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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]
+
+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVENING ROUND UP***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Colin Bell, Bill Tozier, and the
+Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
+(http://www.pgdp.net/)
+
+
+
+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 blasé 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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+
+Poise
+    Efficiency
+             Peace
+
+By Col. Wm. C. Hunter
+
+Real Self Help
+   Optimism
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+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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+         PEP
+
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+
+This book is the same size as PEP but has thirty-two pages more. The
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+
+"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
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+is brilliantly written, and most fascinating reading.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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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, 4½ × 6¼ inches.
+
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+
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+
+
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+
+By Col. Wm. C. Hunter
+
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+
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+
+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.
+
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+
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+
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+
+[Illustration: book cover]
+
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+
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+
+Price 50 Cents
+
+GINGER SNAPS is a book of business helps. It is one of the best business
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+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
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+
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+handy, tasty volume for pocket, for traveling bag or library table.
+
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, Evening Round Up, by William Crosbie Hunter</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre>
+<p>Title: Evening Round Up</p>
+<p>       More Good Stuff Like Pep</p>
+<p>Author: William Crosbie Hunter</p>
+<p>Release Date: December 12, 2006  [eBook #20098]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVENING ROUND UP***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Colin Bell, Bill Tozier,<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (http://www.pgdp.net/)</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class = "mynote">
+Transcriber's note:<br />
+<br />
+A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected,
+but words consistently misspelt by the author have been left
+intact. Emendations are shown in the text with <ins class = "mycorr" title =
+"like this">mouse-hover popups</ins>.<br />
+<br />
+The illustration of the author formed the frontispiece of the original book.
+</div>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class = "frontmatter">
+
+<h1>Evening Round-Up</h1>
+<h2>More Good Stuff Like<br/>PEP</h2>
+<p><small>BY</small></p>
+<h2>COL. WM. C. HUNTER</h2>
+<p><small>Author of</small></p>
+<p>
+Pep&mdash;Dollars and Sense&mdash;Brass Tacks<br/>
+Ginger Snaps&mdash;and Other Books
+</p>
+<p class="break">$1.00 Net</p>
+
+<p class="break">
+<small>PUBLISHED BY</small><br/>
+HUNTER SERVICE<br/>
+<small>KANSAS CITY, MO., U. S. A.</small>
+</p>
+
+<p class="break">
+Copyright, 1915<br/>
+by WM. C. HUNTER
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/fig004-300dpi.jpg" alt="The author" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS.</h2>
+<table width = "85%">
+<tr>
+<td>
+<ul class="TOC">
+<li>Anger<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_150">150</a></span></li>
+<li>Brass Tacks<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_250">250</a></span></li>
+<li>Character<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_252">252</a></span></li>
+<li>Church<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></span></li>
+<li>Closing Note<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_242">242</a></span></li>
+<li>Continuous Happiness<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_86">86</a></span></li>
+<li>Crying Babies<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_218">218</a></span></li>
+<li>Dad<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_215">215</a></span></li>
+<li>Daughters<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_138">138</a></span></li>
+<li>Diet Rules<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_71">71</a></span></li>
+<li>Doing Things Twice<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></span></li>
+<li>Dollars and Sense<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_249">249</a></span></li>
+<li>Dreams<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_97">97</a></span></li>
+<li>Egotism<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_188">188</a></span></li>
+<li>Elimination<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_82">82</a></span></li>
+<li>Fake Medicines<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_177">177</a></span></li>
+<li>Food<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_134">134</a></span></li>
+<li>Friends<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_104">104</a></span></li>
+<li>Geology<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_193">193</a></span></li>
+<li>Ginger Snaps<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_251">251</a></span></li>
+<li>Girl<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_221">221</a></span></li>
+<li>Gloom<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></span></li>
+<li>Happiness<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></span></li>
+<li>Home<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_68">68</a></span></li>
+<li>Inventory<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></span></li>
+<li>Insomnia<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_156">156</a></span></li>
+<li>In the Big Woods<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_124">124</a></span></li>
+<li>Laziness<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_119">119</a></span></li>
+<li>Leaders<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_231">231</a></span></li>
+<li>Making Plans<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></span></li>
+<li>Man's Danger<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_108">108</a></span></li>
+<li>Medicine<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></span></li>
+<li>Mental Pleasures<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_206">206</a></span></li>
+<li>Mistakes<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_159">159</a></span></li>
+<li>Mother<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_128">128</a></span></li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td>
+<ul class="TOC">
+<li>Natural Law<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></span></li>
+
+<li>Negative Attitude<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_73">73</a></span></li>
+<li>Nerves<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></span></li>
+<li>Observation<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></span></li>
+<li>Old Age<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_234">234</a></span></li>
+<li>Our Bodies<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_131">131</a></span></li>
+<li>Our Sons<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_111">111</a></span></li>
+<li>Panama<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_209">209</a></span></li>
+<li>Patriotism<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_197">197</a></span></li>
+<li>Pep<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_246">246</a></span></li>
+<li>Perseverance<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></span></li>
+<li>Personal<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></span></li>
+<li>Pessimists<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></span></li>
+<li>Pills<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_173">173</a></span></li>
+<li>Pioneer Mothers<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_145">145</a></span></li>
+<li>Poise<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_142">142</a></span></li>
+<li>Practical Helps<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></span></li>
+<li>Reading<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></span></li>
+<li>Real Charity<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_100">100</a></span></li>
+<li>Religious Extremes<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_114">114</a></span></li>
+<li>Ridicule<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_200">200</a></span></li>
+<li>Salt<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_154">154</a></span></li>
+<li>Self Accusation<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_89">89</a></span></li>
+<li>Sincerity<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_167">167</a></span></li>
+<li>Speculation<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_225">225</a></span></li>
+<li>Stars<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_228">228</a></span></li>
+<li>Thought Control<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></span></li>
+<li>Time<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_238">238</a></span></li>
+<li>To-day<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_212">212</a></span></li>
+<li>To-morrow<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></span></li>
+<li>Verbomania<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></span></li>
+<li>Walking<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_78">78</a></span></li>
+<li>Wives<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_203">203</a></span></li>
+<li>Woman's Beauty<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_94">94</a></span></li>
+<li>Worry<span class="TOCralign"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></span></li>
+
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p class="center">
+Dedicated<br />
+to Nancy, my wife
+</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FOREWORD" id="FOREWORD"></a>FOREWORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We'll try to solve perplexities, dissolve worries,
+absolve ourselves from pull-backs, and resolve to
+better our lives.</p>
+
+<p>We'll plan and prepare that we may have more
+poise&mdash;efficiency&mdash;peace; that's Pep.</p>
+
+<p>We'll learn how to establish helpful thought
+habit that our lives may be full of gladsome notes
+instead of gruesome gloom.</p>
+
+<p>We'll aim at</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+LIFE&mdash;LOVE&mdash;LAUGHTER<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>These, then, are the purposes of this book.</p>
+
+<p class="right nobreak">WM. C. HUNTER,</p>
+<p class="right nobreak">Kansas City, Mo.</p>
+<p class="nobreak">July 18, 1915.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a name="WORRY" id="WORRY"></a>WORRY</h2>
+
+<h3>The Nerve Racking Pace That
+Causes "Americanitis"</h3>
+
+<p>Nervous breakdowns are increasing as a
+result of the American worry phobia.</p>
+
+<p>This high tension Americanitis presumes
+too much upon nature, by persistently
+forcing the nerves to carry loads far beyond
+their capacity.</p>
+
+<p>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 blas&eacute; and constitutional
+pessimists.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Both men and women go the terrific
+gait. Men and women having this health-destroying
+worry, mate and marry and they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
+lay foundations for deficient progeny that
+suffers from the sins of the parents.</p>
+
+<p>The phobia is almost universal; it has
+permeated all classes of society from highest
+to lowest.</p>
+
+<p>Excitement, that's the keynote; for the
+rich there is society and polo and useless
+functions and conventions.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Society is the builder of fourflushers, the
+generator of insincerity&mdash;falsehood and
+rottenness.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>It's rush, push, excitement at any cost.
+The great cost which they don't seem to
+consider is the cost of the nerves.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The way to preserve and conserve nerve<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>
+equilibrium and power is to rest and relax
+the nerves each day.</p>
+
+<p>You may rest them by a change of the
+thought habit each day, by relaxation, by
+sleep, and by suggestions made in this
+book.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If you abuse your stomach, head, heart,
+lungs, liver, kidneys or eyes, you have
+distress and pain.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each
+day, like the rains replenish the cistern.</p>
+
+<p>A reasonable use of your nerve force,
+like a reasonable use of the rainwater,
+means you can maintain a permanent
+supply.</p>
+
+<p>But you must be reasonable; you must
+give the cistern a chance to refill and replace
+that which you have drawn out.</p>
+
+<p>You, who have shattered and tattered
+your nerves, are not hopeless. You can<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
+come back, but it must be done by complete
+change of the acts that brought on
+the condition.</p>
+
+<p>Get more sleep. Eliminate the useless,
+harmful fads, fancies and functions, which
+disturbed and prevented you from living a
+sane, rational life.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Eat less heat-making foods and more
+apples. Follow the diet, exercise and
+thought rules suggested in "Pep."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I know, my friend, for I've trotted the
+heat, danced the measure, and been through
+the mill.</p>
+
+<p>Now I am fearless, calm and prepared.
+I can stand any calamity, meet any issue,
+endure any sorrow.</p>
+
+<p>I can do prodigious work in an emergency,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+go without rest or eating when required,
+because I have Pep, which means poise,
+efficiency&mdash;peace.</p>
+
+<p>I realize nothing bad is as bad as it is
+painted. Nothing is as good as its boosters
+claim.</p>
+
+<p>I go in the middle of the road, avoiding
+extremes. I have confidence in my heart,
+courage, hope, happiness, and content.</p>
+
+<p>I've buried envy in a deep pit and covered
+it with quick lime.</p>
+
+<p>I am keeping worry out by keeping
+faith, hope and cheer thoughts in my
+brain room, and these are antiseptics
+against the worry microbe.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Worry growls once in a while just to
+make me grab tighter the handle of my
+whip.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MAKING_PLANS" id="MAKING_PLANS"></a>MAKING PLANS</h2>
+
+<h3>How to Use Our Assets to Best
+Advantage</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The planning time therefor was time
+well spent.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>
+it means double energy and extra moves
+to produce a given effect.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>With the object of conserving energy and
+strengthening your force, this book is
+written.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I have received many comments about
+that particular suggestion.</p>
+
+<p>I find that many of the great captains of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>
+industry who are accomplishing things
+worth while, have learned the value of this
+daily habit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;a
+sort of daily round-up.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the evening we have time to study
+logic and to reason, to analyze and inventory,
+to thresh out problems.</p>
+
+<p>So let us relax and reflect in these evening
+round-ups.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="NATURAL_LAW" id="NATURAL_LAW"></a>NATURAL LAW</h2>
+
+<h3>Obedience Is Rewarded, Violation
+Is Punished</h3>
+
+
+<p>Man's nature makes it imperative for
+him to be interested in something.</p>
+
+<p>That interest is to his help or hurt,
+according as he directs it.</p>
+
+<p>There is much worry and misery in the
+world because so many are astatic, like a
+compass that has lost its loadstone.</p>
+
+<p>Man is definitely the result of the
+materials the body and the mind feed
+upon.</p>
+
+<p>Character is the result of a determined
+purpose to be and to do right, to one's self
+and to his fellows.</p>
+
+<p>The man of character focuses his attention
+on truth, and on fact.</p>
+
+<p>He uses theories with fact, to aid his
+progress, but he recognizes that theories,
+without fact as a safety ballast, is a useless
+expenditure.</p>
+
+<p>Theories without fact leaves man in a
+rudderless boat; he gets nowhere, he only
+drifts.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Theories often help to get at facts, but
+the better way is to get at fact by proven
+experience, of which there is an <ins class="mycorr" title="printed
+text 'inexhaustable'">inexhaustible</ins>
+abundance in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Facts are based on natural laws. The
+study of natural laws is beneficial.</p>
+
+<p>We shall strive in our studies to keep
+close to fact with just enough speculation
+to enliven the interest in facts.</p>
+
+<p>Living the artificial life makes for worry,
+illness and failure.</p>
+
+<p>Living in harmony with the great natural
+laws is the helpful way to live.</p>
+
+<p>To abide by the law is safety, to violate
+the law brings punishment.</p>
+
+<p>Every man is better if he follows scientific
+methods and habits of thought and living.</p>
+
+<p>The loafing or astatic mind will fall into
+morbid tendencies.</p>
+
+<p>The employed, truth-seeking, idealistic,
+hopeful mind is never dependent on people
+or things for its pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Evening Round-Up is intended to be
+a companionable, helpful text book, a
+counselor and a friend.</p>
+
+<p>We shall strive to bring helpful knowledge,
+good cheer and interesting facts, for
+your present occupation and benefit.</p>
+
+<p>If I succeed in accomplishing my purpose
+even in part my time has been well spent.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>While we live we shall never get away
+from our thought; so then, we must consider
+that thought current, and reckon
+with it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Scientific books are usually dry, uninviting
+reading; they lack the human interest.
