------------------------ What we teach you

How to address your lodge.

How to give toasts.

How to tell dialect stories.

How to propose to a lady.

How to entertain banquets.

How to make convincing selling-talks.

How to build big vocabulary.

How to create a strong personality.

How to become a rational, powerful and original thinker.

How to be a master man!

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------------------------ Prof.  W. F. Peet

author of the Shortcut Course in Public-Speaking, is easily the foremost figure in practical literature, psychology & oratory.  A graduate of some of our leading universities, lecturer, extensive traveler, author of books, poetry, etc., a man with the unique personality of the master minds, he is ready to give you all the secrets of his culture and hammering Force, in a few easy lessons that will not interfere with other occupations. --------------------------------

“Here’s how it happened.  I ran across an ad of a course that claimed to teach people how to talk easily and on their feet, how to answer complaints, how to lay a proposition before the Boss, how to hit a bank for a loan, how to hold a big audience spellbound with wit, humor, anecdote, inspiration, etc.  It was compiled by the Master Orator, Prof.  Waldo F. Peet.  I was skeptical, too, but I wrote (just on A postcard, with name and address) to the publisher for the lessons—­sent On Trial, money back if you are not absolutely satisfied.  There were eight simple lessons in plain language anybody could understand, and I studied them just a few hours a night, then started practising on the wife.  Soon found I could talk right up to the Super and get due credit for all the good work I did.  They began to appreciate me and advance me fast, and say, old doggo, what do you think they’re paying me now? $6,500 per year!  And say, I find I can keep a big audience fascinated, speaking on any topic.  As a friend, old boy, I advise you to send for circular (no obligation) and valuable free Art Picture to:—­

     Shortcut educational pub.  Co. 
     Desk WA Sandpit, Iowa.

     Are you A 100 PERCENTER or A 10 PERCENTER?”

Babbitt was again without a canon which would enable him to speak with authority.  Nothing in motoring or real estate had indicated what a Solid Citizen and Regular Fellow ought to think about culture by mail.  He began with hesitation: