know where he is every minute.
+
+During his period of adolescence, say from twelve or thirteen to sixteen
+or seventeen, that boy is a mass of plaster of paris, easily shaped
+while plastic, but once set, impossible to recast.
+
+That's the time, Dad, you must be on YOUR job with your boy.
+
+Your counsel, example, love, interest and teaching will MAKE the boy.
+
+Think of these things, Dad, and think hard, and think hard NOW. Tomorrow
+may be too late.
+
+
+
+
+RELIGIOUS EXTREMES
+
+Form, Frills, Ceremony vs. Excitement, Ecstacy, Enthusiasm
+
+
+Many churches today are running to extremes one way or the other.
+
+On the one hand they are conducted along the lines of form, ceremony and
+ritualism, while the other extreme is excitement, ecstacy and
+enthusiasm.
+
+The church of form, rituals and ceremonies attracts the passive who are
+willing to let the priest or pastor or prelate take charge of the
+religious work while they, the attendants or worshippers, sit quietly by
+and say amen and join in the responses.
+
+Paul said, "Away with those forms." Christ in ministering to humanity
+gave no forms or made no set sentences for his followers. The Lord's
+Prayer was given with the admonition, "After this manner pray ye," and
+certainly not with the command, pray ye with these words.
+
+Form, ceremony and rituals are much like most associated charities, a
+sort of convention. Forms can not express the deep emotions, the
+natural longings, or the human desires; they are echoes, hollow and
+unsatisfying.
+
+For those who do not feel, for those who do not act, for those who
+belong to churches because of convention, or for social reasons, form
+and frills fill the bill.
+
+Form is an exterior religion, an outward show. Form doesn't touch the
+heart or awaken the soul. Form in religion is like a formal dinner. It
+is show rather than a plan to satisfy human heart hunger.
+
+Opposite to formal religion is the frenzied "scare-you-to-death"
+excitement method, which relies upon mental intoxication to stir the
+people, and like other forms of intoxication, the effect soon wears off.
+
+I have little patience or sympathy for the business men who hire
+professional evangelists to come to town to start revivals. The
+sensational revivalists have too acute appreciation of the dollar to
+convince me of their sincerity in their work.
+
+A laborer is worthy of his hire, and a preacher, teacher or benefactor
+of any sort should be well paid. But when I see these big guns taking
+away ten to twenty thousand dollars in cold cash for three weeks'
+campaign converting the poor suffering people, the thought comes to me,
+that if the evangelist is sincere he should buy a lot of bread, coal and
+underwear and hire a lot of trained nurses with a big part of that
+money.
+
+Christ and his Apostles were of the people; they worked with, and among
+the people; they had no committees, no guarantees and no business men's
+subscription lists.
+
+It's mighty hard to read about these sensational evangelists taking in
+thousands of dollars for a couple of weeks' revival meetings, and
+harmonize that religion with the religion of Christ, the carpenter, and
+his Apostles, who were fishermen and workmen.
+
+The excitement, intoxicating, frenzy revival method is pretty much
+always the same in its working. The evangelist starts in with the song
+"Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight," then follows the picture of mother,
+which is painted with sobs of blood. Then follows mother's death-bed
+scene until the audience is in tears. Gesticulation, mimicry, acting,
+sensationalism, slang and weepy stories follow, until the ferment of
+excitement is developed into a high state and droves flock to the altar
+to be made over on the instant into sanctified beings.
+
+The evangelist stays until his engagement is up, and then departs with a
+pocket full of nice fat bank drafts.
+
+It is a sad commentary on the established profession of ministry that
+sensational professionals are called in and paid fabulous prices to
+convert the people in their community.
+
+I do not take much stock in either the frigid form with its frills or
+the frenzied fire and brimstone, scare-you-to-it extremes.
+
+Somewhere between these extremes is the rational natural sane road to
+travel; the religion of brotherly love; of cheers, not tears; of hope,
+not fear; of courage, not weakness; of joy, not sorrow; of help, not
+hindrance.
+
+The religion that makes us love one another here, not the kind that says
+we shall know each other there. The religion that has to do with human
+passions, human trials, human needs, instead of the frigid form or the
+fevered frenzy; the religion that avoids the extremes of heat and cold,
+that's the kind the world needs most.
+
+Christ taught love, kindness, charity, and not beautiful churches, opera
+singing choirs. He spoke not of robes, vestments, forms or rituals.
+
+One of the most beautiful things in the Bible is the story of the good
+Samaritan with his simple, unostentatious aid to a wounded man, an enemy
+of his people whom the Samaritan knew was none the less a brother. And
+you will remember the priest of the temple, the man who taught charity,
+and love, drew up his skirts and passed the wounded man by.
+
+
+
+
+LAZINESS
+
+We Are Becoming a Nation of Sitters
+
+
+Danger is in extremes. Too much of anything is bad for the human being's
+health.
+
+There is a comfortable proportion of exercise and rest mixed together
+that will give bodily efficiency. Too much exercise is bad, too little
+is bad.
+
+Until recent years our vocations and the going to or from our places of
+business gave us a well balanced amount of exercise, rest, work and
+pleasure, and all went well.
+
+Lately we hear much about worry, neurasthenia, nervous prostration and
+the like. There are several contributing causes to the mental and
+physical ills which are caused by "nerves."
+
+First of all, we have an epidemic of labor-saving devices. The principal
+arguments used by the manufacturer of a labor-saving device is, "It
+makes money and saves work." Making money and getting soft snaps seem to
+be the objectives of most human beings.
+
+The labor-saving devices take away exercise. The machine does the work.
+The artisan simply feeds the hopper, puts in a new roll, or drops in the
+material. He sits down and watches the wheels go around, likely smoking
+a cigarette the meanwhile, and more than likely reading the sporting
+sheet of a yellow newspaper.
+
+Possibly few of my readers have given the matter serious thought, and
+they will be astounded at the changed work conditions which have come
+into our modern life.
+
+It will be interesting to note just here some of these changes. Men used
+to live within walking distance of their work. Now the electric street
+railway and the speedy automobile have eliminated the necessity for much
+walking.
+
+Men used to climb stairs. The elevator has now so accustomed us to the
+conveniences that stairs are taboo.
+
+Machines have replaced muscles. The old printer walked from case to case
+and got exercise. Today he sits in an easy backed chair and uses a
+linotype.
+
+Telephoning is quicker than traveling. No one "runs for a doctor."
+
+Our houses have electric washers, electric irons and many other
+labor-saving devices.
+
+Even the farmer has his telephone, his auto, his riding plow, his
+milking machine and his cream separator.
+
+In the stores the cash boy has disappeared, the cash carrier takes the
+money to a girl who sits, a machine makes the change, another machine
+does her mathematics.
+
+The modern idea of efficiency puts a premium on the sedentary feature of
+occupations and employees are frequently automatons that sit.
+
+The business man sits at his desk, sits in a comfortable automobile as
+he goes home, sits at the dinner table and sits all evening at the
+theater, or at the card table. It is sit, sit, sit until he gets a big
+abdomen, a puffy skin and a bad liver.
+
+He tries to counteract this with forced exercise in a gymnasium or a
+couple of hours golfing a week. Very likely his golfing is more
+interesting because of the side bets, than because of the exercise.
+
+We are losing out on the natural, pleasurable, and practical exercises,
+mixed in the right proportions to promote physical poise and health.
+Things are too easy, luxury and comfort too teasing, for the ordinary
+mortal to resist, and the great mob sits or rides hundreds of times when
+they should stand or walk.
+
+When my objective point is five or six blocks I walk and I think on the
+way. I probably get in two to four miles of walking every day, which my
+friends would save by riding in the street cars or autos.
+
+I walk to my office every morning, a distance of nearly four miles.
+
+I walk alone, so I may relax and not require conscious effort as is the
+case when one walks with another.
+
+That morning walk prevents me reading slush and worthless news and
+relieves me of the necessity of talking and using up nerve energy.
+
+I get the worth-while news from my paper by the headlines and by the
+trained ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
+
+I just feel fine all the time and it's because I get to bed early, sleep
+plenty, exercise naturally, think properly and get the four great
+body-builders in plenty: air, water, sunshine, food; and the other four
+great health-makers which are: good thought, good exercise, good rest,
+and good cheer.
+
+The great crowd aims at ease and so the business man sits and loses out
+on the exercise his body and mind must have, and therefore the great
+crowd pays tribute to doctors, sanitariums, rest cures, fake tonics,
+worthless medicines, freakish diet fads, and crazy cults, isms, and
+discoveries, that claim to bring health by the easy, lazy, sitting,
+comfortable route.
+
+Believe me, dear reader, it is not in the cards to play the game of
+health that way. There "aint no sich animal" said the ruben as he saw
+the giraffe in the circus, and likewise there "aint no sich thing" as
+health and happiness for the man who persistently antagonizes nature,
+and hunts ease where exercise is demanded.
+
+The law of compensation is inexorable in its demand that you have to pay
+for what you get, and that you can't get worth-while things by worthless
+plans.
+
+You must exercise enough to balance things, to clear the system, to
+preserve your strength; it doesn't take much time.
+
+
+
+
+IN THE BIG WOODS
+
+A Grand, Glorious, Restful Recreation
+
+
+This afternoon I am sitting on a glacial rock in the forest at the foot
+of Mount Shasta. A beautiful spot to rest and a glorious book of nature
+to read.
+
+A canopy of deepest blue sky above, with sunshine unstopped by clouds.
+The rays of old Sol pulsate themselves into an endless variety of
+flowers, plants and vegetable life which Mother Earth has given birth to
+in evidence of her gladness and love of the beautiful.
+
+Glorious trees of magnificent size reach up into the blue and give us
+shade. Ozone sweeps gently through the forest impregnated with the
+perfume of fir, balsam, cedar, pine and flowers.
+
+In this spot, nature has thrown up mountains of volcanic rock, which
+hold the winter's snow in everlasting supply to quench the thirst of
+plant, of animal and millions of humans in the lower country.
+
+The whole hillside around me is a community of springs of crystal water
+laden with iron, and precious salts. It is the breast of Mother Earth
+which nurses her offspring.
+
+Here are no noises of the street; the newsboy's cry of "extra" is not
+heard. The peddler, the din of trucks, the honk of automobiles, the
+clatter of the city--all these are absent.
+
+There is no noise here; just the sweet music of falling water, and the
+aeolian lullaby made by the breeze playing on the pine needles.
+
+My eyes take in a panorama of beautiful nature in colors and contrasts
+that would give stage fright to any artist who tried to paint the scenes
+on canvas.
+
+I am getting pep, this is my treatment for tired nerves; 'tis the
+"medcin' of the hills," 'tis nature's cure, and how it brings the pill
+box or the bottle of tonic into contempt!
+
+I'm letting down the high tension voltage and getting the calm, natural
+pulsation that nature intended the human machine to have.
+
+So quiet, so peaceful, so natural that I drink in inspiration of a
+worth-while kind. No war news to read, no records of tragedy, of man's
+passions, of man's meanness and man's selfishness.
+
+A little chipmunk sits upright on a rock before me wondering at the
+movements of my yellow pencil and the black mark it makes on the paper.
+
+A delicate lace-winged insect lights on my tablet and a saucy "camp
+robber" or mutton bird wonders at the unusual sight of me, the big man
+animal brother. A big beetle is getting his provisions for the winter. I
+recognize his occupation, for I've read about him in Fabre's wonderful
+books on insect life.
+
+Here in the sanctum sanctorium of the forest I am made a member of
+Nature's lodge, and the ants, and bugs, and beetles, and flowers and
+plants and trees are initiating me and telling me the secrets of the
+order.
+
+I can only tell you who are in the great busy world outside, the lessons
+and morals. The real secrets I must not tell; you will receive them when
+you, too, come to the hills and forests, and sit down on a rock alone
+and go through the initiation.
+
+You are invited to come in; your application is approved, and you are
+eligible to membership.
+
+Come to Nature's lodge meeting and clear away the cobwebs from your
+weary brain; get inspiration and be a man again.
+
+Come and soothe and rest and built up those shredded, weakened, tired,
+weary nerves. Let the sun put its coat of health and the ozone put the
+red blood of strength in your veins.
+
+Come and get perfect brain and body-resting sleep. Come to this
+wonderful, happy, helpful lodge and get a store of energy, and an
+abundance of vital ammunition with which to make the fight, when you go
+back to your factory or office.
+
+The doctor can lance the carbuncle, but Nature's outdoor medicine will
+prevent your having a carbuncle.
+
+The doctor can stop a pain with a poison drug, but Nature's outdoor
+medicine will prevent you having the disorder which makes the pain.
+
+No, brother, you can't get health out of a bottle or a pill box. You can
+get it from the Mother Nature's laboratory where she compounds air,
+water, sunshine, beauty, music, thought; where she gives you exercise
+and rest, health, happiness, all summed up into cashable assets for the
+human in the shape of poise, efficiency, peace and that spells PEP.
+
+
+
+
+MOTHER
+
+The Most Unselfish Person in the World
+
+
+Mother, you are the one person in all the world whose kindness was never
+the preface to a request.
+
+That's the sweetest tribute we can pay you, and the most truthful one.
+
+It covers devotion, love, sentiment, motherhood, and all the noble
+attributes that go to make the word, Mother, the most hallowed, most
+sacred, most beautiful word in the English language.
+
+There are not words or sentences that can express to you what we think
+of you or convey our appreciation of you.
+
+You want our love; you have it. You should be told of our love; we tell
+you. Appreciation and gratitude are payments on account, but with all
+our appreciation and with our whole life's gratitude, the debt we are
+under can never be paid.
+
+    "We have careful words for the stranger,
+      And smiles for the some time guest--
+    But oft to our own the bitter tone,
+      Though we love our own the best."
+
+We've hurt you, Mother, many times, by our thoughtlessness and by our
+resentment of your plans and your views about the things we did, and you
+have had heartaches because of such actions of ours.
+
+Forgive us, Mother, we're sorry; and there you are, dear; the moment we
+ask your forgiveness, your great, tender, loving heart has forgiven us
+and erased the marks of transgression.
+
+Always thinking of us, always excusing us, always doing for us, always
+watching us and always loving us in the most unselfish way.