+They are generally bloodless skeletons.</p>
+
+<p>We shall try to weave science into new
+patterns and paint interesting pictures so
+that science will attract and not repel.</p>
+
+<p>This book is different in its suggestions,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>
+in its prescriptions, in its language, but it
+is universal with all scientific books, in that
+its aim is helpful truth.</p>
+
+<p>We go by different routes, but our objective
+point is the same.</p>
+
+<p>We will avoid technical names and symbols
+and speak the common language that
+the multitude understands.</p>
+
+<p>We shall deal with problems and aspirations
+that come to us all in this busy
+workaday world.</p>
+
+<p>We shall try to cut the underbrush in
+the swamp and blaze a plain trail out on to
+the big high road.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Every moment of our journey shall be
+worth while and positively helpful if we
+take the trip with conscientious applications,
+and continuity of purpose.</p>
+
+<p>Our path is strewn with roses and thorns;
+we must enjoy the roses and escape the
+thorns.</p>
+
+<p>We welcome you, the neophyte, who has
+joined us in our pilgrimage.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PERSONAL" id="PERSONAL"></a>PERSONAL</h2>
+<h3>Are YOU Pleasant to Live With?</h3>
+
+
+<p>Let's be personal; that's a good way to
+establish a good idea in place of a bad one.</p>
+
+<p>Are YOU pleasant to live with? Keep
+this personal question before you, even if
+you are cocksure that you can answer, yes.</p>
+
+<p>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,&mdash;"Am I
+pleasant to live with?"</p>
+
+<p>I love the pleasant people whether they
+are fat, lean, tall, short, red heads, brown
+heads, homely, handsome, republicans or
+democrats.</p>
+
+<p>The complaining, unpleasant grouch is
+like a bear with a toothache, miserable
+himself and spreading misery all around.</p>
+
+<p>A freckle-faced, red-headed, cross-eyed
+man with a healthy funny bone will spread
+more cheerfulness and sunshine than a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>
+bench full of sad and solemn justices of the
+supreme court, or a religious conference.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>David was a man after my own heart;
+he brought gladsome songs into the world.
+He, said "Live the ways of pleasantness."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If you frown it will soon get to be a
+habit&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>Be pleasant and you will never feel old.</p>
+
+<p>Every girl wants to catch a husband.
+Remember this, girls: A pleasant disposi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>tion is more benefit than seven barrels of
+beauty cream.</p>
+
+<p>The pleasant disposition is a sure route
+to happy land and happy homes.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Hoe cake, bacon and smiles beat lobster,
+champagne and frowns.</p>
+
+<p>Our land is thrice blessed with its peaceful,
+happy homes&mdash;for "happy homes are
+the strength of a nation."</p>
+
+<p>Be pleasant in your home, make the
+children feel home is the pleasantest place
+in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Every act and example is written in the
+child's memory tablet. Let your hours with
+the children be loving, laughing, living hours.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Make yourself right before you criticize
+your life partner. Answer this question,
+"Am I pleasant to live with?"</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PRACTICAL_HELPS" id="PRACTICAL_HELPS"></a>PRACTICAL HELPS</h2>
+
+<h3>Dealing With Actual Conditions
+You Are Facing</h3>
+
+
+<p>I have been fortunate in having splendid
+eye-sight and hearing, and with these, a
+good memory.</p>
+
+<p>I've traveled much and my education
+has been getting experience directly or
+learning experience directly from those who
+had experience.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>
+this today and of today, even as you are
+reading it today.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="OBSERVATION" id="OBSERVATION"></a>OBSERVATION</h2>
+
+<h3>Sitting on the Side Lines, Watching
+the Crowd</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>What an interesting thing is the great
+round world we live in. The people are as
+interesting as fish in an aquarium.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Man makes the desert blossom like a
+rose.</p>
+
+<p>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:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>
+All busy bees deeply absorbed in their
+respective interests, and intoxicated in the
+belief that they are important and greatly
+necessary.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The puffy, corn-fed millionaire pities the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>
+man who is content to live with small means
+and enjoys what he has to the full extent.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Like the drunkard in his cups the intoxication
+makes him forget, and he is negatively
+happy.</p>
+
+<p>Money received as reward for doing
+things worth while is laudable.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The millionaire thinks, dreams and gets
+dollars and that is all.</p>
+
+<p>The worth-while man thinks kindness,
+usefulness, self-improvement, brotherhood,
+love, and he gets happiness.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the end the man that helped mankind
+fares better than the man who made the
+millions.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>
+rather than the pictured Tomorrow that
+never comes.</p>
+
+<p>It's mighty interesting to watch the
+crowd go by and speculate on their movements.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>What passions, what hopes, what joys,
+what sorrows, are in the hearts of that
+hurrying, worrying crowd.</p>
+
+<p>What noise this din of traffic makes,
+what activity man has stirred up.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="DOING_THINGS_TWICE" id="DOING_THINGS_TWICE"></a>DOING THINGS TWICE</h2>
+
+<h3>A Common Habit That Saps Nerve
+Power</h3>
+
+
+<p>It is hard enough to do duty once, but
+doubly hard when you anticipate mentally
+everything you have to do tomorrow.</p>
+
+<p>This doing things twice is a habit easily
+acquired if you don't watch out, and it
+means wasted energy.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Instantly her mindometer, if I may coin
+a word, registered, "when you get up, pick
+up that book."</p>
+
+<p>She went on reading, but her mind was
+not on the magazine she held, but on that
+book on the floor.</p>
+
+<p>So obsessed did she become that she was
+miserable until she got up and picked up
+the book.</p>
+
+<p>I was talking with a woman who was
+resting on her porch; her day's work was
+over. She was dressed for the afternoon.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>A tired mind is harder to rest than a
+tired body, so we must nip this advance
+mental work in the bud.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It's all right to plan your work; that's
+economy in mental expenditure, for it simplifies,
+systematizes, and saves work.</p>
+
+<p>Plan your work in advance, but do not
+keep your mind on the plans until the
+work is done.</p>
+
+<p>When you have planned, then close the
+mental book of tomorrow's duty, and turn
+to pleasures, rest, relaxation and enjoyment
+of today.</p>
+
+<p>These little round-ups we have each
+evening are fine to switch the thought current
+from tomorrow's duties.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Maybe these round-ups we have will
+help us, and keep us from working mentally
+tomorrow's physical work.</p>
+
+<p>If these evening talks interest you, help
+clear your vision, help cheer you, help rest
+you, then they are good for you, and be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>
+cause they help you they certainly benefit
+me and make me very happy, because
+happiness comes from doing something for
+others.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I mean this book is human, and not a
+studied literary effort.</p>
+
+<p>Just get the human viewpoint and don't
+criticize the words used or the sentences I
+construct.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="NERVES" id="NERVES"></a>NERVES</h2>
+
+<h3>The Doctors' Most Difficult
+Problem</h3>
+
+
+<p>"She is all right&mdash;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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Before the acute stage of neurasthenia
+is reached there is noticed "brain fag,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>
+and brain fag is nature's warning signal
+calling upon you to take notice and change
+your mental habits.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;these
+changes are necessary to the victim
+of melancholia, or he will shatter on the
+danger rocks and go to pieces.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I have abundant evidence that melancholia
+sufferers can be restored to peace,
+efficiency and poise, by proper thought direction,
+and by proper physical employment.</p>
+
+<p>"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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>"Only your nerves." I cannot understand
+why the word, only, is used. It
+makes it appear that nerves are of minor
+importance.</p>
+
+<p>Nerves are less understood than anything
+in the human anatomy.</p>
+
+<p>Experience has proved that nerves cannot
+be restored by dope, patent medicines,
+tonics or prescriptions.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Get the mental equipment right. Let<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>The little shredded, tingling nerve ends
+will then commence to synchronize instead
+of fight, to harmonize instead of discord,
+to build instead of destroy.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Your nerves can be steadied, your
+thoughts uplifted, your health restored,
+your ambition re-established, your normality
+fixed.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't worry or criticize this book. Take
+my suggestions in the spirit offered.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PESSIMISTS" id="PESSIMISTS"></a>PESSIMISTS</h2>
+
+<h3>Give Them the Cold Shoulder</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>A man may spend years erecting a
+building; a fiend can demolish it in a
+minute with a stick of dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>
+is to capture Quebec, and France is to
+siege Milwaukee.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Good farm mortgages are hard to get.
+The farmers have money in the banks,
+honey in the house, and automobiles in the
+garage.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And in the midst of better conditions
+and brighter prospects the shameless, brain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>less,
+fameless bipeds pollute the atmosphere,
+poison hearts and plant discontent.</p>
+
+<p>If these howlers are any better than foot-pads,
+thieves, grave robbers, or child
+beaters, I can't see it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="GLOOM_CONTAGION" id="GLOOM_CONTAGION"></a>GLOOM CONTAGION</h2>
+
+<h3>A Little Study of Faces in a Street
+Car</h3>
+
+
+<p>This evening I rode home in a crowded
+street car. What an interesting study to
+watch the faces in that car.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;contagion and example.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Why then such a change in two hours?</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Gloom spreads gloom. Joy spreads joy.
+Gloom is black; joy is white. One darkens,
+the other brightens.</p>
+
+<p>Well, then, where's the moral? What's
+the benefit from this little study of the
+street car passengers?</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the street car life was not worth living
+if you judged by the pained faces. In two<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>
+hours by changed thought the example of
+life was worth while.</p>
+
+<p>What changes the mental attitude makes.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"When a man has spent<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His very last cent&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The world looks blue, you bet;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But give him a dollar<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And loud he will holler<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There's life in the old world yet."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We can spread cheer by merely wearing
+a cheery face. Costs little, pays big.
