So, you see, freedom from stammering pays—­pays splendidly and continuously for all the rest of your life.  It pays in satisfaction, in contentment, in happiness and ability to associate with others on a plane of speech-equality.

It pays in better salaries and bigger earning power—­in opportunities opened and chances made possible to you that are closed to the one who stammers.

The world’s successful men and women do not stammer.  The happy, contented people do not stammer.  The money-makers do not stumble and stick and stutter when they talk.

To be successful you must know how to talk.  If you stammer today, make your plans to get out from under the handicap—­remember that it will pay you and pay you well.

CHAPTER VI

THE HOME OF PERFECT SPEECH

The Bogue Institute of Indianapolis is truly the home of perfect speech.  For in no other place can be found the things that are found here.  Nowhere else is there that silent sympathy with the moods of the one who stammers.  Nowhere else is there that home-like atmosphere, that all-prevading spirit of helpfulness and cheerfulness and good-will.

No matter how discouraged the stammerer may be, no matter how tired or nervous or self-conscious—­no matter how shy or shrinking from the gaze of others—­no matter how timid or filled-with-fear the mind, the attitude begins to change within an hour after his arrival.

For this is the home of perfect speech.  Success is in the air.  Every step I take counteracts the tendency to fear and worry and strain.  I know what the stammerer needs.  I know the things that need to be done to quiet the hyper-nervous case.  I know what to do to banish that intense self-consciousness and make the student self-forgetful.  These things have been learned by experience.  And these gained-by-experience methods start the student in the right way from the very first hour.

Pupils Are Met at the Train:  We are glad to meet pupils at the Union Station, where all trains over steam roads arrive, if the student informs us beforehand (either by letter or telegram) the road over which he is coming and the time he will arrive in this city.  There is no charge for this, it being merely a part of the courtesy extended to students who are unfamiliar with the location of the Institute.  A small bow of blue ribbon should be worn as a means of identification.

When You Arrive:  If you have not written or telegraphed us to meet you at the railway station, as soon as you arrive go to the telephone booth and call the Bogue Institute and a representative of the institute will be sent for you promptly.

Your Baggage:  The transfer of baggage from the station to the Institute will be attended to by our office.  The Baggage Transfer makes regular trips to the Institute for the purpose of looking after the baggage of new students as well as those who have completed the course and are leaving for home.