not see how a fortune could
ever grow by the saving, they can not see how a little studying here
and there each day will ever amount to a good substitute for a college
education.

I know a young man who never even attended a high school, and yet
educated himself so superbly that he has been offered a professorship
in a college. Most of his knowledge was gained during his odds and
ends of time, while working hard at his vocation. Spare time meant
something to him.

The correspondence schools deserve very great credit for inducing
hundreds of thousands of people, including clerks, mill operatives, and
employees of all kinds, to take their courses, and thus save for study
the odds and ends of time which otherwise would probably be thrown
away. We have heard of some most remarkable instances of rapid
advancement which these correspondence school students have made by
reason of the improvement in their education. Many students have
reaped a thousand per cent on their educational investment. It has
saved them years of drudgery and has shortened wonderfully the road to
their goal.

Wisdom will not open her doors to those who are not willing to pay the
price in self-sacrifice, in hard work. Her jewels are too precious to
scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.

The very resolution to redeem yourself from ignorance at any cost is
the first great step toward gaining an education.

Charles Wagner once wrote to an American regarding his little boy, "May
he know the price of the hours. God bless the rising boy who will do
his best, for never losing a bit of the precious and God-given time."

There is untold wealth locked up in the long winter evenings and odd
moments ahead of you. A great opportunity confronts you. What will
you do with it?

CHAPTER LIII

THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

When plate-glass windows first came into use, Rogers, the poet, took a
severe cold by sitting with his back to what he supposed was an open
window in a dining-room but which was really plate-glass. All the time
he was eating he imagined he was taking cold, but he did not dare ask
to have the window closed.

We little realize how much suggestion has to do with health. In
innumerable instances people have been made seriously ill, sometimes
fatally so, by others telling them how badly they looked, or suggesting
that they had inherited some fatal disease.

A prominent New York business man recently told me of an experiment
wh