+Let's do it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="HAPPINESS" id="HAPPINESS"></a>HAPPINESS</h2>
+
+<h3>Hovers Near Us If We Do Not
+Chase It</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Particularly true is this in the matter of
+happiness. Everyone wants to be happy,
+but few know how to secure this blessing.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Happiness is an elusive prize; it's wary,
+timid, alert and cannot be caught. Chase
+it and it escapes your grasp.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>This club man had money, automobiles,
+social standing, possessions, and all the
+objects and material things envious persons
+covet&mdash;yet he was unhappy. His whole
+life was spent chasing happiness, but his
+sixty horsepower auto wasn't fast enough
+to catch it.</p>
+
+<p>The poor man I have told you about<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>
+was the man who washed the club man's
+auto.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You must keep a stiff upper lip, a stiff
+backbone; you must forget the wishbone
+and the envious heart.</p>
+
+<p>Paul had trials, setbacks, hardships and
+hard labors; he had defeats and discouragements
+and still the record shows he was
+"always rejoicing."</p>
+
+<p>Paul was a man of Pep. In the dungeon
+with his feet in stocks he sang songs and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The real hero forgets self first of all; that
+is the essential step to greatness.</p>
+
+<p>Washington at Valley Forge had no
+thought that his acts there would furnish
+inspiration for a picture that would endure
+for generations.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="THOUGHT_CONTROL" id="THOUGHT_CONTROL"></a>THOUGHT CONTROL</h2>
+
+<h3>"As a Man Thinketh in His Heart
+so is He"</h3>
+
+
+<p>A little child is crying over a real or
+fancied injury to her body or to her pride.</p>
+
+<p>So long as she keeps her mind on the
+subject she is miserable.</p>
+
+<p>Distract her attention, get her mind on
+another subject, and her tears stop and
+smiles replace frowns.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We are children in so far as we cry and
+suffer when we think of our ills or hurts or
+wrongs or bad luck.</p>
+
+<p>We can smile and have peace, poise and
+strength if we change our thoughts to faith,
+courage and confidence.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Every thought that comes out of our
+brain had to go in first.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>If we feed our brain storehouse with
+trash and fear, and nonsense, we have a
+poor material to draw from.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;to eliminate fear-thought,
+self-accusation, and to substitute some good
+helpful thought in closing the mental book
+of each day.</p>
+
+<p>Therefore read a chapter or two from a
+worth-while book the last thing before
+going to bed.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>These suggestions for closing the day
+will be of instant help to you.</p>
+
+<p>The great power for good, the wherewith
+to give you strength, progress and
+efficiency is within yourself and at the
+command of your will.</p>
+
+<p>You can't think faith and fear, good and
+bad, courage and defeat, all at the same
+time.</p>
+
+<p>You can only think one thing at a time.</p>
+
+<p>Your great power is your will, and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>
+wherewith to help yourself is your thought
+habit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You are what your thoughts picture you
+to be. Your will directs your thoughts.</p>
+
+<p>Don't get discouraged if you can't suddenly
+change your life from shadow to sunshine,
+from illness to wellness.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>You can't clean all your brain house in a
+day or a week, but you can do a little
+cleaning each day.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The great crowd worries; only the few
+have learned the power of the will, and the
+benefits to be derived from mental control.</p>
+
+<p>Business and social duties call for strong
+men and women. You can't reach mastership
+if you remain a slave.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MEDICINE" id="MEDICINE"></a>MEDICINE</h2>
+
+<h3>Proofs That Mind Control is the
+Best Medicine</h3>
+
+
+<p>The doctors are giving less medicine and
+doing more in the way of suggesting diet,
+and exercise rules, sanitation and preventive
+practices.</p>
+
+<p>Medicine is mostly poison and its effect
+is to shock the organs or glands to bring
+about reaction. Nature makes the cure.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When there's a pain or disease it's due
+to congestion of some organ, to infection,
+or to improper nourishment or improper
+habits.</p>
+
+<p>Ninety per cent of the aches, pains or
+ailments can be cured by a dominant
+mental attitude and attention to eating and
+exercise.</p>
+
+<p>The habitual medicine user is not cured
+by the medicine but by nature; the medicine
+simply serves as a means to establish <span class='pagenum'><a
+name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span><ins class="mycorr"
+title="printed book has 'ment' and '-tal' either side of the page break">mental</ins>
+control and confidence that the sufferer
+is to get well.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I have by plausible logic, mental suggestion,
+and good cheer to the hospital
+patients, brought many a smile through a
+mist of tears.</p>
+
+<p>I have seen wonderful results of mental
+suggestion to the discouraged patients.</p>
+
+<p>To show the effects faith thought will
+produce, I will relate some instances.</p>
+
+<p>One patient screaming for a hypodermic
+injection to relieve her pain was given an
+injection of sterilized water and the pain
+vanished.</p>
+
+<p>Another just could not sleep without her
+bromide. The nurse fixed up a powder of
+sugar, salt and flour, the patient took the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>
+powder and went to sleep. That was mind
+control and mental longing satisfied.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The reading of "Pep" diverted their
+minds from self-thought and self-accusation
+to faith-thought and courage.</p>
+
+<p>"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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I've been in shadowland in the hospital
+to see for myself the actual help that mental<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span>
+control will bring to sufferers and the
+evidence is far above my powers to describe.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I've seen the lifting up of a patient's
+hope, when the cheery surgeon came with
+hope, smiles and confidence on his face.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Verily "as a man thinketh in his heart,
+so is he."</p>
+
+<p>Verily good cheer and good thought are
+good medicines.</p>
+
+<p>And to these truths all good doctors
+say "Amen!"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="READING" id="READING"></a>READING</h2>
+
+<h3>Let Your Final Evening's Reading
+be Good Stuff</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In "Pep" one of the most beneficial suggestions
+was that you read its chapters one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>
+or two each evening, after you had undressed,
+and just before going to bed.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the olden days, when most families
+had evening worship or family prayers, the
+members of those households slept soundly
+and restfully.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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;"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You will sleep better, think clearer; you
+will learn to enjoy mental pleasures more
+than material pleasures.</p>
+
+<p>Fifteen minutes then to be yours, yours
+alone, in which you quiet, soothe, strengthen
+and pacify yourself and add abundant
+resources and assets.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="VERBOMANIA" id="VERBOMANIA"></a>VERBOMANIA</h2>
+
+<h3>A Widely Prevalent Modern Disease</h3>
+
+
+<p>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&mdash;excessive or unreasonable
+desire; therefore, Verbomania is
+the excessive desire to use more words than
+are necessary.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We know we can sit down and run ideas<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>
+through our brain without words and we
+can use a lot of words without ideas.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Pink teas, receptions and society functions
+are great rookeries for these Verbomania
+birds to gather and indulge in their
+gabfest.</p>
+
+<p>The pianist through long practice is
+able to play a difficult composition without
+thinking about it; it's automatic; it's
+habit in action.</p>
+
+<p>The society dodo bird is just as dexterous
+in spinning words without thought, as the
+pianist with his difficult piece.</p>
+
+<p>Our rapid mode of living, our conventions
+and customs are responsible for much
+of the Verbomania.</p>
+
+<p>I should like to take my Dictophone to
+a fussy "afternoon" and record the word
+evacuations, the footless conversation, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span>
+forced pleasantries, the set sentences that
+mingle into a hum and buzz. A wilderness
+of words in a barrenness of ideas.</p>
+
+<p>This useless abuse of the use of speech
+makes headaches, weariness, worry, unrest;
+it saps strength, lowers pep, and lessens
+resistance.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Read the first few chapters of "PEP,"
+particularly the chapter in the book about
+solitude and sizing up things.</p>
+
+<p>Don't expose yourself to the crowds
+where the Verbomaniacs gather. The disease
+is contagious; it's easy to acquire and
+hard to retire.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="HOME" id="HOME"></a>HOME</h2>
+
+<h3>Don't Mistake a House for a Home</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There is all the difference between the
+family which has a home and the family
+which has a house.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the home there is unselfishness,
+thoughtfulness, and love expressed. Meal
+time is joy time; it's the get-together period
+of smiling faces.</p>
+
+<p>In the house the breakfast table is merely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>
+a lunch station in the hurried trip from
+the bedroom to the office.</p>
+
+<p>The sensitive wife of the house gets
+stinging remarks that abide with her after the
+lord and master of the house has departed.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Homes are sweet, because love is present.
+Houses built by gold are just hotels.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And the dinner, that too, tells the differ<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>ence
+between the "depend-on-the-cook"
+housewife and the "wife-who-is-the-boss"
+home.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the house is worry; in the home is
+happiness.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="DIET_RULES" id="DIET_RULES"></a>DIET RULES</h2>
+
+<h3>Seven Sensible Simple Suggestions
+on Eating</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>First&mdash;Drink two or three glasses of
+warm, not hot water the first thing when
+you arise.</p>
+
+<p>Second&mdash;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."</p>
+
+<p>Third&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>Fourth&mdash;Eat one or two apples every
+day, and do not insult nature's proper
+adjustment by peeling the apple. You<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Fifth&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>Sixth&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>Seventh&mdash;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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="NEGATIVE_ATTITUDE" id="NEGATIVE_ATTITUDE"></a>NEGATIVE ATTITUDE</h2>
+
+<h3>A Frequent Crossed Current That
+Makes Misery</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>This negative thought indulged in brings<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There's only one way to drive out this
+negative thought and that is to switch
+your will power to the positive current.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Don't sit and stew and fret over your
+magnified troubles.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Cut out envy; that's a mighty bad
+negative wire. It's the devil's favorite
+food to make worry and discontent.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>"What's-the-use;" that's a bad thing to
+say, it plants worry seed.</p>
+
+<p>You are all right, you have far more
+blessings than sorrows. You can never be
+free from troubles, cares or little irritations.</p>
+
+<p>Rise superior to these things; those
+around you are affected and susceptible to
+your influence and example.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Be careful in giving commands; don't
+put a Spanish bit in the children's mouths
+to jerk them and torture them.</p>
+
+<p>Be positive, make your promises and
+orders stick, and the kiddies will soon know
+you mean what you say.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Don't show your cry side but show your
+smile side.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sunday is a great trial day for you,
+mamma, but don't let your negative wires
+get the best of you.</p>
+
+<p>Sing as you make the beds and tidy up;
+let sunshine in and drive out the gloom.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="WALKING" id="WALKING"></a>WALKING</h2>
+
+<h3>The Best Exercise I Know of</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In walking there are two things most
+important to do in order to get the greatest
+benefits: first&mdash;walk alone; second&mdash;walk
+your natural gait.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The most important reason, however, is
+that if you walk with a friend you are sure<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>
+to talk and thus you are using your nervous
+energy and tiring your brain&mdash;the very
+thing you should rest.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I recommend that you walk anywhere
+from three to four miles in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>If your home is more than four miles
+from the office, walk three or four miles
+and then take the car.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In walking you use the thought and the
+brain impulse to start the magneto
+then the spinal cord action is automatic.</p>
+
+<p>This automatic action of the spinal cord
+is a wise provision of nature to conserve
+strength.</p>
+
+<p>The spinal cord energy is what you might
+call automatic habit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If you wish to demonstrate the difference
+between the control of the physical body<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The moral is this&mdash;walk every morning
+and walk ALONE.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="ELIMINATION" id="ELIMINATION"></a>ELIMINATION</h2>
+
+<h3>The Body's Safety-First in Keeping
+Health</h3>
+
+
+<p>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&mdash;the
+beat of the heart, the throb of the brain
+in thought, the digestion of food, the
+excretion of waste&mdash;all are due to the
+activity of groups of highly specialized
+individual cells.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Elimination is kept up by the alimentary
+tract, the kidneys, the skin, and the lungs.</p>
+
+<p>These four are the great pipe-line sewerage
+systems so to speak, by which the body
+throws off its gaseous, liquid and solid
+poisons.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The kidneys strain out urea, uric acid,
+and certain other poisons from the blood
+and eject them through the urinary tract.</p>
+
+<p>Finally the skin likewise is an excretory<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>
+organ and exhales a very definite amount
+of gaseous and fluid waste in the course of
+each twenty-four hours.</p>
+
+<p>The skin throws off from a pint to two
+quarts of liquid each day in the form of vapor.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Drink one or two glasses of warm, not
+hot, water first thing in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>Eat one or two apples, skins and all,
+every day. Eat toast, especially the crust,
+eat cracked wheat or whole wheat bread
+often.</p>
+
+<p>Exercise plenty. Keep cheerful, eat regularly.</p>
+
+<p>Very likely you eat too much. You don't
+need three big meals a day unless you work
+out doors at hard physical labor.</p>
+
+<p>Your body is an engine. No use to keep
+the boiler red hot and two hundred pounds
+of steam if your work is light.</p>
+
+<p>Good health depends upon proper assimilation
+and elimination as nature intended.</p>
+
+<p>Eat less, exercise more, you who work
+indoors. If you don't use this caution
+you are just slowly killing yourself.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CONTINUOUS_HAPPINESS" id="CONTINUOUS_HAPPINESS"></a>CONTINUOUS HAPPINESS</h2>
+
+<h3>An Impossible State, and It's Well It's So</h3>
+
+
+<p>I am often asked, "Are you happy ALL
+the time?" My answer is no.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Continuous sunshine, continuous warm
+weather, continuous rest, continuous travel,
+continuous anything spells monotony. We
+must have variety.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>But, dear reader, mark this: we can be
+philosophical and have content, serenity<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>
+and poise between the happiness periods.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Occupation and focusing your thoughts
+on your blessings, these are the methods to
+employ.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When trouble or sorrows come, sweeten
+your cup with sugar remembrances of joys
+you've had and joys you are to have.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You can be happy often and when you
+are not happy, just seem to be happy anyway;
+it will help you much.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="SELF_ACCUSATION" id="SELF_ACCUSATION"></a>SELF ACCUSATION</h2>
+
+<h3>If You Do This You Will Always Be
+Miserable</h3>
+
+
+<p>Many have the habit of keeping their
+minds on their weaknesses or their shortcomings.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>These persons are always saying, "I never
+have luck. I can't do this. I can't do
+that."</p>
+
+<p>Always knocking, always thinking can't
+instead of can, will make fear, irresoluteness,
+uncertainty and weakness of character.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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-<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>accusation,
+you are putting away a lot of
+bad thought in your brain and no wonder you
+will lack in initiative, ambition and courage.</p>
+
+<p>To those who claim to be unlucky I want
+to say you are not unlucky, you simply lack
+pluck.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Don't show the enemy, or the world,
+your weakness. Don't admit anything impossible
+that is capable of accomplishment.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>No person ever made success in business
+if he started in with uncertainty, lack of
+confidence and unbelief in his ability.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Accuse yourself, curse your luck, belittle
+your worth, be afraid, and you will remain
+a mere bump on a log, unnoticed, uninteresting,
+uninvited.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Show strength and the world will help
+you; show weakness and the world will shun
+you.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing hurts one worse than doubting
+one's own ability, assets, and character.</p>
+
+<p>When you find yourself experiencing
+doubt, or inability, or hard luck, turn
+square around and say "Begone, doubt;
+henceforth I have belief."</p>
+
+<p>Suggest and say "I have ability; I have
+pluck and pluck means luck."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>"As a man thinketh, so is he;" always
+remember that.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>No man will be surprised at your complete
+change of attitude and character more
+than yourself.</p>
+
+<p>Your problems can only be solved by
+yourself. Friends can advise, I can suggest,
+but YOU must act.</p>
+
+<p>Henceforth never accuse yourself, never
+feel sorry for your condition or position,
+cut out fear thoughts,&mdash;be strong.</p>
+
+<p>Think faith, courage, cheer, confidence,
+and strength, and by-and-by the habit will
+be fixed, and natural.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't be passive and forget this chapter.
