Chapter I: Front Matter

MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE

MAKING LIFE
WORTH WHILE

BY
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

_Author of “Laugh and Live”_

NEW YORK
BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I LITTLE GRAINS OF SAND 13

II AS THE TWIG IS BENT 23

III THE NEW ORDER OF LIVING 31

IV FEEDING THE INTELLECT 41

V BACKING UP THE FLAG 49

VI HALF-BAKED KNOWLEDGE 57

VII HARNESSING THE BRAIN 65

VIII EXALTING THE EGO 73

IX GENIUS PLUS INITIATIVE 81

X THE BIG FOUR 87

XI APPLYING THE RULE OF REASON 95

XII THROUGH DIFFICULTIES TO THE STARS 109

XIII IN ANSWER TO MANY FRIENDS 115

XIV THINGS THAT MONEY WON’T BUY 127

XV THE BOY ACROSS THE SEA 133

XVI SUPERIOR--SUPERIORITY--SUPER 139

XVII WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME 147

XVIII REGENERATION 153

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Modern Musketeer--(_Frontis_)
----and his brother John
Teaching his dog to smile
“And her name is Maud”
A pointed argument
“Smile when you say it”
Companions
“What ho!” says the King. “Ho, hum!” replied his guest
Tweedle-dee--Tweedle-dum
Where once one equals two
A quick getaway
A rattling good story
A one-minute reverie
A studio confab
Alone with the Grand Canyon
“In tune with the Infinite”

_Decorations by Harold A. Van Buren_

AUTHOR’S FOREWORD

In _Laugh and Live_, my sole purpose was to emphasize our first duty toward ourselves, which consists of doing our level best at everything we undertake, and making the best of every situation that arises to confront us.

All through my early life I read inspirational books and liked them best of all. They seemed to beckon me on. I could feel myself being pulled along by an unseen hand.

Let there be no mistake about _Making Life Worth While_. It has no particular plan or sequence whereby to back up its title. Nearly everything has to do with such a subject and that is what the book contains--everything in general--and nothing in particular--just such things as came to mind that seemed worth while.

As a follow up to _Laugh and Live_ here’s hoping that it will _fill the bill_.

D. F.