+
+We love you, Mother; we appreciate you. We are going to show our
+appreciation and love so much more from now on. We have just come to our
+senses and realized what a wonderful, necessary, helpful being you are.
+
+Your sweetness, your gentleness, your goodness, your love, are parts of
+you.
+
+They all go to make up that word, Mother.
+
+Your life, your acts, your example, your Motherhood, have all helped the
+world so much more than you will ever know.
+
+In the everlasting record of good deeds your name is in gold.
+
+In the everlasting memory of those who appreciate you, your face, your
+life, is the sacred, helpful picture that grows more beautiful as the
+days pass.
+
+In tenderness, in appreciation, in love, let us dedicate these thoughts,
+and voice these expressions to Mother, who gives her life, by inches,
+and who would give it all on the instant for her children, if necessity
+called for the sacrifice.
+
+How feeble are words when we try to describe Mother!
+
+
+
+
+OUR BODIES
+
+They Are Made Up of Mineral Substances
+
+
+We speak of the three kingdoms: the animal, the vegetable and the
+mineral kingdoms, and every substance is classified into one of these.
+
+The exact truth is there is but one kingdom, which is the mineral. The
+vegetable substances and animal combinations are made of mineral
+elements.
+
+In a rough way we distinguish the mineral kingdom as those substances
+called elements, such as iron, sulphur, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, sodium
+and the like.
+
+These elements are unchangeable in themselves; they do not grow. The
+animal is made of mineral elements associated in certain proportions,
+such as albumin, carbon, lime, water, salt and the like. The vegetable
+kingdom consists of these various chemical combinations also.
+
+Seed when planted extracts from the air and the earth the minerals and
+combines them into a plant which grows and has for its object the
+making of seeds to reproduce and perpetuate itself.
+
+The plant has life but it has no spiritual or mental equipment and
+therein vegetable life differs from the animal life. The animal eats
+vegetable and animal flesh. Through the vegetable he gets the mineral
+necessary for his body building. Through the animal food he gets the
+mineral from the flesh he eats, which flesh was first of all built up
+through the vegetables the animal ate.
+
+These are definite facts; there is no theory about them.
+
+The human body analyzed and separated into something like a dozen
+substances, among which are water, which is three-fourths of the body's
+structure; carbon, lime, phosphorus, iron, potassium, salt and so on.
+
+By reading a book on anatomy you can learn just exactly the proportions
+of the substances in the human body.
+
+All these chemicals are formed in the shape of little cells, myriads of
+which are in the body. These cells are constantly being destroyed and
+new ones made to take their place.
+
+Parts of the body are replaced every twenty-four hours, other parts less
+often.
+
+Scientists tell us that the whole body is replaced every seven years.
+Every move you make destroys cells which nature has to replace. Isn't it
+reasonable then to conclude that if a man should fail to eat enough lime
+for his body-building, his bones would suffer. If he does not get enough
+iron his blood will suffer, and so on.
+
+I am definitely convinced that most of the actual physical ailments are
+caused by a deficiency of the mineral elements in the body.
+
+Phosphorus and potash are necessary to the human welfare. These elements
+are in the husk of the wheat and the husk is taken off in making flour,
+and the flour is mostly starch.
+
+The person who lives mostly on white bread will suffer from lack of
+phosphorus and potash.
+
+Phosphorus also is found in the skin of an apple, so if you peel an
+apple you do not get the phosphorus.
+
+
+
+
+FOOD
+
+The Food We Eat Is Fuel for the Human Engine
+
+
+The practice of medicine in the past has been directed towards the
+curing of developed disease and physical ailments. The practice of
+medicine in the future is to be along the line of preventive practice.
+Science is showing us how to prevent infection. Science is fighting the
+deadly microbe which comes to us in the air we breathe, the water we
+drink, and the food we eat and the infected things we touch.
+
+Nature has supplied the human body with a home guard of necessary
+bacteria and in the circulation system are phagocytes which fight the
+invading microbes and generally destroy them.
+
+When the system is weakened through disease, through lack of exercise or
+through improper food, disease has an easy time.
+
+The important thing to prevent disease is to keep yourself fit, and the
+golden prescription which I have given in PEP will serve to keep you in
+perfect health.
+
+I want you to remember this golden prescription; it is composed of the
+following: Good Air, Good Water, Good Sunshine, Good Food, Good
+Exercise, Good Cheer, Good Rest and Good Thought. If you take this
+golden prescription you will make of yourself a giant in brain and brawn
+strength.
+
+You can't get health out of a bottle. You can't get the system to absorb
+iron if you take it in the form of tincture of iron. You can eat a pound
+of rust, which is oxide of iron, and none of that iron will be absorbed
+in the system.
+
+As I have explained in another chapter you must take the mineral in the
+system through the vegetable route. You will get iron, that will be
+assimilated, when you eat beefsteak. Beefsteak has blood, the blood has
+iron. You will also get iron when you eat spinach.
+
+Every element necessary for your body is found in some vegetable or
+animal food; therefore, you should refrain from confining yourself to a
+very few articles of food.
+
+Don't pay any attention to the faddist who gives you a rigorous diet or
+unpalatable food. You simply make yourself miserable and you generate
+more worry and unhappiness by your discipline than the good you get from
+these freak fads.
+
+We all eat too much, especially too much meat.
+
+That a strict vegetarian diet is the necessary thing for good health I
+deny. The sheep, the cow, and horse are vegetarians and they are short
+lived. The eagle, the lion and man, eat animal food and they are long
+lived.
+
+I may be prejudiced, but it does seem to me that the strict vegetarians
+are skinny, sallow looking lot of humans, speaking generally. I do find
+that the healthier specimens of vegetarians are those who eat plenty of
+eggs and drink plenty of milk, both of which are animal food, and both
+of which have nearly all the elements necessary to sustain life.
+
+I don't like the fads in the matter of eating. The amount a person
+should eat is in exact accord with the law of compensation.
+
+The human body is a machine from a food standpoint. It is an engine that
+has work to do and accordingly the amount of fuel necessary for the
+engine should be in proportion to the amount of work that engine is
+called on to perform.
+
+The hotels, restaurants and food purveyors invent palate tickling food
+to tease the human to eat, and hotels and restaurants are mostly
+patronized by people who do not have much physical work to do; the
+consequence is they eat too much.
+
+You do not often find dyspepsia or indigestion among men or women who
+work hard physically.
+
+You who work indoors with little physical exercise will find wonderful
+benefits if you will cut down the fuel.
+
+You will get sick if you pile in more fuel than is necessary for the
+engine.
+
+If your engine needs twenty pounds of steam how foolish it is to keep up
+a hundred pounds pressure.
+
+If you had five-horsepower work to perform how foolish it would be to
+install a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound engine.
+
+Much of the physical trouble comes from filling up the boiler too much.
+
+Cut down the food and you will feel better.
+
+
+
+
+DAUGHTERS
+
+A Message From a Daddy's Heart
+
+
+Dear little Mary Elizabeth and Nancy Lou and dear little girls
+everywhere who read these lines: here is a message and a wish from
+daddy's heart.
+
+I want you to be golden girls, girls who love home and children; girls
+who love simple things, natural things; I want you to be sweet rather
+than pretty, lovable rather than popular.
+
+May the mirror never reflect paint, rouge or make-up on your face. A
+little talcum powder is all right.
+
+Do not look upon matrimony as a means to provide food and finery for
+you.
+
+Do not be ashamed of an old-fashioned mother. Do not be a "good fellow."
+Do not be afraid to say "I can't afford it."
+
+Help the family; be part of it, and not apart from it.
+
+When you are old enough to have a beau, do not be afraid to bring him
+into your home, no matter how humble it is.
+
+When I was a beau I courted my sweetheart in her home. My treat was red
+apples and a walk down the lane. Most every beau nowadays courts his
+girl with a taxi to the theatre, and red lobsters after the dinner; ten
+dollars they pay where I paid ten cents, and I had ten times more
+happiness.
+
+Be modest, girls; it is your greatest asset.
+
+Don't gossip or belittle other girls; find the good you can say of
+others; that quality makes you more attractive.
+
+Keep your voice low, be gentle, sweet, kind, human and simple; that is
+what my sweetheart is; that is why our married life has been a honeymoon
+all these years.
+
+Watch out for word candy and flattery; these things mark the hypocrite
+and a hypocrite is an abomination. Flattery is a practiced deceit--a
+dishonorable bait to catch affections.
+
+Do not allow any young man to relate a story in your presence that has
+the slightest risque turn to it. Show by your words and your actions
+that such presumption is an insult.
+
+Fine feathers never make fine birds; don't borrow finery; don't be
+attractive for your fine dresses; the men attracted by fluff, frills,
+feathers and furbelows are not worth shucks.
+
+Be square with yourself and square to the man who is after your heart;
+put yourself mentally in the place of a wife, when a man gets serious.
+
+Don't hurry, girls; don't judge the man by his money prospects but by
+his character and ambition.
+
+Have nothing to do with any young suitor who isn't always kind,
+considerate and attentive to his mother.
+
+Marry a man of character who courts you in the sweet, simple old way.
+
+If a young man spends money extravagantly before marriage, hard times
+will always be around during his married life.
+
+The most precious possessions in the world are happiness and love, and
+these; come from simple things, genuineness, and usefulness.
+
+Learn to cook and to sew. You can't be happy and idle at the same time.
+
+Learn to be independent of dressmaker and milliner and cooks. You may
+have them, I hope you will, but master these useful vocations yourself,
+then you will have dresses and hats and dinners worth while.
+
+The world is full of new-fashioned slangy, dancy, fancy, foolish girls
+who marry for style, stunts and society, and their married life is
+failure, worry and sorrow.
+
+Be the golden, pure, old-fashioned, sweet, simple, quiet, modest girl
+who knows things, rather than one who is a show-off girl.
+
+And here's a tip to you, young man, who reads these lines, get a golden
+girl like I have described; a girl of pure gold and not glittering
+tinsel; a sweet, natural, sensible girl, that will do team work and be a
+helpmate to you and not a drawback and money spender.
+
+Daddy knows these things; he's been around the world. He is endowed with
+an ability to observe, analyze and benefit.
+
+He's had experience, he's seen the world from cottage to castle, and
+these things he tells you because of his love for you and because he
+wants you to have such a home life as he has.
+
+And these truths, these hopes, are from the very bottom of his heart to
+his daughters Mary Elizabeth and Nancy Lou and all the other girls who
+have read these lines.
+
+
+
+
+POISE
+
+A Necessity to the Person Who Accomplishes
+
+
+There are men who cannot be kept down by circumstances or obstacles.
+
+These men progress with confidence in their hearts and smiles on their
+faces. They do not lie in wait for the band wagon or favorable winds;
+they make things happen.
+
+They are, of course, alert and alive to favorable opportunity and
+helpful influences when they come their way.
+
+These men are men of good health. They are out of doors much, they carry
+their heads high and breathe in good air deeply. They greet friends with
+a smile and put meaning and feeling into every hand clasp.
+
+Let's you and I follow their trail, for it leads out on to the big road.
+
+Do not fear being misunderstood, right will finally come in to its own.
+
+We will keep our minds off our enemies, and keep our thoughts on our
+purpose; we will make up our minds what we want to do. We will mark a
+straight line on the log and hew to that line.
+
+Fear is the dope drug that kills initiative, hate the poison that
+shatters clear thinking.
+
+Hate and fear are iron ore in our life's vessel, it deflects the compass
+and prevents our holding to the course.
+
+There are splendid worth-while things for us to do and with continuity
+of action and singleness of purpose the days will pass by, as we are
+seizing opportunity and making use of the things required for the
+fulfillment of our desires.
+
+We are like the coral insect that takes from the running tide the
+material to build a solid fortress. Our running tide is the gliding
+golden days.
+
+Let's waste no time in trying to make friends or in seeking to attach
+ourselves to others. True friends are not caught by pursuit; they come
+to us, they happen through circumstances we do not create.
+
+Self-reliance is ours and we must first use it for our own betterment.
+We will then have a surplus of energy to allow us to help others.
+
+Solitude beats society, relaxation beats conventional function, and
+foolish so-called pleasures.
+
+Our energy hours must be devoted to our purpose and ideals. Atween
+times we must rest, relax and recuperate the waste that strenuosity
+makes.
+
+Breathe good air, bask in the sunshine, see nature and say to yourself,
+"All these treasures are for me, all these things I am part of."
+
+Do not prepare for death, prepare for life. Preparing for death brings
+the end before your allotted time.
+
+Like Job of old that which we fear will come to us. We must not think of
+death, or waste time preparing for it. It makes us miserable today. It
+makes us weak and fills us with fear and it draws the day of our
+departure nearer.
+
+Today is ours. Live, freely, fully today. Be unafraid, unhurried, and
+undisturbed.
+
+We are building character, and the way we build it is by mental
+attitude, by our acts, and the way we employ the precious time today.
+
+Lay hold of the great forces of nature, realize the wonderful power of
+the will and you will be strong, a veritable king among men.
+
+
+
+
+PIONEER MOTHERS
+
+Knitting From Necessity Today, Knitting for Pleasure Tomorrow
+
+
+As I write these lines I am riding on a slow train through Oklahoma.
+Purposely I am in the day coach smoker for that's the place to study
+local color, and see the natives.
+
+The atmosphere around is oil and gas, the talk is "bringing in a
+gusher," "tanks," "rigs," "leases," "wild cat sales," "offsets,"
+"selling stock," and the like; all the phrases, all the talk is striking
+it rich, getting money.
+
+Indians, Mexicans, Negroes, college boys in surveying crews and
+speculators form a hodge podge. Men from all parts of the states are
+here seeking dollars.
+
+I have been around these oil and gas fields in autos and by teams. I've
+been observing life, character, passions and habits.
+
+I've seen brave women here with nursing babies living in tents or
+patchwork shacks. Some of these women dream at night of silks and satins
+and mansions and position.
+
+By day these poor women work and mend and cook and sew, doing their part
+to help things along. Many of the husbands are earning five to eight
+dollars a day and spending most of it on foolishness. The poor wives get
+only enough for bare necessities, and yet they patiently work and mend
+and cook and sew.
+
+Talk about patience; talk about devotion; talk about grit; talk about
+courage; just come down to the oil fields and see these poor pioneer
+women.