+Start right this minute to THINK RIGHT.</p>
+
+<p>And you will never regret and never forget
+this chapter of Self-accusation.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="WOMANS_BEAUTY" id="WOMANS_BEAUTY"></a>WOMAN'S BEAUTY</h2>
+
+<h3>Every Woman Will Be Interested in
+These Pointers</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>First of all, you must keep your skin
+clean, and that's a particular job.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If these pores are stopped up or clogged,
+the waste material is secreted in the skin.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Washing the skin with strong soap is not
+good.</p>
+
+<p>To keep the skin clear and healthy you
+should massage it with cold cream and rub
+gently but thoroughly. This rubbing or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span>
+massage quickens circulation, strengthens
+the little capillary veins and brings that
+beautiful pink glow that is so attractive.</p>
+
+<p>The cold cream softens the dry waste
+secretion and makes it easier to come out.</p>
+
+<p>After the cold cream application, rub all
+the grease off with a rough towel.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't be afraid of the sun. Tan is health
+to the skin and tan with pink shades beneath
+it is a pretty combination.</p>
+
+<p>In washing the hair do not use any compound
+that has ammonia in it. Ammonia
+will bring on the gray hairs.</p>
+
+<p>Occasionally you must wash the hair with
+soap, but let the soap be mild.</p>
+
+<p>Raw eggs make an excellent shampoo or
+hair cleaner. The egg does not take out
+the natural oil necessary to good hair health.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Rub the roots of the hair frequently with
+the ends of your fingers, move the scalp in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The most important organs to watch are
+the kidneys and stomach; their ailments
+quickly show effects on the face.</p>
+
+<p>Drink plenty of water, cool, not cold;
+get plenty of air and sunshine. Eat plenty
+of fruit, especially apples, skins too.</p>
+
+<p>Take exercise in the open air every day.
+Walking is the best exercise.</p>
+
+<p>Air, water, sunshine and exercise will do
+more for your looks than a barrel of beauty
+preparations.</p>
+
+<p>The only way to get health out of a
+bottle is to keep out of the bottle.</p>
+
+<p>You can't buy beauty at the druggists.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="DREAMS" id="DREAMS"></a>DREAMS</h2>
+
+<h3>Hitch Your Wagon to a Star, and
+Stay Hitched</h3>
+
+
+<p>The great colleges are just now turning
+out their thousands of graduates and the
+great newspapers have much sport ridiculing
+them with funny pictures.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Bonaparte in the garden of his military
+school dreamed of being a great general.
+He stuck to his dream and he realized his
+hopes.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Livingston dreamed of exploring darkest
+Africa; his dream came true.</p>
+
+<p>Edison dreamed of great electrical discoveries.
+His monument is Menlo Park
+with its great laboratories.</p>
+
+<p>Ford dreamed of making an automobile
+for the purse-limited masses&mdash;he was jeered;
+today the world cheers him.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>He dreamed and schemed and today the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The great West is the result of dreams
+come true.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Your time will come. Dream and scheme,
+and make your ideals materialize into living,
+pulsating realities.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="REAL_CHARITY" id="REAL_CHARITY"></a>REAL CHARITY</h2>
+
+<h3>Let Me Help Where I Am Rather
+Than Help in Siam</h3>
+
+
+<p>There are many persons who act and
+advocate ideals merely for effect&mdash;they are
+hypocrites.</p>
+
+<p>Here's a little true heart story that
+probably passed unnoticed excepting to a
+very few persons.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>After each operation his mind became
+more securely fixed on his project to help
+bring cheer to poor children.</p>
+
+<p>A little savings bank was his companion<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span>
+and each visitor was asked to contribute to
+his fund.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>That was real charity; that boy had no
+hypocrisy in his heart.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>He did not need sensational stories in
+newspapers or solicitors of charitable organizations
+to stir him to action.</p>
+
+<p>He found opportunity at his door, close
+at home, near by, where all of us can find
+it if we only look.</p>
+
+<p>I don't believe much in this far-away
+charity idea so many have.</p>
+
+<p>I believe in helping those near where I
+am rather than sending money to Siam.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I'm keener for filling the coffee can of
+my suffering neighbor than filling the coffers
+of the big charity five thousand miles away.</p>
+
+<p>I try to help both ways, but the home
+help pays the bigger dividends. What do
+you think about it?</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FRIENDS" id="FRIENDS"></a>FRIENDS</h2>
+
+<h3>A Most Abused, Too Often Used
+Word</h3>
+
+
+<p>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:</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The world is better because of you. You
+have helped to raise the average.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I want to express my gratitude. I do
+not want to be guilty of the sin of omission.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;a love
+all who know you have for you.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>This is what I think of YOU.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MANS_DANGER_PERIOD" id="MANS_DANGER_PERIOD"></a>MAN'S DANGER PERIOD</h2>
+
+<h3>In the Midday of Your Life, Look
+Out</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>More big men are cut off at 50 than at
+any other age between 45 and 60.</p>
+
+<p>At 48 to 52 most men change vitally in
+their physical and mental make-up.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The divorce courts give most interesting
+figures on this point.</p>
+
+<p>At this danger period men who have been
+high livers, voracious eaters and heavy
+drinkers find themselves victims of diabetes,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span>
+Bright's disease or other forms of kidney
+troubles.</p>
+
+<p>Most every man between 48 and 52 who
+works indoors, eats too much, exercises too
+little, sleeps insufficiently.</p>
+
+<p>Here are a few things for the 50-year-old
+man to do:</p>
+
+<p>Drink two glasses of warm, not hot,
+water immediately on arising.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Eat for breakfast a little bacon, cooked
+rare; crisp bacon has all the good fried out,
+and you simply have ashes left.</p>
+
+<p>One cup of coffee, an egg or two, some
+cereal and toast, no red meat, no potatoes.</p>
+
+<p>Walk to your office if it is less than three
+miles; if over three miles ride the extra
+distance, but walk three miles anyway.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Eat a light lunch; be sure to eat an apple;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span>
+with it drink two or three glasses of water,
+cool but not cold.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Leave your business in your business
+clothes, and get in a good night's sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Keep a sharp look-out for tendencies to
+change your habits and morals.</p>
+
+<p>At 50 you are walking on thin ice; look
+out, danger is near.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="OUR_SONS" id="OUR_SONS"></a>OUR SONS</h2>
+
+<h3>They Pattern After Us; Be Worth
+Copying</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>We know where the boy is when he is at
+school, but how few know the boy's doings
+between times.</p>
+
+<p>Pool halls tempt the boys, and these
+places are breeding places where filthy
+stories, criminal slang and evil practices
+are hatched.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>A boy becomes what he lives on mentally
+and physically; that's the net of it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Neglect him and he will neglect you.
+Love him and he will love you. Meet him
+half way; he's impressionable.</p>
+
+<p>Show him kindness, he will respond.
+Show him example, he will follow.</p>
+
+<p>You have to be with him or know where
+he is every minute.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>That's the time, Dad, you must be on
+YOUR job with your boy.</p>
+
+<p>Your counsel, example, love, interest and
+teaching will MAKE the boy.</p>
+
+<p>Think of these things, Dad, and think
+hard, and think hard NOW. Tomorrow
+may be too late.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="RELIGIOUS_EXTREMES" id="RELIGIOUS_EXTREMES"></a>RELIGIOUS EXTREMES</h2>
+
+<h3>Form, Frills, Ceremony vs. Excitement,
+Ecstacy, Enthusiasm</h3>
+
+
+<p>Many churches today are running to
+extremes one way or the other.</p>
+
+<p>On the one hand they are conducted along
+the lines of form, ceremony and ritualism,
+while the other extreme is excitement,
+ecstacy and enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Form, ceremony and rituals are much
+like most associated charities, a sort of
+convention. Forms can not express the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span>
+deep emotions, the natural longings, or the
+human desires; they are echoes, hollow and
+unsatisfying.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span>
+excitement is developed into a high state
+and droves flock to the altar to be made
+over on the instant into sanctified beings.</p>
+
+<p>The evangelist stays until his engagement
+is up, and then departs with a pocket full
+of nice fat bank drafts.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Christ taught love, kindness, charity, and
+not beautiful churches, opera singing choirs.
+He spoke not of robes, vestments, forms or
+rituals.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="LAZINESS" id="LAZINESS"></a>LAZINESS</h2>
+
+<h3>We Are Becoming a Nation of Sitters</h3>
+
+
+<p>Danger is in extremes. Too much of
+anything is bad for the human being's
+health.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Men used to climb stairs. The elevator
+has now so accustomed us to the conveniences
+that stairs are taboo.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Telephoning is quicker than traveling.
