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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

If you ask a man how he is, he searches himself to find a pain to report. If he has nothing but happiness he hates to mention it, and says, "Oh, not half bad." We conceal happiness, as a vice. We are rather suspicious of it, and if we feel particularly well, or have exceptional good luck, we knock on wood. The fact is that happiness does not come FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 101 from the big events of life, but is made up of innumerable little things. Ordinary every-day happiness is composed of shoes that fit, stomach that digests, purse that does not flatten, a little appreciation, and a bit of this, that, and the other, too trifling to mention. The big things, such as some one giving you a million dollars, are not only rare, but they do not satisfy when you have the neuritis. We are so cantankerous by nature that we are usually able to spell happiness only by holding it before the mirror and reading backwards. Leonardo da Vinci used to write that way; that may be why he could paint "The Joyous One" with so enigmatical a smile. For if

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