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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


Thought Building for Children

What are you doing to prevent your children from annoying others?

The fact that they do not annoy you is not sufficient; the fact that you find them the most interesting and remarkable children in the world is not convincing, and the fact that they are exceptionally bright and intelligent or astonishingly intellectual, even, has nothing to do with the discussion.

Have you taught your boys that they are to wait for all women and all older people to pass through a door or into a public conveyance ? Or do you permit them to push and jostle their way through a company or crowd and monopolize the most desirable places in vehicles?

It is so seldom one finds an American lad of any class who steps aside to let a woman precede him in public places, that he attracts immediate attention when he is encountered.

The average boy thrusts his elbows against the ribs of the man or woman beside him and dives forward into car or omnibus at the risk of tripping the unwary or toppling over the weak, and if this occurs, no word of apology is ever heard from the lips of Master Stars and Stripes.

I have yet to hear an American parent reprove a child for a performance of this kind. But when others have administered reproof he has met with "fond parents' " defense, "He is only a boy. He didn't

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