wed to
suffer pain. The best method to adopt is that practised by Coue in his
consultations. Let the child close its eyes and repeat with the
parent, "It's going, going ... gone!" while the latter gently strokes
the affected part. But as soon as possible the child should be
encouraged to overcome smaller difficulties for itself, until the
parent's help is eventually almost dispensed with. This is a powerful
means of developing self-reliance and fostering the sense of
superiority to difficulties which will be invaluable in later life.

That children readily take to the practice is shown by these examples,
which are again quoted from letters received by Coue.

"Your youngest disciple is our little David. The poor little chap had
an accident to-day. Going up in the lift with his father, when quite
four feet up, he fell out on his head and on to a hard stone floor. He
was badly bruised and shocked, and when put to bed lay still and kept
saying: 'ca passe, ca passe,' over and over again, and then looked up
and said, 'no, not gone away.' To-night he said again 'ca passe' and
then added, 'nearly gone.' So he is better."

B. K. (London).
8 _January_, 1922.

Another lady writes:

"Our cook's little niece, aged 23 months--the one we cured of
bronchitis--gave herself a horrid blow on the head yesterday. Instead
of crying she began to smile, passed her hand over the place and said
sweetly, 'ca passe.' Hasn't she been well brought up?"

All these methods are extremely simple and involve little expenditure
of time and none of money. They have proved their efficacy over and
over again in Nancy, and there is no reason why a mother of average
intelligence and conscientiousness should not obtain equally good
results. Naturally, first attempts will be a little awkward, but there
is no need for discouragement on that account. Even supposing that
through the introduction of effort some slight harm were done--and the
chance is comparatively remote--this need cause no alarm. The right
autosuggestion will soon counteract it and produce positive good in its
place. But any mother who has practised autosuggestion for herself
will be able correctly to apply it to her child.

At first glance the procedure may seem revolutionary, but think it over
for a moment and you will see that it is as old as the hills. It is
merely a systematisation on a scientific basis of the method mothers
have intuitively practised since the