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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

Every-Day Opportunities

A MAN past middle age descended from an incoming train in a narrow passage leading to a large depot. He had occupied a rear car, and over one hundred people were in front of him when he reached the passage. Only two persons could walk abreast, and the high railing on one side and the train on the other made it necessary to keep to the narrow exit.

The man had important engagements awaiting him. He was well bred, a gentleman, and considered the little courtesies of life.

Yet without violating one of these he reached the depot and the trolley car first of all those hundred people.

He watched his chances, and availed himself of them.

A woman in the line at his left dropped her parcel and stooped to recover it. He slipped in front of her without delaying anyone in either line of march.

A man on the right paused to shift his baggage from the right hand to the left, and this made another opening. Still another held up the whole procession to question a train official leaning from a car window, but instead of stopping with the throng our traveler pushed ahead and found a clear space, which soon enabled him to reach the trolley car two or three moments in advance of the first man who had descended from the train. He had moved rapidly, quietly, decently and without once inconveniencing a fellow traveler.

No doubt scores of passengers from the rear cars

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