+
+Talk about selfishness; talk about cowardice; talk about brutality; talk
+about debasement; come down and see some of these men making $25 to $50
+a week and never a cent in their pockets Monday morning.
+
+Woman is called weak--that means the rich woman--the poor woman
+possesses strength that psychology cannot explain. Men can be analyzed,
+but you are at a loss to understand woman. Poor women grow into a sweet
+replica of their mothers, the most unselfish, patient, generous,
+forgiving, lovable, adorable creatures on earth.
+
+Man grows away from his mother; he roughens and cools and grows selfish
+and expects and demands the woman shall love him with all these faults,
+and generally she does.
+
+The poor woman makes an idol of her husband and in her love thinks he is
+ideal.
+
+Let him spend his money, she sticks to him; let poverty and want come to
+the home, she sticks. Let ill treatment be her portion, she sticks; and
+withal there are smiles on her lips most of the time.
+
+I'm sorry for the poor woman in the oil fields, and the only glimmer of
+compensation I can find is that she doesn't have nervous prostration
+like her wealthy society sister has.
+
+Those little husky children I see over there in the yard playing Indian
+will likely know the worth of a dollar later on. I peep into the future
+and predict that those boys will get on in the world, and Mother who is
+chopping wood for supper I see some day with a nice black grosgrain silk
+dress and a ball of knitting in her silk hand bag.
+
+I see her from necessity knitting stockings for her children. In the
+future some day, far beyond want, for her sons will be successful men,
+she still is knitting and mending and helping, a smile on her lips and
+a soft light in her eye.
+
+Plump, round and well fed, she sits there knitting with pleasure and
+dreaming of the pioneer days she spent in the Oklahoma cabin. Yes,
+that's the picture of the future.
+
+The train is pulling into a city; I don't want the picture of the poor,
+hard-working, unselfish, sacrificing woman and her worthless husband to
+remain in my memory.
+
+The sons will come out all right; they always do when they have a
+shiftless dad and a good mother. And somehow in this great open splendid
+Western country there is opportunity for such boys.
+
+The big men here were all poor a short time ago. Their grandfathers were
+rich, their fathers spent their inheritance, they suffered poverty and
+want and their extremity was the son's spur to ambitious activity.
+
+In the car are four young sports coming home from college on a vacation.
+Their daddies are all oil kings, and these youngsters will inherit
+fortunes.
+
+Those youngsters who were playing Indian will get on in the world; these
+four young millionaire kids will go broke; their heads are not shaped
+right; their jaws slant back; it isn't in them. I know something of
+character.
+
+Bye-bye, Mamma, with your little cabin and your boys; some day you will
+have peace and plenty.
+
+Those four oil Johnnies will marry girls who have plenty and some day
+those girls will have to do the family washing.
+
+The wheel turns, it's the history of the past. From shirt sleeves to
+shirt sleeves in three generations.
+
+Lincolns, Garfields, and Edisons came from just such little cabins and
+just such rough, hard, bare life as I have been seeing this afternoon.
+
+
+
+
+ANGER
+
+It's a Temporary Mental Derangement
+
+
+Anger and acts of revenge are great pull-backs to health.
+
+Anger makes the blood rush to the head, weakens the body, and distorts
+the vision.
+
+When a woman gets angry, she quarrels with her lover, her husband or her
+children. Any one of these things is a calamity.
+
+When a man gets angry he is a wild man, his eyes glitter, his mouth is
+cruel, his fists clinch, his body trembles, his blood veins strain and
+he does more harm in five minutes' anger than nature can repair in a
+day.
+
+Anger makes weak stomachs, dizzy heads, poor judgment, lost friends,
+despair, sickness and likely the confirmed habit will lead to apoplexy.
+
+When two men have differences, watch the cool man finish victor, the
+angry man always loses.
+
+Keep your head; let the other fellow fret and fume.
+
+He will tie himself up in a knot and finish loser.
+
+Serenity is a God's blessing and fortunate is the man who can hold his
+serenity.
+
+When you get a letter that stirs you to anger, don't answer that letter
+for forty-eight hours, then write a moderately vitriolic letter,--and
+then tear it up.
+
+I know you are tempted, goaded and your limit of endurance is sometimes
+exhausted.
+
+I know revenge is sweet only in anticipation. I know that revenge by
+anger and by the cruel "eye for an eye" measure is never, never sweet.
+
+I have had imposition, ingratitude, insincerity and advantages taken of
+me because I kept my poise and serenity.
+
+I have been called easy, and soft, and friends have shown me where I was
+imposed upon, but I was stooping to conquer. I kept my reserve, my
+resistance and my power ready until time, place, and preparedness let me
+spring my coup and then I cashed in beautifully in principal and
+interest for those acts and hurts.
+
+I have power now in my hands to make others suffer, keenly and deeply,
+for wrongs they have done me. Yet I do not exercise that power to
+revenge.
+
+I have been misjudged and misunderstood because cowardly persons have
+lied and villified me and accused me of motives and acts of which I was
+innocent.
+
+I am well hated now by one person in particular who blames me for things
+another is guilty of. A word from me would clear me, but it would bring
+gloom and despair to that person and would not make me any less
+cognizant of my innocence.
+
+Time somehow will bring out the truth; the cowardly, guilty individual
+who basks in the favor of the one who is angry at me will surely pay for
+his wrong.
+
+This I know and I am satisfied with the ultimate result.
+
+My former friend who is angry at me would simply switch the anger
+current to the guilty one if I told the facts; the guilty person
+couldn't stand that anger like I can. My act would break up a home and
+bring misery.
+
+I am far removed from the location where these people live, and I can
+stand the anger of the one who puts the blame on me and accepts the
+lies of another as truth.
+
+I have the documents in black and white, yet I don't use them because I
+have poise and the consciousness of knowing I am right and those who are
+dear to me know it, too.
+
+I could be angry, but I couldn't live and enjoy and write books like
+"Pep" and this book if I let anger get in and spoil the serenity which
+is mine.
+
+I've tried both plans, anger and poise, and I like poise better.
+
+I believe I hear more birds, I believe I get more pleasure out of life
+and living than the man who gets angry and loves revenge.
+
+Anyway I think so, and "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
+
+
+
+
+SALT
+
+It's a Drug; Too Much Is Bad for You
+
+
+Don't eat too much salt. Salt is a drug; it carries with it lime and
+magnesia and they tend to clog up things.
+
+Too much salt will likely cause gall stones or gravel.
+
+Some persons sprinkle salt over potatoes, beef and everything they eat;
+it's a bad practice.
+
+You get enough salt in your bacon, and in the meat you eat. The food as
+it comes from the kitchen has plenty of salt in it.
+
+Those who eat too much salt must suffer.
+
+People have told me that the craving for salt was a natural thing; it
+isn't so, it's a cultivated taste. You didn't like salty olives the
+first time you tasted them.
+
+Because deer and cattle greedily lick salt is no proof salt is natural
+and good, and needed in quantities. Cattle and horses will eat loco weed
+and when they get the habit they will eat and eat until they get crazy.
+
+Man will crave tobacco; it isn't a natural taste, it's merely a
+cultivated taste.
+
+The desire for excess salt on everything you eat is a habit and a bad
+habit.
+
+It tends to make calcareous deposits in your system, and it will affect
+the blood and the muscles and the bones.
+
+Nature puts practically enough salt in the food and cooks certainly add
+enough salt in their seasoning to furnish all the system needs.
+
+Excess salt eating dulls the finer sensibilities of taste just as excess
+pepper or Worcester sauce or mustard does. It kills the fine natural
+flavor.
+
+There's enough salt in butter to season the eggs you eat. Try your eggs
+next time without putting pepper and salt on them.
+
+Learn to get the natural flavors and you will enjoy your food more.
+
+Remember again excess craving for salt is simply evidence that you have
+a drug habit, not as dangerous as other drug habits, but bad for you
+just the same.
+
+Check yourself every time you reach for a salt cellar.
+
+Watch the children; don't let them eat too much salt.
+
+
+
+
+INSOMNIA
+
+It's Caused By High Mental Tension
+
+
+Sleeping, like breathing and digesting, is controlled by the
+subconscious brain centers. Natural sleep requires no positive mental
+impulse; it's just relaxing and nature takes care of the process.
+
+That is natural sleep, but when you start your dry cell battery, the
+brain, and commence to worry and fear, you are going to stay awake; then
+the conscious mind dominates the subconscious mind and you banish the
+very comforter you seek to woo.
+
+Business men who keep up high tension all day on business matters, and
+high tension all evening in threshing all over again the business of the
+day, are almost sure to suffer from insomnia.
+
+The continuance of the day and night habit of thinking of business
+brings on the insomnia habit and that starts the auto suggestion that
+you are fighting for your natural sleep. This produces worry, the demon
+that kills and maims.
+
+To have an occasional wakeful night is natural; it is an evidence of
+intelligence: the mental dullard never has wakeful nights.
+
+Unless the fear of sleeplessness becomes a full grown phobia no anxiety
+need be felt. The fear of insomnia, the over anxiety to go to sleep, is
+to be more dreaded than insomnia itself.
+
+To get refreshing sleep you must get physical tiredness. Take exercise.
+Walk in one direction until the first symptoms of becoming tired
+appears, then walk home. Take a hot bath, then sponge with cold or cool
+water. Put a cold cloth at the head, rub the backbone with cold water.
+
+Open your windows wide, then relax. Don't worry; you are going to sleep.
+
+Lie on your back, open your eyes wide, look up as if you were trying to
+see your eyebrows, hold your eyes open this way ten to twenty seconds,
+then close them slowly. Repeat this several times. Soon the sandman will
+come.
+
+Concentrate your mind on auto suggestion like this: "I am going to
+sleep--sound heavy, restful, peaceful sleep. My eyelids are getting
+heavy--heavy. I am going to close them and go to sleep."
+
+Don't try counting imaginary sheep jumping over fence rails. Don't count
+numbers. It is a bad habit.
+
+If these suggestions do not help you the first night say, "All right, my
+brain was too active, so then tomorrow I will let down a bit."
+
+Next night eat one or two dry crackers, chew them slowly, masticate them
+thoroughly until you can swallow easily.
+
+This little food will draw the blood pressure from the brain and help
+you to go to sleep.
+
+Drive out business and worry thoughts. Think faith and courage
+thoughts.
+
+
+
+
+MISTAKES
+
+Not the Making But the Repeating, Is Your Danger
+
+
+To live down the past and erase the errors, live boldly the present.
+
+Do not chastise or condemn yourself for mistakes you have made; you are
+not alone; everyone has made missteps, has hurt others, has wronged
+himself.
+
+Everyone has had trouble, reverses and misfortune; it's the plan of
+things, and these things come to give us experience and correct our
+future acts by the knowledge of how to avoid errors and wrongs.
+
+Yesterday is dead; forget it. Face about; live today; be busy, be
+active, be intent on doing right and accomplishing things worth while.
+
+The world's memory is short. A misdeed, an error, a wrongful act on your
+part may set busy tongues wagging today and you may suffer from calumny
+and criticism. Of course your errors will be magnified and your wrongs
+enlarged beyond the truth; that's the penalty you pay.
+
+Lies are always added to truth in telling of one's misdeeds. Be brave;
+weather the storm, it will soon blow over. Tomorrow the world will
+forget.
+
+You've suffered in your own conscience; that's all the debt you can pay
+on the old score.
+
+Now, then, get busy with the glorious opportunity today presents. Don't
+make the same mistake again. There are no eyes in the back of your head;
+look forward.
+
+Don't worry by envying the other fellow and comparing his good deeds
+with your mistakes; you only see his good. He has had troubles and made
+mistakes too, but you and the world have forgotten them.
+
+If every man's sins were printed on their foreheads the crowds you pass
+would all wear their hats over their eyes.
+
+I'm trying to comfort you, and slap you on the back and tell you you are
+just human and all humans make false steps.
+
+The patriarchs in the Bible made mistakes, but they got in the fold.
+History has perpetuated their names. Their lives on the whole were worth
+while. It's the sum total of acts that count.
+
+
+
+
+TOMORROW
+
+A Little Analysis of Our Relation to Eternity
+
+
+One man says the present is everything, the eternity is nothing.
+
+The other man says eternity is everything, present is nothing.
+
+I believe the real truth is, both are man's chief concern, and neither
+is all truth.
+
+In this matter the general rule I have so often pointed out will
+harmoniously apply; that rule is, avoid extremes.
+
+Those who believe that the now, the present, is the all important thing
+in man's life have the fashionable or favorite point of view.
+
+Man definitely knows much about the present, he knows much about life.
+He is in the midst of life--it pulsates all around him and in him.
+
+We know positively that the law of compensation is inexorable in its
+demands for right and positive in its punishment of wrong.
+
+We know that on this earth kindness, love, occupation, help, truth,
+honor and sympathy are investments which bring happiness today. You get
+your pay instantly when you have done a helpful act and you get your
+punishment instantly when you have done a hurtful act.
+
+That there is a future most of us agree, because good sense and logic
+points to that sane and reasonable conclusion.
+
+So be it, with a belief in the future estate, it is reasonable to assume
+that our acts and lives in the present estate will have influence on our
+future estate.
+
+We know positively of today, and the happiness we can get from good
+deeds done today.
+
+If we will have power in the future to look back to today's acts, well
+and good, if today's acts are worth while.
+
+The other view that eternity is everything and the present is nothing is
+the antiquated view, the narrow view; the, I might say, illiterate view.
+
+That view warps the present life; it calls for present
+self-chastisement, present gloom, present sorrow and present misery.
+
+It takes the tangible definite today, calls it nothing, and accepts the
+intangible unknown eternity as everything.
+
+It trades the definite for the indefinite. It calls life a bubble, a
+vapor, a shadow. In fact, it makes gloom on today's sunshine and puts
+its believers into a purgatory; a dismal unhappy punishment antechamber
+where man exists and waits peeping out of his cell windows for a little
+imagined view of eternity.
+
+He waits and endures the unpleasant interval, steeled against definite
+pleasures and evident life of today, and worried into an intoxicated
+colored belief in the expected happiness of the undefined future.
+
+He refuses to think of definite life of today and spoils the thought of
+those who do.
