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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

"Good Business"

BEFORE real continued success can come to a woman in any self-supporting realm, she must have several things of which she seems unconscious to-day.

I fear it is the exceptional business woman who has a realization of the necessity of paying her bills promptly, and of making her word as good as her note in money matters.

I shall never forget the mortification I felt upon a time, when in a strange place, away from home, I gave the name of a well-known business woman as reference in a financial matter. I knew her as a most ambitious and seemingly successful business woman, and was astonished to be told that her note was not considered of any value, and that in her own town she could not obtain credit because it was so difficult to collect bills when due.

Afterward I heard the woman bemoan the cruelty of the world toward a woman who tried to make her own way.

Of course our sex has not been accustomed to assume large responsibilities, and it is difficult to grasp the situation at once. We have been for centuries the recipients of the gallant attentions or tyrannical espionage of men, and to become their associates in business is quite another matter.

But since woman has entered upon this field, let her keep her shield bright and her sword sharp, and her sense of honor keen.

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