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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

such natures can be, by fifty years of married life with a man who had not one vice, save that of money meanness.

Never did he give her a dime without compelling her to ask for it and to tell for what purpose she used it afterward.

Only when the children grew old enough to earn money and give the mother of their earnings, was she relieved from this miserable slavery, which destroyed her love and respect for her husband, and her pride in herself.

Yet this man was always declaring that he "was doing the best he could to provide for his family."

But was he? There is something to consider besides supplying the material needs of a wife when a man marries a woman of any refinement or feeling. He must provide her with conditions which sustain her self-respect, as well as with mere food, and roof, and raiment.

If you are a woman, perhaps you say you are doing the best you can to create beautiful home relations for your family.

But are you? You are loyal, industrious and affectionate. But is your house well ordered and clean and comfortable?

Order is heaven's first law; and unless your home is orderly you are committing a sin against high heaven. Unless you are amiable, and optimistic, and sympathetic, and patient, you are committing a sin against love and wronging your children, and probably alienating your husband.

So are you doing the best you can?

Then in the matter of health? You are doing the best you can, you say, to keep well.

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