Success is the fruit of achievement. It is not a godsend or a good-luck charm which is the destiny of only a few chosen individuals and comes without any cause or provocation. Success is a thing available to anyone who is willing to work for it.

Achieving success involves the development in ourselves of the qualifications necessary. We understand that a singer cannot be­come famous unless he possesses a voice and goes through a course of proper vocal training; similarly, a businessman cannot make a fortune without having previously acquired the practical training necessary for big business transactions. While very few people are born possessing outstanding talents, each one of us has in him or is able to develop some kind of proficiency, which, if utilized to best advantage, may be turned into success.

The more faculties or possessions we acquire the more successful we are considered. By proper application and training any single one of our faculties may lead us to success.

With the exception of a few rare cases success does not come through luck. Hard work, privations, and sacrifices, perseverance in the face of many obstacles—these are all in the thorny road of success and are the price we have to pay in order to achieve it. While everyone would relish success and its aftermath, not every­one is willing to work and sacrifice for it. Most of us are always looking for short cuts and easy ways out. However, since the latter hardly ever materialize we have always in our midst a small mi­nority of successful people with a great majority of failures or just mediocrities who plod along all their lives without aim or direc­tion. One can be a success only if he applies himself to it and works hard for it.

Although any type of achievement may be, in itself, considered as a success because it places its possessor ahead of others, real suecess is rarely a result of one distinct faculty with the exclusion of all others, but rather due to a set or combination of faculties and pos­sessions. As such faculties, we may name: education, character, tal­ent, profession, leadership, social standing, et cetera; as possessions —fine family, money, real estate, collected treasures, and such. To be really successful it is not sufficient to improve your capacities in one direction or one line of endeavor. You have to pay attention to general knowledge, also to social and spiritual attainments, as well as to your economic pursuits.

The first step in attaining success is to attune yourself to it so as to make it a part of you. Sit down and reason that since success is a thing not confined to a few chosen individuals, but is available to all who seek it, you, too, can achieve it insofar as you are able to turn all your shortcomings into advantages. Make up your mind that you can and will do it; you surely will make it in the end. Once you gain this assurance and dwell on it continually then ways and means on how to go about achieving your goal will gradually reveal themselves to you as you go along.

Now picture yourself as having already attained your ambition and visualize all the things it has done for you. This is not what you would call fooling yourself, but a potent method of creating within yourself a strong desire to do anything in your power to get to the top. It is daydreaming, yet not just wishful thinking, be­cause visualizing the glorious outcome of your efforts will give you much more ambition to press forward towards your goal.

Set a definite goal to reach for yourself; aim high and virtu­ously. Of course, your goal must be suited to your particular char­acter and inclinations. For instance, you can readily understand that if you have no voice you cannot aspire to become a great singer, or if you are crippled there is not much chance of your becoming a marathon runner. However, within normal limitations, no matter how remote or fantastic your goal may seem at the start, with perse­verance and constant planning you will eventually reach it. As you go along opportunities will present themselves every once in a while, and if your mind is tuned to seeking them out and recog­nizing them you will be quick in grasping them.

Have faith in God. Believe that He is with you and with His help you can accomplish everything providing it is good and con­structive. Indeed, God is everywhere and with everyone. All you have to do is accept Him, tune in your heart with Him, and since God cannot be wrong He will help you do the right things successfully. Affirm to yourself at every opportunity the following: “I can do everything through the strength God gives me.”

“God helps those who help themselves”— an old saying and one of the wisest. Do not take it for granted that God will do things for you while you sit smugly and do nothing. God will direct you into the proper channels, but it is up to you to apply yourself to the job to the best of your abilities.

Do not confide your ambitions or plans to anyone. Where it is absolutely necessary divulge only your immediate intentions. Most people are mediocre in their way of thinking, they are exceedingly skeptical and have a peculiar tendency to doubt the possibility of accomplishments, particularly of new ideas stemming from obscure individuals. Such people will only discourage you and set you back from doing anything to promote yourself. Keep your intentions to yourself and set to work to advance them without being hindered by these disbelievers.

In pursuing the goal of your ambitions do not be overzealous to the extent of neglecting all other aspects of life. No attainment is complete if it is built at the expense of other qualifications or necessities of life. Pay attention to your all-around physical and mental development, else you will land on a narrow path and may not enjoy your main attainment. Neither should one disregard others and do them injustice in a selfish mad rush for his own in­terests. Love and consideration for others brings contentment and happiness and also good will from others.

To reach your goal once it is set you must build in yourself an intense desire and resolution to work hard and persist until you overcome all obstacles. Affirm to yourself daily, particularly upon retiring at night, that you are going to attain the desired object. Impress the subconscious mind with the necessity of its planning your moves for you and, as a result, after a night’s sleep you will find it quite easy to solve your problems. Particulars of affirmations are entirely up to each individual since everyone’s case is different.

Next, learn all you can on the subject of your desired attainment. Take a course of study on it, read books, learn from people engaged in the field, learn the subject in practice on your job. Try to im­prove on the knowledge you have gained and the work you are do­ing so that you will become an expert in your line. Never stop learning—there is always more to know, and those who know more get ahead of others.

Knowledge will help you in the next step to success. When you know a great deal you acquire self-assurance. As you gain in self-assurance people around you also will believe in you and your abil­ities, will trust and depend on you. In that way you will advance in your job or in your business. Always be fair and honest in your dealing with others; that way you will build a reputation that will make you an outstanding success. Be neat in your appearance, develop good clean habits, be kind and cheerful in disposition, and you will be on the right road to success.

Be thrifty in the handling of your budget. Do not waste money on unnecessary or harmful things. When working always save a part of your salary. It will come in handy in a number of ways when the opportunity comes to use it wisely.

It is not how much money you earn that counts, but your ability and willingness to save a part of your earnings without harming or inconveniencing yourself or your family. Two persons on the same salary may arrive at a great difference in the final balance left of their wages at the end of a week. Some people earn a lot but are always in debt because they spend indiscriminately, while others, who carefully budget themselves, may be ahead of the game on a much smaller salary.

Since our main items of expenditure are food and rent the ability to cut down on these will greatly promote our ultimate fi­nancial independence. In the line of foods it is advisable to use only those which abound in proper nourishment, vitamins, and miner­als. Such are natural foods untouched and unadulterated by man. Also one can get along on much smaller amounts of the natural foods as compared with the conventional devitalized foods used by the majority of people today simply because the former contains more life-sustaining ingredients than the latter. Home cooking and avoidance of unnecessary knicknacks, drinks, and restaurant meals will prove to be another great aid in reducing the expense of our budget. Dispensing with doctor and hospital bills due to a proper diet should not be overlooked in this case either.

As far as rent is concerned it should be the goal of every person to own his own home. This is the first step in accumulating posses­sions of value, and is of great help in building thrift and ambition in the character of a person. Every cent spent on your own home is a sound investment which you can get back some day when you decide to sell it, while you have nothing to show after paying rent for years to someone else.

Many homes are sold on a small, or even no down-payment plan with monthly payments much lower than those paid for simi­lar accommodations when rented. Furniture and appliances are also available on an installment plan when one is assured o£ steady em­ployment. However, one should exercise caution not to go over­board in expanding beyond one’s means.

Since almost every home has a backyard o£ some size the home­owner can reduce still further the size o£ his food and doctor bills by raising a part of his food there. By all means acquire your own home as early in life as possible no matter how small it may be or how difficult it may prove to be to get started on it.

When you have some money laid by, do not gamble on things you are not sure of or take hazardous business chances, but keep on the safe side. Gambling in any way—cards, horses, numbers, stocks — never pays. Remember the house always wins—the gambling house, of course.

Clothes play an important part in the attainment of success. In the first place when you are well dressed you have a “dressed-up” feeling, one of assurance and ease. Everyone else looks at you with more favor when you present a fine appearance—your boss, customers, or friend. The first impression of you people get is from your appearance, and it is difficult to make a good impression when you look and dress sloppily.

Before applying for a desired job study up on the work or ar­ticles to be handled. When you finally apply for the job in a par­ticularly desirable place, you will be prepared and sure of yourself. Do not show too much anxiety to get the job; be interested, but not too eager. If you act that way you will be wanted and the job will easily fall into your lap.

Once on the job be industrious, give all you have to it—you’ll soon find out it pays to do that. Do not loaf on the job. When your employer hires you your time on the job belongs to him and any deliberate wasting of it is equivalent to stealing. After you have been on the job for a certain length of time try to work yourself up, not by pressing your boss for a raise, but by becoming useful and indispensable to him. Learn more about your work and watch for an opportunity to fill a more responsible position.

Once you raise your status, the raise in pay will come by itself; it will be rightfully earned. To ask for a raise without any justifi­cation, only because of the length of time spent with the concern, will antagonize your employer and make him look for a chance to get rid of you.

Try to get fun and pleasure out of your work. Think of pleasant things; humor but do not be ridicule your co-workers and employer; apply yourself to improving your work, planning and creating new things. All this will add zest, prevent dullness, and increase your popularity on the job.

Try to learn all you can about your work. Do not assume the attitude of knowing it all. Respect everyone’s opinion, and if you know better offer your ideas as mere suggestions. Do not be a “yes man,” but do not act: too aggressively. Show your employer or fore­man that you are genuinely interested in the work, not just putting in the time to collect your wages. Do not take the attitude that “no matter what you do, they don’t appreciate it anyway.” A good man is always appreciated by an employer because the latter is con­tinually searching for men he can rely upon, and such men are rare. If you can prove yourself to be the one wanted you will be snatched quickly enough. When you get promoted and have finally climbed the ladder show consideration and fairness to your co-work­ers. By treating them properly you will have their good will and cooperation in all your undertakings.

