Show TOLD YOU SO How many days since you have thought of Coue He Hc Is almost for for- forgotten forgotten gotten tor-gotten gotten To endure persistently is In American memory one ona must be a baseball player a prizefighter a stage or mono movie star a theatrical the inventor In- In Inventor In Inventor scientist or medical manor man man or or marketer of a breakfast food beauty lotion lollon or some me- me mechanical mechanical me mechanical I device that can be sold cheap cheaply A reader one of the thc wise few I IA who will get permanent good from Coues Coue's s system stem of harnessing the jm- jm im imagination sends a letter announcIng announcing ing lug his hia discovery that the original of ot the tho Coue method m of treating ailments by autosuggestion autosuggestion tion was Socrates was Socrates He died 2322 2323 years ago Xenophon Greek historian and militarist wrote in his Memora bilia tbt Socrates one day said to him I Z consider that those live best why study best to become as good goodas goodas goodas as possible and that those live with most pleasure who feel leel the most assurance that they are dally daily growing better and better botter That sounds familiar strikingly like Coues Coue's Day by day In every way I grow better and better Coue of course never claimed calmed that he be originated the Idea but In- In Instead in instead stead popularized It by giving it t a anew anew anew new twist twist- Hudson had the same Idea 31 years ago So did others farther back on through the misty ages Socrates may have picked It up in the writings of some ancient who died centuries before Socrates was born bom I Ten thousand years ago agog ago and more they probably had epidemics of the Coue Cone idea The orientals especially es especially Thousands of years from now the Cone idea will be resurrected and have flash Duh In the-pan the epidemics of popularity What a pity that these good Ideas cannot stay with us perma perma- permanently permanently Instead of ot visiting occasion occasion- occasionally lally ally and departing before they be- be become become come bo-come come indelible Through the tho ages experience has taught certain lessons which the wise have put in the form of proverbs Such saws as aa A bird in inthe the tho hand is worth two in fn tho the bush Honesty Is the best beat policy Dont make a mountain out of or a molehill All this thus wisdom is available to tous tous tous us constantly constantly- But Dut as with the Coue Socrates Cone Idea we most of ot the time Ignore what was found to be truthful by previous generations who got hard bumps bamps In the tho finding Old fogy notions we wo call thom them So did past generations and so will future We forget or Ignore the proved wisdom because each generation thinks Its It's the smartest ever We take d 01 j chance go contrary to proved and and land on our heads Success and happiness are easy to reach the rules rule's simple |