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

Don't interrupt. Wait till the other per-son runs down before you begin to speak. In general discussion be the last to speak. Then you can utter the veriest platitude and it will sound grand. The easiest way to get a reputation for be­ing deep is to keep still. "Even a fool is counted wise when he holdeth his peace," said Solomon. Break yourself of any unpleasant manner-isms, such as twisting your mouth, toying with your mustache, working with your eye-brows, twirling your thumbs, posing or squirming or drumming with your fingers. All these things obstruct and belie your personality. And the art of pleasing con­sists in perfectly expressing yourself, sim­ply, naturally, and with ease. 115 I DON'T KNOW C ERTAIN plants never grow except in certain soils, edelweiss in the Alps, bananas in the tropics, and cacti in the sands of the desert. Wherever you find the plant called Humility in the human garden you will always discover real wisdom in the brain-soil that produces it. The habit of positivity has the true flavor of ignorance,

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