If you are in a business or a professional capacity treat your clients and customers as fairly and as honestly as possible. Greet them when they first come in; pay them the proper attention; make them feel that they are the most important factor in your place. Have a cheerful attitude; try to humor the customer and make him feel perfectly at home in your place of business, send him off smil­ing, and he will remember you every time he is in need of anything in your line. Always keep a full line of merchandise in the type of business you are in so that the customer will never be disappointed and have to look somewhere else for the kind or size of goods he wants.

Be honest. Never overcharge, or sell inferior merchandise. By your actions instill in the customers a positive confidence in your­self—one that cannot be shattered. By word of mouth your relia­bility will spread from one person to another, and thus your busi­ness will grow through recommendation.

Do not assume the attitude of financial gain only, considering customers as tools for your enrichment. Treat them as individuals, personal friends, and guests of yours. Try to be helpful and sympa­thetic to their needs and desires. Do not criticize them in your heart or with your tongue. Do not belittle their whims. Treat them as if they are persons of great importance. Give them the benefit of the doubt even if you do not approve of their actions. Bless them in your thoughts, and thank them kindly for patronizing you.

Do not criticize or speak badly of one customer in front of another. The latter will feel that you may criticize him, too, the minute he walks out. Never try to prove to a customer that you are right and he is wrong unless it is a matter of his advantage under discussion. If you insist on proving that you know better he may take it, but he surely will resent it and stop trading with you. Do your best to make the customer feel that he is a big shot, and you are faithfully at his service.

Always try to find an occasion to treat your customers to some gift or favor, however small or large it may be; they will appreciate it greatly and will remember you when they need anything in your line again. “Give and you shall receive” applies in business more than anywhere else. People readily respond to attention and kind­ness displayed by a merchant. If you offer these, you will find out pretty soon that it pays well to give. This also applies in the same measure to giving with an open hand to your employees. Good wages, paid vacations, time out for a daily snack, small favors of all kinds, and, above all, a considerate attitude devoid of criticism and surveillance will predispose your workers favorably towards you, and, as a result you will have devoted personnel of which each one is a potent promoter of your business.

Cultivate enthusiasm towards your work, the product you sell, or the service you give. Enthusiasm is a great promoter of success. Choose an occupation that you believe is of benefit to humankind as well as to yourself. When you are occupied in a line of work learn all about it in order to know of what value it is to the public. Try to get enjoyment out of your work. Make up your mind that your work is lots of fun. Affirm to yourself many times daily: “My work is wonderful, these products are wonderful; they will bring me suc­cess,” et cetera. All this will help you in developing desired en­thusiasm towards your occupation and will promote you to better standing with amazing speed.

In the pursuit of success in the realm of culture and spiritual attainments you apply pretty much the same principles as above: desire, learn, work hard, and give all of yourself to your task. Suc­cess and happiness are sure to follow providing you are earnest, diligent, and devoted to your cause.

Since the man is the breadwinner in the family his success means the success of the family as a whole. His wife can do a great deal to help him achieve success. Under no circumstances should she nag, belittle, or compare him with others, try to make him over, or show her own superiority. These are sure ways to put their mar­riage on the rocks because they cause resentment and hatred while discouraging the man and driving him into dissipation. The woman should never fail to display her faith in her husband, praise him, inspire him, bolster his courage, and, at any time, be willing to put up with temporary hardships necessary in the course of his struggles towards success.

For that matter, it is never advisable for a woman to work in the same place of business as her husband — even at a different place in the same line of work. This inevitably leads to compari­sons of achievement, jealousy, quarrels, and many other unpleasant complications. A good example of such adversities is to be found in marriages among stage and screen actors whose misery and di­vorces are common simply because their careers are competitive.

Some women will resent the above assertion as leaving for them only the role of playing second fiddle in the marriage arrangement. However, since the woman usually has the greater part of the noble task of bringing up the children of the family, her ambition in life can be realized if and when she does a good job at that. To bring up fine upright citizens is a much greater attainment than making a personal career. That is where the woman can play very success­fully the first fiddle. Besides that, managing a home, taking care of the social affairs of the family, and other tasks, as well as her personal ambitions, offer the woman an excellent opportunity to make good.

A great help in attaining success is the reading of biographies of great men; also reading success stories of those who made good, particularly along the lines of pursuit you are especially interested in. Studying the methods by which others reached the goal you are seeking will show you the path you may take in your own trav­els, and, at the same time, will give you more courage and determi­nation to persist in your undertaking.

Remember also that in order to be a success you must first sell the idea of success to yourself. Believe in yourself, believe that you desire success hard enough to be able to achieve it no matter how difficult and unattainable it may seem. Think and act in terms of success. Set for yourself a goal and work toward it. Concentrate a short period of time daily on how to improve your work or promote your business. Jot down on paper any good ideas which come to your mind during the day and later at your leisure take them up again, analyze them from various angles, and develop them into workable shape. Daily employ a positive form of affirmation on success. Repeat to yourself: “I am a success. I have in me all the ability to make good; I will go far,” et cetera. Soon you will notice a change for the better, and that will gradually give you added encouragement to press forward in attaining your goal.

Remember another thing — that no one has a monopoly on success. Once you have achieved it, it does not mean that it will stay with you no matter how you act or what happens afterwards. Do not become egotistical or conceited. You are still an ordinary human being, the same as the next fellow in spite of your acquired money or power. Be humble, friendly, and helpful to others. You never know what can happen in the future. You may lose out and have to apply for help to the very same people you have dealt with at the time you were on the top.

Do not be cynical in believing that humanity is bad and that you will never get appreciation and gratitude in return for what you do for others. That is definitely the wrong attitude. There is what is called “the law of karma”—a law of action and reaction. For each action there is a comparable reaction either outside of you or within you. For a kind deed or word there is always a fa­vorable reaction; for a negative one—the opposite. Whenever you are not paid back in kind for your good deed the reaction in you should be that of having meant and done good, with the result that you will feel happy about it in spite of the fact that it was not appreciated immediately. You must know that those who take away from others inevitably pay for it with their health and earthly possessions later on.

Realize that even if there are some inconsiderate people in this world the majority are good and reciprocate properly to a kind deed. Do not condemn too harshly those who commit misdeeds. There are always causes in their past or present which are outside their power and which prompted them to act in the way they did. Such people are in most cases too ignorant to know any better, and sooner or later will receive unfavorable reactions to their wrong deeds.

In conclusion, let us point out that the highest degree of suc­cess really worthy of achievement on this earth is not the acquiring of material possessions like money or power, but that of the spirit­ual type—kindness and selflessness. Many men with riches and power are unhappy to the point of being miserable. The happy man is the one who thinks, not of himself, but of others, who has love for his fellowmen, and who devotes his life to serving and helping those who are in need.

You cannot be happy without having peace of mind. Happiness requires freedom from worry, fear, anger, dissatisfaction, and simi­lar negative emotions. The direct effect of positive emotions on the body is to stimulate the activity of the adrenal glands; that in turn stimulates and improves all functions. On the other hand, negative emotions immediately throw toxins into the blood, thus poisoning our body and mind.

There are two causes responsible for the presence of negative emotions in a person: physical and mental unfitness. Inasmuch as these two are interdependent, physical well-being occupies the first place. A healthy mind cannot dwell in a sick body. A healthy person being able to easily satisfy all his physical needs, acquires an attitude of assurance which makes him feel that he can cope with any hardship or any difficult situation. This self-assurance prevents him from doubting himself, fearing anything, or being worried.

We devoted the great part of this book to physical well-being and its aspects. We believe that, if followed assiduously, the meth­ods outlined here will bring good health, and with it gradually build a sense of security, self-assurance, faith, and optimism.

On the mental side negative emotions are mainly a result of resentments imprinted in our mind in early childhood. They might have been caused by harsh treatment by parents or guardians, lack of love, mistreatment by playmates, lack of harmony between par­ents, abandonment of one parent by the other, divorce, and so on. Deeply imbedded in our subconscious mind these resentments are being directed by us towards the people we come in contact with thus making us excessively and unduly suspicious and unfriendly to others with the result of unbalancing our emotions, disturbing our peace of mind and making us unhappy.

Let us be frank—it is not an easy task to banish these enemies of our peace of mind. They have been imbedded in us for many years, and it is a slow and difficult process getting rid of them. How­ever, it can be done and it will pay us to apply ourselves to do it.

The first step is to sit down either alone, or with a psychiatrist, and analyze our past and our inhibitions. Were our resentments justifiable? Were our parents at fault, or did they mean well but were restrained by their own bringing-up, the surroundings and ethics of their early childhood? Are these fears of ours justifiable? Are all the people around us trying to hurt us or will experience prove the opposite? Perhaps it is ourselves we have to change and not the other fellow?

