waiter tells by his attitude, his gesture, the expression of his face that he serves. A quick eye can single out a waiter in a group by certain unmistakable characteristics. People who believe in their own inferiority betray their secret thoughts just as some waiters do their occupation, and they look and move like waiters. If you are willing to make a doormat of yourself, do not be surprised if people wipe their feet on you and kick you aside. Many so-called good people by a foolish obliteration of their individuality make doormats of themselves. They grow lean and feeble in muscle and weak in spirit. They have no power of resistance. They have no power of attraction. It seems almost cant to affirm, "It is noble to serve, if one serves nobly," for the experienced know that he commands best who knows how to serve best. It all depends upon the spirit with which you serve. It is a sin to be too humble. If If you believe you are inferior and oppressed you unite yourself with a great tide of oppression. You become a depressor, a destroyer of energy and it is your privilege to be a stimulator, a creator of energy. Can you not see if you are a negative, self-abasing man or woman you deny the power of God in you? CHAPTER XV. WHOM AND WHAT TO AVOID. R EMEMBER, to succeed you must be wise in your associates, not only because one of the greatest riches in the world is to be rich in the right kind of friends, but because it has been proven by one who knows:-" To be much of the time with a gloomy or despondent person, or one fretful, or easily angered, or cynical or sceptical, or in any way thinking evil or injurious thought, is for you unsafe. Be you as confident, determined, and courageous as you may, you will absorb some of their despondency, irresolution, or cowardice and be affected by it. It will be a blur upon your judgment. It will be so much extra load of cowardly or irresolute thought to tax your courage and resolution. Of whatever evil quality that person's thought is, it will infect you more or less with that quality. If you associate with people who tire and bore you, you keep better, more helpful people away." Take no interest in the disturbing, disintegrating men and women that bustle around you like buzzing bumble bees, and they will soon leave you to your work. Preoccupied attention in your own affairs is the best and most effective answer to importunate frivolers who would absorb your strength, vitality, and time. Another pernicious absorber of strength is worry. Much has been said and written upon the health-destroying power of worry, yet few seem to realize that worry withers the bodily tissues and wastes vital force more than work does, no matter how hard. Worry enfeebles the nerves and brings about a generally wretched sense of weakness and discontent. It makes you negative and unattractive. For health's sake, for beauty's sake, do not worry. It is not safe. If you do not sleep, do not make your bodily and mental condition worse by worrying and talking of your insomnia. Look to your food. If |