+
+He is a blockade to progress, a disagreeable part of life's picture.
+
+He gets no happiness in the today which is in his hands, he loses this
+opportunity during his definite existence, and lives on future hopes in
+a future state which no man today knows what it will be.
+
+Both theories as ultimate beliefs are wrong, yet each has some truth in
+its conclusion.
+
+By taking the words eternity and present and saying both means
+everything, we avoid extremes and form a truth that is rational, and
+harmonious to good reason.
+
+The man who says present is all does so because he is an utilitarian. He
+acts on the definite and refuses to believe in the abstract. Anything
+that is outside the sphere of his vision and action is of little concern
+to him.
+
+The man who says eternity is all, wastes opportunity, example and warps
+himself into a miserable hermit.
+
+Life is irrevocable. Every act in our life is placed, set, and fixed.
+
+Every act goes in the record book of yesterday and it cannot be changed.
+
+Acts that hurt others will rebound and hurt us. Deeds that helped others
+will rebound and help us. This much is certain.
+
+There is a future, I believe that. There is a God, I believe that.
+
+Just what the future is, and just what God is, I do not know in perfect
+detail.
+
+Reward for good and punishment for bad, is part of God's plan, and I am
+conscious of this truth.
+
+I know that justice prevails in this life, and this life is what I am
+living now.
+
+If I live and act today in what I sincerely believe is in tune with
+God's purpose, I shall in my future estate benefit by those acts.
+
+If I live and act today, disregarding all around me, selfishly catering
+to personal purpose, believing that eternity is everything and present
+is nothing, I am passing definite opportunity to do good now, for a hope
+of personal reward in an eternity, the which is indefinite as to what it
+shall be.
+
+I shall therefore strive to do, and to be, right; to be kind, helpful,
+cheery and smiling now, for the reward such acts bring now.
+
+And I shall doubtless have as good a record and passport to the future
+as the man who suffers now and lives only upon his selfish hope of the
+future.
+
+His is fear thought, mine is faith thought, in the all wise, all
+powerful, all seeing, all right Ruler of the universe, who gave me my
+life, my brain, my reason, which I am trying to use, as nearly as my
+limitations will allow, to helping myself and helping others to smile,
+to be happy, to be serene, to be confident, to be competent, to be
+useful.
+
+This is as I see it. I wouldn't do what I do, think what I think or act
+as I act unless I were sincere.
+
+Below all this is charity, which means you have the unquestioned right
+to do and to be what your best thought and conscience tells you to do
+and to be.
+
+Nevertheless it is well to reason with one another on the subject of the
+now and the tomorrow of our existence for it is a universal subject on
+which all men must make a decision.
+
+
+
+
+SINCERITY
+
+Do Not Accept Sincerity as Proof of Truth
+
+
+"I believe in him because he is so sincere."
+
+You've heard that, haven't you? I never could understand why a sensible
+person would use such logic.
+
+Sincerity is no evidence of truth. The Hindu mother is sincere who
+throws her babe to the crocodiles, but her sincerity is no proof that by
+this sacrifice she is sure of her salvation.
+
+The Christian Scientist is sincere in the belief that medicines do not
+cure diseases. The doctor is equally sincere that medicines will cure
+disease.
+
+The Theosophist is sincere, the Atheist, the Agnostic, the Christian,
+the Pagan, the Mohammedan, the Buddhist, the Sun-worshipper, the
+Republican, the Democrat, the Progressive, the Prohibitionist, the
+Brewer, all these are sincere in their beliefs. And as these beliefs are
+different, it is common sense to say that no one creed, sect, belief,
+branch, dogma or system, is all truth.
+
+It is true every channel or avenue we meet in life's travel has some
+truth, but it is not for you or me to assume that we are the sole
+possessors of wisdom and the real discoverers of all truth.
+
+We must not take the conclusions we arrive at and expect to force the
+world to accept without protest our rules for conduct, our methods for
+living, our practices for morals, or our beliefs, for their guide.
+
+Converts to new doctrines, new issues, new cults and to the old ones,
+too, are made largely because the ambassadors or proselyters seem so
+fervid and sincere in expounding what they claim is the definite truth.
+
+The believers in a cult or code of ethics are auto hypnotized, their
+visions are narrowed.
+
+By focusing their thought on their special belief they bring together
+sophistry, arguments, examples and so-called proof that gives them
+facility in arguing the case or expounding their doctrine.
+
+You can make no gain to try to argue with a Christian Scientist. You ask
+for concrete rules, definite answers and other proofs than their flat
+statements, and you are told you have not the understanding, that your
+attitude is not in the right plane, and that the truth cannot be shown
+you.
+
+You are told to have faith, belief, to eliminate antagonism, and to
+study "Science and Health" and you will receive the divine spirit and
+see the light.
+
+The Scientist is sincere; he shows you "Science and Health" with a lot
+of testimonials in the back to prove that Christian Science cures
+disease. Every patent medicine, every science, every system of healing
+has testimonials by the hundreds.
+
+Scientists say there is no disease, no material, that we are only spirit
+or soul, or thought; that we are not matter but mind. That health is
+truth and disease is error. They deny disease yet "Science and Health"
+and the midweek experience meetings have testimonials of disease cured
+by Christian Science.
+
+There is much truth in Christian Science. People are helped by it,
+people are sincere in their belief in it, but that Christian Science is
+all truth, all powerful, all right, all sufficient, cannot be proven.
+
+What about the people who have gone hence before Christian Science was
+ever heard of?
+
+The theological religion today, the practices and beliefs, differ from
+the vogue of fifty years ago.
+
+If the Protestant religion be all truth what became of our religious
+ancestors who died before Martin Luther found the truth?
+
+I have no quarrel with the Christian Scientist, the Protestant, the
+Roman Catholic, the Buddhist, or the Mohammedan. I must be generous and
+broad enough to say others have the right to think and be sincere. All
+sciences have truth, but no science, sect, cult, dogma, or creed is ALL
+truth.
+
+Sincerity may be satisfaction and necessary for the possessors of that
+sincerity, but that your sincerity in your belief must be accepted by me
+as proof that I should believe as you do, is, I believe, the place where
+I have the undoubted right to say, "I reserve the right to my own
+conclusions and I am unjust to myself if I force myself to accept your
+viewpoint without full belief myself that you are right."
+
+So, then, because a person is sincere in a belief that is contrary to
+your conscientious belief, do not be disturbed or swerved from common
+sense analysis or convinced against your better judgment.
+
+No one possesses all the truth. It is for you and me to do our plain
+duty as we see it, to do the best we can each day in act and thought and
+word.
+
+We can pretty much agree on the simple essential truths which are
+proven. That is, being honest, truthful, kind, lovable, sympathetic,
+cheerful, doing good, helping one another and doing things worth while.
+
+If we agree on these things and do useful work and think helpful
+thoughts, we are doing our duty.
+
+Theories, arguments and studying too deeply on bootless systems, codes,
+beliefs, cults, isms, or doctrines, is a waste of time.
+
+When we can here and now derive definite benefits from doing the simple
+and helpful things and acting and thinking the simple practical cheer
+thoughts, it is not necessary or good for us to waste time on
+spiritualism or theoretical beliefs that cannot be proved to our own
+selves satisfactorily.
+
+We are asked to believe these strange, impractical, unnatural beliefs,
+because of the sincerity of others. It's better to do, and to be the
+thing we can ourselves measure, understand and sincerely believe.
+
+There are hundreds of strange beliefs and spiritual systems, each
+claiming to be all powerful, all right. If any one is all truth then all
+the others are all wrong.
+
+The bigot who assumes he is the sole possessor of truth, the cult, sect,
+ism, or science that claims to possess all truth, and the exact rules
+for the world to obey, should be classed with those other misguided men
+and religions which burned human beings who dared to doubt their right
+to the possession of all truth.
+
+God never gave his approval to any one man-made religious sect.
+
+God is the universal good power; man often tries to interpret God's idea
+to his own selfish narrow vision.
+
+
+
+
+PILLS
+
+The Man Who Has a Pill for Every Ill
+
+
+How often we see the pill fiend. In his vest pocket he has a small
+apothecary shop, a collection of round paste-board boxes and little
+bottles.
+
+Every little while he dopes himself. If his stomach is on a strike he
+pops in a pill. If his head aches he takes a tablet. If he sneezes he
+takes a cold cure pill.
+
+When anyone around speaks of a pain or ache he hands the person a pill.
+
+The pill eater is a hypochondriac and very likely his doctor knows it.
+The salvation is that the doctor probably gives him harmless stuff in
+pill form. The patient doesn't know this and it's like a rabbit's foot
+or a piece of pork rubbed on a wart; it satisfies the mind and nature
+makes the cure.
+
+Often, however, the pills are not innocent; the pill fiend buys the
+tablets and pills direct from the druggist. The headache tablet is most
+likely one of the coal tar drugs like acetanilid, and that is
+positively harmful when taken too often.
+
+There are times to take pills, in cases of emergency, when you can shock
+nature with a poison and bring a wholesome reaction.
+
+These times are rare, and the doctor should be the sole judge as to when
+they are necessary.
+
+Exercise, diet, correct habits of living will prevent congestion and
+illness that cause pain.
+
+The pill habit is nothing less than a drug habit, and the drug habit
+positively weakens the system.
+
+The headache tablet does not cure the headache, it only stops the pain;
+the evil is still there. The headache is merely nature's signal that
+something is out of whack.
+
+Headaches are generally caused by the stomach, eye strain, or neuralgia;
+the latter in turn is caused by too much uric acid in the system.
+
+Eat fruit, drink plenty of water, and that will flush the system and
+stop stomachic headache.
+
+See the optician if it's eyes. If you have frequent headache in the
+forehead, very likely it's the eyes, even though you do not suspect it.
+
+If it's neuralgia, get a corrective diet list from the doctor.
+
+I know scores of men and women, too, who take pills enough to kill a
+person. Their systems have been educated up to it; they are saturated
+with poison.
+
+And the worst of it is they never get well while taking the pills; it is
+only a temporary deadening of the pain.
+
+Then there are many who take pills to make them sleep. That's a crime.
+It's murder in slow degrees for they are surely shortening their lives
+by this poison dope pill habit.
+
+Mark this: Nature, and Nature alone, effects cures and it's in very,
+very few instances that a poison pill can be used to advantage.
+
+You can keep well by getting good air, good water, good sunshine, good
+food, good exercise, good rest, good cheer and good thought. That is
+what I call my golden prescription, and it will do wonders for you, and
+every doctor will tell you so.
+
+Pills kill, if you keep up the habit. There are no two ways about it. I
+say positively and knowingly, that this pill habit is absolutely life
+shortening.
+
+Don't try to argue; the evidence is unshakable on this point.
+
+If you had seen the derelicts in the hospitals I have seen, if you had
+seen the wretched bodies, destroyed nerve systems, the drugged,
+shattered, hopeless patients resulting from the baneful pill habit, you
+would be as positive as I am in saying pills kill if you keep up the
+habit.
+
+Life is sweet and precious to us all. Do not shorten it by taking pills
+and tablets for every ache or pain. Try nature's way. Realize that
+mental suggestion and will power will drive away most pains or temporary
+aches.
+
+Brace up, cheer up; chuck the pills in the garbage can.
+
+
+
+
+FAKE MEDICINES
+
+Like Whiskey, the End Is Near
+
+
+Whiskey must go. It is written on the pages of the records of man's
+progress. Likewise must the quack doctor and the fake medicine go.
+
+The side-whiskered advertising doctors are nothing short of criminal
+when they by powerful use of words magnify symptoms and feelings to be
+grave, serious fore-runners of awful disease, and by fright, bring in
+the hypochondriac to his spider-web and filch him in a manner no better
+than a thief uses. The thief is really more honorable, for he steals
+because he wants your money and makes no bones about it.
+
+The doctor charlatan steals your money under the guise of being your
+benefactor.
+
+As I have explained in "Pep," illness, feeling out of sorts, local pains
+and sickness, unless of the contagious or infectious kind, are largely
+conditions of the mind and of food habits, and surely are accentuated by
+fear thought.
+
+Because people have off days, and aches and pains, the frock-coated,
+white lawn tie doctors and pseudo professors work on the minds and
+imaginations, magnify trifles into troubles, then when the victims lose
+courage these charlatans rob them under the guise of professional advice
+and treatment.
+
+Most of the temporary ailments are caused by constipation, wrong diet or
+lack of exercise. The doctor gives a laxative, nature re-asserts
+herself, and the patient is cured.
+
+Chronic ailments require long treatments, so as to make long bills and
+many visits for the quack doctor.
+
+Read "Pep" and fool the doctors. Your health and happiness are things
+largely in your own control.
+
+When you feel you must have a doctor, go to your family physician and
+not to a strange doctor who advertises. His advertisement is merely a
+spiderweb to catch and hold you while he robs you.
+
+It is a hopeful sign of the brighter future to which man is progressing,
+that the respectable papers will not lend their aid to swindling
+doctors. The best papers will not carry these doctor or fake medicine
+ads.
+
+Before long the government will pass laws on this baneful, shameful,
+quack advertising. Quack doctors, gambling houses, liquor selling, are
+all swindling methods to get money, and in the getting they are killing
+men, ruining homes, destroying happiness, holding back progress.
+
+The one object of the quack doctor is to size you up and see what you
+"are good for." "Good for" means how much money can he get from you and
+how long can he keep you as a patient to contribute to his coffers.
+
+Let every reader of this book enroll as an opponent to quack doctors and
+quack medicines, and by word and influence help to hasten the day when
+such pernicious swindlers are things of the past. You can't get health
+out of a bottle.
+
+And this is true.
+
+
+
+
+THE CHURCH
+
+It Is Hampered By Too Many Sects
+
+
+No two minds can see the same picture, nor can two persons with logic,
+on religion, come to the same definite conclusion.
+
+The old Scripture said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." The
+new Scripture teaches us to "turn the other cheek" and "love your
+enemies."
+
+Two hundred years ago they burned witches.
+
+Thirty years ago the preacher who took exception to the universal belief
+of a hell of fire and brimstone was thrown out of the church. Today no
+preacher believes in such a hell.