+No one "runs for a doctor."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Our houses have electric washers, electric
+irons and many other labor-saving devices.</p>
+
+<p>Even the farmer has his telephone, his
+auto, his riding plow, his milking machine
+and his cream separator.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The modern idea of efficiency puts a
+premium on the sedentary feature of occupations
+and <ins class="mycorr" title="printed book has 'employes'">employees</ins> are frequently automatons
+that sit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We are losing out on the natural, pleasurable,
+and practical exercises, mixed in the
+right proportions to promote physical poise<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I walk to my office every morning, a distance
+of nearly four miles.</p>
+
+<p>I walk alone, so I may relax and not require
+conscious effort as is the case when
+one walks with another.</p>
+
+<p>That morning walk prevents me reading
+slush and worthless news and relieves me
+of the necessity of talking and using up
+nerve energy.</p>
+
+<p>I get the worth-while news from my paper
+by the headlines and by the trained ability
+to separate the wheat from the chaff.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span>
+health-makers which are: good thought,
+good exercise, good rest, and good cheer.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You must exercise enough to balance
+things, to clear the system, to preserve
+your strength; it doesn't take much time.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="IN_THE_BIG_WOODS" id="IN_THE_BIG_WOODS"></a>IN THE BIG WOODS</h2>
+
+<h3>A Grand, Glorious, Restful
+Recreation</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The whole hillside around me is a community
+of springs of crystal water laden<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>
+with iron, and precious salts. It is the
+breast of Mother Earth which nurses her
+offspring.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;all these
+are absent.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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!</p>
+
+<p>I'm letting down the high tension voltage
+and getting the calm, natural pulsation that
+nature intended the human machine to have.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You are invited to come in; your application
+is approved, and you are eligible to
+membership.</p>
+
+<p>Come to Nature's lodge meeting and
+clear away the cobwebs from your weary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>
+brain; get inspiration and be a man again.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The doctor can lance the carbuncle, but
+Nature's outdoor medicine will prevent your
+having a carbuncle.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MOTHER" id="MOTHER"></a>MOTHER</h2>
+
+<h3>The Most Unselfish Person in the
+World</h3>
+
+
+<p>Mother, you are the one person in all the
+world whose kindness was never the preface
+to a request.</p>
+
+<p>That's the sweetest tribute we can pay
+you, and the most truthful one.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There are not words or sentences that
+can express to you what we think of you
+or convey our appreciation of you.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"We have careful words for the stranger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And smiles for the some time guest&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But oft to our own the bitter tone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Though we love our own the best."<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Always thinking of us, always excusing
+us, always doing for us, always watching
+us and always loving us in the most unselfish
+way.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Your sweetness, your gentleness, your
+goodness, your love, are parts of you.</p>
+
+<p>They all go to make up that word,
+Mother.</p>
+
+<p>Your life, your acts, your example, your
+Motherhood, have all helped the world so
+much more than you will ever know.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the everlasting record of good deeds
+your name is in gold.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>How feeble are words when we try to
+describe Mother!</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="OUR_BODIES" id="OUR_BODIES"></a>OUR BODIES</h2>
+
+<h3>They Are Made Up of Mineral
+Substances</h3>
+
+
+<p>We speak of the three kingdoms: the
+animal, the vegetable and the mineral
+kingdoms, and every substance is classified
+into one of these.</p>
+
+<p>The exact truth is there is but one kingdom,
+which is the mineral. The vegetable
+substances and animal combinations are
+made of mineral elements.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Seed when planted extracts from the air
+and the earth the minerals and combines
+them into a plant which grows and has for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span>
+its object the making of seeds to reproduce
+and perpetuate itself.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>These are definite facts; there is no theory
+about them.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>By reading a book on anatomy you can
+learn just exactly the proportions of the
+substances in the human body.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Parts of the body are replaced every
+twenty-four hours, other parts less often.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I am definitely convinced that most of
+the actual physical ailments are caused by
+a deficiency of the mineral elements in the
+body.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The person who lives mostly on white
+bread will suffer from lack of phosphorus
+and potash.</p>
+
+<p>Phosphorus also is found in the skin of
+an apple, so if you peel an apple you do
+not get the phosphorus.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FOOD" id="FOOD"></a>FOOD</h2>
+
+<h3>The Food We Eat Is Fuel for the
+Human Engine</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When the system is weakened through
+disease, through lack of exercise or through
+improper food, disease has an easy time.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't pay any attention to the faddist
+who gives you a rigorous diet or unpalatable
+food. You simply make yourself miserable<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span>
+and you generate more worry and unhappiness
+by your discipline than the good you
+get from these freak fads.</p>
+
+<p>We all eat too much, especially too much
+meat.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span>
+proportion to the amount of work that
+engine is called on to perform.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You do not often find dyspepsia or
+indigestion among men or women who work
+hard physically.</p>
+
+<p>You who work indoors with little physical
+exercise will find wonderful benefits if you
+will cut down the fuel.</p>
+
+<p>You will get sick if you pile in more fuel
+than is necessary for the engine.</p>
+
+<p>If your engine needs twenty pounds of
+steam how foolish it is to keep up a hundred
+pounds pressure.</p>
+
+<p>If you had five-horsepower work to perform
+how foolish it would be to install a
+two-hundred-and-fifty-pound engine.</p>
+
+<p>Much of the physical trouble comes from
+filling up the boiler too much.</p>
+
+<p>Cut down the food and you will feel
+better.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="DAUGHTERS" id="DAUGHTERS"></a>DAUGHTERS</h2>
+
+<h3>A Message From a Daddy's Heart</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>May the mirror never reflect paint, rouge
+or make-up on your face. A little talcum
+powder is all right.</p>
+
+<p>Do not look upon matrimony as a means
+to provide food and finery for you.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Help the family; be part of it, and not
+apart from it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When I was a beau I courted my sweetheart
+in her home. My treat was red<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Be modest, girls; it is your greatest asset.</p>
+
+<p>Don't gossip or belittle other girls; find
+the good you can say of others; that quality
+makes you more attractive.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Watch out for word candy and flattery;
+these things mark the hypocrite and a
+hypocrite is an abomination. Flattery is a
+practiced deceit&mdash;a dishonorable bait to
+catch affections.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Fine feathers never make fine birds;
+don't borrow finery; don't be attractive for
+your fine dresses; the men attracted by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span>
+fluff, frills, feathers and furbelows are not
+worth shucks.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't hurry, girls; don't judge the man
+by his money prospects but by his character
+and ambition.</p>
+
+<p>Have nothing to do with any young
+suitor who isn't always kind, considerate
+and attentive to his mother.</p>
+
+<p>Marry a man of character who courts
+you in the sweet, simple old way.</p>
+
+<p>If a young man spends money extravagantly
+before marriage, hard times will
+always be around during his married life.</p>
+
+<p>The most precious possessions in the
+world are happiness and love, and these;
+come from simple things, genuineness, and
+usefulness.</p>
+
+<p>Learn to cook and to sew. You can't be
+happy and idle at the same time.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span>
+have dresses and hats and dinners worth
+while.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Be the golden, pure, old-fashioned, sweet,
+simple, quiet, modest girl who knows things,
+rather than one who is a show-off girl.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Daddy knows these things; he's been
+around the world. He is endowed with an
+ability to observe, analyze and benefit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="POISE" id="POISE"></a>POISE</h2>
+
+<h3>A Necessity to the Person Who
+Accomplishes</h3>
+
+
+<p>There are men who cannot be kept down
+by circumstances or obstacles.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>They are, of course, alert and alive to
+favorable opportunity and helpful influences
+when they come their way.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Let's you and I follow their trail, for it
+leads out on to the big road.</p>
+
+<p>Do not fear being misunderstood, right
+will finally come in to its own.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Fear is the dope drug that kills initiative,
+hate the poison that shatters clear thinking.</p>
+
+<p>Hate and fear are iron ore in our life's
+vessel, it deflects the compass and prevents
+our holding to the course.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Solitude beats society, relaxation beats
+conventional function, and foolish so-called
+pleasures.</p>
+
+<p>Our energy hours must be devoted to our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span>
+purpose and ideals. Atween times we
+must rest, relax and recuperate the waste
+that strenuosity makes.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Do not prepare for death, prepare for
+life. Preparing for death brings the end
+before your allotted time.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Today is ours. Live, freely, fully today.
+Be unafraid, unhurried, and undisturbed.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PIONEER_MOTHERS" id="PIONEER_MOTHERS"></a>PIONEER MOTHERS</h2>
+
+<h3>Knitting From Necessity Today,
+Knitting for Pleasure Tomorrow</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The atmosphere around is oil and gas,
+the talk is "bringing in a gusher," "tanks,"
+"rigs," "leases," "wild cat sales," "off-*sets,"
+"selling stock," and the like; all the
+phrases, all the talk is striking it rich, getting
+money.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I have been around these oil and gas
+fields in autos and by teams. I've been
+observing life, character, passions and
+habits.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Woman is called weak&mdash;that means the
+rich woman&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>Man grows away from his mother; he
+roughens and cools and grows selfish and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span>
+expects and demands the woman shall love
+him with all these faults, and generally she
+does.</p>
+
+<p>The poor woman makes an idol of her
+husband and in her love thinks he is ideal.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span>
+and mending and helping, a smile on her
+lips and a soft light in her eye.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Those youngsters who were playing
+Indian will get on in the world; these four
+young millionaire kids will go broke; their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span>
+heads are not shaped right; their jaws slant
+back; it isn't in them. I know something
+of character.</p>
+
+<p>Bye-bye, Mamma, with your little cabin
+and your boys; some day you will have
+peace and plenty.</p>
+
+<p>Those four oil Johnnies will marry girls
+who have plenty and some day those girls
+will have to do the family washing.</p>
+
+<p>The wheel turns, it's the history of the
+past. From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in
+three generations.</p>
+
+<p>Lincolns, Garfields, and Edisons came
+from just such little cabins and just such
+rough, hard, bare life as I have been seeing
+this afternoon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="ANGER" id="ANGER"></a>ANGER</h2>
+
+<h3>It's a Temporary Mental
+Derangement</h3>
+
+
+<p>Anger and acts of revenge are great pull-backs
+to health.</p>
+
+<p>Anger makes the blood rush to the head,
+weakens the body, and distorts the vision.</p>
+
+<p>When a woman gets angry, she quarrels
+with her lover, her husband or her children.
+Any one of these things is a calamity.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Anger makes weak stomachs, dizzy heads,
+poor judgment, lost friends, despair, sickness
+and likely the confirmed habit will lead
+to apoplexy.</p>
+
+<p>When two men have differences, watch
+the cool man finish victor, the angry man
+always loses.</p>
+
+<p>Keep your head; let the other fellow fret
+and fume.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He will tie himself up in a knot and finish
+loser.</p>
+
+<p>Serenity is a God's blessing and fortunate
+is the man who can hold his serenity.</p>
+
+<p>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,&mdash;and then tear it up.</p>
+
+<p>I know you are tempted, goaded and your
+limit of endurance is sometimes exhausted.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I have had imposition, ingratitude, insincerity
+and advantages taken of me because
+I kept my poise and serenity.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I have power now in my hands to make
+others suffer, keenly and deeply, for wrongs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span>
+they have done me. Yet I do not exercise
+that power to revenge.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>This I know and I am satisfied with the
+ultimate result.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I am far removed from the location
+where these people live, and I can stand
+the anger of the one who puts the blame<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span>
+on me and accepts the lies of another as
+truth.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I've tried both plans, anger and poise,
+and I like poise better.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway I think so, and "As a man
+thinketh in his heart, so is he."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="SALT" id="SALT"></a>SALT</h2>
+
+<h3>It's a Drug; Too Much Is Bad for
+You</h3>
+
+
+<p>Don't eat too much salt. Salt is a drug;
+it carries with it lime and magnesia and
+they tend to clog up things.</p>
+
+<p>Too much salt will likely cause gall
+stones or gravel.</p>
+
+<p>Some persons sprinkle salt over potatoes,
+beef and everything they eat; it's a bad
+practice.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Those who eat too much salt must suffer.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Man will crave tobacco; it isn't a natural
+taste, it's merely a cultivated taste.</p>
+
+<p>The desire for excess salt on everything
+you eat is a habit and a bad habit.</p>
+
+<p>It tends to make calcareous deposits in
+your system, and it will affect the blood
+and the muscles and the bones.</p>
+
+<p>Nature puts practically enough salt in
+the food and cooks certainly add enough
+salt in their seasoning to furnish all the
+system needs.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There's enough salt in butter to season
+the eggs you eat. Try your eggs next time
+without putting pepper and salt on them.</p>
+
+<p>Learn to get the natural flavors and you
+will enjoy your food more.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Check yourself every time you reach
+for a salt cellar.</p>
+
+<p>Watch the children; don't let them eat
+too much salt.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="INSOMNIA" id="INSOMNIA"></a>INSOMNIA</h2>
+
+<h3>It's Caused By High Mental Tension</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>To have an occasional wakeful night is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span>
+natural; it is an evidence of intelligence:
+the mental dullard never has wakeful
+nights.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Open your windows wide, then relax.
