A MAGAZINE OF OPTIMISM, SELF-HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT NEW YORK, May, 1921 Volume V. LEADING CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE An Interview with the Greatest Woman in the World, Mme. Curie Number 5 PAGE It Doesn't Pay to Be a Bluffer. Interview with Samuel Austin Albert Sidney Gregg 37 From Bootblack to Congress. Life-story of Tom D. Schall Illustrated by Alton E. Porter Captain Paul V. Collins 42 An Interview with Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York Are You a Fish Out of Water Frank Winslow 49 . Orison Swett Marden 53 The Play of the Month, "Wake Up, Jonathan!" A MILLION DOLLAR SECRET T A Sensational Principle and Power that Guaran- A Subtle Principle of Success By ALOIS P. SWOBODA HIS subtle principle in my hands, without education, without capital, without training, without experience, and without study or waste of time and without health, vitality or will power, has given me the power to earn more than a million dollars without selling merchan dise, stocks, bonds, books, drugs, appliances or any material thing of any character. This subtle and basic principle of success requires no will power, no exercise, no strength, no energy, no study, no writing, no dieting, no concentration and no conscious deep breathing. There is nothing to practice, nothing to study, and nothing to sell. The subtle principle must not be confused with Metaphysics, Psychology, New Thought, Christian Science, arbitrary optimism, inspiration or faith. No one has yet succeeded in gaining success without it. No one has ever succeeded in failing with it. It is absolutely the master key to success, prosperity and supremacy. I was such a pauper in spirit that I blindly depended on drugs and doctors for my health, as my father before me. I was a "floater" and depended on luck for success. The result of this attitude on my part was greater weakness, sickness, failure and misery, as is always the case under similar conditions. Discoverer of the Subtle Principle of Success. When I was eighteen years of age, it looked to me as though I had absolutely no chanee to succeed. Fifteen months altogether in common public school was the extent of my education. I had no money. When my father died, he left me twenty dollars and fifty cents, and I was earning hardly enough to keep me alive. I had no friends, for I was negative and of no advantage to any one. I had no plan of life to help me solve any problem. In fact, I did not know enough to know that life is and was a real problem, even though I had an "acute problem of life" on my hands. I was blue and despondent and thoughts of eternal misery arose in my mind constantly. I was a living and walking worry machine. I was tired, nervous, restless. I could not sleep. I could not digest without distress. I had no power of application. Nothing appealed to me. Nothing appeared worth doing from the fear. that I could not do anything because of my poor equipment of mind and body. I felt that I was shut out of the world of success and I lived in a world of failure. Gradually my condition became worse. I reached a degree of misery that seemed intolerable. I reached a crisis in my realization of my failure and adverse condition. Out of this misery and failure and pauperism of spirit-out of this distress-arose within me a desperate reaction-"a final effort to live"-and through this reaction arose within me the discovery of the laws and principles of life, evolution, personality, mind, health, success and supremacy. Also out of this misery arose within me the discovery of the inevitable laws and principles of failure and sickness and inferiority. When I discovered that I had unconsciously been employing the principles of failure and sickness, I immediately began to use the principles of success and supremacy. My life underwent an almost immediate change. I overcame illness through health, weakness through power, inferior evolution by superior evolution, failure by success, and converted pauperism into supremacy. I discovered a principle which I observed that all successful personalities employ, either consciously or unconsciously I had but one disease-failure, and therefore there was but one cure-success, and I began to use this principle, and out of its use arose my ambition, my powers, my education, my health, my success and my supremacy, etc., etc. You may also use this principle of success deliberately, purposefully, consciously, and profitably. $ Just as there is a principle of darkness, there is also a principle of failure, ill-health, weakness, stagnation, inferiority, degeneration, decay and negativeness. If you use the principle of failure consciously or unconsciously, you are sure always to be a failure. Why seek success and supremacy through blindly seeking to find your path through the maze of difficulties? Why not open your "mental eyes" through the use of this Subtle Success Principle, and thus deliberately and purposefully and consciously and successfully advance in the direction of supremacy and away from failure and adversity? I discovered this subtle principle—this key to success-through misery and necessity. You need never be miserable to have the benefit of this subtle principle. You may use this success principle just as successful individuals of all time, of all countries, of all races, and of all religions have used it either consciously or unconsciously, and as I am using it consciously and purposefully. It requires no education, no preparation, no preliminary knowledge. Any one can use it. Any one can harness, employ and capitalize it, and thus put it to work for success and supremacy. Regardless of what kind of success you desire, this subtle principle is the key that opens the avenue to what you want. It was used by Moses Caesar Napoleon Roosevelt Rockefeller - Herbert Spencer - Emerson - Darwin - J. P. Morgan-Harriman-Woodrow Wilson Charles Schwab-Lloyd George-Clemenceau-Charles E. Hughes Abraham Lincoln George Washington - Marshall Field Curci patra Sarah Bernhardt-GalliNordica - Melba - CleoAlexander the Great-Edison-Newton-Wanamaker-Phil Armour-Andrew Carnegie-Frick -Elbert Hubbard-Richard Mansfield Shakespeare Richard Wagner Mendelssohn-Beetho ven-Verdi-Copernicus-Confucius Mohammed-Cicero-Demosthenes Aristotle - Plutarch -Christopher Columbus-Marcus Aurelius-Vanderbilt-Pericles Lycurgus-Benjamin Franklin and thousands and thousands of others the names of successful men and women of all times and of all countries and of all religions and of all colors make a record of the action of this Subtle Principle of Success. None of these individuals could have succeeded without it no one can succeed without it -no one can fail with