Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-05
MIRACLE MAN CURES
Poor Gardner is the Talk Of All
France.
MANY HUNDREDS COME TO HIM
Emile coue Has Made Simple tho
"Seienee of Auto Sussestion"-Per-
suades Sick People They Are Not
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Men, women and children each suf-
fering from some sort of affiction, go
every day from all parts Of the Conti-
nent and England to the front yard Of
a modest little cottage on the outskirts
Of Nancy, France. Each is told by a
little old man who is ever smoking a
cigarette:
"You are mistaken, my children;
you are not i'll. You are we'll and
strong. Go about your business"
Many Of those persons who go to
see the little Frenchman depart
stronger, and able to go about their
business. People are receiving valu-
able aid from a real Miracle Man"
Lady Beatty His Sponsor.
Lady Beatty, wife Of Sir David
Beatty, British admiral, discovered
him. That is, she went to him suffer-
ing from an affiiction which had puz-
zled specialists, and left him cured.
She attracted to him the attention of
her friends, and stood sponsor for him.
The F'renchnlan is Emile Coue, a
modest gardener, who for many years
has lived Gnnoticed except by his i'm
mediate neighbors. A year ago 1t was
only occasionally that neighbor stop
ped at the front gate to chat for mo-
ment with the little man who was
chiefly remarkable for the number OF
cigarettes he smoked each day. He
had little business of his own in the
city, just prosperous enough to support
his home and his garden and allow one
maid servant, who had been with mon
sieur for about twenty years.
Now scarcely a day passes that at
least two hundred pilgrims do not en-
ter the front gate to wait patiently un-
til monsieur finds the time to give each
word of encouragement-to say to
each, "You are foolish; you are well;
go home"
Not "Another Faith Healer"
A few years ago this Frenchman
would have been termed another faith
healer" There would have been the
refreshened memory of Schlatter, Low
din and others who were the proto-
types of the Miracle Man." and there
would have been passing wonder at
his phenomenal accomplishments. But
today Monsieur Coue is called an ex-
ponent Of the science Of auto sugges-
tion." The conservative Lyceum Club
of London and many other institu-
tions, some Of them scientific and most
exclusive, have honored him.
Two years ago Monsieur Coue be-
came interested in an advertisement
distributed from America which asked
attention to a new pamphlet by an
American author describing the posi-
bilities of auto-suggestion. Auto
suggestion" the advertisement ex-
planned, was a method Of relieving
ones self of physical affliction by the
power of self-persuasion that the az
Fiction did not really exist.
He Tried Out the Iheory.
He sent the required 80 francs to
America for a copy Of the pamphlet
He read a great many other books on
the same subject. He had been a suf-
ferer to some extent OF rheumatism
He decided to try the theory upon him
self.
You are foolish" he said to himself
you have no rheumatism. You have
been mistaken in thinking you were so
afflicted. Dispossess yourself c. the
idea. Get up and walk without pain
go about your business, as you should
Surprisingly, he declares, he rose
from his chair, and for the first time
in many years walked without those
twinges of pain which had been his
constant companions. Each morning
before he left his bed he said those
same words to himself over and over.
When he finally rose, he says, there
still was no rheumatism to bother him.
He wondered, after a time, if he had
not discovered SOllleluluS Will VI
being shared with those neighbors
whom he loved. There was, living
near. a friend who for some time had
suffered with neuritis Monsieur Coue
one morning asked this friend why he
was so bent and why there were such
lines of distress always in his face.
1T is strange you should ask, Neigh
Dor Coue," the friend replied. "Or is
it that you feel to joke this fine MORN
ing? You well know suffer most con-
tinuOusly."
But it is not so, my friend" said
the Monsieur Coue, II thought | too,
suffered most continuously until per-
suaded myself differently and see, am
now well. You are foolish, neighbor;
you think you are i'll, but you are not
Tell yourself you are well; tell your
self you have no suffering. Straighten
up. Smile; remove those lines of pain
that do not exist and go about your
business as | do mine
French peasants and small trades
people are very serious. The neighbor
saw his friend was not speaking light
". He repeated to himself the formu-
la Monsieur Coue had put into words.
UnconsciOusly, perhaps, he straighten-
ed UP and went about his business, the
LII. l. It,