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Scan 5
Blue Book v043 n03 [1926-07], 1926
40 lines. Read by computer on 22 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Dear Fred:
3Tomorrow is our eighth wedding anniversary — haven't the years flown by! How carefree we were, how hopefully we started out just eight years ago! You were going to work so hard and get ahead so fast, remember?
5You have worked hard. I've seen the tired worried lines in your face that prove it. And I've worked hard too, since the children came — worked to make the same old salary enough for the four of us, worked to make one dollar carry the burden of two.
7Understand, dear, I'm not complaining. I'm not thinking about me — I'm thinking about you. Often I've wondered, lying awake at night, why some of the men we know have gone ahead while you haven't — men who haven't any more brains and aren't half as nice as you. Remember that first disappointment when Joe Edwards was made assistant to the president? You wanted that promotion, and you were ahead of Joe. But they told you that he had the all-round training you lacked.
9Dearest, it's gone on a long time now. You come home tired at night, and there are bills to pay, and we have a scene, and you say you "simply must make more money" — and then you never seem to do anything about it. Can't something be done? I want to help you succeed while we are still young. Isn't there a way?
11Your loving wife,
12Helen
14Letters wives don't write to their unsuccessful husbands
16On your desk, or in your heart, is the picture of your real employer—the woman for whom you work. She is your partner, but she is also your judge. She knows better than anyone else whether you have lived up to your real possibilities.
18Whether you are rich or poor, you will never get a letter from your wife like the letter above. That is the wonderful thing about women. They take quietly and cheerfully the things we men would get hot under the collar about.
20She will not write you this letter, but is she thinking it? It's not just a matter of how much money you are making. That is only one measure of success. The important thing is the look in your wife's eyes, and the feeling deep down inside yourself.
22Are you going to disappoint the faith that someone has in you? You owe it to her to give one evening's serious thought to the Alexander Hamilton Institute. You know in a general way of the Institute's work; how it has trained many thousands of men like you for bigger success, how it has proved its power time and time again in their business lives. But have you ever found out what part the Institute can play in your life?
24The Institute will do just this for you: thru its Modern Business Course and Service it will give you a thoro understanding of all phases and departments of business; it will train you for increased responsibilities, prepare you for more important work, make you worth more money to your business and to yourself.
26No matter what your position or income, you ought to read the famous little book called "Forging Ahead in Business." It is yours for the asking. You ought to read it; not merely for your own sake; not even principally for your own sake—but for the sake of the woman, and the children, who are the real judge and jury upon your career.
28Alexander Hamilton Institute
29Executive Training for Business Men
31IN CANADA, address the Alexander Hamilton Institute, Ltd., C. P. R. Bldg., Toronto
32IN AUSTRALIA, the Alexander Hamilton Institute, 11c Castlereagh Street, Sydney
34ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE
35586 Astor Place New York City
36Send me at once the booklet, "Forging Ahead in Business," which I may keep without obligation.
37Signature ……………………………………………. Please write plainly
38Business Address ………………………………………
39Business Position ………………………………………
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