+Don't worry; you are going to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Concentrate your mind on auto suggestion
+like this: "I am going to sleep&mdash;sound
+heavy, restful, peaceful sleep. My eyelids
+are getting heavy&mdash;heavy. I am going to
+close them and go to sleep."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Don't try counting imaginary sheep jumping
+over fence rails. Don't count numbers.
+It is a bad habit.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Next night eat one or two dry crackers,
+chew them slowly, masticate them thoroughly
+until you can swallow easily.</p>
+
+<p>This little food will draw the blood
+pressure from the brain and help you to go
+to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Drive out business and worry thoughts.
+Think faith and courage thoughts.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MISTAKES" id="MISTAKES"></a>MISTAKES</h2>
+
+<h3>Not the Making But the Repeating,
+Is Your Danger</h3>
+
+
+<p>To live down the past and erase the
+errors, live boldly the present.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday is dead; forget it. Face about;
+live today; be busy, be active, be intent on
+doing right and accomplishing things worth
+while.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You've suffered in your own conscience;
+that's all the debt you can pay on the old
+score.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If every man's sins were printed on their
+foreheads the crowds you pass would all
+wear their hats over their eyes.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="TOMORROW" id="TOMORROW"></a>TOMORROW</h2>
+
+<h3>A Little Analysis of Our Relation to
+Eternity</h3>
+
+
+<p>One man says the present is everything,
+the eternity is nothing.</p>
+
+<p>The other man says eternity is everything,
+present is nothing.</p>
+
+<p>I believe the real truth is, both are man's
+chief concern, and neither is all truth.</p>
+
+<p>In this matter the general rule I have so
+often pointed out will harmoniously apply;
+that rule is, avoid extremes.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Man definitely knows much about the
+present, he knows much about life. He is
+in the midst of life&mdash;it pulsates all around
+him and in him.</p>
+
+<p>We know positively that the law of
+compensation is inexorable in its demands
+for right and positive in its punishment of
+wrong.</p>
+
+<p>We know that on this earth kindness,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>That there is a future most of us agree,
+because good sense and logic points to that
+sane and reasonable conclusion.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We know positively of today, and the
+happiness we can get from good deeds done
+today.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>That view warps the present life; it calls
+for present self-chastisement, present gloom,
+present sorrow and present misery.</p>
+
+<p>It takes the tangible definite today, calls<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span>
+it nothing, and accepts the intangible unknown
+eternity as everything.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>He refuses to think of definite life of
+today and spoils the thought of those who
+do.</p>
+
+<p>He is a blockade to progress, a disagreeable
+part of life's picture.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Both theories as ultimate beliefs are
+wrong, yet each has some truth in its conclusion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The man who says eternity is all, wastes
+opportunity, example and warps himself
+into a miserable hermit.</p>
+
+<p>Life is irrevocable. Every act in our life
+is placed, set, and fixed.</p>
+
+<p>Every act goes in the record book of
+yesterday and it cannot be changed.</p>
+
+<p>Acts that hurt others will rebound and
+hurt us. Deeds that helped others will rebound
+and help us. This much is certain.</p>
+
+<p>There is a future, I believe that. There
+is a God, I believe that.</p>
+
+<p>Just what the future is, and just what
+God is, I do not know in perfect detail.</p>
+
+<p>Reward for good and punishment for
+bad, is part of God's plan, and I am conscious
+of this truth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I know that justice prevails in this life,
+and this life is what I am living now.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span>
+to be confident, to be competent, to be
+useful.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="SINCERITY" id="SINCERITY"></a>SINCERITY</h2>
+
+<h3>Do Not Accept Sincerity as Proof of
+Truth</h3>
+
+
+<p>"I believe in him because he is so sincere."</p>
+
+<p>You've heard that, haven't you? I
+never could understand why a sensible person
+would use such logic.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The Christian Scientist is sincere in the
+belief that medicines do not cure diseases.
+The doctor is equally sincere that medicines
+will cure disease.</p>
+
+<p>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,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span>
+sect, belief, branch, dogma or system, is all
+truth.</p>
+
+<p>It is true every channel or avenue we
+meet in life's travel has some truth, but it <ins class="mycorr"
+title="printed book has 'is is'">is</ins>
+not for you or me to assume that we are
+the sole possessors of wisdom and the real
+discoverers of all truth.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The believers in a cult or code of ethics
+are auto <ins class="mycorr" title="printed book has 'hypnotnized'">hypnotized</ins>, their visions are
+narrowed.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You can make no gain to try to argue
+with a Christian Scientist. You ask for
+concrete rules, definite answers and other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>What about the people who have gone<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span>
+hence before Christian Science was ever
+heard of?</p>
+
+<p>The theological religion today, the practices
+and beliefs, differ from the vogue of
+fifty years ago.</p>
+
+<p>If the Protestant religion be all truth
+what became of our religious ancestors who
+died before Martin Luther found the truth?</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>So, then, because a person is sincere in a
+belief that is contrary to your conscientious<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span>
+belief, do not be disturbed or swerved from
+common sense analysis or convinced against
+your better judgment.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If we agree on these things and do useful
+work and think helpful thoughts, we are
+doing our duty.</p>
+
+<p>Theories, arguments and studying too
+deeply on bootless systems, codes, beliefs,
+cults, isms, or doctrines, is a waste of time.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We are asked to believe these strange,
+impractical, unnatural beliefs, because of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span>
+the sincerity of others. It's better to do,
+and to be the thing we can ourselves
+measure, understand and sincerely believe.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>God never gave his approval to any one
+man-made religious sect.</p>
+
+<p>God is the universal good power; man
+often tries to interpret God's idea to his
+own selfish narrow vision.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PILLS" id="PILLS"></a>PILLS</h2>
+
+<h3>The Man Who Has a Pill for Every Ill</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When anyone around speaks of a pain or
+ache he hands the person a pill.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span>
+drugs like acetanilid, and that is positively
+harmful when taken too often.</p>
+
+<p>There are times to take pills, in cases of
+emergency, when you can shock nature
+with a poison and bring a wholesome
+reaction.</p>
+
+<p>These times are rare, and the doctor
+should be the sole judge as to when they
+are necessary.</p>
+
+<p>Exercise, diet, correct habits of living
+will prevent congestion and illness that
+cause pain.</p>
+
+<p>The pill habit is nothing less than a drug
+habit, and the drug habit positively weakens
+the system.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Eat fruit, drink plenty of water, and that
+will flush the system and stop stomachic
+headache.</p>
+
+<p>See the optician if it's eyes. If you have
+frequent headache in the forehead, very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span>
+likely it's the eyes, even though you do not
+suspect it.</p>
+
+<p>If it's neuralgia, get a corrective diet list
+from the doctor.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And the worst of it is they never get well
+while taking the pills; it is only a temporary
+deadening of the pain.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Pills kill, if you keep up the habit. There
+are no two ways about it. I say positively<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span>
+and knowingly, that this pill habit is absolutely
+life shortening.</p>
+
+<p>Don't try to argue; the evidence is unshakable
+on this point.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Brace up, cheer up; chuck the pills in
+the garbage can.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FAKE_MEDICINES" id="FAKE_MEDICINES"></a>FAKE MEDICINES</h2>
+
+<h3>Like Whiskey, the End Is Near</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The doctor charlatan steals your money
+under the guise of being your benefactor.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Because people have off days, and aches<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Chronic ailments require long treatments,
+so as to make long bills and many visits
+for the quack doctor.</p>
+
+<p>Read "Pep" and fool the doctors. Your
+health and happiness are things largely in
+your own control.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And this is true.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="THE_CHURCH" id="THE_CHURCH"></a>THE CHURCH</h2>
+
+<h3>It Is Hampered By Too Many
+Sects</h3>
+
+
+<p>No two minds can see the same picture,
+nor can two persons with logic, on religion,
+come to the same definite conclusion.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Two hundred years ago they burned
+witches.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The protestant church divides itself into
+a lot of sects, each one built on some particular
+ordinance or practice and each one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Many years ago the church considered it
+a sacrilege to use an organ. Today they
+have orchestras and hire operatic singers.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Religion must teach smiles and joy,
+courage and brotherly love, instead of
+frowns, dejection, fear and envy.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>That big, broad, right church will be in
+harmony with God's purpose.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>"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.</p>
+
+<p>"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 <ins class="mycorr" title="printed book has 'of'">or</ins> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There should be no Methodist Church
+North and Methodist Church South.</p>
+
+<p>There should not be churches like the
+Congregational and Presbyterian, whose
+creeds are identical, the difference being
+only in the officers.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The get-together movement will help
+religion, and it's going to happen surely.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="INVENTORY" id="INVENTORY"></a>INVENTORY</h2>
+
+<h3>A Necessary Practice to Bring
+Efficiency</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If he didn't take this inventory his net
+worth would be guess work.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Then check up department A, which is
+your family. How have you dealt with
+your family and children?</p>
+
+<p>Department B is friends; how do you
+stand in your treatment of them?</p>
+
+<p>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?</p>
+
+<p>Go over your self-respect account. Does
+it show profit or loss.</p>
+
+<p>Check up your employees' account. What
+has your stewardship shown? Have you
+drawn the employees closer, or driven them
+further from you?</p>
+
+<p>Analyze your spiritual account. Is your<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Don't read this and say, "a good idea."
+Do the thing literally.</p>
+
+<p>Take a clean sheet of paper and write
+your personal assets and liabilities down in
+the two columns marked "good" and "bad."</p>
+
+<p>If this inventory doesn't help then you
+may call me a false prophet.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The business man who never takes inventory
+is likely to go bump some day.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="EGOTISM" id="EGOTISM"></a>EGOTISM</h2>
+
+<h3>Those Who Decry It Most Have It
+Most</h3>
+
+
+<p>The ego is in us. It is good to have, but
+egotism needs the soft pedal when we speak
+or do things.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span>
+pokes his arm over your shoulder and says,
+"that's me."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Argument develops egotism more than
+most any other thing will.</p>
+
+<p>How often have you convinced another
+in an argument?</p>
+
+<p>How often have you been convinced in
+an argument?</p>
+
+<p>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'.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h2><a name="PERSEVERANCE" id="PERSEVERANCE"></a>PERSEVERANCE</h2>
+
+<h3>It Is the Last Step in the Race
+That Counts</h3>
+
+
+<p>Four hundred and twenty-three years
+ago Christopher Columbus landed on an
+island which he thought was India.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Chris had perseverance, the stuff that
+makes men successful.</p>
+
+<p>He started to find India by sailing westward.
