early love my work, but am afraid that I am
going to have to give it up because my speech is getting worse, and I
have noticed that the boss has mentioned it to me a couple of times
now, and it almost breaks my heart to know that my position is going to
get away from me. No one realizes how much one suffers, and I'm afraid
I'm going to break down with nervous prostration soon. When one day is
over with me, I wonder how I am going to get through with the next one."

What are the results of stammering? Should anyone ask that question, I
could point to instances in my own experience that would prove that
almost every undesirable condition of human existence may be the result
of stammering. I have seen young men who are business failures,
dejected, hopeless, drifting along, men who in early years were
intellectual giants, and who before their death were mere children in
mental power, because they allowed stammering to destroy every valuable
faculty they possessed.

I could point to children whom stammering had held back almost from the
time they began to talk--give cases of young men depressed,
embarrassed, unsuccessful, because they stammer--cite instances of all
the worth-while things in life turned from the path of a young woman
because she stammered.

Yet in the past, not one of these knew what was coming. Not one
realized where the trail was leading. No stammerer can of himself see
into the future. But he can, at least, look into the future of others,
who, like himself, are stammerers, and avoid the pitfalls into which
they have fallen and save himself the mistakes they have made.

PART III

THE CURE OF STAMMERING AND STUTTERING

CHAPTER I

CAN STAMMERING REALLY BE CURED?

It has only been a few years since the impression was abroad that
stammering was incurable. Not a particle of hope was held out to the
afflicted individual that any semblance of a cure was possible by any
method. This erroneous idea that stammering could not be cured grew up
in the mind of the average person as a result of one or all of the
following conditions:

1st--The inability of the stammerer to cure himself and his further
inability to outgrow the trouble, (although he was repeatedly told that
he would outgrow it) was the first reason that led to the foolish and
totally unfounded belief that stammering could not be cured.

2nd--The principles of speech and the un-normal condition known as
stammering have been surro