An honest and thorough analysis of our whole make-up will show us that it is nothing but our own attitude to the surrounding world that makes us miserable. The feeling of fear originates from anticipation of harm that may be done to us either by others, by ourselves, or simply by time. Fundamentally, most people are good. Their aims, aspirations, ways of thinking and behaving, with very few exceptions, are exactly like our own. They have the same inhibitions, fears, and drawbacks as we do. There is no reason to fear or resent one another because we are the same in every particular, all a part of the Infinite, governed by the same law of give and take. When we antagonize others they will become frustrated and will immediately take a defensive or arrogant attitude. On the other hand, if we approach them with love and consideration, their hearts will open up towards us and return, in kind, our love and friend­ship. We must cultivate faith in humanity, and as soon as we feel that everybody is our friend, all resentment will disappear and with it much of our frustration. The highest ideal of human relationship is when one has attained the attitude expressed by the sentiment, “love thy enemy.” It is an attitude difficult even to approach, yet its achievement virtually opens the doors to paradise. What really could Be a greater mental sacrifice than to love the one who does you harm? It may be that feeling of compassion for your enemy’s erring, and returning kindness will finally turn him back to love for you too.

Fear for the negative consequences of our own actions can be banished by affirming to ourselves that we will henceforth apply the greatest caution and think twice before doing anything of im­portance or before saying anything to others. It is mostly our tongue, and not our actions, that puts us in all predicaments we go through. Try to think twice before talking.

Fear of the unforeseen or unknown can be remedied by affirma­tions like: “I have faith that with God’s help everything will be right.” Fear of time is the fear of approaching old age and its mani­festations, and the fear of death. To reconcile oneself with the idea of aging, one must remember that each age from the cradle to the grave has its own beauty and its advantages. There are many things of interest with goals to achieve in every age of life and we should take every possible advantage of them. The more we ac­complish at the proper age the less we shall miss or yearn for later on. Thus, what was desired and achieved at the age of ten will not be missed when one is forty.

Always look forward. Do not live in the past. Accept aging as a normal procedure and find contentment and happiness in the fine things which your present age offers. Keep busy; work; play; meet people; enjoy friendship, music, literature; gather wisdom; help others, and your life will be so complete that you will not have a chance to look back at the time when you had fewer lines on your face or less gray hair on your head. Keep fit and stay young as long as you live. Be young at seventy, eighty, ninety. Affirm to yourself daily: “I am young, strong and healthy; I will live long and be happy.”

Fear of death and the desire to continue living are natural emo­tions with every living being. It is self-evident that when we learn how best to take care of our body and follow that knowledge assiduously we will have no cause to worry about premature death. As far as natural death from old age is concerned there is no need to fear or worry about it either. Death from old age comes very naturally. The old person has had all life could offer, and be­comes interested in more rest and sleep, regards the oncoming death as eternal sleep until at the end he fades away painlessly, in most cases while asleep. Death under such circumstances is not unwel­come by the senile individual, and is not to be feared by anyone. It is a quiet transition of the soul to life-after-death by liberating itself from a worn-out body ready to enter another body and, thereby, acquire more knowledge, experience, and progress in later rein­carnations.

An inferiority complex is a negative condition of the subcon­scious mind affecting quite a number of people today. It is a feel­ing of one’s smallness as compared to others, especially those who are ahead of us in the social, economic, or intellectual ladder of success. An inferiority complex causes fears of failing to accomplish certain tasks, fears of ridicule by others, and fears of denial of cer­tain privileges to us by others as a result of our shortcomings. This negative feeling gradually builds up inefficiency and inability to undertake many simple tasks in life. It undermines one’s self-confi­dence, may eventually reduce an individual to a state of misery, and, sometimes, even wrecks one’s whole life.

An inferiority complex is caused mainly by faulty bringing-up, the nagging and belittling of children by parents, physical deficien­cies, and economic adversities.

In order to understand how erroneous and unjustified this state of mind is one must realize that God has created each person as an individual entity to which there is no likeness in the whole uni­verse. Each one of us is destined to complete certain specific tasks on this earth, and so is created for a special purpose. There cannot and should not ever be made any comparison of qualifications or accomplishments of any two individuals. Each one of us is sup­posed to perform what God has prescribed for him or her to do here, and this in itself is a great and sacred decree to enact.

Constant nagging and reprimanding of children by parents, or men by their wives and vice versa are the main factors which cause anxiety and lead to the feeling of inferiority in an individual sub­jected to this torture. This is one of the most malevolent, and, un­fortunately, also one of the most-indulged-in practices in family life. Where present all efforts should be made to have it discon­tinued and avoided no matter what happens.

To rid one’s self of the feeling of inferiority one should affirm to himself before falling asleep at night the following: “I believe that I am important; that I am chosen by God for a special purpose; I am sure of myself; I am doing the right things; I am making prog­ress; God is with me at all times.”

To get over the feeling of inferiority in public join as many or­ganizations as possible, and work actively in them, so that you may feel that you are doing important things for a good cause; meet people, get acquainted with as many as you can; talk to them freely—individuals and in groups. Little by little you will convince yourself that others are in no way better than yourself, that they have the same emotions, misapprehensions and weaknesses as you, and that there is no reason to imagine that they are in any way superior to you. Anything which is unknown to us seems strange and unattainable, but when we get nearer to it the myth disappears.

If you feel that you are deficient in certain respects try to over­come and correct your deficiencies through hard work and study so that you may eventually become proud of yourself and your achievements. Apply yourself to attaining success in life, and when you have done that you will feel equal and even superior to others.

In the last analysis we are all alike; we all have the same rights and the same opportunities. Have faith in your abilities and you cannot help but get to the top. There is a very truthful saying which everyone should repeat to himself every day of his life: “He can who thinks he can.” Always think you can, then success will come your way and your feeling of inferiority will disappear and give way to self-assurance and peace of mind.

Worry is a reaction of our body and mind to fear. Under the influence of fear: we wrinkle our forehead, strain our neck and various body muscles, poisons begin to flow into the blood, breath­ing becomes short and shallow, the heart begins to palpitate, diges­tion in the stomach and the flow of various juices and gland secre­tions is stopped. The mind becomes distracted, unable to reason logically, various complications like hysteria, nervous breakdown, brain stroke, et cetera, are not infrequently the results of worry.

Our worries can be classed as those about the past, present, and future. Worries about the past are mainly centered around our self—condemnation for actions, thoughts, and resentments we have had in the past. We must accept the contention that such deeds and feelings are normal with every individual once in a while, and that we are not the only ones who committed wrongs. We should be glad of the fact that we grew older and wiser, learned from our mistakes, and by this time we are changed people. We recognize our past errors, and are not going to repeat them again.

Worry is a mental disturbance, and, as such, lends itself to remedy mainly through mental channels. While a healthy body is less likely to harbor worries than a weak, sickly one; yet it is not always immune to it. The most effective remedy for worry is to continually impress upon our subconscious mind the idea that we are not worried, and do it so consistently that our subconscious mind will follow the orders. Affirm daily at every opportunity when reminded of the past: “My past is gone and forgotten. I am a new person now. I am forgiven for every misdeed and every bad thought in the past.”

Concerning the present, affirm: “I have no worries; I am happy; I am not concerned with these small matters. This will also pass away,” and the like. In worries about your relations with other people, wife, husband, employer, employee, et cetera, make up your mind that you will do your best to be direct, frank, and help­ful to the others. This will lighten your mind immediately and free you from worry. If you reasoned and made a decision that you must perform a certain task—something risky, unpleasant, or new to you and are hesitating and worrying about it—take a deep breath and break the ice, go over to the person in question, speak to him or her and get it over with. No matter what the results will be your action will relieve you of the tension, and there will be no more cause for any future mental disturbance. Have faith that the out­come will be favorable, and affirm to yourself that God is with you and He will guide you to success. Once you gain such assurance you cannot fail to achieve your object since emanations of your magnetic force (which is present in everyone) will impress the other person in favor of you and tend to make him accede to your request.

Another cause of worry is self-criticism, Many of us are prone to criticize ourselves too harshly. As a result, we develop inferiority complexes, keep away from other people, and surround ourselves with a wall of resentment. A certain amount of self-criticism is necessary, and is of benefit, but one should not torture one’s self. Take into consideration that you are human, as are all the rest of the people, that everyone has certain limitations, and everyone makes mistakes. You are no worse than others. In fact, some people are worse than you; therefore, there is no need for your torturing yourself. For the same reason never feel inferior to anyone else. You would be amazed to know how many of those who seem to you people of great accomplishments have the same feelings of infe­riority as you do. Practice affirmations of self-praise: “I am good; I am clever; I am attractive; people like me; people admire me;” and so on.

In a similar way all negative emotions—anger, jealousy, and contempt—can be controlled by analysis, a change of attitude, and self-affirmation. By a change of attitude we mean a different mental approach to the matter with the resolution of making up one’s mind to be considerate and forgiving, trying to see the other person’s side of the matter. Affirmations of the following nature are very helpful: “I am master of my emotions. I will not get angry. I love my neigh­bor and will treat him with consideration,” et cetera.

Harsh criticism of others is another disturbance to our own peace of mind. Although on the surface it may seem that by criticizing others we unburden ourselves and get a feeling of superiority, the real truth is that we build up in ourselves a resentment against others which gradually grows into hatred and poisons our body and mind.

Consider that the other person is as human as you are; do not expect too much of him; do not form any bad opinions about him without knowing all the facts or without hearing his side of it. Even when others make mistakes or act in what seems to you a mean way—give them the benefit of the doubt and another chance. Do not condemn others by prejudice. You never know, you may find yourself some day in a similar predicament.

Do not look down at others in a superior way. You may be better than the other in one respect, yet worse in another. Especially great is the temptation to criticize members of one’s own family. Grownups are inclined to think that children must be taught by criticism. This is a wrong attitude. Children should be guided by example and suggestion, rather than ordered and criticized for doing things wrongly. Harsh criticism causes resentment and a feeling of inferiority in children which does great harm to their future lives. Children should be praised, and made to feel important at every opportunity. This builds self-reliance.