it. We Owe Each Other cause the results it holds in store for each individual are great-very great. This subtle principle is so absolutely powerful and overmastering in its influence for good, profit, prosperity and success that it would be a sin if I kept it to myself and used it solely for my personal benefit. So sure am I of the truth of my statements so absolutely positive am I of the correctness of my assumption, and so absolutely certain am I that this principle in your hands will work wonders for you-that I am willing to place this Subtle Principle of Success in your hands. You will recognize the tremendous value of this principle within less than thirty minutes-in fact, almost immediately, as you become conscious of it; you will realize its practicability, its Special Notice Every reader of this announcement is strongly urged to procure for self the benefit of the Subtle Principle of Success. The Subtle Principle is a genuine and sensational power that guarantees prosperity, happiness and success. The service rendered humanity by Swoboda has not been paralleled in centuries. Swoboda is doing more real good for humanity through his discoveries than philanthropists with their millions. The Subtle Principle of Success is destined to revolutionize the human race by raising it from adversity to a new and higher plane or level of Happiness, Superiority, Prosperity, Supremacy, Pleasure, Freedom Liberty. and No reader of this announcement can afford to neglect to take advantage of the Subtle Principle of Success. Why take less than your full share of Life, Pleasure, Prosperity, Joy and Success? Why live an inferior life? Only the very Every one realizes that human beings owe a duty to each other. lowest type of human being is selfish to the degree of wishing to profit without helping some one else. This world does not contain very great numbers of the lowest and most selfish type of human beings. Almost every one, in discovering something of value, also wants his fellow man to profit through his discovery. This is precisely my attitude. I feel that I should be neglecting my most important duty towards my fellow human beings if I did not make every effort-every decent and honest effort to induce every one to also benefit to a maximum extent through the automatic use of this subtle principle. I fully realize that it is human nature to have less confidence in this Principle because I am putting it in the hands of thousands of individuals, but cannot help the negative impression I thus possibly create. must fulfil my duty to each member of humanity, just the same. I potency, its basic reality and its power and usability for your personal profit, pleasure, advancement, prosperity, success and supremacy. Thousands of individuals claim that the Subtle Principle of Success is worth a thousand dollars of any one's money. Some have written that they would not take a million dollars for it. You will wonder that I do not charge a thousand dollars for the Subtle Principle of Success for disclosing this principle-after you get it into your possession and realize its tremendous power and influence for your success and supremacy. Write your address on the form below, or write me a postal or a letter, asking me to send you the Subtle Principle of Success, without any risk of any kind whatsoever on your part. and you will receive by return mail the Subtle Principle of Success a principle of supremacy-the key to your successthe equal of which you have never seen. (Order Form) ALOIS P. 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Y YES, they did laugh at me, for I heard them way in the next room. I was mortified, humiliated. I felt that I could never face any of them again. But let me tell you how it all happened. You see, we had always been friends, Tom and I-ever since that day, long ago, when he had fought Ralph Curran for the privilege of carrying my books home from school. Of course, we scrapped every now and then, as youngsters do, but we were really inseparable companions throughout our school days. And when the time came for him to leave for college, I hid in my room and cried for two whole hours. Tom wrote to me only once while he was at college, one stiff little note in the very beginning that told me he had arrived safely and that it was not very pleasant to be a freshman. And then silence-four long years of silence when only the enthusiastic reports of his mother revealed how popular he had become. He did come home one summer, but it just happened that I was away on a visit and missed him. Soon I began to wonder whether I had really ever known this Tom at all-this popular, football hero Tom whom the village folks spoke of with such pride. And I began to look forward to the day when he would come back-a graduate! Tom Comes Back From One day I met Rose in Daly's store. "Did you see Tom?" she asked. "He just got back from college." I could not restrain the warm flush that quickly spread over my face. "Yes?" I said, trying to appear indifferent-but I hurried away so that she could not see how eager I really was. So Tom was back again-Tom who had called me his "pal" way back in school-time days. Would he remember me? Would we be friends again as we used to be? I began to wonder-and dream Then I saw Tom! I knew him right away; although he had grown tall and broad and remarkably handsome. He knew me, too, in spite of my tucked-up curls and lengthened skirts. "Well, if it isn't little Freckles!" he grinned (he had always called me Freckles). "Haven't changed a bit, except that you're quite a young lady now, aren't you?" We Begin a New Well, if I hadn't changed, Tom certainly had. His walk, his speech, his very manner had a new buoyancy, a new animation that found in me an immediate response. I felt suddenly that the schoolboy I used to know had dropped out of my life forever, and in his place was this glowing young man who seemed to be the incarnation of all that is cultured, polished and well-bred. "Having a little party at my house Sunday," he was saying, "some friends I made at college. I'd like to have you come, too. You'll come, won't you?" he added eagerly. "I-I think so," I answered. And so we walked home together, and as we passed the old school-house Tom said, "Remember the time I had a tussle with Ralph, and you let me carry your books home because I won? You said your motto was 'to the victor belong the spoils'-remember?" And we both laughed. I Prepare for Tom's Party I was elated when I found that no one in the town had been invited to Tom's party except me. Only his college chums were going to be there, and I just knew that I'd have a wonderful time. The first thought that came to me, of course, was "what shall I wear?" |