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You may copy it, give it away or +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> </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> </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> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </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—Dollars and Sense—Brass Tacks<br/> +Ginger Snaps—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—efficiency—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—LOVE—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 blasé 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—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—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—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,—"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—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—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—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—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—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—<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—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—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—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—Drink two or three glasses of +warm, not hot water the first thing when +you arise.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Fourth—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—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—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—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—walk alone; second—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—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—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—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.</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—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,—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—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—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—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—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—<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—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—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.</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,—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—sound +heavy, restful, peaceful sleep. My eyelids +are getting heavy—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—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—patience—pluck—pep—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—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—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—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.</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,"—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—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—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—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—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. 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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—$1.00<br /></span> +</p> +</td></tr> +</table> +<h3>A MESSAGE</h3> + +<p>—to you who are rushing along, to tell you—"Slow Up!" +A cry to you who are lagging behind—"Brace Up! Catch +Up!"</p> + +<p>Do you need a lift or a push—sympathy or a slap on the +back—are you a 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.</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 × 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—efficiency—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."—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—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 × 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—and +find new meanings and help each time.</p> + +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Bound in cloth; size, 4½ × 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. 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