+He didn't succeed in his purpose,
+but his determination was rewarded just<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span>
+the same, for he found a new country, and
+that was worth while.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Columbus had perseverance and pep, and
+his unwavering fidelity to his cause brought
+him success in his efforts.</p>
+
+<p>The world has improved since 1492, but
+the percentage of men who would keep on
+like Columbus did has not increased,
+perhaps.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Perseverance and pep produce prosperity,
+peace and plenty.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It was the mileage made on October 12th,
+1492, that counted.</p>
+
+<p>It is the last step in a race that counts.</p>
+
+<p>It is the last stroke on the nail that
+counts.</p>
+
+<p>The moral is that many a prize has been
+lost just when it was ready to be plucked.</p>
+
+<p>Perseverance&mdash;patience&mdash;pluck&mdash;pep&mdash;are
+particularly profitable if pursued until
+you ring the bell.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="GEOLOGY" id="GEOLOGY"></a>GEOLOGY</h2>
+
+<h3>The Earth's Incontestable Pages of
+Truth</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The herring is a salt water fish proving
+that the country around Frozen Dog was
+at one time under the sea.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In the Nile valley in Egypt nine towns,
+in one location, have been unearthed, each
+town in a different strata of alluvial deposit.</p>
+
+<p>The ninth or top city is the ancient City
+of Memphis, once the largest city in the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>Those cities and the mute eloquence of
+my fossil herring plainly point out the fact
+that the world is millions of years old.</p>
+
+<p>Last summer I found some coral on
+Washington Island, which is off the point<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span>
+of land where Lake Michigan and Green
+Bay meet. Coral is only formed in salt
+water.</p>
+
+<p>Geologists tell me that Washington Island
+and surrounding country plainly shows
+marks of three distinct glacial periods.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The earth changes its axis every few
+thousand centuries, that we know.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Thus the habitations of man have been
+buried, new earth covered them, new towns
+were built and again the covering process.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>Around our Mississippi Valley we know
+of Mound Builders before our Indians. In
+the Southwest the relics of the cliff dwellers
+are abundant.</p>
+
+<p>This summer at Salt Lake City I saw
+seven mummies of fair-haired people that
+were discovered in Southern Utah.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The residents of Pompeii had fine plumbing,
+baths and luxuries.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Near Pompeii is the ancient buried city<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span>
+of Herculaneum, but it is covered with
+lava, hard as granite, while Pompeii is
+covered with ashes.</p>
+
+<p>Our western hemisphere is called the new
+world, but all parts of the world are equally
+old.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Verily, this earth of ours has had humans
+on it for more than the 6,000 years our
+written records give as its age.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PATRIOTISM" id="PATRIOTISM"></a>PATRIOTISM</h2>
+
+<h3>An Intoxicant That Often Turns
+Men Into Murderers</h3>
+
+
+<p>A false patriotism, an inherited acceptance
+of servility and obedience, makes the
+foreigners meek, sheep-like men.</p>
+
+<p>This great war, and most every great
+war of the past, is possible because of a
+distorted understanding of patriotism.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>But, really, this patriotism is one of the
+narrowest and most cruel forces in the
+world. It causes wars, waste and desolation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span>
+It makes jealousies, braggadocio and keeps
+up the fight spirit.</p>
+
+<p>The false patriotism is an obstacle to
+broader human progress, brotherly love
+and the finer things in life.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>But patriotism, as fomented and fostered
+by governments for war spurs and goads,
+is a monster that lives on blood.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The banner, patriotism, is flaunted in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span>
+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&mdash;for what?</p>
+
+<p>Such patriotism is failure and worse than
+failure. It is hindrance to civilization.</p>
+
+<p>These bewildered men have let reason
+escape, and intoxicated false patriotism
+poison come in their brains to take the place
+of reason.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Each nation has its own interpretation of
+the Divine will. Each asks Divine help
+for his nation.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Europe has certainly put riot in patriotism.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="RIDICULE" id="RIDICULE"></a>RIDICULE</h2>
+
+<h3>A Poor Vehicle for Humor</h3>
+
+
+<p>The man who ridicules everything is on
+the toboggan slide and he will finish the
+slide as an out-and-out grouch.</p>
+
+<p>You and I know men who never have a
+pleasant word to say of anyone, or a serious
+commendation of anything.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Just at this time friends depart, for the
+grouch phase of the disease has started.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sarcasm and ridicule wound deeply; they
+are hot pokers jabbed in quivering flesh.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Ridicule is the negative element anyway;
+the only good it can be is by reflex or
+rebound force.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The masses will laugh when the comedian
+on the stage hits his friend with a club;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Ridicule and sarcasm are cheap, slap-*stick
+methods to produce fun. They leave
+a sting many times when you are not
+aware of it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="THE_WIFE" id="THE_WIFE"></a>THE WIFE</h2>
+
+<h3>She Is Your Partner, Don't Cheat
+Her</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Married folks must be on the partnership
+basis, or there's sand in the gear box.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>When the husband questions every turn,
+every move, every cent, the wife feels like
+a prisoner or a slave. Wives will do good<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span>
+team work when they are broken to double
+harness with their husbands.</p>
+
+<p>Women are generally raised without any
+requirements of economy; they are pretty
+birds, and used to preening and smoothing
+their plumage and looking pretty.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You can't expect her to know about
+pennies and purses and prudent purchases
+the moment you slip the ring on her finger.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>She's a sweet bird and sweet birds and
+hawks don't nest well together.</p>
+
+<p>Where the hawk and the dove are in the
+same cage the feathers will fly.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="MENTAL_PLEASURES" id="MENTAL_PLEASURES"></a>MENTAL PLEASURES</h2>
+
+<h3>The Rarest, Sweetest Pleasures in
+the World</h3>
+
+
+<p>There are two principal pleasures man
+seeks; one is material pleasures and that
+takes in about ninety-nine per cent of the
+human family.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Material pleasures are eating, displaying,
+possessing, and society. Material pleasures
+generate in the human the desire for fluff,
+feathers, and four-flushing.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The homes where material pleasures
+abound are the ones where worry, neurasthenia
+and nervous prostration abound.</p>
+
+<p>Material pleasures are merely stimulants
+for the time being, and there always comes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span>
+the intermittent reflexes of gloom and
+depression.</p>
+
+<p>The desire to show off, to excite envy in
+others, is always present at the homes where
+material pleasures are the rule.</p>
+
+<p>Material pleasures call for crowds.
+Mental pleasures are best enjoyed in solitude.</p>
+
+<p>The material pleasure seeker lives a life
+of convention, engagements, routine, action,
+strain and high tension.</p>
+
+<p>The person who is so fortunate as to
+appreciate and follow mental pleasures, is
+serene, natural, happy and content.</p>
+
+<p>A cozy room, loved ones around, music,
+books, love and social conversation, those
+are mental pleasures; those are best.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The lover of books and home can enjoy
+the play, because he only goes to plays
+worth while, and he doesn't overdo it.</p>
+
+<p>The confirmed theater-goer is a pessimist;
+he roasts nearly every play, and he is
+universally bored.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Any time you can pick up your book and
+be happy.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Mental pleasures are best.</p>
+
+<p>Material pleasures are merely passing
+pleasures.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PANAMA" id="PANAMA"></a>PANAMA</h2>
+
+<h3>The Man Who Found It and the
+Man Who Used It</h3>
+
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>Little did Jim think that by 1914 ships
+of twenty thousand tons would sail through
+the impassable mountains.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Gold, new territory for kings, new fields
+for the church&mdash;were the magnets which
+drew early navigators like Balboa to the
+land in the West across the Atlantic.</p>
+
+<p>Those early adventurers little thought of
+exploiting their discoveries for the benefit
+of mankind.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We do not build pyramids or hanging
+gardens because they serve no useful purpose.</p>
+
+<p>The Panama Canal is a greater wonder
+and is a most practical benefit to mankind.
+It doubles our navy; it enables us to move<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span>
+supplies of every kind from one coast to
+the other quickly and less expensively.</p>
+
+<p>It shortens the world's highway between
+the oceans and helps every human being.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The shades of Balboa and De Lesseps
+likely stalk around Panama at midnight
+and rub their eyes in amazement.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="TODAY" id="TODAY"></a>TODAY</h2>
+
+<h3>The One Time in Our Keeping</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>All science has some truth; all creeds,
+sects, isms and cults likewise have truth,
+but no branch or group possesses all truth.</p>
+
+<p>My fossil fish on the wall wiggled his tail<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span>
+thousands of years ago, very likely millions
+of years.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Verily we presume when we say, "we
+have all the truth; think as we do or you
+are lost."</p>
+
+<p>The old world has not told its full story.
+The Universe of which this world is a part
+is still a deeper mystery.</p>
+
+<p>We shall not know all truth until the
+great revealing time.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Today is yours and mine; let's do the
+best we can with our possession in act and
+thought and word.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>
+and a profounder faith in His wisdom and
+works than ever.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>This chapter is about big things and in it
+is a big moral for all who are big enough to
+grasp it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="DAD" id="DAD"></a>DAD</h2>
+
+<h3>All for You, Old Man, and It's
+Timely</h3>
+
+
+<p>This is your inning, Dad.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>You are entitled to, and it's your duty
+to have, happiness and pleasures and health
+and joys, right here now today.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Let's have the corners of your mouth
+turned up tonight at the supper table; be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span>
+part of the family, Dad, not a poor, tired
+bread winner.</p>
+
+<p>We don't want to hear any more sh&mdash;sh&mdash;
+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&mdash;let's make your home-*coming
+a joyous event.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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?</p>
+
+<p>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?</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CRYING_BABIES" id="CRYING_BABIES"></a>CRYING BABIES</h2>
+
+<h3>When They Cry There's a Reason;
+Find It</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Many a mother's heart is torn and
+wrung because of the doctor's order, "Let
+the baby cry."</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span>
+over again and see if the doctor hasn't
+crossed his logic wires and insulted common
+sense.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And generally the doctor who affects
+most knowledge about baby rearing is the
+one who has no babies of his own.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="GIRL" id="GIRL"></a>GIRL</h2>
+
+<h3>Be a Know Girl, Not a Show Girl</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There are so many influences to spoil
+you, so much convention, so much artificiality,
+so much snobbery, so much caste,
+so much foolish frivolity.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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,"&mdash;these
+qualities win her head.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>That's the picture of the poor rich girl
+whose parents are to blame for the nonsense
+she got in her head.</p>
+
+<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>You will study simplicity, sentiment,
+sense, sereneness, sweetness, rather than
+envy, frills, feathers and foolishness.</p>
+
+<p>God's noblest woman's calling is the
+work for children and home.</p>
+
+<p>To cook and sew is a higher duty and
+better occupation than bridge parties and
+society.</p>
+
+<p>Not that you must cook and sew, my
+dear, but that you can if necessary.</p>
+
+<p>With the ability to cook and sew you
+can properly direct the cook or seamstress,
+and they will respect you for your education.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Be that sweet girl. Do not be the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span>
+"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&mdash;the
+sweet, simple, sensible girl who knows.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>I want your life to be one of poise,
+happiness and serenity instead of noise,
+worry and nerves.</p>
+
+<p>This little message is all for you&mdash;GIRL.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="SPECULATION" id="SPECULATION"></a>SPECULATION</h2>
+
+<h3>You Can't Earn Your Board on the
+Board of Trade</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The farmer plants the wheat. God makes
+it grow and we eat it.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The boy was off like a shot to the wheat
+pit; he gave it to another white-haired<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span>
+young-faced man of cultured, refined, even
+scholarly bearing, so different from the row
+raisers in the pit.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The old man made a sign, the wheat was
+sold. He was Dr. Jekyll again; he yawned
+and was composed once more.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Outside the board were the hangers on,
+the down-and-outs, the has-beens, who used<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span>
+to be in the pit and throw fits like the nice
+old man I've described.</p>
+
+<p>These has-beens have the speculation
+bug, and hope they can come back some
+day and make fortunes out of lucky guesses.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You can't beat the Board of Trade; it's
+not in the cards.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="STARS" id="STARS"></a>STARS</h2>
+
+<h3>A Little Study of the Universe</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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."</p>
+
+<p>How many stars are there? Well, let's get
+ready to appreciate number. I can see<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span>
+about 3,000; with opera glasses I could see