Criticism of adults among themselves causes many a tragedy in family life. A nagging wife or husband will contribute untold misery to the lives of the other members of the family as well as their own. No happiness is possible where criticism or nagging is prevalent. When you intimate your equality with the other person you are loved and respected. The minute you show your superiority you are hated. When you are concerned with any problem the best thing to do is to analyze it by putting it down in writing. Then you see it clearly before your eyes and are able to work it out easily in your mind. Divide a sheet of paper vertically into two halves. Mark one side as positive, the other as negative. Put down all arguments for the matter on the positive side, those against on the negative side. When you can think of no more argu­ments pro or con you can compare both sides and judge for your­self which is the stronger one. After your problem has been ana­lyzed, and a conclusion reached, act upon it as soon as possible and get it over with. It will not worry you any more once a decision has been reached and action taken. If the matter is out of your control leave it to take care of itself in the course of time. Have faith that, with God’s help, it will come out as it should. Make up your mind that you will accept the worst and be satisfied, then no matter how bad it may turn out you will not be affected because you have prepared yourself for it. When you have some current problems do not regard them as life and death affairs. On the con­trary, think of them as trifling and insignificant. Say to yourself that in ten years they will be long forgotten, so why worry now? Take up problems as you go, live one day at a time and do not worry about tomorrow—it will take care of itself. It is advisable to set down on paper your daily problems and some time later to glance over them to convince yourself that there was no need to worry about them. Then you will see for yourself that perhaps ninety-nine percent of your worries were not serious at all and did not justify the trouble. You will be amazed to find out how much you can learn from your own experiences by writing your problems down and looking them over later on.

Be thankful to God for what you possess—health, normal body functions, a position, and possessions. A daily prayer of thankful­ness is a wonderful help.

Do not covet what others have, they may be very unhappy even though they possess more than you. Do not carry any hatred or try to get even with others. By doing so you will harm yourself more than you plan to harm them.

Any time you have a negative thought drive it out of your mind by immediately changing to something cheerful. Have humorous happenings written down for such occasions, pull out your book and switch to them as fast as you can. Don’t regard it as foolish to gather anecdotes; they are healers of sick minds.

Try to forget about yourself. Manage your life if possible so that you are most of the time with other people; talk things out with them; take an interest in their affairs; try to help them out and you will find that there lies the greatest happiness.

A very practical aid in combating worry is to write out a brief chart of suggestions and affirmations against worrying and place that in front of you in your office, bedroom, study, or carry it in your wallet—any place where it can be seen or easily obtained to glance over in emergencies. The human mind is forgetful and a physical reminder is always an effective aid.

You may achieve control over all other negative emotions which unsettle your peace of mind by applying yourself to it, and having the desire and faith to accomplish it. Envy, jealousy, resent­ment, anger, irritation, and the like may be conquered by careful analysis, determination to correct them, affirmation, and faith. Cul­tivate patience, love, and consideration for the other person and there will be no soil for the growth of dissension in your heart.

The following is a highly efficient method recommended by eminent psychologists to rid one’s self of accumulated inhibitions.

For a period of thirty days or so sit down at the same time each day and write on a sheet of paper all the negative thoughts, fears, emotions, and apprehensions which come to your mind. Spare noth­ing; make it a real confession. Continue this for ten to fifteen minutes at a time, after which destroy the paper and pay no more attention to the matter until the next sitting. At various intervals during the day affirm to yourself mentally something like this: “I am a new person; I am free of all inhibitions: I am happy now and will be happy all the rest of my life; God is with me; He gives me courage and peace; peace, peace, peace!”

This combined procedure will clean out all the accumulated mental obstructions and then fill our subconscious mind with healthy constructive matters which will promote peace of mind and contentment. When you become master of your emotions you have really reached the top of perfection and have found true happiness.

Our manners contribute a great deal to our success and happiness in life. Without good manners it is difficult, sometimes impossible, to attain a high executive position, make a success in business, or attract people and make friends. Well-behaved people are leaders in every line of business or social affairs, and are also apt to be successful in their family lives.

Etiquette is a set of conventional rules to be applied by people in their dealings with one another. It is founded upon ethics which embrace the principles of morality and duty, and also on common sense and consideration for others. To apply etiquette does not mean to be a stuffed shirt. It means being polite and respectful to others—attitudes notable, not only for their beneficial influences in dealing with others, but also for their uplifting effect exerted up­on the person himself who employs them.

We shall not go into details of rules of etiquette required for every walk of life. What we are mainly concerned with here are those rules of behavior which are directly conducive to good will and happiness. In our everyday life we must come in contact with other people unless we live in complete isolation. In order to get along we must, when we live in any kind of a community, know how to treat our fellowmen correctly. A great part of our bringing-up from childhood to adolescence is concerned with our relations with other people. Thus the fundamentals of our behavior patterns are acquired in our childhood, and are later applied by us almost automatically. There are, however, some rules of behavior to which we do not give much thought, but they are, nevertheless, just as important due to their far-reaching implications. So let us consider here those things which we must or must not do to ourselves and to others in order that we may become congenial and welcome to those we associate with. Many adults need brushing up on some of these rules of behavior because, for one reason or another, they have neglected to pay attention to them, and as a result, may find themselves unwelcome among others and unhappy with them­selves.

Personal cleanliness and neatness are first on the list of etiquette requirements. One of the advantages of modern life is the ease in taking care of our personal hygiene. Modern conveniences in our city and many country homes offer us an inducement to keep our body clean at all times. We should bathe at least once every day, and wash our mouths and brush our teeth to prevent body and mouth odors. However, the latter cannot be removed completely by external cleanliness only. Many people take baths and wash their mouths regularly yet exude repulsive odors from both. The reasons for this are: overeating, the consumption of excesses of acid-forming foods like meats, starches, and sweets, and also smok­ing and drinking. Much embarrassment and expense on useless often harmful deodorants could be avoided by a rational diet and clean living.

While we are at it, let us not pass up the latest gigantic squeeze on the American public—the chlorophyll fake. It has been conclu­sively proved that chlorophyll is neither an external nor an inter­nal deodorant. Even if it were, its cost is highly prohibitive. The chlorophyll extract costs somewhere around $130 a pound and only very minute quantities of it can be put into commercial prepara­tions. Yet the people in this country spend a veritable fortune on a multitude of chlorophyll concoctions, made up for every imagi­nable use.

Personal neatness implies keeping our body in proper shape and repair. Men, as well as women, should keep their hair groomed and trimmed regularly; men should always appear both in public and in front of their family cleanly shaved. They should avoid the use of perfumes—these are repulsive to others when they exude from a man, while for a woman it is advisable to use them because their fragrance adds to the femininity desired and looked for in a woman.

Annoying to others also are missing or broken teeth, dirty or patched-up eyeglasses, unsightly hearing aids, or the absence of an aid in a hard-of-hearing person. Many body defects like puffs under the eyes, droopy cheeks, double chins, paunchy bellies, and fat legs can be corrected by rational living and the application of natural methods of eating. Food has a tremendous effect on the rebuilding and revitalizing of the cells of our body. Good natural food will eliminate dead cells, fatty tissues, faulty growths both on the outside and inside of the body and make a person look normal and pleasant.

Manners at the table, whether at home or in public, are very important as they predispose others toward or against us according to the way we act. Keeping your hands or elbows on the table, wiping your mouth with your hand, belching, picking your teeth, roll­ing bread balls, shouting, monopolizing the conversation, arguing or debating—all these will not add attraction to your personality, but instead cause resentment in others toward you.

Clothes are a very important factor in our relations with others. Dirty, torn, or otherwise unkempt clothes, with the exception of those needed for wear at dirty work, are obnoxious to those we as­sociate with. Men should endeavor to wear clean, orderly clothes in good repair and of decent appearance when in company of others.

Clothes are one of the most important objects of interest with women. Most women try to dress well although not all of them pay enough attention to the cleanliness of their apparel. Special care should be taken of the latter as well as of undergarments—a point which is quite often overlooked by many members of the fair sex. Current styles, matching colors, and proper dresses for each occasion have their importance in a woman’s dressing as they add much to her feeling of assurance and ease and at the same time predispose others favorably towards her. Neat clothes, worn by men as well as women, are a great aid in securing and holding good jobs, promoting sales, and making a success in business.

Shoes should be well fitting, neat and polished; stockings not wrinkled on women; and socks not falling down on men. Men’s socks provided with elastic tops are very handy as they always stay up. Hats should be neat, clean, not soaked through with perspira­tion on men, and fitting, fresh-styled and suitable for the rest of the outfits for women.

In our dealings with others we must always be motivated by kindness and consideration. In order to be happy ourselves we must not only receive, but also give, and make others happy. Our face is the first and most important object observed by others and its expression conveys to them our emotions and thoughts. A cheer­ful, kindly, smiling face will go far in attracting people to you. Think kindly of others and your face will show it; you will attain charm and poise of the natural, not superficial kind, because it will come from your heart and people will feel that it is genuine, not made to order.

In conversing with others try to use pleasant tones and humor in your talk. Do not shout or scream, breathe or belch, cough or expectorate into another’s face or put your hands on him while talking.

