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Show r Something to Think About' ti PyF. A. 1PALKEK J El ' mT. -Ji THE MASTERFUL MIND WHEN a perplexing task confronts you, the very thought of which upsets your poise and seems to paralyze par-alyze your mental and- physical faculties, facul-ties, by all means keep cool. You cannot by any other manner master the situation. By mastering yourself, composing your tingling nerves and going at the work In an orderly fashion, you will find that however serious, were your apprehensions, or your fears of getting get-ting through on time, there was really nothing to be flustered at at all, A moment of quiet decisive thought at' such times Is usually all that is really needed, but the difficulty with most persons Is, the mustering of the moment to do their bidding. The average mind has an inclination to Jump and daoce In circles and to become so agitated that anything approaching ap-proaching tranquility appears to be entirely out of the question. Matter ' for "the time being overwhelms over-whelms mind, breaks U Into a thousand atoms with provoking spitefulness and leaves thought In utter dismay. - The housewife knows how true this is, when at dinner time her happy-go-lucky spouse walks In at the front door with several old college chums, and calmly announces that they have come to dine with him, forgetting until un-til he put his key in the lock that it was the cook's afternoon out. In the flurry that follows everything goes wrong. Had the husband in the beginning given thought of the cookless kitchen, all embarrassment could have been avoided. Tour deBk may confront you with hundreds of letters requiring Immediate Imme-diate personal attention. If you have a masterful mind, you will proceed to make haste slowly, and dispose of the work in half of the time it would take a man to complete the work whose self-control had deserted de-serted him. The masterful mind is one of the figures in the combination that opens the lock on the world's treasure box, In which repose success; honor, fame, wealth, and power, each one more easily attained by the man or woman of composure, than by those persons who upon the slightest provocation become be-come ill-tempered, excited and hysterical. hys-terical. You can never hope to lead, direct and control others except by the magnetic mag-netic power of the masterful mind, acquired only by mastering self, after long seasons of trial. (Copyright) j |