The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Your own individual "bad road" may not be any one of these--but you have one somewhere. And the chances are that you have not yet looked at that road just as it is, and realized how much it would mean in your pocket instead of out of your pocket, if you decided you had wasted money there long enough. Here's a thought we have adopted--we pass it along. "It's a good thing at least once a year for every farmer to stand aside and look at his place as if it belonged to some other fellow, and pick out the things this other fellow has left undone. Sticking too close to the work sometimes narrows a man's vision and makes him overlook important things. By going past a pile of rubbish four or five times a day you finally come to think it belongs there, just as a man will sometimes plow around an old stump year after year as if it were established by Divine mandate."--New England Homestead.
CHAPTER XXXVIII "IF you want real pleasure, live for more than the present." A VARIETY of palm tree grows in South America which furnishes the natives with bread, oil, sugar, salt, fruit and vegetables. It also provides timber, leaves for the thatched roofs of houses, spathes for making cooking vessels and all kinds of baskets and mats, cords for making ropes of all sizes from a ship's cable to fishing-lines and bow-strings, needles, fish-hooks and arrowheads. That tree is a regular department store in the door-yard. And no money is needed to buy the whole stock. In Alaska certain Indian tribes have pretty much the same kind of good luck, only theirs is the cedar tree, and it is used for almost everything. They make canoes of the hollowed-out tree trunks--canoes sixty feet long which will carry a hundred men. Their cooking utensils are water-tight cedar wood boxes into which hot stones are dropped. The houses of these Indians are rectangular in shape, made of boards of split cedar attached to handsomely carved cedar posts. All their dishes are of this same wood.
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The Secret Of Wealth