One of the worst offenses which is very common among smokers is to blow their smoke on or around the person they are convers­ing with. It has been said that of all people the most inconsiderate ones are smokers. They will smoke unceremoniously in the presence of non-smokers, throw ashes and cigarette-butts around, expectorate, cough, and spit. How much happier they, as well as others, would be if they did not indulge in these obnoxious practices I

A little etiquette applied by a man in his relations with his wife would go a long way towards her loving and respecting him. Walk­ing beside her on the outer part of the sidewalk; letting her get into the car, or inside the house, ahead of himself; avoiding watching her when she is attending to her toilet—all these are small, seemingly unimportant things, but they mean a great deal to a woman. They convey to her a sense of respect and cooperation on the part of her husband, thus making her feel secure and happy.

In the same way a woman may show her respect for her man and thus gain his affection by refraining from monopolizing him in public, or replying for him to personal questions asked him by others; mimicking, belittling, or bawling him out in the presence of others. Many a woman is guilty of these offenses and should learn to control herself at all times if she values the congeniality and happiness of her married life.

Compliance with all these easily acquired rules makes life plea­sant for you and those around you. It does not cost anything, yet accomplishes a great deal. Fine manners blossoming out of a kind heart will make this a better world to live in.

No happiness is possible without friendship. Humans are social animals — we cannot live by or for ourselves and get away with it. That is simply impossible — we must come in contact with other people whether they are members of our family, neighbors, co-workers or shopkeepers. That being the case, we must get along with others to the best of our ability. The better we get along with •others, the more friends we are apt to have and the happier we are liable to be.

To make friends you must have it in you or else try to de­velop an understanding of the other fellow’s interests and needs. You cannot be friends with anyone unless you both “speak the .same language” and understand one another, always being ready and willing to do your utmost for the other.

People are the most interesting and useful objects of study in life. Most of your earthly knowledge comes from the experiences of others. From associating with others you not only learn all you need to know but you collect wisdom, experience, and wit, you exercise your own qualifications, and you benefit materially and mentally.

We are all apt to think that we are different than anyone else. It is human nature to be individualistic and segregate one’s per­sonality from all others. However, basically we are all pretty much the same physically, mentally, and emotionally. Other people are no different than you—no matter what their status, race, color, or nationality may be. They all have the same feelings, aspirations, worries, loves, and hatreds, the same ways of reacting to life con­ditions and circumstances, the same ways of expressing themselves as you do.

Do not build a wall between yourself and others imagining that they are unapproachable—they want your friendship and as­sociation just as badly as you want theirs. Most people are lone­some and would love to become friendly with others but are held back by the restraints of shyness and codes of ethics. Do not hesi­tate to approach strangers with a kind word to start an acquain­tance. The moment the barriers of formality are hurdled people unfold themselves and become friendly.

Try your best to be a good listener. Let the other fellow tell you of his interests and opinions. Your keen attention will predis­pose him favorably towards you, and you have gained a friend. It is not at all necessary to be a “yes” man; just show your interest in the other’s personality. Be sympathetic to the other person’s troubles no matter how trivial they may seem to you. Try to com­fort a person and advise him only when he is asking for it—never force it on him. Unwanted advice is unwelcome and is mostly met with hostility.

The next important factor in making and keeping friends is the willingness to help others. The saying, “Do unto your neigh­bor as you would expect him to do unto you” is the best motto for acquiring friends. Friends cost money, and in order to have them you must always be ready to give and not expect a return. You may receive back in kind or you may not. But you will have satisfaction and feeling of happiness from the knowledge that you have helped someone, and thus have done a good deed. You must give not only of your material possessions but of your spiritual self as well—affection, esteem, consideration, and attention—these are all emotions that will win for you lasting friends.

In order to be able to share knowledge that would be of help to others you must apply yourself to learning more and acquiring qualifications that would make you a more accomplished person. Acquaint yourself with timely subjects of importance and interest so that you may become a source of interest and inspiration for others. Keep in touch with current events, read books and develop opinions. Learn to carry on an interesting conversation and pre­pare in advance stories for various occasions.

Show your interest and helpfulness in your friends’ sorrows, joys, and happenings by sending them cards, calling them on the telephone, and corresponding with them. Keep a list of birthdays, anniversaries, and other events. Show your devotion by sending a card on each of these occasions.

Of course, you must not let anyone misuse you or put some­thing over on you. Quite often people are spoiled and more dam­age than good is done by giving in to their petty whims. You must be firm in refusing your friends or relations whenever you consider their requests unfair to you or harmful, rather than helpful, to themselves. A refusal must be accomplished with serenity, a logical explanation, and kind attitude.

Another important principle in making friends is to have respect for their rights and their opinions. Never ask for, or expect, too much to be done for you. There is a limit to what one can do, and going over that limit will strain and mar your relationship. Some people will be shy about refusing your requests; they may give in to them but will hold it against you and you will lose their friendship.

There is nothing a hundred per cent certain. Never think that your opinion about anything is absolutely correct even if all logic seems to be in favor of it. It may turn out later that you were wrong. Therefore, even if you don’t agree with the other fellow at the moment, respect his opinion. Show no contempt or ridicule-it hurts the other person more than if you slapped him in the face.

Personal kidding is also a very bad habit with many people. On the surface it seems like humor and innocent fun, but it hurts the other fellow just the same because it makes him feel small in the presence of others. To have fun at someone else’s expense, whether it is a practical joke on the person or just a jab, is nothing but a form of mild sadism. Beware of that if you want to have friends.

Another common weakness of humanity is criticizing and find­ing fault with others. None of us is perfect; the faults we find in others may be just the ones others find in us. The best thing for us to do is to reserve judgment and not criticize anyone behind his back, or, worse than that, is criticizing him directly without a good reason just to show what we know or possess. Criticism, when applied, should have been called for; it should be constructive and helpful and given in good spirit. Negative, destructive criticism or faultfinding is not conducive to good friendship.

In our relationship with others we must be as ethical and as •diplomatic as possible. We should not tell others, without pro­vocation, or even upon being provoked to it, all we think of them. We can see a person doing wrong yet not always is it up to us to teach him a lesson. When we find this necessary, we must do it in the finest and mildest form we are capable of. Then it will be exe­cuted properly, appreciated and a lesson learned. This applies to all ages, and to your own children as well as your friends.

Self-pity is another impediment to friendship. Too many of us are so engrossed in ourselves and our petty troubles that at the least encouragement we are happy to go into detailed reports of all our ailments, family troubles, et cetera, and repeat the same stories on every occasion of meeting the same person. In this manner we make unendurable bores of ourselves, and pretty soon we find that our acquaintances begin avoiding us under one pretense or another.

When approached on the subject of our private troubles we should relate the matter in the shortest possible manner, and then try to change the conversation to something of a more cheerful na­ture. People have enough troubles of their own and would rather listen to interesting or encouraging matters than to someone else’s troubles or problems unless they themselves are directly involved in similar matters and are interested to learn from your experience.

Never employ friendship for a selfish purpose. No matter how skillfully disguised, it will soon be recognized with the result that you will lose your friends. Seek friendship in order to give—not re­ceive. To have friends you must be a friend.

In your relations with your friends, and for that matter all those you come in contact with, try to be kind and courteous, accommo­dating and sincere. Do not try to be the center of attention, but pay attention to others. Do not monopolize a conversation or keep interrupting others in order to have your say. Never take a conde­scending or paternal attitude even when you feel that you are su­perior to the other person. Always make your associates feel that you are one of them; that you are no better or smarter than they are; that you are anxious to learn things from them, and true it is, that you can learn something from every person—even, as they, from a fool.

Try to constantly enlarge the circle of your friends by acquir­ing new ones all the time. You will thus be continually refreshed by new experiences, come across new interests, acquire knowledge, inspiration, fun, and happiness. And remember that:

There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone;

All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

The aging of a person presents various problems to the individual as well as to those around him. When we grow older and feel that we are gradually losing some of our faculties, and become weaker and ailing, it is very difficult to stay in a happy state of mind. Added to this are often economic difficulties, family troubles, climate, regional, and housing hardships, and, last but not least, mental maladjustment. How are we to cope with such situations?

In the first place we must remember that every period of life has its own advantages. In later life youth and vigor are usually supplanted by ease of living and wisdom. All struggles and mistakes of the early years are left behind. Money, sex, and food are not much worry; there is more serenity and objectivity, and more things of worldly interest to occupy one’s mind. Studies of various kinds, hobbies, politics, social and charity work offer tremendous fields in physical and mental improvement. Remember that most outstanding men and women of the world are over sixty years of age.

Old age must be planned for for many years in advance. It is true that nowadays society takes partial care of the aged in the form of social security and old-age pensions. However, that cannot be wholly depended upon, because in most cases it is insufficient. There are many ways to provide for the economic future while young. The surest ones are to put away bit by bit in bank savings accounts, and to invest in personal and business property, stocks and bonds, secure businesses, annuities, insurance, et cetera. All this requires diligence and thrift in the younger years. Every sen­sible person realizes that he or she must work for a living and save regularly from their wages. One who spends all he earns (and some are in debt besides) and leaves none for a rainy day is an eternal slave who will never be on his own. As we get older our working value as well as our ability to get employment or stay in business decrease, we must give room to younger people who take our places in all industries. That is the time when our savings will come handy and we will have no worry about earning a living. As long as possible, however, one should stay on the job, working -at least part of the time in order to be occupied and active. At all ages some activity is an absolute necessity. Just as long as blood flows in our veins we must be in motion to promote circulation and with it — life.

The aging person should take extra precautions about his health. By this time one knows exactly what regime of living and which foods are most agreeable. One should assiduously adhere to that for best results. Plenty of outdoor living with good air and deep breathing, sunshine, recreation, ocean bathing in warm sea­sons or in warm climates, walking, sleep, relaxation, good com­panionship, and healthy amusement will keep one in good shape.