+
+Present day religion is really a Sunday religion. One and a half hours a
+week the members of the church join in singing "we shall know each other
+there." The remainder of the week they make it a point to keep from
+knowing each other here.
+
+The protestant church divides itself into a lot of sects, each one built
+on some particular ordinance or practice and each one swallows a camel
+and strains at a gnat. One sect insists that baptism shall be by
+immersion because the disciples baptized that way. They believe in
+following customs literally, yet in the cities they immerse the members
+in a big tub under the pulpit, which practice is entirely different from
+the method employed by John the Baptist.
+
+One sect insists upon having a communion every Sunday because the Bible
+says, "as often as you do this," etc. To be literal in the matter of
+communion, the Lord's Supper should be served at night as the original
+was, and it should be supper and not a few pieces of broken crackers.
+
+The sect that insists on following the Scriptures in the matter of
+baptism by immersion fails to follow the Scriptures in the matter of
+washing the feet or anointing the head.
+
+Many years ago the church considered it a sacrilege to use an organ.
+Today they have orchestras and hire operatic singers.
+
+So it seems that the church is broadening out. Thinking men believe that
+religion should not be an auto-intoxication of self-condemnation or
+worry, sobs and misery. Because so much of this sort of teaching is
+prevalent the church is not making the gains it should. The church is
+largely supported by nice little women, many of them maiden ladies who
+have little to do, and know little of the great problems of the busy
+world.
+
+I am thoroughly convinced that the church must recognize that evolution
+is taking place, that we are to be more charitable, more broad in our
+views, less technical in our tenets and more practical in our work.
+
+We will have to cut down the fences between the sects and all get
+together in the great field for a common cause rather than trying to
+maintain little independent vineyards.
+
+Religion must teach smiles and joy, courage and brotherly love, instead
+of frowns, dejection, fear and envy.
+
+It must teach how to be and how to get good out of our today on earth.
+If we are good and do good here, we certainly will help our future
+prospects.
+
+Certainly we are progressing from narrowness, bigotry, selfishness and
+envy, to broadness, reason, brotherly love and contentment, and we shall
+progress from the narrow confines of obstinate orthodoxy or
+bulldogmatics, by breaking down the sect, cult, ism, and doxy barriers
+until we all join in a universal church in which all can put their
+hearts and beliefs, in which all can find full range for their spiritual
+belief and expression.
+
+That big, broad, right church will be in harmony with God's purpose.
+
+The Creator made all men and He doesn't confine His love or His interest
+to any one little man-made narrow sect, or creed.
+
+"God is love." "Love thy neighbor." "Help the weak, cheer the grief
+stricken." Those are the commands and purposes we find everywhere in the
+Scriptures.
+
+"He that believeth in me shall be saved." That's a definite promise and
+it is not qualified with a lot of creed paragraphs and beliefs. That
+promise doesn't have any buts or ifs. It doesn't say we shall be saved
+whether we are Methodists or Catholics, or Baptists or Presbyterians.
+Those names are man-made, and creeds of those churches are man-made,
+too.
+
+At the congress of religions in the World's Fair at Chicago over three
+hundred religions and sects were represented by delegates from all over
+the world, and every one there with hearty accord sang, "Praise God
+From Whom All Blessings Flow" and "Rock of Ages." Those hymns were
+universal; they fitted all creeds and sects.
+
+Big men in the church are intensely interested in the get-together,
+universal church, and each year will mark a definite progress toward
+amalgamation of sects and divisions.
+
+There should be no Methodist Church North and Methodist Church South.
+
+There should not be churches like the Congregational and Presbyterian,
+whose creeds are identical, the difference being only in the officers.
+
+The country village of 1,000 population has five churches; it should
+have only one. The country is full of half starved preachers and weak,
+struggling congregations.
+
+The get-together movement will help religion, and it's going to happen
+surely.
+
+
+
+
+INVENTORY
+
+A Necessary Practice to Bring Efficiency
+
+
+Every year the business man goes over his stock, tools, fixtures, and
+accounts, and prepares a statement of assets and liabilities so as to
+get a fairly accurate understanding of his profit and loss.
+
+If he didn't take this inventory his net worth would be guess work.
+
+This inventory deals with money and things which are mixed more or less
+with the human element and affected more or less by conditions or trade,
+crops, competition, supply and demand.
+
+The business man takes all these conditions into consideration in
+preparing for the coming year. He red flags the mistakes and green flags
+the good plans.
+
+The business man should carry the inventory further. Every month or so
+he should take a careful inventory of himself, putting down his assets
+of health, initiative, patience, ability to work, smiles, honesty,
+sincerity, and the like. So also he must put down in the debit side the
+pull backs, hindrances and other business killers in the list of
+liabilities. These items are smoothness, untruth, unfairness,
+grouchiness, impatience, worry, ill health, gloom, meanness, broken
+word, unfulfilled promises and the like.
+
+In making up the inventory pay particular attention to your habits:
+smoking, drinking, over-eating, useless display, useless social
+functions and other useless things that pull on your nerves and your
+pocket book.
+
+Then check up department A, which is your family. How have you dealt
+with your family and children?
+
+Department B is friends; how do you stand in your treatment of them?
+
+Department C, all other persons. Did you lie to, cheat, steal from or
+defraud any one? How much cash profit did you make? How much less a man
+did the act make you?
+
+Go over your self-respect account. Does it show profit or loss.
+
+Check up your employees' account. What has your stewardship shown? Have
+you drawn the employees closer, or driven them further from you?
+
+Analyze your spiritual account. Is your religious belief a sham or
+conviction? Do you sing on Sunday, "we shall know each other there," or
+do you make it a point to know and love your brother here, seven days a
+week.
+
+Be fair in your inventory. Write down the facts in the two columns
+"good" and "bad," then go over the list and put a red danger flag on the
+bad. Keep the list until next inventory and see whether you have made a
+gain or loss in your net moral standing.
+
+Don't read this and say, "a good idea." Do the thing literally.
+
+Take a clean sheet of paper and write your personal assets and
+liabilities down in the two columns marked "good" and "bad."
+
+If this inventory doesn't help then you may call me a false prophet.
+
+I know the plan is a good one. I know it will help you. If it helps you,
+you will thank me. There can be no harm in trying, because it's a
+worth-while thing to test.
+
+The business man who never takes inventory is likely to go bump some
+day.
+
+
+
+
+EGOTISM
+
+Those Who Decry It Most Have It Most
+
+
+The ego is in us. It is good to have, but egotism needs the soft pedal
+when we speak or do things.
+
+Many people are unconscious of their egotism yet they suggest between
+lines in their conversation, "even I who am superior to the herd would
+do this or that."
+
+For instance, two persons were arguing about the merits of an
+inexpensive automobile. Parenthetically I may say one belonged to the
+Ford class and the other to the can't afford class. A can't afford snob
+came to the rescue of the Ford champion by saying, "that's a good car;
+why, I wouldn't mind owning one of them myself," and he beamed at the
+party with the consciousness of having settled the matter and removed
+the stigma from the Ford car.
+
+The egotism crops out often when one shows a group picture in which he
+appears. He doesn't wait for you to find him; he pokes his arm over
+your shoulder and says, "that's me."
+
+To each of us in the manner of things the I is the center of our world.
+We see things always through our I's.
+
+If we wish to get along without friction we must remember that the other
+fellow has his I's also, and when we try to make him see things through
+our I's it makes trouble.
+
+The hall mark of education, refinement and character in the broad sense
+is the ability to exclude the personal so far as possible from our
+conversation. And be big enough to grant to others their undoubted right
+to see and think from their own standpoint.
+
+Argument develops egotism more than most any other thing will.
+
+How often have you convinced another in an argument?
+
+How often have you been convinced in an argument?
+
+The world is big, there are millions of others in it and our job is a
+big one if we 'tend pretty well to our own knittin'.
+
+
+
+
+PERSEVERANCE
+
+It Is the Last Step in the Race That Counts
+
+
+Four hundred and twenty-three years ago Christopher Columbus landed on
+an island which he thought was India.
+
+Chris was mighty happy as he put his foot on good old mother earth; not
+so much because he had discovered a new way to India, as he thought, but
+because his foot touched land.
+
+Two days before he landed on San Salvador his crew pitched into him and
+threatened to throw him in the sea and turn about the ship to Spain.
+
+If Chris had shown the white feather, 1492 would not be the date of the
+first line in the geography, announcing the "Discovery of America."
+
+Chris had perseverance, the stuff that makes men successful.
+
+He started to find India by sailing westward. He didn't succeed in his
+purpose, but his determination was rewarded just the same, for he found
+a new country, and that was worth while.
+
+Before he started he was promised ten per cent of the revenue from any
+lands he might discover. Just imagine what that would mean today.
+
+Columbus had perseverance and pep, and his unwavering fidelity to his
+cause brought him success in his efforts.
+
+The world has improved since 1492, but the percentage of men who would
+keep on like Columbus did has not increased, perhaps.
+
+Columbus sailed with three ships, the largest sixty-six feet long. He
+steered to the direction of the setting sun. His crew was 120 men. None
+of them were enthusiastic at the start; all of them disgusted,
+discouraged and ready to mutiny at the last.
+
+But Christopher kept the ships pointed West, through rain, shine,
+through drifting breezeless days and through storms. He kept on, and on
+and on, and he brought home the bacon, which being interpreted means
+success crowned his efforts.
+
+Perseverance and pep produce prosperity, peace and plenty.
+
+It was the mileage made on October 12th, 1492, that counted.
+
+It is the last step in a race that counts.
+
+It is the last stroke on the nail that counts.
+
+The moral is that many a prize has been lost just when it was ready to
+be plucked.
+
+Perseverance--patience--pluck--pep--are particularly profitable if
+pursued until you ring the bell.
+
+
+
+
+GEOLOGY
+
+The Earth's Incontestable Pages of Truth
+
+
+On the wall in the room where I write these lines is a fossil herring
+which the boys dug up in the Rockies near Frozen Dog, at an altitude of
+six thousand feet.
+
+The herring is a salt water fish proving that the country around Frozen
+Dog was at one time under the sea.
+
+A few weeks ago, in the Missouri River bottom near Omaha, some Harvard
+scientists discovered the remains of three ancient towns, one buried on
+top of the other.
+
+In the Nile valley in Egypt nine towns, in one location, have been
+unearthed, each town in a different strata of alluvial deposit.
+
+The ninth or top city is the ancient City of Memphis, once the largest
+city in the world.
+
+Those cities and the mute eloquence of my fossil herring plainly point
+out the fact that the world is millions of years old.
+
+Last summer I found some coral on Washington Island, which is off the
+point of land where Lake Michigan and Green Bay meet. Coral is only
+formed in salt water.
+
+Geologists tell me that Washington Island and surrounding country
+plainly shows marks of three distinct glacial periods.
+
+Several times the poles were in the tropical climate, and consequently
+the tropics or the temperate zones at least were under permanent snow
+and ice.
+
+The earth changes its axis every few thousand centuries, that we know.
+
+The rains and snows wash the earth to the sea, depositing layers of sand
+and sediment, which as the ages go by, turn to stone and form permanent
+pages that man may read in succeeding eras.
+
+During the world's changes, vast surfaces of earth and rock are lifted
+to mountain heights and other places lowered and the sea covers them.
+
+Thus the habitations of man have been buried, new earth covered them,
+new towns were built and again the covering process.
+
+Scientists are deciphering the story of the earth and its people.
+Babylonia and Egypt left records which our learned men can read, but
+ages and eons before these ancients there were races who could not
+write even crude picture or hieroglyphic languages, and probably we
+shall never know much about these very old times.
+
+Around our Mississippi Valley we know of Mound Builders before our
+Indians. In the Southwest the relics of the cliff dwellers are abundant.
+
+This summer at Salt Lake City I saw seven mummies of fair-haired people
+that were discovered in Southern Utah.
+
+Near Naples, in digging a well, the workmen found statuary, jewelry and
+cooking utensils. The Italian government began excavating and they
+opened up to modern gaze an old city. The town was Pompeii.
+
+People may now walk the streets of old Pompeii as freely as the streets
+of Kansas City, and the old pavements are likewise worn and torn like
+the present streets of Kansas City.
+
+The residents of Pompeii had fine plumbing, baths and luxuries.
+
+They had a place called a vomitorium. The old Roman sports were
+gluttons; they stuffed themselves, then went to the vomitorium and threw
+up so they could eat more.
+
+Near Pompeii is the ancient buried city of Herculaneum, but it is
+covered with lava, hard as granite, while Pompeii is covered with ashes.
+
+Our western hemisphere is called the new world, but all parts of the
+world are equally old.
+
+The Missouri River swelled up and washed out a big cul de sac and bared
+those three towns near Omaha. We haven't dug much in America but likely
+in a few years we will discover some old towns equally as ancient as
+Pompeii.
+
+Verily, this earth of ours has had humans on it for more than the 6,000
+years our written records give as its age.
+
+
+
+
+PATRIOTISM
+
+An Intoxicant That Often Turns Men Into Murderers
+
+
+A false patriotism, an inherited acceptance of servility and obedience,
+makes the foreigners meek, sheep-like men.
+
+This great war, and most every great war of the past, is possible
+because of a distorted understanding of patriotism.
+
+Patriotism began away back yonder when sons and daughters were taught
+love and loyalty to the pater, the father. The patriarchs of old
+extended the patriot idea to the tribe and later as tribes banded
+together and formed nations. The patriotism principle was the basis for
+the bond that tied men together for a common cause.
+
+Now patriotism is bounded by geographical lines and national boundary
+lines. The patriotism is most sincere, and most solemn, for men
+willingly sacrifice their lives for it.
+
+But, really, this patriotism is one of the narrowest and most cruel
+forces in the world. It causes wars, waste and desolation. It makes
+jealousies, braggadocio and keeps up the fight spirit.
+
+The false patriotism is an obstacle to broader human progress, brotherly
+love and the finer things in life.
+
+Kings and rulers, fired by selfish egotism, know full well what a
+powerful force patriotism is and they nurse the babes with fatherland
+stuff and give them tin soldiers to play with and tin helmets to wear.
+
+Patriotism, when it reflects love of the place of one's nativity, when
+it spells home and love and association, is a natural and a beautiful
+sentiment.
