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Show 'Dale Carnegie Different Mental Attitude Helps 1TLLIAM KERMIT MONROE, Lumberton, North Carolina, lost his wife and was left with two little children, one two rnv,aiS ij &ge and the other seven days old when its mother died, ihe older child was at home with him while the younger was still at the hospital. The doctor said they would ts-eep mm there until arrangements could be made to have him somewhere else. In the meantime William Monroe faced a lot of expense; doctor bills, hospital bills, three special spe-cial nurses to pay, funeral expense, and also a housekeeper and a nurse for the two year old y at home. , He was already in debt about ?2,000.00 and going in debt more each month since he was making only $2400.00 a year as a postal employee. CARNEGIE He worried until he could not sleep at night; he smoked too many cigarettes, and was becoming a nervous wreck. He could not keep both of his babies at home and provide nurses for them, and they were too young to enter an orphanage. Some friends wanted to ad6pt them, but more than anything else he wanted to rear them together and keep them with him. On day he decided to talk to his minister. When he stated i his problems to the minister, he was told of a similar experience. He said that it was a problem that could not be worked out in a day or two, that it would take some time. And he advised Mr. Monroe to live one day at a-time and let tomorrow take care of itself. Accepting this advice brought about a different mental attitude atti-tude and a change in Mr. Monroe's life, and things began to work out all right. His nervous condition disappeared and his health returned to normal. |