On the mental side of adjustment to old age peace of mind is an important factor. It is not easy to be fully contented with old age creeping up, and debility and sickness setting in. Many an oldster becomes grouchy and cynical due to constant fretting about past failures and disappointments. Bad habits become set and it is very difficult to get rid of them. One should find an interest in life, set a goal, and work toward it. No matter how old a person is he can have a goal of some kind and have interest in it to keep him stimulated. Social, charity, spiritual, work, et cetera, offer wide fields of interest and usefulness. The realization that one is of bene­fit to others and is needed by his fellowmen gives a great deal of en­couragement to continue living and being happy.

Fear of death should not disrupt the harmony and peace of mind of an oldster. After all, we are afraid only of dying prema­turely, and mainly of sickness. When it comes to dying of ripe old age, death comes as a natural sequence of accomplishing the pre­scribed course of attainments in this life which will be continued in one’s succeeding lives. One should strive to be healthy and hap­py, then a long and pleasant life is assured, and there will be no need to worry about death.

Live from day to day; do not concern yourself with the past while looking forward to the future with hope and aspiration. Do not talk of the “good old times,” or be in the habit of looking over old pictures. Do not complain about your ills, shortcomings, or general conditions. All this accentuates old age, making you feel old and act old. Be young in spirit, keep smiling, cheer all those around you. People will love you and you will love yourself too. Practice generosity. Give of yourself and your earthly possessions freely — no one likes a stingy old man or old woman. Have faith in God; always realize that if you live right in accordance with His physical and moral precepts He will be with you and guide and protect you at all times. Repeat to yourself several times daily, particularly upon arising in the morning and before retiring at night the following positive affirmations: “I am healthy and strong; I am doing wonderfully; I will live to the age of (so many years); God is with me,” et cetera. Seek the companionship of fine uplift­ing people of all ages. Friendship offers a great deal of diversion, fun, happiness, at the same time it helps take one’s attention away from one’s self.

Living with, and being dependent on, one’s children is a very unsatisfactory way of spending one’s old age. Women are usually the main offenders in this respect. Children, especially grandchil­dren, live an entirely different life than oldsters do and when these ages are thrown together in permanent coexistence they both suffer as a result. The young ones feel restricted in the presence of domi­neering grandparents, and, in consequence, cannot develop as normally as when they are in a younger atmosphere. The second gen­eration often feels bad about the unhealthy state of affairs, but may be reluctant to displease their parents. Very often the results of such situations are animosity, nervous strain with its usual com­panion, psychosomatic illness, and ultimate tragedy of some kind. Most often such situations are built up where a mother dominates her married children or vice versa.

On the other hand, the oldsters when living together with their children will resent many of the modern liberties and general be­havior of the youngsters and, having the feeling of seniority, are apt to nag or dominate the third as well as the second generation. On top of that the oldsters will not be able to stand the noise, the constant hubbub of young life, and will never feel at home in such atmosphere. It is well for the aged parents to live in proximity to, but not together with, their married children; to see them often, but not every day, and to spend only short intervals of time in their houses occasionally. It is well to help out the children now and then but not become steady baby-sitters or reliefmen. Live your own life, in your own home, rented house, or apartment or else board with other people — according to your circumstances. Have the pleasure, interest, and satisfaction of taking care of your house, lawn, and garden with the associated feeling of complete independence. For the widowed oldster the ideal place is a home for the aged. Here one can find comfort, attendance, companionship of other aged persons of both sexes, amusement and pleasure. Very often a match in marriage can be made there, and a new life com­panion acquired with whom to share the last years of one’s life pleasantly.

In conclusion, let us remember that in all ages, places, or cir­cumstances it is always entirely up to us to adjust ourselves as best we can and thus build our own path to happiness. With a strong desire to do that the oldster can find a new happy life where all interest and hope have been lost before.

Retirement from work is the hope and aspiration of practically every man from the age of fifty up. We say “man” because a woman never retires. She may share or help her husband in his retirement, and perhaps ease up on her own work, but to actually retire the way a man does is not in woman’s domain. From the first day o£ mar­riage to the moment she closes her eyes for the last time in her life she is constantly occupied. Housework, children, shopping, cook­ing, sewing, social duties, and many other tasks will keep a woman busy when the man cannot find a thing to do. We will, therefore, concern ourselves here only with the man, but what affects him may also include the woman.

The meaning of retirement is to give up working for a living. The day-in, day-out drudgery of many years of work presses heav­ily upon a man’s mind. He yearns for a change, for a let-up of re­sponsibilities. In advanced age, especially if one is suffering from illness, retirement is a necessity. However, retirement from working for a living should not mean complete cessation of activity — it should only be a modification of it. To stop being active, sit in a rocking chair, smoke a pipe, listen to the radio, watch television or read, and at the same time eat the usual three meals a day surely means inviting trouble. Before long, various pains will set in: indigestion, constipation, and a score of ailments requiring medical treatment. Before one knows it one becomes an invalid and departs from this earth. The human body is made to be active and any organ or part of it will become atrophied when not in use. Food consumed in excess of what the body needs for its maintenance and expenditure of energy will either turn into dead fatty tissues or else will not digest and turn sour, ferment, and poison the body.

Retirement must be carefully planned and prepared for a long time in advance. The first consideration is the time of giving up your lifelong occupation. The average age of retirement is about sixty-five. Depending on the financial status, business, or work circumstances, condition of health, family, and various other rea­sons the age is modified to suit the individual. The age of sixty-five is convenient because it is legally the time to begin collecting the government old-age pension which serves as a foundation of finan­cial support in most cases.

The next consideration is the financial status. One should care­fully figure out his assets and probable budget so that he will not find himself financially embarrassed at any time later.

Third, comes the place of retirement. Most people living in cold or temperate climates are fed up with the struggle against the elements — heat in the summer, cold in the winter, slush, dust, winds, and so on. They yearn for a mild, moderate climate, pleasant and healthful all year around. Such climates may be found in Florida, around the Pacific shores of Southern California, in some parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. One should consult government and travel bureaus on this matter before contemplating any important move.

Next comes the question of occupation — what to do when retired? A part-time job for a few hours a day or a couple of days a week is very helpful. Regular light work in your garden or home shop, or a small business or service enterprise of some kind, will constitute a useful occupation that will keep your mind and muscles in running order.

While in retirement the most important thing for one is to have an interest in life. You must have friends, belong to a church, clubs, and organizations, and do active work in them. Take interest in local affairs, national politics, science, music, go to lectures, do a moderate amount of reading, find yourself some interesting hob­bies (and there are lots of them), change those hobbies from time to time. Take up various courses of study. There are many interest­ing subjects given in night courses for adults in our high schools. Take up dancing, roller skating, swimming. Never let your age deter or embarrass you from taking up these avocations — you will benefit by them immensely both physically and mentally.

Pay attention to your health by doing a great deal of walking. Discard the use of your car unless the occasion for it is urgent. Do your calisthenics and deep-breathing exercises regularly. Above all, watch your diet closely. Eliminate most of the starchy, fatty, sweet and acid-forming foods. Do not overeat or indulge in smoking or drinking. Have a cheerful, positive mental attitude. Be kind, friendly, humorous, and entertaining with others. You will find happiness in your retirement you have never dreamed of if you follow these simple rules of living.

It is not advisable for the retired man, as some do, to spend all his time at home with his wife. Usually the woman has her reg­ular undiminished housework to do and her husband, who is al­most completely unoccupied, is only in her way. To ease the wo­man’s work the man often helps her along. However, many men resent both this work and the idea of being a helper — at that, usu­ally a second-rate one. Helping a wife regularly in the housework is a very unsatisfactory arrangement since the woman has years of experience in that work, while the man is all but helpless in it and so must assume the role of errand boy, if not worse.

As a result of staying continually in the house the man can hardly find a proper place for himself there. He is constantly on his wife’s toes; both become irritable and quarrelsome; this leads to small rifts which gradually develop into quarrels. Soon all harmony is lost in that home which originally was to become a paradise of life’s dreams of retirement.

Even if he has no definite regular work to occupy himself the man still should manage to spend most of his day outside. He can join a club of other retired men engaged in playing games, discuss­ing politics, business, or the like; team up with a friend to spend the days together; attend a library or school regularly; maintain a small office or shop for some light occupation even if it is only for reading a book; in short, do anything in order to avoid being thrown together with a busy wife. You will be a welcome guest when you come back home to your wife who is done with her work, has prettied herself up, and is ready to go places with you. A lot more harmony in the mutual relationship of both husband and wife as well as more health and happiness will be the result of such an arrangement.

In conclusion, let us point out that retirement may be turned into either hell or paradise according to the way you go about it. It is up to you to choose the best way and reap the corresponding rewards.

While on the subject of health it would hardly be fair of us to pass up a matter as closely connected with it, and of as great an importance, as that of organic gardening. We eat the products of the soil, both plant and animal, and therefore, our bodies are greatly affected by the methods by which our foods are raised. Faulty ways of raising foods may turn out to be quite harmful to us.

Indeed, today’s methods of preparing and treating the ground and the growing of plants are far from being ideal. The soil is treated with caustic chemical fertilizers which kill most of the valuable bacteria in the ground while the plants are sprayed with powerful poisons which, while killing the destructive insects, also kill off bees, other valuable insects and birds who happen to feed on the poisoned plants and bugs. When we humans consume these sprayed plants or the meat of animals who have fed on them we slowly poison our systems.