+
+But patriotism, as fomented and fostered by governments for war spurs
+and goads, is a monster that lives on blood.
+
+To keep this false patriotism alive, wars must be made, so that human
+blood can be secured to save the monster from perishing. Human blood
+fires and intoxicates this false patriotism behemoth.
+
+And so, on slight pretexts Kings are insulted. War lords have put out
+chips on their shoulders on purpose to be knocked off, and when the chip
+is brushed off then comes the declaration of war.
+
+The banner, patriotism, is flaunted in the air. It is the shibboleth of
+the red blooded, hot headed, bravest and best of the nation, the youth,
+who die in countless thousands--for what?
+
+Such patriotism is failure and worse than failure. It is hindrance to
+civilization.
+
+These bewildered men have let reason escape, and intoxicated false
+patriotism poison come in their brains to take the place of reason.
+
+In their delirium they try to appear consistent, logical and abused. In
+their extremity they try to co-ordinate their acts with God's mind.
+
+Each nation has its own interpretation of the Divine will. Each asks
+Divine help for his nation.
+
+God looks at the maddened millions of insane murderers and his heart is
+torn as He sees the avalanche of tears shed by bereaved wives and
+children.
+
+The patriotism that is responsible for starting this war is a mockery, a
+snare, a delusion, and deserves the profoundest contempt of every man
+who loves his fellow man.
+
+Europe has certainly put riot in patriotism.
+
+
+
+
+RIDICULE
+
+A Poor Vehicle for Humor
+
+
+The man who ridicules everything is on the toboggan slide and he will
+finish the slide as an out-and-out grouch.
+
+You and I know men who never have a pleasant word to say of anyone, or a
+serious commendation of anything.
+
+Ridicule and sarcasm are often coated with would-be humor, and try to
+pass for puns. By and by, however, this ridicule and sarcasm gets to be
+a habit, and the coat of humor becomes threadbare.
+
+Just at this time friends depart, for the grouch phase of the disease
+has started.
+
+Sarcasm and ridicule are powerful weapons when used adroitly and for
+good purposes. But when sarcasm and ridicule are used constantly as a
+means to generate fun or as vehicles for humor, then the evil commences.
+
+People will listen to you for awhile, if you good-naturedly ridicule a
+thing, but when you are known to have the habit, then is when friends
+give you the go-by.
+
+Sarcasm and ridicule wound deeply; they are hot pokers jabbed in
+quivering flesh.
+
+Don't juggle with ridicule or sarcasm, for people look beneath the
+veneer nowadays. They remember and repeat the axiom, "there's many a
+true word spoken in jest."
+
+There are so many beautiful things to say, so many kind expressions to
+utter, so many helpful hints to give, that we should be ashamed to say
+or do things even jokingly that may hurt another.
+
+Safest way is to run no chances. When you ridicule a thing or a person,
+you may ridicule the tender heart of one you should cheer and help.
+
+Ridicule is the negative element anyway; the only good it can be is by
+reflex or rebound force.
+
+Ridicule is conceived by the humor idea. It is used because it so easily
+lends itself to a seeming clever way to create a laugh.
+
+Humor of the clean sort is a rare gift. Humor may easily descend to low
+comedy by use of ridicule, and often the audience does not differentiate
+between low comedy and rare humor.
+
+The masses will laugh when the comedian on the stage hits his friend
+with a club; that sort of fun-making satisfies adults who have
+children's brains and such brain-constructed people will also laugh at
+jokes which ride on ridicule. But you who read these lines are worthy of
+better things; that's why you are reading this book. If, in my audience
+there are those who have the ridicule habit, I want to arouse you to a
+better sense of humor than you can get by the employment of ridicule and
+sarcasm.
+
+I don't want you to descend to the level of the grouch. The slide-down
+is so easy, the climbing back and up from the depth is so very hard.
+
+Ridicule and sarcasm are cheap, slapstick methods to produce fun. They
+leave a sting many times when you are not aware of it.
+
+When fighting whiskey, sin, corruption or evil hosts, then use burning
+ridicule and caustic sarcasm to sizzle and destroy the things that need
+to be destroyed.
+
+Now I've told you, and next time you find yourself using ridicule or
+sarcasm to provoke mirth remember you are toying with a habit-forming
+practice that is likely to get the best of you unless you stop and stop
+now.
+
+
+
+
+THE WIFE
+
+She Is Your Partner, Don't Cheat Her
+
+
+A wife is either a partner or an employee. If a partner, she has a right
+to the fifty-fifty split on profits; if an employee she is entitled to
+her wages.
+
+A thrifty husband is commendable, but a
+show-me-what-you-did-with-that-money husband should be punished by being
+sentenced to attend pink teas, afternoon receptions, and to match
+samples at the dry goods store.
+
+Married folks must be on the partnership basis, or there's sand in the
+gear box.
+
+Give the wife the check-book; let her pay the bills; tote fair with her;
+show her and give her just what your income affords, and what economic
+and wise administration warrants; she'll cut the cloth to fit the
+garment.
+
+When the husband questions every turn, every move, every cent, the wife
+feels like a prisoner or a slave. Wives will do good team work when
+they are broken to double harness with their husbands.
+
+Women are generally raised without any requirements of economy; they are
+pretty birds, and used to preening and smoothing their plumage and
+looking pretty.
+
+It's the female instinct in the human. In the animal world the male has
+the plumage and does the strutting and fascinating act; but in the human
+animal the female is the bird with the bright plumage.
+
+You can't expect her to know about pennies and purses and prudent
+purchases the moment you slip the ring on her finger.
+
+But she's an intelligent filly and she'll go in double harness much
+better if trained and coaxed and petted than she will if she is
+haltered, broke and a Spanish bit put in her mouth by the husband's
+stinginess.
+
+She'll shop better than her husband if he takes an interest in her
+shopping and encourages her in her economical administration of the
+household budget.
+
+She wants a word of appreciation once in a while. She chills under the
+surveillance and parsimony of an eagle-eyed, detective, lawyer-like
+husband.
+
+She's a sweet bird and sweet birds and hawks don't nest well together.
+
+Where the hawk and the dove are in the same cage the feathers will fly.
+
+As I came through the park this morning I saw a pair of robins who have
+the right idea. They share home responsibilities and do fine team work.
+I think they are mighty happy, too; daddy red breast looked mighty proud
+as he hustled worms for the family breakfast.
+
+Mamma robin looked down with loving eyes at her hubby, and the little
+baby robins sang a chorus of joy at the very privilege of living in such
+a home.
+
+Worry will fly out of the window the moment the husband and wife lay
+their cards on the table and play the open hand. The moment one or the
+other keeps a few cards in the sleeve, then worry and trouble comes
+back.
+
+The moral of this is: husbands and wives, live together, get together,
+stay together, play together, save together, grow together, share
+together. Travel the same road; don't take different paths.
+
+
+
+
+MENTAL PLEASURES
+
+The Rarest, Sweetest Pleasures in the World
+
+
+There are two principal pleasures man seeks; one is material pleasures
+and that takes in about ninety-nine per cent of the human family.
+
+The other, the one per cent, seeks mental pleasures, and this little
+group is the one that gets the real, lasting, satisfying and improving
+pleasures.
+
+Material pleasures are eating, displaying, possessing, and society.
+Material pleasures generate in the human the desire for fluff, feathers,
+and four-flushing.
+
+Material pleasures accentuate the desire to possess things, and in the
+strife for possession hearts are broken, fortunes wasted, nerves
+shattered and finer sentiments calloused.
+
+The homes where material pleasures abound are the ones where worry,
+neurasthenia and nervous prostration abound.
+
+Material pleasures are merely stimulants for the time being, and there
+always comes the intermittent reflexes of gloom and depression.
+
+The desire to show off, to excite envy in others, is always present at
+the homes where material pleasures are the rule.
+
+Material pleasures call for crowds. Mental pleasures are best enjoyed in
+solitude.
+
+The material pleasure seeker lives a life of convention, engagements,
+routine, action, strain and high tension.
+
+The person who is so fortunate as to appreciate and follow mental
+pleasures, is serene, natural, happy and content.
+
+A cozy room, loved ones around, music, books, love and social
+conversation, those are mental pleasures; those are best.
+
+He who can pick up a book, and read things worth while, gets
+satisfaction unknown to those whose life is banquets, theaters, dances,
+automobiles, parties, bridge, clubs and society doings.
+
+The lover of books and home can enjoy the play, because he only goes to
+plays worth while, and he doesn't overdo it.
+
+The confirmed theater-goer is a pessimist; he roasts nearly every play,
+and he is universally bored.
+
+Get the home reading habit. Don't over-do it. Call on friends, go to a
+good picture show once in a while; to good concerts; to good plays, but
+do not make this going out in the evening plan a habit. Let it be merely
+a dessert, or a rarity; like candy and ice cream, proper and enjoyable
+when taken in moderation.
+
+When you get started reading worth-while books on science, on history,
+on geography, on travel, on natural history, you will get into an
+inexhaustible field of pleasure and satisfaction.
+
+Any time you can pick up your book and be happy.
+
+Waits in railway stations will be opportunities; trips on trains will be
+pleasant; evenings alone will be enjoyable, if you can get into a book
+you like.
+
+Mental pleasures are best.
+
+Material pleasures are merely passing pleasures.
+
+
+
+
+PANAMA
+
+The Man Who Found It and the Man Who Used It
+
+
+Four hundred years ago Jim Balboa climbed a mountain peak on the Isthmus
+of Panama, and looked on the boundless Pacific and said: "I have this
+day discovered you, and henceforth the geographies will perpetuate this
+great event."
+
+Little did Jim think that by 1914 ships of twenty thousand tons would
+sail through the impassable mountains.
+
+Jim knew he had discovered something great, but little did he dream of
+the real greatness of the world's future. Little did he dream that the
+vast new continent on whose neck he stood was to hold the greatest
+nation of the twentieth century.
+
+Gold, new territory for kings, new fields for the church--were the
+magnets which drew early navigators like Balboa to the land in the West
+across the Atlantic.
+
+Those early adventurers little thought of exploiting their discoveries
+for the benefit of mankind.
+
+It is a long time and a far cry from Capt. Balboa to Colonel Goethals,
+from the discoverer to the constructor, and it is our good fortune to
+see and enjoy a work beyond the wildest dreams of Columbus, Balboa,
+Cortez and the other wanderlust adventurers.
+
+Not only that, but the Panama Canal, now opened to the world, was for
+years deemed a chimerical dream and an impossibility, by the world as
+well as by most Americans.
+
+Every ditch digger, including the great De Lesseps, proved a failure, so
+to Yankee grit in the person of Goethals belongs the credit for the
+completed work which is now called the "Eighth Wonder of the World."
+
+The Pyramids, the hanging gardens of Babylon, are wonders, but we have a
+Yankee contractor who can duplicate them if anyone puts up the money for
+the job.
+
+We do not build pyramids or hanging gardens because they serve no useful
+purpose.
+
+The Panama Canal is a greater wonder and is a most practical benefit to
+mankind. It doubles our navy; it enables us to move supplies of every
+kind from one coast to the other quickly and less expensively.
+
+It shortens the world's highway between the oceans and helps every human
+being.
+
+Balboa's name will live in geographies as the discoverer of the Pacific
+Ocean, but Goethals' name will be remembered as the man who made most
+use of that discovery for the benefit of mankind.
+
+The shades of Balboa and De Lesseps likely stalk around Panama at
+midnight and rub their eyes in amazement.
+
+
+
+
+TODAY
+
+The One Time in Our Keeping
+
+
+As I walk on the old Santa Fe Trail each morning through Penn Valley
+Park in Kansas City, the marks of time are plainly visible.
+
+Erosion of water and wind have bared the sedimentary rocks and exposed
+the layers in well defined pages so I may study this great rock-paged
+geology book, and indeed it's a pleasure to me.
+
+Back of all is the grand plan of the Universe of which this earth is an
+atom. That plan is ruled by a Divine law and power.
+
+For you or me to take a fragment of truth and attempt to pass it as a
+definite science, a complete religion or all truth, is an assumption
+which these records of countless ages frown upon as a hopeless, bootless
+task.
+
+All science has some truth; all creeds, sects, isms and cults likewise
+have truth, but no branch or group possesses all truth.
+
+My fossil fish on the wall wiggled his tail thousands of years ago,
+very likely millions of years.
+
+He lived and died in accordance with the plan of the Creator of the
+Universe and you are an atom and I am an atom in that Universe and
+governed by the power that gave life and crushed to death that fossil
+fish.
+
+Verily we presume when we say, "we have all the truth; think as we do or
+you are lost."
+
+The old world has not told its full story. The Universe of which this
+world is a part is still a deeper mystery.
+
+We shall not know all truth until the great revealing time.
+
+We cannot change the pages of the millions of years gone by. We can do
+very little to change the pages of the millions of years to come. What
+little we can do, we can only do TODAY.
+
+Today is yours and mine; let's do the best we can with our possession in
+act and thought and word.
+
+The sun goes down behind the sky-line on the West as it has done for
+millions of years. I lay aside my pen with a bigger view, a deeper
+appreciation of the Creator and a profounder faith in His wisdom and
+works than ever.
+
+God made. God rules. God plans. And verily we are weaklings and foolish,
+who presume by selfish prayer to suggest to Him what He shall do.
+
+Let us strive to be appreciative of Him and try to lift ourselves in
+sublime thought into the higher faith thought and realize that we are
+part of Him and His plan, and failure is impossible to us, if we keep up
+and on, doing good, speaking softly, dealing gently, showing kindness
+today and living in accordance with the big, broad, generous, charitable
+plan instead of the little, bigoted, narrow, selfish idea that we are
+sole possessors of truth and that the man who differs with us in belief
+is in error.
+
+This chapter is about big things and in it is a big moral for all who
+are big enough to grasp it.
+
+
+
+
+DAD
+
+All for You, Old Man, and It's Timely
+
+
+This is your inning, Dad.
+
+There has been so many beautiful things written about Mother and all the
+rest of the family that it is high time we should tell you how we love
+you and how we appreciate you.
+
+You've worked so hard; you've been so ambitious to do things for your
+loved ones, and they have accepted your sacrifices, work, and
+watchfulness as matter of fact.
