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New Thought Common Sense

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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

Common Sense and "Goodness"

EVERY now and then a world-weary and folly-weary man marries an innocent, unworldly and "good woman."

He wants the sweet home life he has not found in the paths of Pleasure, nor in the byways of License. He wants the unmercenary devotion of a loving woman, and he wants to walk forth in the broad light of day, unashamed, with his wife by his side.

It is the inevitable goal of every worth-while man. The world approves of such marriages, and the woman feels that she is filling the highest mission of her sex in reclaiming a lost sheep.

But how few such woman know the wise, middle course, to walk with such a man.

It is all very well to listen and believe when he tells you he is happier than he has ever been in his life before, and that his home is dearer to him than any club on earth.

But it is far from very well if you fall upon his neck and weep, the first time he intimates that he would like to drop in at the club and talk with the old chums for an hour.

This is the poorest method you could adopt to convince him of the greater joys of home.

There is a certain fascination in club life to most men. There is danger in this fascination to some men. When a man sickens of it and wants a home, it is because he has had nothing but his club, and because

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