Be still and get acquainted with him.

 

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Make it your first object in life to cultivate a serene and faith-full

heart and aura.

 

As a means toward this end cultivate a full appreciation of whatever

and whoever comes near you. Cultivate the spirit of praise; and trust

where you cannot see.

 

Second, take good care of your body and personal appearance. Allow

plenty of time for bathing, caring for your hair, nails, teeth, and

clothing. Wear plain clothes if need be, but DON'T wear soiled or ragged

ones. And don't ever put a pin where a hook or button ought to be. No

man can continue to love a woman who is slatternly.

 

Third, allow at least an hour every day for reading and meditating on

new thought lines, and for going into the silence. Let nothing rob you

of this hour, for of it will come wisdom, love and power to meet the

work and trials of all other hours. Remember the parable of the ten

virgins and take this hour for filling your lamp, that you be ready for

the Unexpected. Only in such hours can you lay up love, wisdom and power

which will enable you to make the best of the other hours. Let not

outward things rob you of your source of power.

 

Fourth, unless you wish to fall behind the world's procession see that

you spend some time every day in reading the best magazines and

newspapers, taking pains to skip most of the criminal news. Read

optimistically and cultivate a quick eye for all the good things. Take

the best magazines even if you have to leave feathers off your hat and

desserts off your table. If you can find an interesting literary club

it might be well to join it and do your part of the work. But see that

you do not rob the Peter of your energies to pay the Paul of club

ambitions.

 

And fifthly comes your housework. This is the juggernaut department

which grinds many a woman to skin and bones - and her husband discards

the remains! When it comes to housekeeping a woman has need of all the

love, wisdom and power she can muster in her hours of silence. Even a

five room flat or cottage is more than one woman can keep spotless and

allow time for anything else. Many things must be left undone. The

wise woman simplifies to the last degree compatible with comfort.

Useless bric-a-brac is dispensed with. "Not how much but how good," is

her rule when buying. A few good things kept in place, are better than

a clutter of flimsy things which pander only to an uncultured esthetic

taste - and make work. Order is the wise woman's first law in