+
+You've had dreams of a some day when you would relax and play and enjoy,
+but you have set that some day too far ahead. You consider yourself
+after all your loved ones are more comfortable and happy, and time is
+passing, Dad; the marks of time are showing on your poor, tired head;
+the wrinkles of care are marking your face, and the roses are bleaching
+from your cheeks.
+
+You are too unselfish, too much centered in that some day. Let's change
+things a bit, Dad. Sometimes the some day doesn't come.
+
+You are entitled to, and it's your duty to have, happiness and pleasures
+and health and joys, right here now today.
+
+Your loved ones do not want you to spend your health getting wealth.
+They don't want to see you worn out, tired, weary and unhappy in the
+evening of your life. Besides it's your duty to let them share
+responsibility and work out their own problems. They will be better if
+you let them gain knowledge by practical experience.
+
+Come on, Dad; get in the group and enjoy things now and you will live
+longer and you will get more out of life and give more pleasure to your
+loved ones. Get in the game, Dad; let's see the old light and twinkle in
+your eyes; let's have the sunshine on your face; the love-light on your
+lips and the happiness in your heart. Come on, Dad, we all want you to
+do these things.
+
+Leave your cares at the office; come on and play, and you will be so
+much better and stronger and so much more successful in your business.
+
+Let's have the corners of your mouth turned up tonight at the supper
+table; be part of the family, Dad, not a poor, tired bread winner.
+
+We don't want to hear any more sh--sh--or whispers when you come home.
+We don't want to feel that restraint and uncomfortable feeling; let's
+laugh and sing and love and play--let's make your home-coming a joyous
+event.
+
+We all love you, Dad, but you haven't made it as comfortable as you
+might for us when we try to express our love. You've been too tired, too
+busy, too much occupied with those business thoughts.
+
+Don't you see how we love you, and how we appreciate you? Don't you know
+that there is no one in the world who can take the place of Dad?
+
+Keep your heart young, Dad; we will help if you only say "come on." We
+are waiting for the signal. Let's start the new schedule tonight; come
+on, Dad, what do you say?
+
+
+
+
+CRYING BABIES
+
+When They Cry There's a Reason; Find It
+
+
+Now come the wise doctors with the injunction to let the baby cry. They
+tell us it's good for the baby's lungs and that the baby needs the
+exercise and all that sort of rot.
+
+They augment this with the statement that if we soothe or coddle our
+babies they will get the habit and require our attention always before
+they go to sleep.
+
+Old Mother Nature has been pretty successful in raising animals. Let the
+kitten, dog, pig or chicken give the sign of pain or distress and the
+mother will hasten to its offspring and nestle it.
+
+When a baby cries, it's because it's hungry, or too warm or too hot or
+too uncomfortable, or it has pain or distress. It's just nature's
+instinct given by God to the helpless infant that it may call attention
+to its trouble. The doctor would complain if uncomfortable. The doctor
+or the parent can help himself, but the baby can use its only signal, a
+cry.
+
+When baby cries it should be taken up and soothed. Don't pay any
+attention to the doctor who says the baby cries to be petted; baby can't
+reason in its infant days; its little brain hasn't reached the reasoning
+powers.
+
+Doctors constantly protest and warn us against over exertion on the part
+of children and even adults; yet they tell us to let the few-weeks-old
+baby cry, which is the most violent and extreme exertion it can put
+forth.
+
+Crying puts a strain on all the baby's vital organs and its delicate,
+fragile blood vessels and heart. There have been thousands of babies who
+have had irreparable damage done to their constitutions because of this
+cold-blooded, heartless fad of the doctors, to let baby cry.
+
+Many a mother's heart is torn and wrung because of the doctor's order,
+"Let the baby cry."
+
+The mother is worked up into an excited nervous condition by the
+doctor's inhuman order to let the baby cry, and this same doctor tells
+her not to become excited because it will have a bad effect on her
+nursing baby. Just read this paragraph over again and see if the doctor
+hasn't crossed his logic wires and insulted common sense.
+
+The doctors become calloused; they are used to seeing pain and
+suffering. It's easy for them to endure pain in others, and easy for
+them to give them heartless orders.
+
+And generally the doctor who affects most knowledge about baby rearing
+is the one who has no babies of his own.
+
+Dr. Walls of Chicago is one of the most eminent child specialists in the
+world and he agrees with my conclusions in this matter and so does most
+every really great child specialist I know.
+
+When baby cries, find the reason; change its position; see if there is a
+pin sticking; find out whether it's heat, cold, hunger or pain.
+
+There's a reason why babies cry. My wife is emphatic on that point and
+she has reared three mighty fine babies, and I have watched and helped
+her.
+
+
+
+
+GIRL
+
+Be a Know Girl, Not a Show Girl
+
+
+Girl, what a wonderful creature you can be. What a glorious success you
+can make of your life, if you get the right start, the right hands to
+help you, the right hearts to love you, and the right eyes to watch you,
+the right thoughts to make you, and the right ideals to guide you.
+
+There are so many influences to spoil you, so much convention, so much
+artificiality, so much snobbery, so much caste, so much foolish
+frivolity.
+
+Then there are the wrong examples, the wrong grooming, the wrong
+environments, the wrong influences surrounding you, that it is not to be
+wondered why so many girls lose their heads and make a fizzle of their
+young lives.
+
+The fizzle is generally because daddy and mamma have a lot of foolish
+notions about bringing up the girls. Especially is this so if the
+parents are wealthy.
+
+Here is the history of many a rich girl. She is born without welcome,
+fed on a bottle, reared by a nurse, grows up in a nursery, estranged
+from her mother, later on sent away to school, mixes with a lot of other
+rich girls, gets lots of foolish notions, false estimates, and
+prejudiced views. She graduates and comes home and there are a lot of
+"doings" which she attends, then comes the show-off which is called a
+debut.
+
+She is shown off like a filly at the horse show, and some high-collared
+young man wins her head although she thinks it's her heart. She thinks
+it's the thing to marry, and he is such "a swell fellow," he is such
+"good company," and he "dances so well,"--these qualities win her head.
+
+So the girl marries, has children, husband goes broke and the girl
+awakens to the necessity of coming down from her pedestal, facing stern
+necessity, and raising her children as her mother should have raised
+her.
+
+That's the picture of the poor rich girl whose parents are to blame for
+the nonsense she got in her head.
+
+But, you, Girl, you are going to learn your cooking on a gas range
+instead of a chafing dish; you'll learn to bake bread before fudge;
+you'll learn how to cook solids before you learn to make salads.
+
+You will study simplicity, sentiment, sense, sereneness, sweetness,
+rather than envy, frills, feathers and foolishness.
+
+God's noblest woman's calling is the work for children and home.
+
+To cook and sew is a higher duty and better occupation than bridge
+parties and society.
+
+Not that you must cook and sew, my dear, but that you can if necessary.
+
+With the ability to cook and sew you can properly direct the cook or
+seamstress, and they will respect you for your education.
+
+The painted, powdered, tinsel, fluff, feathers and furebelow girl may be
+dashing now and you may envy her, but you, with your quiet, sweet,
+simple, sensible ways--you will win real love, real respect, real
+affection, real pleasures, real satisfaction, in all the days to come;
+you will make a success of your life.
+
+Frills and feathers may be an attraction to the girl who makes the
+fizzle of her life, but sweetness and simplicity, and sentiment and
+sense, are precious jewels that will endure for all time.
+
+Be that sweet girl. Do not be the "show" kind, or the blow kind, be the
+real "know" kind, and you will grow in the hearts of all who love
+reality and hate artificiality. We all love the "know" kind--the sweet,
+simple, sensible girl who knows.
+
+So here's my hand, little sister, little daughter, little girl, and to
+you here are also the sweetest thoughts of mine heart, for I picture you
+through eyes, and through a heart, that sees two sweet little girls of
+my very own.
+
+I am going to stick mighty close to my girls and try to bring them up to
+be real girls who will be loving, lovable and loved.
+
+So then here is the hope that you, girl, will start right, keep right
+and end right. I want you to think of sense, sentiment, and simplicity
+rather than dances, dollars, duds and doings.
+
+I want your life to be one of poise, happiness and serenity instead of
+noise, worry and nerves.
+
+This little message is all for you--GIRL.
+
+
+
+
+SPECULATION
+
+You Can't Earn Your Board on the Board of Trade
+
+
+I've been riding through the golden wheat belt of Kansas, and estimated
+the new wealth; for that which grows is the only real profit or wealth.
+All else are trades, speculation or bookkeeping accounts.
+
+The farmer plants the wheat. God makes it grow and we eat it.
+
+But in a big building in an amphitheater in the city, is a crowd of wild
+men in shirt sleeves, perspiring, shouting, making signs, clawing the
+air. This crowd never raised wheat, but they raise pandemonium. It's the
+board of trade; its job is getting the wheat from the farm to you and me
+who require it to live.
+
+I've recently visited the biggest food market in the world, the Chicago
+Board of Trade. Below the gallery sat a nice dignified elderly man who
+wrote a note on a slip of paper, folded it and gave it to a boy.
+
+The boy was off like a shot to the wheat pit; he gave it to another
+white-haired young-faced man of cultured, refined, even scholarly
+bearing, so different from the row raisers in the pit.
+
+This nice man was the floor man for a big grain commission house; he
+read the message, and then did the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde act. He
+turned red, purple, and green. His neck swelled, he threw back his head
+and screamed while he held up his hand and five fingers. Each finger
+meant 5,000 bushels of wheat; five fingers meant 25,000 bushels to sell.
+In an instant, like a pack of wolves, the other crazy men raised their
+hands with bent and twisted fingers, the sign language of the pit.
+
+The old man made a sign, the wheat was sold. He was Dr. Jekyll again; he
+yawned and was composed once more.
+
+Soon a boy came with another slip, and the old man went mad again. I
+asked my host if it wasn't pretty busy today; he said "no, it's a dull
+market."
+
+That 25,000 bushels of wheat was sold half a dozen times. Every broker
+who handled it got a commission. The buying and selling was speculation.
+
+Outside the board were the hangers on, the down-and-outs, the has-beens,
+who used to be in the pit and throw fits like the nice old man I've
+described.
+
+These has-beens have the speculation bug, and hope they can come back
+some day and make fortunes out of lucky guesses.
+
+The only ones who make money on the board of trade are the company who
+rents offices, the cigar man, the lunch man, and the telegraph
+operators, and the commission men who get one-eighth of a cent a bushel
+either way the market goes. Some of these commission men get the
+speculation bug and go broke, and yet there are callow youths and
+business men and clerks and other outsiders who believe they are smart
+enough to speculate on the Board of Trade. That belief helps fatten our
+penitentiaries.
+
+No outsider ever made money on the Board of Trade if he stayed with the
+game. And the speculators on the inside graduate to the down-and-out
+class if they play long enough. There's a group of millionaires who
+control them and all others are pikers.
+
+You can't beat the Board of Trade; it's not in the cards.
+
+
+
+
+STARS
+
+A Little Study of the Universe
+
+
+Tonight I am in the Ozarks and old Mother Earth is passing through the
+belt of meteoric dust, that great mysterious sea in the universe through
+which we pass every year about the middle of November.
+
+It is midnight. I will not reach my destination until 1:30 in the
+morning. Two fellow passengers in the car, after cussing their luck,
+have finally gone to Snoozeland, while I call the passing hours
+opportunity.
+
+I look out into the night and marvel at the countless stars in the
+infinite black void, and wonder how closely those stars may be connected
+with humanity.
+
+That they are connected I have no doubt, for truly "the sun, the moon,
+the stars, and endless space as well, are parts, are things, like me,
+that cometh from and runneth by one grand power of which I am in truth a
+part, an atom though I be."
+
+How many stars are there? Well, let's get ready to appreciate number. I
+can see about 3,000; with opera glasses I could see 30,000.
+
+The late Franklin Adams photographed the whole canopy with 206
+photographs. He counted the stars by mathematical plans, and gives the
+conclusion that there are 1,600,000,000 stars, and that number is just
+about the number of humans on this earth. So then there is one star for
+each of us.
+
+Each of those stars, practically speaking, is larger than the earth.
+Many have human beings who think and reason like we do. Multiply the
+1,600,000,000 population on this earth by any portion of the
+1,600,000,000 stars that may have thinking creatures on them; multiply
+that total by the millions of years and millions of generations that
+have passed out of existence.
+
+Think of these numbers and limitless boundaries and then tell me that
+one little man, on one little star we call earth, has a strangle-hold on
+truth, and that his viewpoint, his ism, his little dogma, his narrow
+creed, is all sufficient, and that he can give me and you and them
+definite rules and patterns for our belief.
+
+Verily, little protoplasm, you have another guess. We can by
+experience and tests prove two and two make four. We can by practice and
+experience prove that love, kindness, help, gentleness, sympathy, cheer
+and courage bring happiness.
+
+These are tangible things; but when one wee Willie with sober face tells
+you and me and others that he has the truth about the definite, full
+workings of God's plans and purposes, I think of the greatness of
+1,600,000,000 stars each with 1,600,000,000 humans and of the unnumbered
+generations gone by, and say, verily we must live TODAY and do the best
+we can today in act and thought and word.
+
+Yesterday is dead, tomorrow is unknown; where we have been, where we
+will be, we know not. Where we are today we know, and God in His great
+plan knows only the final answer as to our future estate.
+
+He will take us and hold us and place us in His keeping and according to
+His purpose, even though we do not or cannot follow or believe any one
+of the little man-formed creeds, isms or cults as the measure and rule
+for our beliefs.
+
+Those stars testify to the certainty of God, and I believe in Him.
+
+
+
+
+LEADERS
+
+Are Ever Subject to Backbiters
+
+
+When a man by his brains or by fortunate combination or circumstances
+arises to a position of prominence he becomes a target for the envious
+and a pattern for the imitator.
+
+Emulation and envy are ever alert in trying to steal the fruits of the
+leader or doer of things.
+
+The man who makes a name gets both reward and punishment. The reward is
+his satisfaction in being a producer, a help to the world, and the glory
+that comes from widespread recognition and publicity of his
+accomplishment. The punishment is the slurs, the enmity, the envy and
+the detraction, to say nothing of the downright lies which are told
+about him.