The soil in which all plants grow is not a dead medium. A mi­croscopic examination would reveal it to be full of life. Billions of bacteria are working day and night to build materials in the soil for plant consumption and growth. The more of these God-given bacteria there are in the soil, the better and stronger will be the plants produced.

Insects are by nature scavengers and equalizers. They will at­tack and feed only on weak, imperfect, or sickly plants; they will also destroy surpluses of vegetation concentrated in one place. Such places of concentration offer to insects large amounts of food which are easily obtained without the necessity of flying far and thus being detected and eaten up by birds. Modern agricul­ture, with its large one-crop tracts tends to invite destruction by insects.

Sprays work their way from the surface into the inner cells of the plants, and also from the sprayed ground into the roots of the plants. The poisons contained in the sprays enter our blood stream and are retained by our bodies when we consume the sprayed plants. Harmful sprays are also transferred to us through the meat of the animals we eat providing the latter have been raised on sprayed ground. Within a time these poisons affect various organs of our body causing disease and sometimes early death.

To counteract insecticides, all insects develop a resistance to the poisons in their bodies; this resistance is conveyed by them very rapidly from one generation to another. Due to this ability of insects to withstand the poisons the potency of insecticides must be continually increased. There is a danger that eventually strains of insects will develop which will be almost 100% immune to the most powerful poisons, while animals and human beings consum­ing the sprayed vegetation will be easily destroyed by the same. Thus, we can clearly comprehend that, while crops must be pro­tected against insects, insecticides are not the answer to the prob­lem.

A safe antidote against destructive insects is the employment of other insects which feed upon the former and help preserve our crops. The ladybug, the shield bug, the dragon fly, the praying mantis, the calosoma beetle, the robber fly, the mud dauber wasp, and many other brother insect-killers are the best natural protec­tion for garden and field crops against destruction by insects.

It is not unlikely that a large industry specializing in breeding various protective insects will spring up in the near future; farm­ers and gardeners will be able to purchase the needed amounts and types of insects or eggs suited to their particular crop or lo­cations. In fact, there are some breeders on the market already. A development of this kind would actually prove to be a lifesaver to humanity. This method of ridding crops of destructive insects would prove especially useful in those places where great stretches of land are planted in one type of crop and provide natural pro­tection for large numbers of insects. It would also protect and pre­serve our greatest friends of the field and garden—the bees—along with other beneficial insects who help in pollinating the flowers of the plants. Without the aid of these insects some of the flowers remain unfertilized, the plants bear no seed, and consequently the crops shrink. As it is, billions of precious bees are now killed yearly by poisons from insecticides.

Other valuable types of insect-killers are the little garden ani­mals—the harmless snake, the lizard, the mole, the toad, and the bat. All of these are voracious devourers of cutworms, bugs, mos­quitoes, mice, rats, grubs, spiders, and ants. Every farmer and gardener should appreciate the value of and protect these friendly animals.

As far as improving the faulty methods of our present-day food-raising the answer is organic gardening. This is the method of giving back to the soil all the organic matter possible to replace the nourishment taken away from it. In nature this is a continuous normal process. A plant, while growing, takes its nourishment from the soil and the air around it. When it dies or sheds leaves the material decays and forms food for other plants. When plants are consumed by animals they are given back to the soil in the form of urine and excrement. Human cultivation gradually de­prives the soil of many of its nutrients until finally it becomes so poor that it will not produce anything worth while. The conven­tional method of enriching the soil is to put into it commercial fertilizers made of chemicals containing caustic materials. Besides killing the favorable bacteria in the ground commercial fertilizers at best contain only a few of the needed elements. To supply an all-around nourishment to the ground we must put back into it balanced fertilizers and also rotate crops from season to season. Ground rock, manure, old leaves, lawn cuttings and kitchen gar­bage are ideal fertilizers. They should be used by farmers in place of the injurious chemicals employed now. Every homeowner rich or poor should raise at least part of his food in his back yard. Be­sides being healthy outdoor work, it serves as hobby or recreation, and saves money on food bills. Through it one will be assured of fresh and unpoisoned vegetables and fruit.

Of course, those people who do not own their homes are in a less advantageous position. However, there are many farmers who raise their crops by organic methods nowadays and their number is continually and swiftly growing. There would be many more of them if the public were to demand organically grown foods at the places where they deal. The public should also demand legis­lation forbidding the use of poisonous sprays and injurious fertilizers.

Those interested in using organically grown foods may obtain through the author of this book a list of farmers all over the  United States raising their crops by organic methods and sell­ing various food products by mail or express.

Meanwhile, as an everyday precaution, fruit, vegetables, and even whole grains should be washed in hot and cold water before using, while the skins of fruit should be either scrubbed or peeled. The saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” applies very well in this case.

Those who wish to go still further in safeguarding themselves against sprays will do well to dilute one teaspoonful of hydro­chloric acid in one quart of water in a large glass bowl, keep this solution for as long as it is usable, dipping all fruits and veg­etables into it for a few moments, then washing them off with water thoroughly. The acid will counteract the poisons in the sprays by forming salts which are washed off by the water.

It will pay the layman to take an interest in the matter of or­ganic gardening because much of our health and longevity depend on the methods of growing our foods.

To stay young is the sweetest dream of everyone entering middle age, particularly women. What would a woman not give to look young? However, along with that, still more important than looking young is feeling young and not aging prematurely.

If you look around yourself closely you will observe that under­neath his modern clothing, fine grooming, and facial make-up, the average person of today looks worn out and older than his age.

As early as in their thirties many people’s faces become set, im­mobile, haggard; their hair is thin, gone, or graying; their faces are covered with deep lines; their eyes are dull and tired-looking; their bodies are either flabby and fat, or emaciated. What could be the reason for these shortcomings? Are these people normal?

Evidently a condition of this kind cannot be normal. When we compare the span of life of humans of today to that of animals we see that the average animal lives five or six times as long as it takes it to reach full maturity. That should hold true also with human beings inasmuch as they represent the highest form of animal life. Since human beings reach their full physical de­velopment at about the age of twenty-five our span of life should be anywhere between one hundred twenty-five and one hundred fifty years. When we turn to the Bible we can read there tales of people who lived to ages as high as nine hundred years. No doubt there is some amount of truth in those stories. It may be taken for granted that barring accidents and cases of being over­come by wild animals the primitive man had a very long span of life.

To live a long life one cannot be old at forty and decrepit at sixty. For that one has to be healthy, strong, vibrant, and active until a very advanced age. Thus it may be safely assumed that primitive man was young until he got quite far advanced in age. He surely carried all his faculties and functions into old age.

Now what made him stay young in spite of his age, and why are we so different in that respect? Since nothing of basic character in man’s make-up has changed since primitive man roamed this earth except perhaps that his brain has developed into its present stage we must presume that it was his mode of living which kept primitive man in good shape — his surroundings, activity and food.

Whereas primitive man lived a healthy, natural life we, of to­day, do not. Our mode of living is highly artificial and for that we pay with years of life and the premature loss of our youthfulness. To regain our youth and enjoy longevity we must either revert to nature or else imitate natural living conditions as far as pos­sible. We have seen that physical work and the daily exercising of our body are good substitutes for the outdoor life of primitive man.

However, as we have shown before, the most important factor in building health and longevity is our food. Primitive man, in most respects, lived essentially the way we do nowadays but he did not know the use of fire for the cooking of foods. He subsisted exclusively on raw natural foods. This is the secret of youth — when we put living foods into our bodies we build living cells in it; conversely, dead foods destroy cells instead of building healthy new ones, and as a result, the renewal of cells is sluggish; our elimination is impaired and the result is that we retain more of the old worn-out cells. This constitutes the process of aging – the inability to replace worn-out cells with new ones. When, on the other hand, we supply our body with living raw foods abun­dant with vitamins and minerals we are apt to build young cells, clear our blood of toxins, our skin of irregularities and blotches, get a sparkle of vitality in our eyes, and buoyancy in our legs. All functions of our body will be improved, including our metabolism. This will change not only our feelings of well-being but will actual­ly make us look younger.

While all natural raw foods are beneficial for the maintenance of health and youth some are particularly excellent for this pur­pose. Citrus fruit — oranges, grapefruit, lemons — and pineapple are known to contain enzymes which promote a smooth pliable skin. Deep-colored vegetables like carrots and yellow corn are valuable for their carotene; spinach, celery, parsley, water cress and cucum­bers, for their abundance of chlorophyll. For best results use large amounts of the juices of all these vegetables. Raw milk is another excellent source of life-giving enzymes out of which our body pro­duces hormones.

Sex virility is a very important factor in maintaining youthful-ness. The older we grow the weaker our sex powers become. Many generations ago the Indians in this country had already known the secret of maintaining their sex power. Only recently we found out that what they called “the love apple” — the tomato — is rich in substances which develop into sex hormones in our body. Use the “love apple” daily —raw, if possible, canned, otherwise, and thus retain your sex power. For the same purpose use also an abundance of foods rich in Vitamins E and G: wheat germ, yeast, egg yolks, green and root vegetables and inner animal organs.

There is another very important aspect of longevity and youth-fulness — the will to live. We all know what tremendous influence our mind exerts upon all functions of our body. We have heard of many people who “gave up” on account of debility or incurable sickness and died prematurely mainly due to the lack of will to live. Very often people depart from this world after having reached their life goal — they have nothing more to live for and have neither the will nor the interest to go on. Others make up their minds to continue living only up to a certain occurrence in their lives — say to marry off their youngest daughter and, sure enough, they die soon after this task has been accomplished. On the other hand, we observe just as often, people who are deathly sick and who seem to be on the very verge of passing out any minute yet who continue to survive for many years and succeed in outliving people much younger and healthier than themselves. They cling to life by the sheer will to keep on living.