+30,000.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Verily, little protoplasm, you have an-*<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span>
+*other 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Those stars testify to the certainty of
+God, and I believe in Him.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="LEADERS" id="LEADERS"></a>LEADERS</h2>
+
+<h3>Are Ever Subject to Backbiters</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Emulation and envy are ever alert in
+trying to steal the fruits of the leader or
+doer of things.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If he does a mediocre thing he is unnoticed;
+if his work is a masterpiece,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span>
+jealousy wags its tongue and untruth uses
+its sting.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Because jealous ones cannot equal the
+leader they seek to belittle him.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Above the clamor and noise, above the
+din of the rocks thrown at him, his masterpiece
+and his fame endure.</p>
+
+<p>And compensation, the salve to the sore,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span>
+makes the great man deaf to the noise and
+immune to the attacks of the knockers.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>His own character is his chief concern,
+and he is content in the knowledge that
+time will bring its reward.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Therefore, courage is to be your chief
+asset; with patience, pride, perseverance
+your lieutenants.</p>
+
+<p>Be not weary, grow not discouraged when
+your progress is hampered by obstacles.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="OLD_AGE" id="OLD_AGE"></a>OLD AGE</h2>
+
+<h3>The Pleasures of a Well Lived Life</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Too many there are who look forward to
+old age with fear or dread.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>If middle age is spent in getting dollars
+only, then old age will be days of empty
+nothingness.</p>
+
+<p>Youth is the planning time of ideals and
+ambitions, middle age the building time and
+old age the dividend time.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Anticipation is seldom realized, and this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Our ideal may not be realized but the
+journey to it may still be a pleasant one.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>We must not in the old age period condemn
+ourselves because our plans failed or
+our castles were shattered.</p>
+
+<p>There is no hard luck but incurable
+disease or death. It is not for us to mourn<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span>
+the past or weep over the vases from which
+the flowers are gone.</p>
+
+<p>In our active days we must realize we
+are putting memories away in our brains
+that will come back to us in old age.</p>
+
+<p>Only what we put in our brains we can
+take out.</p>
+
+<p>So then, Mr. Avarice, I warn you if gold
+is your God it's cold comfort you will
+get in your sunset days.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>A few dollars left to heirs will help.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>To prepare for that happy period of your
+life the foundation must be built in the
+active today period.</p>
+
+<p>Carry smiles in your old age; they will
+keep the heart young, the digestion good,
+and life will be worth while.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="TIME" id="TIME"></a>TIME</h2>
+
+<h3>What Geology Tells Us About Time</h3>
+
+
+<p>I have traveled horseback over the great
+arid plains of the West and read the story
+of the ages gone before.</p>
+
+<p>In Arizona and New Mexico there are
+ancient ruins of forts and cities built by
+people we know not of.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>In Wyoming there is coal enough to furnish
+fuel for the United States for several
+centuries.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>There in bleak Wyoming is testimony<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span>
+and evidence of changes that time only can
+bring about.</p>
+
+<p>"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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Yes, this earth of ours is old, so old
+mere man cannot contemplate or accurately
+estimate its wondrous age.</p>
+
+<p>The fossils of the mammoth reptiles and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span>
+beasts which lived before the ken of man
+are numerous in the fascinating West I
+know so well.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>It is not surprising that through the dark
+ages dates and facts were lost and even
+there may have been mistakes in translations.</p>
+
+<p>We have not a complete history in
+written language, but we have some very
+<ins class="mycorr" title="Printed book has 'pefinite'">definite</ins> history in the rocks and hills and
+lands and seas<ins class="mycorr" title="Printed book is missing '.'">.</ins><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The world certainly is more than 5,919
+years old. Read the record of time so
+plainly visible at Niagara Falls.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CLOSING_NOTE" id="CLOSING_NOTE"></a>CLOSING NOTE</h2>
+
+<h3>A Little Appreciation to Everyone
+Who Reads This Book</h3>
+
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>The daily increasing sales of my books is
+due to one thing, and that is that you,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span>
+my readers, my friends, are telling your
+friends to buy my books. This personal
+interest and recommendation is advertising
+of the most valuable kind.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>So here is my hand of friendship, my
+heart's gratitude, my complete appreciation
+of your interest and patronage.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>You can be strong; you will be strong so
+long as you control your thought habits.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>And from me and my loved ones to you
+and your loved ones here are all good<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span>
+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&mdash;let us</p>
+
+<div style="margin-left: 40%; margin-right: 40%;">
+  <p class="left nobreak">LIVE</p>
+  <p class="center nobreak">LAUGH and</p>
+  <p class="right nobreak">LOVE</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Thus endeth our Evening Round-Up.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Col. Hunter's Books</h2>
+
+<ul class="TOC" style="margin-left: 25%; margin-right: 25%;">
+<li>Pep<span class="TOCralign">$1.00</span></li>
+<li>Evening Round-Up<span class="TOCralign">1.00</span></li>
+<li>Dollars and Sense<span class="TOCralign">.50</span></li>
+<li>Ginger Snaps<span class="TOCralign">.50</span></li>
+<li>Brass Tacks<span class="TOCralign">.50</span></li>
+<li>Character<span class="TOCralign">.25</span></li>
+<li>Friends<span class="TOCralign">.25</span></li>
+<li>Col. Hunter's Motto (Brass)<span class="TOCralign">.10</span></li>
+</ul>
+<p class="center">Any of above sent postpaid upon
+receipt of price.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><small>Address</small><br/>HUNTER SERVICE<br/>
+KANSAS CITY, MO., U. S. A.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PEP</h2>
+<table style="border-collapse: separate;">
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<img src="images/fig249-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 50px;" >
+<p class="center nobreak">
+A Book of
+</p>
+<div style= "font-size:large; margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 30%;">
+<p class="left nobreak">Poise</p>
+<p class="center nobreak">Efficiency</p>
+<p class="right nobreak">Peace</p>
+</div>
+<p class="center nobreak">By Col. Wm. C. Hunter</p>
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+<p class="center">
+<span style="font-size: large;"> Real Self Help<br />
+Optimism<br />
+Health<br />
+and Happiness<br />
+<br />
+224 Pages&mdash;$1.00<br /></span>
+</p>
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+<h3>A MESSAGE</h3>
+
+<p>&mdash;to you who are rushing along, to tell you&mdash;"Slow Up!"
+A cry to you who are lagging behind&mdash;"Brace Up! Catch
+Up!"</p>
+
+<p>Do you need a lift or a push&mdash;sympathy or a slap on the
+back&mdash;are you a help or a hindrance to yourself? In either
+case, you don't care what's wrong&mdash;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.</p>
+
+<p>It tells you how to analyze your assets and how to cash
+them in to realize the best results from those assets.</p>
+
+<p>Col. Hunter says: "Nothing I have ever written has given
+me so much pleasure, for I receive thousands of letters from
+those who have been in shadowland, tired, discouraged and
+miserable, and they now have courage, strength, ambition,
+hope, poise, efficiency and peace through reading the experiences
+and following the suggestions of PEP."</p>
+
+<p>This remarkable book is 7¼ &times; 4½, 224 pages. Narrow 12
+mo. fits the pocket. Author's portrait. Pep is beautifully
+bound in cloth.</p>
+
+<p>Sent postpaid anywhere for $1.00.</p>
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Evening Round-Up</h2>
+<p class="center">by Col. Wm. C. Hunter</p>
+<table>
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<img src="images/fig250-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">More Good
+Stuff like
+</p>
+<p class="center" style="font-size:x-large;">PEP</p>
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">256 pages, $1.00</p>
+</td></tr>
+</table>
+<p>This book is the
+same size as PEP
+but has thirty-two
+pages more.
+The following
+foreword of the
+author tells its
+purpose:</p>
+
+<p>"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.</p>
+
+<p>"We'll try to solve perplexities, dissolve worries
+absolve ourselves from pull backs and resolve to
+better our lives.</p>
+
+<p>"We'll plan and prepare, that we may have more
+poise&mdash;efficiency&mdash;peace; that's PEP</p>
+
+<p>"We'll learn how to establish helpful thought
+habit, that our lives may be full of gladsome notes
+instead of gruesome gloom."&mdash;The Author.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><small>Delivered postpaid anywhere for $1.00.</small></p>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Dollars and Sense</h2>
+
+<p class="center">by Col. Wm. C. Hunter</p>
+<table>
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<img src="images/fig251-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<p class="left" style="font-size:x-large;">
+This Great Book</p>
+<p class="right" style="font-size:large;">Has reached a sale of
+a half-million copies</p>
+<p class="center" style="font-size: large;">Price 50 Cents.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p>A practical book of business "horse sense,"
+containing 130 pages of boiled-down, successful,
+practical experience. It treats of the
+vitals of business&mdash;from the inside; of expense;
+fixed charges; overhead; buying; selling; advertising;
+credit; debt; employer and employee. It is
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Bound in cloth; size, 4½ &times; 6¼ inches.</p>
+
+<p>Sent to any address postpaid for 50c.</p>
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg
+251]</a></span></p>
+<table>
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<img src="images/fig252-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<p class="center" style="font-size:x-large">Brass Tacks</p>
+<p class="center">By Col. Wm. C. Hunter</p>
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large">50 Cents</p>
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large">A volume of
+"capsule optimism,"
+full of smiles, cheer,
+courage and hope</p>
+</td></tr></table>
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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&mdash;and
+find new meanings and help each time.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Bound in cloth; size, 4½ &times; 6¼ inches, a handy
+size to slip in the pocket and read at odd
+moments.</p>
+
+<p>Printed in two colors. With half-tone portrait
+of the author.</p>
+
+<p>Sent postpaid to any address for 50 cents.</p></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>Ginger Snaps</h2>
+
+<p class="center">By COL. Wm. C. HUNTER</p>
+
+<table>
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<img src="images/fig253-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 50px;">
+<p class="left" style="font-size:x-large;">
+This
+Great Book</p>
+
+<p class="left" style="font-size:large;">
+will reach a sale of a
+million, we hope.</p>
+<p class="left" style="font-size:large;">
+Price 50 Cents</p>
+</td></tr></table>
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Ginger Snaps is up to the minute in helpful,
+practical business suggestions, profitable plans
+and good ideas.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Ginger Snaps is often bought in quantities by
+manufacturers, jobbers and business houses to
+give to employees. It's a splendid book for this
+purpose.</p>
+
+<p>Price 50 cents postpaid.</p>
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>Two Beautiful Gift Books</h2>
+
+<table>
+<tr><td style="padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px;">
+<img src="images/fig254a-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td>
+<td style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;">
+<img src="images/fig254b-300dpi.png" alt="Book cover" title="" />
+</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px;">
+<p style="font-size: x-large;" >CHARACTER</p>
+
+<p style="font-size: large;">25 Cents</p>
+
+<p>A beautifully printed gift
+book in art designs and colors.
+Cover embossed. Book
+bound with silk cord. Character
+is one of Col. Hunter's
+best heart and soul outpourings.
+A beautiful book for
+your reading table. A splendid
+book to give to your
+folks.</p>
+</td>
+<td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;">
+<p style="font-size: x-large;" >FRIENDS</p>
+
+<p style="font-size: large;">25 Cents</p>
+
+<p>A touching appreciation of
+the much abused word,
+Friends. Printed on heavy
+art plate paper, illustrated
+in colors and gold ornaments.
+Cover embossed in silver.</p>
+
+<p>Every friend of Colonel
+Hunter who knows and appreciates
+his human, feeling
+style will love this book.</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<p class="center">Either book sent postpaid anywhere for 25 cents.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>Col. Hunter's Motto</h2>
+<h3>Price ... 10 Cents</h3>
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size: x-large;">Engraved on heavy brass<br />
+Exact size of illustration</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/fig255-300dpi.png" alt="Be pleasant
+every morning
+until ten o'clock,
+the rest of the day
+will take care
+of itself.
+Wm C Hunter" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>This favorite motto of Col. Wm. C. Hunter, with
+his signature, makes a fine pocket piece. It has a
+hole in the center so you may tack it up on your
+desk, dresser or on the wall. It is engraved in
+heavy brass, background with black, baked enamel.
+This beautiful souvenir sent postpaid to any address
+for 10c or $1.00 per dozen.</p>
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size:large;">HUNTER SERVICE</p>
+<p class="center">KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Evening Round Up, by William Crosbie Hunter
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+
+
+Title: Evening Round Up
+       More Good Stuff Like Pep
+
+
+Author: William Crosbie Hunter
+
+
+
+Release Date: December 12, 2006  [eBook #20098]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVENING ROUND UP***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Colin Bell, Bill Tozier, and the
+Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
+(http://www.pgdp.net/)
+
+
+
+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
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+more than dollars.
+
+The daily increasing sales of my books is due to one thing, and that is
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+
+Because you get your friends to buy, the sales are good and that's
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+
+So here is my hand of friendship, my heart's gratitude, my complete
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+
+We've spent many pleasant moments together in these evening round-ups,
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+
+You can be strong; you will be strong so long as you control your
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+
+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
+
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