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Ofttimes we read and hear of the open-handed generous man who "helped
everybody," and who "never refused to aid a needy brother," and who
ended his life in penury because of his generosity.

Never believe these tales until you investigate them. Invariably you
will find not generosity but extravagance and utter lack of
forethought, caused the man's financial ruin.

I recall a gifted young woman who gave freely to all who asked her
assistance and who died a lingering death as a charity patient in a
hospital.

Yet this young woman had expended ten dollars on foolish and rapid
living where she gave one in charity; it was her wasteful extravagance,
not her open heart of sympathy, which made her a pauper.

It has been my observation that dollars planted in the soil of
benevolence grow into harvests of prosperity. The man who is not
afraid to use his small means to assist others need not fear poverty.

Woman's Opportunity

The greatest opportunity to better the world which can come to any
woman is through the experience of maternity.

The power of prenatal influence which a mother possesses is
awe-inspiring to realize.

It has been said upon excellent authority that Napoleon's mother read
Roman history with absorbing interest during the months preceding his
birth.

Think of the nations and the centuries influenced by that one woman's
mental concentration! The geography of the world was changed by her
power of focused thought.

In all probability Napoleon's mother did not know what she was doing;
she was not conscious of the destiny her mind was shaping for her
unborn child, nor of the law governing such conditions.

Women have been strangely ignorant of this vital truth; until recent
years it has not been considered a "proper" theme for tongue or pen,
and to-day the great majority of young women marry absolutely
uninformed upon the subject of prenatal influence.

Men are equally oblivious of any knowledge regarding the matter, and
consequently make no special effort to keep the expectant mother of
their offspring happy, hopeful, or free of anxiety and worry during
this period. Often they do not strive to aid them in their own
attempts to bestow a desirable temperament upon the unborn child, but
heedlessly and needlessly aggravate or grieve the mind which is
stamping its impress upon an unborn soul.

It is just here that the "New Thought" can perform its greatest
miracles of good.

Even the w