To attain longevity make up your mind that you are going to live a long life and stay young and then stick to this determination doggedly. Affirm to yourself daily — I am young, strong and healthy; I am going to live one hundred, one hundred twenty, or one hun­dred fifty years (set this imaginary limit for yourself, then stick around to see how this will come true). By these affirmations you will impress your subconscious mind by the determination of your conscious mind to live as long or nearly as long as you desire.

There is a true saying—”You are as old as you think you are” and another one “You cannot have a young body with an old mind.” By considering yourself old you act old and, thus, old age becomes a habit with you. By convincing yourself that you are young the reverse takes place; you begin to act young and feel young. Keep on telling yourself—I am young, I am young, I am young—until you really become young.

As to general information on the subject of staying young we can offer the following suggestions:

1)    Have a goal in life—live for something so that you can always look forward to attaining it and meanwhile have an interest to continue living. After you have reached that goal, no matter what your age is at the time, set yourself another goal;
later on, still another one — never ending this process.

2)    Develop enthusiasm. Do things with gusto and enjoy doing them. Do not grumble, sulk, or complain. Do only the things you believe are right—you will then gain faith and assurance in yourself and will enjoy the fruits of your labor.

3)    Keep learning new things all the time, have new interests, meet new people and change places often by going visiting, vacationing, and traveling.

4)    Associate with young   people and people with interesting personalities, vitality, and humor.

5)    Take interest in sports, cultivate hobbies, exercise, and do a lot of walking.

6)    Wear light-colored clothes—they  make  you  feel glad and young.

7)    Carry yourself erect, chest up, shoulders back, and abdomen in.

8)    Laugh and joke around with others and even with yourself; have a cheerful, relaxed attitude at all times; enjoy life as you have it; do not cultivate discontentment.

Associate with people who share your ideas, especially those on health and youth. Go to health lectures and hear the ideas of well-informed people on health and other self-improvement sub­jects.

Practicing all those suggestions will keep you busy and content­ed, and will leave no time for brooding, morbid thinking, self-criticism, or reproach. Don’t give up! Build your body of sound material and your mind of sound thoughts. Make it your goal to be young and live long. You will surely realize this ambition if you apply yourself resolutely to doing so. And youthfulness can­not fail to bring you happiness with it.

Metaphorically speaking, beauty is not “only skin deep” since real beauty — the beauty of the soul — is more important. Literally also, this saying is incorrect because physical beauty is not skin deep — it goes deeper than that, too.

While intellectual beauty develops the soul and should be cul­tivated, physical beauty originates only in a healthy body. Normal functioning of every organ and, particularly, good circulation of clean uncontaminated blood goes far in building a healthy, good-looking skin and complexion. The skin is an organ of protection and elimination. It covers our body completely forming a tough but pliable waterproof wrapper around the outer muscles; these and the skin both protect and cushion the vital inner organs. The skin is covered, for additional protection, by hair in the form of fuzz and, in some places, by a thick covering of hair as on the head.

The skin also secretes oily substances which protect the body from the penetration of water and the harmful germs always present in the air.

As an integral part of our body the skin is dependent on our general condition of health for its well-being. In order to have a young pliable skin and a good complexion we must have a good heart, good lungs, and strong digestive powers. If we supply the blood with good, natural, unadulterated foods with all the neces­sary vitamins and minerals, plenty of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and relaxation, and a happy mental attitude, our looks, complexion, and our entire skin, will respond in the same measure as all the rest of the body does to such treatment.

The use of cosmetics is justified only for beautifying and for fragrance. They do not build or improve the skin in any way ex­cept perhaps where the water is hard, or in extremes of dry, hot, or cold weather when the skin gets dry and loses part of its oily covering. Light applications of creams containing lanolin or any other animal oils are advisable in such cases.

As for the so-called “foods for the skin” — preparations purport­ing to nourish the skin with hormones — they are nothing but a profitable hoax since the skin is an organ of elimination and not of absorption. The skin does not absorb any substances except air. The only benefit obtained from these preparations is the massag­ing procedure involved in the application. However, it is some­what too costly with the use of “skin foods” and one can accom­plish the same results by using Crisco, a very good vegetable fat, for the purpose or else with some of the simpler lanolin prepara­tions.

The use of cosmetics is a tradition as old as history. The over­use of them always went along with the downfall of great empires. The spoiled rich of ancient times in their wild rush for pleasure had been using the most fantastic ingredients for anointing and beautifying themselves. Overuse of cosmetics and demoralization were always closely related. Abandoning natural life also can be in a sense considered a type of demoralization since anything is immoral which is harmful to the body or mind. Let us not overdo this either.

All diseases of the skin, and there is a tremendous amount of them, no matter how they appear or what they are called, are all a result of impure blood loaded with toxins and a faulty digestion. Rational living and natural diet will correct any skin disease very quickly because the skin responds more rapidly to a favorable change in the blood than our inner organs do due to its eliminat­ing properties and its direct exposure to air, sunshine, and water in bathing. The self-treatment outlined in the chapter on “How to Treat Yourself in Any Illness” will apply in the case of skin treat­ment as well.

Our advice to women is to use cosmetics sparingly — a bit of powder on the nose, a dab of rouge on the cheeks, a few drops of perfume, and nothing else. Lipstick is definitely harmful and should be used cautiously and very rarely. Every preparation used should be carefully studied for contents before purchase. Any one of them known to contain harmful chemicals should be discarded. The author will be glad to recommend some healthful prepara­tions to those interested.

In general, bear in mind that beauty comes from health and purity of body and mind. No artificial beauty can take the place of natural beauty, either God given or acquired, through the applica­tion of proper methods of healthful living and thinking.

Be healthy and you will be beautiful.

Life is maintained through the intake of food, water, and air. Plants and animals alike must have food in order to grow, de­velop energy, and live. In order to be assimilated food must first be broken up into small particles so that the inner organs can handle it. This would be impossible without teeth. Any animal would perish in a very short time if its teeth were removed. In human beings teeth are just as indispensable as in animals. Chewing, cut­ting, and tearing with our teeth requires tremendous force. Our teeth are naturally the hardest part of our body, much harder than the bones, and three quarters as hard as diamonds. They exert a pressure of four-hundred pounds or more while chewing. As a result of their hardness teeth in normal condition will stay in perfect shape and outlive their owner by thousands of years. Skeletons of people and animals who lived many thousands of years ago which were dug out recently by archeologists have shown teeth which remained well preserved after every part of the body, in­cluding the bones rotted away. Primitive man had all his teeth in perfect shape to the last day of his existence, primitive tribes still do.

It is the modern, progressed man who finds himself with a toothless mouth. What causes this? With the advent of modern life and commercialism we have hardly any use for our teeth now­adays. Biting into fluids, cakes ,pies, mashed potatoes, et cetera, leaves our teeth with hardly any employment. This is unnatural. Any part of our body which is not functional is removed by nature for greater efficiency. Lie in bed without moving around for a week’s time, or tie an arm behind your back for a few days and you won’t be able to use your limbs for a while after that. When our teeth are not used they become atrophied; the gums soften; the teeth loosen in their sockets and come out easily.

Another, perhaps still more important, cause for our losing our teeth is the lack of minerals in the foods we eat. Teeth, as well as bones and every part of the body, consist of cells which are con­tinually created, used up, then replaced by new ones. Teeth are made of organic minerals — such minerals as come from plant life, particularly calcium, phosphorus, and iodine. These, through the medium of our blood and saliva, nourish the enamel of our teeth and supply their needs. When our food lacks these elements our teeth deteriorate, lose part of their enamel, form cavities, and rot away. Concentrated, denatured, devitalized, and overcooked foods have lost most of their mineral content, so what is there left for the teeth to feed upon? What to do? The answer is obvious — live food with all its vitamins and minerals; coarse food that the teeth can chew for their needed exercise, blood circulation, and, of course, rational living in general. Our teeth are a part of our body and do well when the body as a whole does well.

Care of teeth? There is hardly any necessary. Did you ever see a tiger or an elephant brush its teeth? You won’t see that even on television. It is ridiculous to think of that! And why? Because nature did not grow toothbrushes for our use. Every tooth has its individual motion and when particles of food deposit themselves between our teeth they are gradually dislodged by a natural up and down motion. However, when we consume acid-forming foods (meats, starchy foods, and sweets) they eat the enamel of our teeth and eventually destroy them. As a preventive measure it is good to rinse our mouths and to use dental floss to remove stubborn bits of food from between our teeth. It is not advisable to rinse the mouth directly after a meal but rather half an hour or so later. This gives the saliva a chance to secrete even after the food is chewed up. There is a direct connection between the secretion of the saliva and that of the digestive juices of the stomach. You notice how animals and, for that matter, humans lick their lips and smack their mouth after a meal. This is nature’s way of adding digestive juices for a better assimilation of the food. By rinsing the mouth directly after a meal we stop that natural action.

To strengthen our gums besides chewing on coarse foods, raw vegetables, hard bread, and the like, rinsing the mouth with a solution of apple cider vinegar is very helpful. Dilute one teaspoonful of full strength vinegar in a glass of water, rinse your mouth, also drink some of it. For details see the information about cider vinegar in the article on “Wonder Foods.”

To sum up, good teeth come from good food and right living.