TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
It is
almost unavoidable that, in a practical treatise of...
CHAPTER I THE CURSE OF WORRY
It is
the fashion of our active, aggressive, material, Occidental...
Why
should the rude and brutal (!) savage be thus,...
We are told
that all these imaginary ills come from...
Husbands are
worried about their wives; wives about their husbands;...
Bye
and bye the youth took the empty seat by...
It
is worry that paints the lines of care on...
CHAPTER II OURS IS THE AGE OF WORRY
But
just as soon as a reasonable amount of success...
I
am not so foolish as to imagine for one...
CHAPTER III NERVOUS PROSTRATION AND WORRY.
Worry
is overwork of the most...
Sleep
that knits up the ravell'd sleave of...
At
another time he cries
CHAPTER IV HOLY WRIT, THE SAGES, AND WORRY
Then,
when cause for worry seems to be ever present,...
Many
proverbs have been written about worry, which it may...
Henry
Labouchere, the sage who for so many years has...
Take
a few more words and look at them, and...
CHAPTER V THE NEEDLESSNESS AND USELESSNESS OF WORRY
Here
was a simple and practical remedy, and I found...
Elsewhere
I have referred to the Indians' attitude of mind....
Yet
other things would not be as they were before....
Reader,
keep your mind free from such dirt--for dirt is...
CHAPTER VI THE SELFISHNESS OF WORRY
Then
there is the mother who worries over her child's...
'Deed,
Lizzie,' interposed her husband, 'ye're...
CHAPTER VII CAUSES OF WORRY
Never
was a slave in the South, though in the...
The
fact of the matter is most men and women...
Oh
vanity, conceit, pride, how many sleepless hours of worry...
For
instance a friend of mine spent twenty years in...
Charles
F. Lummis, the well-known litterateur and organizer of the...
What,
then, should be the mental attitude of the superintendent...
This
is the judgement sanity demands of everything. What is...
Dr.
Melton broke in, his voice...
Paul
laughed again, a scornful, hateful...
Closely
allied to bashfulness as a cause of many worries...
Annie
Laurie, who writes many sage counsels in the San...
What
do they get out of life--these people who are...
CHAPTER VIII PROTEAN FORMS OF WORRY
There
are men who are equally worried over their appearance....
The
schoolboy, schoolgirl, has to learn this lesson, and the...
In
subsequent chapters, various worries are discussed, with their
causes...
CHAPTER IX HEALTH WORRIES
The
results are many and disastrous. People become confirmed
"worriers"...
The
teacher, who imagines that all children are mean and...
CHAPTER X THE WORRIES OF PARENTS
Here
was common-sense, practical, hard-headed training instead of
worry. Bend...
Hans
Christian Andersen's story of The Ugly Duckling is one...
Elsewhere
I have referred to the fact that we often...
In
the January, 1916, Ladies' Home Journal there is an...
--What,
my soul? see thus far and no...
CHAPTER XI MARITAL WORRIES
Don't
worry about each other--help each other by the loving...
CHAPTER XII THE WORRY OF THE SQUIRREL CAGE
The
particular Mrs. Hollister who, at...
'Keeping
up a two-maid and a...
Lydia
now began her own "squirrel-cage" existence, even her
husband...
Yet
in spite of this intense tension, she was unable...
And
when her sister tried to comfort her she continued:
Provided
with an auditor, Judge Emery's...
During
the evening:
What
had I on...
CHAPTER XIII RELIGIOUS WORRIES AND WORRIERS
Another
friend is a Seventh Day Adventist, who is full...
Hence,
my dear reader, if you are of his class,...
Now,
who shall arbitrate? ...
Hence,
let me again affirm in concluding this chapter, I...
CHAPTER XIV AMBITION AND WORRY
The
old mythologists were no fools. They saw the worries,...
CHAPTER XV ENVY AND WORRY
...
CHAPTER XVI DISCONTENT AND WORRY
If
she is religiously inclined she looks toward Heaven with...
WE
BUILD OUR HEAVENS THOUGHT BY THOUGHT.
CHAPTER XVII COWARDICE AND WORRY
CHAPTER XVIII WORRY ABOUT MANNERS AND SPEECH
If
you don't belong to the class of the extra...
There
you have it! If you have something to say...
It
was the same with Roosevelt. When he first began...
CHAPTER XIX THE WORRIES OF JEALOUSY
Iago
leaves the handkerchief in Cassio's room, at the same...
Solomon
sang that "jealousy is as cruel as the grave;...
CHAPTER XX THE WORRIES OF SUSPICION
and
then cries out:
CHAPTER XXI THE WORRIES OF IMPATIENCE
CHAPTER XXII THE WORRIES OF ANTICIPATION
The
anticipatory worries of others are just as senseless, foolish...
CHAPTER XXIII HOW OUR WORRY AFFECTS OTHERS
Some
teachers worry their pupils until the latter fail to...
CHAPTER XXIV WORRY VERSUS INDIFFERENCE
In
the bedroom of a friend where I recently slept,...
CHAPTER XXV WORRIES AND HOBBIES
Every
blind asylum, children's hospital, slum, old lady's home, old...
When
I was about fourteen I took up phonography, or...
