"The Silent Partner Scrap-book" Advertisement written by VAN AMBURGH (The Silent Partner) HOW would you like to have all of the best things that have been printed in this magazine (fourth edition) for three years sent to you in a beautifully bound volume? THE SILENT PARTNER SCRAP-BOOK is a choice selection of the thoughts you would like to take with you down in the Valley of Time. I have tried, in this SILENT PARTNER SCRAPBook, to crowd between its covers every evidence possible of my most earnest and enthusiastic work. It's a pleasure-bearing, radiant, genial remembrance that will last long after my name is forgotten; for I have not tried to make this book me; I have battled to make it all you. I have tried to show that what will save this world is optimism, that we want to show the better side if we would succeed. Pessimism points to failure, but it does not suggest that these mistakes men make educate them. THE SILENT PARTNER SCRAP-BOOK proves that it is not so much methods as it is motives. Keep your motives in the right direction, and your results will take care of themselves. THE SILENT PARTNER SCRAP-BOOK is essentially different from this magazine. It is made up of the sterner stuff. To sum it all up in a few words, I believe that the deeper the convictions, the firmer the beliefs, the less it is necessary to demonstrate, by an expression of these beliefs, these convictions. For this reason, I will ask you to believe me when I say that THE SILENT PARTNER SCRAPBook is a book that you will be proud of. By mail everywhere Done de luxe, $2. Done in cloth, $1. VAN AMBURGH (The Silent Partner) 200 Fifth Avenue, New York D WHY WORRY OVER WORRY? IFFICULTIES are usually of the day. The dark cloud that hangs over you now must soon give way to another dawn, and, you know, dawn is the hour when Hope is born again. If you are inclined to worry, after you go to bed, just make up your mind that worry is the program, and when you accept worry as a fixed situation it will not bother you so much. The tortuous thoughts that hold us in their grip while we try to sleep get bigger and bigger, because we attach too much importance to their presence. The other night I went to bed expecting to worry. In my mind I laid out a complete plan for worry. And for the life of me I could not get interested in the program. While trying to think over some full-fledged bunch of troubles I actually fell asleep. My point is, not to worry over worry. There is a lot more in this than you first think. If you don't believe it, try it out. NICK AND BILL OLD NICK ROMANOFF is now in hell, and it's the hellon-earth kind. This place is ten times hotter than the first stop this side of Fiddler's Green. Now it is hoped that the good German people on the other side will manage to get a few of those ground-glass bandages and bind them about the unhealable sores on the skin of Billious Bill, the Kaiser-the ruler who has ruined his digestion with dope, killed his sense of smell by the coke-box, and hit the hop until his belfry is full of rats. PATRIOTISM depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. -"Disraeli." ᄆ A SIOUX INDIAN chief recently offered to raise thirty thousand Indian soldiers for use in this war with the Prussians. One thing about this scheme: they will all be Americans. "By the Side of the Road" Advertisement written by VAN AMBURGH (The Silent Partner) THE new book (second edition), written by the editor of THE SILENT PARTNER, is a success. Here are a few out of the hundreds of letters received: "This book, as well as the writings in THE SILENT PARTNER, ring right. Your writings stand out boldly from the fact that you never hint of any short cut to success."-Thomas Smiley, The Thomas Smiley Company, Portland, Me. "I think the book, BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, the greatest volume ever bound, and all who read it will be better for having done so." -Elmer Cox, Elwood, Ind. "I have read BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD with great interest, and desire to give it to some friends who will enjoy it too." -Edwin A. Steinwedel, Wilkinsburg, Pa. "Everybody speaks very highly of your book, BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD."-Geo J. Ferreira, Boston, Mass. "Expect to be ready to submit for your notice a lot of letters I have received from many of my good friends saying what they thought of your latest book of essays, BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD." -R. P. Shannon, New York. "I have read your books with the greatest pleasure, and several of my friends have also enjoyed them, and I can sincerely recommend them to anybody in search of a volume for inspiring and helpful reading.”—C. B. Chinn, Miami, Fla. By mail everywhere Done de luxe, $2. Done in cloth, $1. VAN AMBURGH (The Silent Partner) 200 Fifth Avenue, New York UNTIL THEN Y work is not work: it is a song that I sing from early morning until late at night. Occasionally somebody remarks that I am the hardest worker in the building. This remark is not true. I'm the longest singer. I am always glad to get out of my office at five o'clock in order that I may hurry up and get my dinner, and then go to work again in the evening. In the morning I am eager to get to the office to see what results my last letters have brought, and again to answer the big pile of mail. Until a fellow feels that he is some singer, it's all work. ᄆ NOT CRITICISM CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is a darned good thing. Destructive comments get my goat. Some churches are so slow that they close a couple of months in midsummer. Other churches are willing to let strangers in if they keep to the right and don't get into the reserved seats. Some good ministers are actually starving for the want of support. This is not criticism: it's comment. ᄆ SPEED NOT FIRST THE bookkeeper whom you let go could add up a column more quickly than can the present plodder; but of what value was the total after you got it? Speed is a good thing if it does not interfere with accuracy. ᄆ OBSERVATIONS MOST of us feel too smart to make mistakes, and this is the reason why we cannot learn from the experience of others. Try to raise vegetables that look like the pictures on the seed envelopes, and some day you will be able to estimate the distance from anticipation to realization. Just as we relied, in the past, on the farmer to make us what we are, so now must we rely on him to save the world. PARTNER (REO. IN US PAT. OFFICE) F., D. VAN AMBURGH, Editor and Manager Published Monthly at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City, by The VOLUME XII JULY, 1917 A PICTURE NUMBER 9 ́N fancy, my mind creates a picture. It is a picture of a young mother looking down at her living, breathing, sleeping babe in its little bed. I can, in my mind's eye, see this mother tuck away this little helpless bundle that is all the earth and heaven to her. To a young mother the spacious green world and the immeasurable blue canopy can all be locked up in lovecan all be compressed into so small a compass as that of her child. Knowing this, I feel that there must come to this young mother, at the moment, an impulse to rise above the responsibility of this war-devasted world—to take her baby boy to her breast, hail some ascending angel, and leave this life altogether. But this is because I am a mere man, and was not given to understand. It was God who made mothers, and He made them to understand. It was Louise Seymour Houghton who gave the world to understand in a mother's tongue: "Words are inadequate to express the strong consolation which the baby brings its mother in moments of perplexity, Entered as second-class matter August 29, 1913, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, by THE SILENT PARTNER COMPANY, Inc., 200 Fifth Ave., New York City |