+
+When a man writes a great book, builds a great machine, discovers a
+great truth or invents a useful article, he becomes a target for the
+envious few.
+
+If he does a mediocre thing he is unnoticed; if his work is a
+masterpiece, jealousy wags its tongue and untruth uses its sting.
+
+Wagner was jeered. Whistler was called a mere charlatan. Langley was
+pronounced crazy. Fulton and Stephenson were pitied. Columbus faced
+mutiny on his ship on the eve of his discovery of land. Millet starved
+in his attic. Time has passed, and the backbiters are all in unmarked
+graves. The world until its end will enjoy Wagner's music, Whistler and
+Millet's painting will attract artists from all over the world, and
+inventors will reverence the names of Fulton and Stephenson.
+
+The leader is assailed because he has done a thing worth while; the
+slanderers are trying to equal his feat, but their imitations serve to
+prove his greatness.
+
+Because jealous ones cannot equal the leader they seek to belittle him.
+
+But the truly worth-while man wins his laurels and he remains a leader;
+he had made his genius and the creature of his hopes and brains known to
+the world.
+
+Above the clamor and noise, above the din of the rocks thrown at him,
+his masterpiece and his fame endure.
+
+And compensation, the salve to the sore, makes the great man deaf to
+the noise and immune to the attacks of the knockers.
+
+In his own heart he knows he has done a thing worth while; his own
+conscience is clear, and he cares not for the estimate of the world.
+
+His own character is his chief concern, and he is content in the
+knowledge that time will bring its reward.
+
+If you have high ideals in business, if you make success, mark well, you
+will be a subject of attacks, of lies, of malice, of envy, of
+disreputable competition; there is no way out of it.
+
+But you will be repaid. The lover of fair play, the grateful, the true,
+honest, worth-while people will flock to your standard; the riff-raff
+will skulk behind bushes and throw rocks and mud, but their acts will
+prove to the great mass of the people that your purposes, practices and
+policies are right.
+
+Therefore, courage is to be your chief asset; with patience, pride,
+perseverance your lieutenants.
+
+Be not weary, grow not discouraged when your progress is hampered by
+obstacles.
+
+
+
+
+OLD AGE
+
+The Pleasures of a Well Lived Life
+
+
+There are three periods in our lives: the youth period or prospective
+period, the adult or introspective period, and the old age or
+retrospective period.
+
+Too many there are who look forward to old age with fear or dread.
+
+But old age has its joys and pleasures as keen as youth or adult age, if
+the youth and adult ages were lived sanely, worthily and properly.
+
+If middle age is spent in getting dollars only, then old age will be
+days of empty nothingness.
+
+Youth is the planning time of ideals and ambitions, middle age the
+building time and old age the dividend time.
+
+With many, old age is reading the book of the past, with sadness as the
+reader recognizes that the ideals, plans and hopes were shattered. As
+age turns the page in the book of the past he reads one hope after
+another vanished in smoke.
+
+Anticipation is seldom realized, and this is as it should be, for in
+time men will learn to live each day for each day's good and each day's
+happiness.
+
+Let us perform our duty today, let us put away a kindly act, a smile, a
+word of cheer in the bank of good deeds.
+
+Each of us has our share in this world's work. It matters little whether
+our actual share is what we had guessed or wished it to be.
+
+Vicissitudes clip us here and there, so-called misfortune or bad luck
+will strike us when least suspected. The failure of our dreams should
+not grieve us.
+
+We cannot reach up and grasp the stars, but like the pilot at the wheel
+at sea we can steer by those stars and help us on our way.
+
+Our ideal may not be realized but the journey to it may still be a
+pleasant one.
+
+Our ideals, plans and hopes had a real purpose, a real service; they
+gave us courage and made us work and thus they were well worth while.
+
+We must not in the old age period condemn ourselves because our plans
+failed or our castles were shattered.
+
+There is no hard luck but incurable disease or death. It is not for us
+to mourn the past or weep over the vases from which the flowers are
+gone.
+
+In our active days we must realize we are putting memories away in our
+brains that will come back to us in old age.
+
+Only what we put in our brains we can take out.
+
+So then, Mr. Avarice, I warn you if gold is your God it's cold comfort
+you will get in your sunset days.
+
+Build up loving ties, appreciation and worth-while riches of good deeds,
+and in your evening of life you will be welcome in the midst of the
+group.
+
+If your life was sold for gold your evening of life will be short and
+miserable; legatees will grudge you your every breath; they will endure
+you simply because they are checking off the days from Time's calendar
+until the day of your passing, and the dollars you sold your soul and
+heart and life for will be lavishly spent by cold-blooded heirs who
+cared nothing for you.
+
+Leave a legacy of love, example and character, and if with these there
+are a few dollars, they simply prove your frugality, economy and
+independence.
+
+A few dollars left to heirs will help. Many dollars will hurt. Dollars
+in old age will give you pleasure by helping in tight corners, and
+helping your loved ones over the bumps in the road.
+
+Use the dollars to help those you love to help themselves, and your old
+age will be a busy, happy one and you won't be in the way.
+
+To prepare for that happy period of your life the foundation must be
+built in the active today period.
+
+Carry smiles in your old age; they will keep the heart young, the
+digestion good, and life will be worth while.
+
+
+
+
+TIME
+
+What Geology Tells Us About Time
+
+
+I have traveled horseback over the great arid plains of the West and
+read the story of the ages gone before.
+
+In Arizona and New Mexico there are ancient ruins of forts and cities
+built by people we know not of.
+
+Chalcedony Park with its petrified forest of mammoth trees silently
+testifies to a period when vegetation was rampant and on what is now a
+desert.
+
+In Wyoming there is coal enough to furnish fuel for the United States
+for several centuries.
+
+Coal is carbon made from trees and vegetation covered with earth and
+rock, pressed, and preserved through the thousands of years necessary to
+change it from vegetable to carbon.
+
+Oceans and floods gradually covered millions of acres of trees and
+plants with ooze and soil and sand. Ages turned some of these deposits
+to stone.
+
+There in bleak Wyoming is testimony and evidence of changes that time
+only can bring about.
+
+"A thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years." Thus
+wrote the scribe of old. So then we must consider this estimate of time
+in reading the history of the sequential events in the first chapter of
+Genesis which describes the order of the world's creation.
+
+The arrangement of the formation of the world was the dividing the light
+from the darkness, conforming to the rotation of our globe and
+consequent day and night.
+
+Then the separating of land and water, then the birth of vegetation on
+the land, the creation of fish and reptiles in the sea, the fowls of the
+air, the beasts of the field and finally the higher animal, man.
+
+And the pages of the earth's surface carry in their stratification
+indelible records harmonizing with this scriptural arrangement of the
+evolution of the earth from its chaotic misty past to its concrete
+definite present.
+
+Yes, this earth of ours is old, so old mere man cannot contemplate or
+accurately estimate its wondrous age.
+
+The fossils of the mammoth reptiles and beasts which lived before the
+ken of man are numerous in the fascinating West I know so well.
+
+In those arid desert hills are bones of the ancient rhinoceros, parent
+of our horse, and there are shells and fossils of fish and bones of
+animals imbedded in the strata of rock.
+
+Man reads these pages and he is lost in bewilderment, impoverished in
+thought, dumb for words, paralyzed for expressions, to co-ordinate the
+evidence with any man measure of what the age of the earth is.
+
+Historians say the world was 4,004 years old before the Christian era
+and 1915 years have passed since then, making the age to date 5,919
+years.
+
+The first records speak of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and up to the
+time Cain went to the land of Nod there is no record of any other people
+in the world.
+
+It is not surprising that through the dark ages dates and facts were
+lost and even there may have been mistakes in translations.
+
+We have not a complete history in written language, but we have some
+very definite history in the rocks and hills and lands and seas.
+
+There must have been people in the world when Cain went to the land of
+Nod, for the Bible history says Cain took unto himself a wife and his
+wife bore him a son and she named the son Enoch, and she builded a city
+for her first born and the name of the city was called Enoch.
+
+The world certainly is more than 5,919 years old. Read the record of
+time so plainly visible at Niagara Falls.
+
+Niagara Falls eats away about two feet of rock in a century; the gorge
+is a good many miles long. At the present rate of erosion it takes 2,640
+years to eat away a mile. Multiply that by the distance between the
+falls and Lake Ontario and you have an idea of how many years Niagara
+Falls has been at work.
+
+Before Niagara Falls was in existence the country round about was under
+the sea; before that under glaciers; before that under the tropics, and
+I don't know how many times it has swung on its pendulum between Frigid,
+Temperate and Tropic Zones.
+
+So you see we are getting lost in a labyrinth of mystery when we take
+these known facts concerning the earth's age and try to definitely set
+any particular number of millions of years as the old world's age.
+
+
+
+
+CLOSING NOTE
+
+A Little Appreciation to Everyone Who Reads This Book
+
+
+And now my pleasant occupation of writing this book draws to an end. I
+sincerely hope you have received some definite suggestions that will be
+helpful to you; that's my first purpose.
+
+I have more books in my brain in embryo. They are hatching out and you
+may look for books of mine to appear every once in awhile so long as
+ability to write is mine.
+
+There is an indescribable something in my relation with my readers that
+is sweet beyond words to tell. I look upon you, the readers, as brothers
+and sisters; yes, more than that, you are my friends.
+
+As I travel both in this country and abroad I drop in book stores and
+meet the friends who sell my books and from them I hear some mighty
+pleasant and enthusiastic expressions of approval. Appreciation is worth
+more than dollars.
+
+The daily increasing sales of my books is due to one thing, and that is
+that you, my readers, my friends, are telling your friends to buy my
+books. This personal interest and recommendation is advertising of the
+most valuable kind.
+
+Because you get your friends to buy, the sales are good and that's
+encouragement. It's the spur that keeps me ever writing, planning, and
+studying, that I may write more books.
+
+So here is my hand of friendship, my heart's gratitude, my complete
+appreciation of your interest and patronage.
+
+We've spent many pleasant moments together in these evening round-ups,
+and until we meet again in person or through one of my books, keep good
+thoughts working for your benefit. Get serenity, poise, power, purpose
+and good cheer.
+
+You can be strong; you will be strong so long as you control your
+thought habits.
+
+Life is beautiful, it's well worth while. Clouds will come, obstacles
+will confront you, troubles will get in your way; but each and all of
+these will disappear, if you keep on your way, with courage, smiles,
+will power, and perseverance.
+
+And from me and my loved ones to you and your loved ones here are all
+good wishes, and encouragement, and sympathy, and love, all tied
+together with this golden thought: let us help one another while we
+sojourn here today, and as we do it--let us
+
+                    LIVE
+                         LAUGH and
+                                   LOVE
+
+Thus endeth our Evening Round-Up.
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+Poise
+    Efficiency
+             Peace
+
+By Col. Wm. C. Hunter
+
+Real Self Help
+   Optimism
+     Health
+and Happiness
+
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+
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+
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+
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+help or a hindrance to yourself? In either case, you don't care what's
+wrong--you want to know what's right! Let this book tell you. When you
+are willing to help yourself, here is a ready friend to point the way.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+         PEP
+
+256 pages, $1.00
+
+This book is the same size as PEP but has thirty-two pages more. The
+following foreword of the author tells its purpose:
+
+"Each evening, just before retiring, we will have a little Round-Up of
+the day's doings, of the problems of our business and home life, of our
+hopes and ambitions.
+
+"We'll try to solve perplexities, dissolve worries absolve ourselves from
+pull backs and resolve to better our lives.
+
+"We'll plan and prepare, that we may have more poise--efficiency--peace;
+that's PEP.
+
+"We'll learn how to establish helpful thought habit, that our lives may
+be full of gladsome notes instead of gruesome gloom."--The Author.
+
+The Evening Round Up will be appreciated and welcomed by all who have
+read PEP. It's a great, inspiring, practical, plain, powerful book. It
+is brilliantly written, and most fascinating reading.
+
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+
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+
+This Great Book
+
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+
+Price 50 Cents.
+
+A practical book of business "horse sense," containing 130 pages of
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+suggestive, simple in language and systematic in arrangement. It
+embodies little theory but much tried-out truth. It has a real
+dollar-and-cent value to employer and employee.
+
+You will find interest and benefit in its pages. Fully a half million of
+these books have found appreciative readers. It has been bought in large
+quantities by heads of firms and of departments to give to those under
+them. The investment brings a substantial return to both.
+
+Bound in cloth; size, 41/2 x 61/4 inches.
+
+Sent to any address postpaid for 50c.
+
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+
+
+Brass Tacks
+
+By Col. Wm. C. Hunter
+
+50 Cents
+
+[Illustration: book cover]
+
+A volume of "capsule optimism," full of smiles, cheer, courage and hope
+
+Brass Tacks is a unique publication, so-called because Col. Hunter gets
+right down to "brass tacks" in advancing pointed optimisms, level-headed
+truths, driven-home common sense. It is a book of vital paragraphs and
+concrete ideas dealing with the life issues of every day. A suggestive,
+terse guide to right thinking along the highway of humor and
+hopefulness.
+
+There are sentences to remember for their keen analysis, their brevity,
+their wit. You will like "Brass Tacks" if you like to get somewhere and
+get there quickly. There is entertainment and inspiration. It is the
+kind of book you re-read--and find new meanings and help each time.
+
+Bound in cloth; size, 41/2 x 61/4 inches, a handy size to slip in
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+
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+
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+
+
+Ginger Snaps
+
+By COL. Wm. C. HUNTER
+
+[Illustration: book cover]
+
+This Great Book
+
+will reach a sale of a million, we hope.
+
+Price 50 Cents
+
+GINGER SNAPS is a book of business helps. It is one of the best business
+books from the pen of Colonel Hunter, and he declares it even a better
+book than its famous companion, Dollars and Sense.
+
+Ginger Snaps is up to the minute in helpful, practical business
+suggestions, profitable plans and good ideas.
+
+It is the same size as Dollars and Sense, printed in the same type, and
+on the same quality of paper. Ginger Snaps is printed on heavy paper and
+bound in imitation leather cover, semi-flexible.
+
+The size of Ginger Snaps is four and a half by six inches. It is a
+handy, tasty volume for pocket, for traveling bag or library table.
+
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+business houses to give to employees. It's a splendid book for this
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