would make me feel cheap. I have often felt like committing
suicide, but I would pull my nerves together and make the best of it
again. I am now a janitor at a school."

HOPELESS IN BUSINESS: There is not a young man stammerer in this whole
country who would not work night and day to be cured of stammering if
he realized the hopelessness of trying to be a success in a business
way, handicapped by stammering, unable to talk fluently, clearly and
intelligently.

A man says:

"I am 33 years old and single. I have stammered ever since I was a
child. It has made me nervous. At my age it is very embarrassing to me
to stutter. I kept getting more nervous from year to year, and finally
I have had to give up my position. I was a long-hand biller for ten
years, but I am now troubled with writer's cramp and unable to do much.
I can't get a clerk's job because of my stuttering."

And here is another--a man grown, who too late realized the futility of
trying to get an education while yet handicapped by stammering. He
said, a while back:

"I must say my stammering has spoiled my life and robbed me of a
successful career. I would give much if my parents had sent me to be
cured of stammering when a boy, instead of trying as they did to
educate me."

STAMMERER APPEARS ILLITERATE: No matter how great the stammerer's
knowledge may be, he often appears to be illiterate simply because he
is unable to express himself in words. His knowledge is locked up by
his infirmity, the same as though he had a steel band drawn over his
mouth and fastened with a padlock which he is unable to unlock for want
of a proper key. The man with the locked-up knowledge is under as great
a handicap as the man without knowledge.

A man who had a chance to be a big success in business, had he not
stammered, says:

"Stammering is the cause of all my trouble. My earlier associates have
shunned me for several years, and I have sought the worst class of
dives and the lowest kind of companions, where I was reasonably certain
that I would not come in contact with those with whom I had associated
in earlier years. My eyes are wet with tears--tears of remorse and
regret--because I see no chance in life for me now."

The stammerer who thinks that success comes to the man who
stammers--who believes that the business world is willing to put up
with anything less than fluent speech, should read this heart-broken
letter from a young man:

"I am a bookkeeper, and d