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Title: Personality Plus
Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock

Author: Edna Ferber

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Language: English

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[Illustration: "'What is this anyway? A George Cohan comedy?'"]

PERSONALITY PLUS

SOME EXPERIENCES OF EMMA McCHESNEY
AND HER SON, JOCK

By

EDNA FERBER

AUTHOR OF "DAWN O'HARA," "BUTTERED SIDE DOWN,"
"ROAST BEEF, MEDIUM," ETC.

_WITH FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG_

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
1914

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. MAKING GOOD WITH MOTHER

II. PERSONALITY PLUS

III. DICTATED BUT NOT READ

IV. THE MAN WITHIN HIM

V. THE SELF-STARTER

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'What is this anyway? A George Cohan comedy?'" _Frontispiece_

"'You're a jealous blond,' he laughed"

"He was the concentrated essence of do-it-now"

"'Hi! Hold that pose!' called Von Herman"

"With a jolt Jock realized she had forgotten all about him"

"'Well, raw-thah!' he drawled"

"... became in some miraculous way a little boy again"

"Jock McChesney began to carry a yellow walking stick down to
work"

"'Good Lord, Mother! Of course you don't mean it, but--'"

"'Greetings!'"

"She laid one hand very lightly on his arm and looked up into the
sullen, angry young face"

"He made straight for the main desk with its battalion of clerks"

"'Let's not waste any time,' he said"

"He found his mother on the floor ... surrounded by piles of
pajamas, socks, shirts and collars"

"'Well, you said you wanted somebody to worry about, didn't you?'"

PERSONALITY PLUS

I

MAKING GOOD WITH MOTHER

When men began to build cities vertically instead of horizontally
there passed from our highways a picturesque figure, and from our
language an expressive figure of speech. That oily-tongued,
persuasive, soft-stepping stranger in the rusty Prince Albert and
the black string tie who had b