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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

What is a Good Woman?

THERE are good women; there are better women; there are best women.

There are comparatively good women, positively good women, and superlatively good women; and all these definitions are modified by time, place, climate and temperament.

No woman could be called good who walked down Fifth avenue attired only in a loin cloth and a string of beads; yet in Central Africa women walk abroad in such an attire who are as good as they know how to be --- loyal wives, devoted mothers and dutiful daughters.

Good women appear in public places and before men here in America with uncovered faces and shoulders; but in Turkey no good woman could do this, because it is not the custom, and would offend. The good woman does not offend purposely or wantonly. She submits to the inconveniences and discomforts of tradition until she can see some reasonable prospect of bettering the race by defying the conventions.

The comparatively good woman lives a harmless life, avoids wounding any one, and submits to all manner of injustice at the hands of society --- because she dislikes to make a fuss, or attract attention, or disturb existing orders.

The positively good woman lives an actively good life, under the same conditions, putting herself to great trouble to help others, and to overcome the

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