The New York herald., 1922-10-22
Teacher of Method
Which Has Had
r G m a r k a b lie
Success in Eu-
rope Is Coming
to the United
States.

Special Correspondence to THE New YorK
HERALD.
Copyright, 1929. oy THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Oct. 10.
CT VERY city. town and hamlet
- in the United States may
yet have it's own Lourdes.
perhaps without the religious fervor
Of the ancient French place OF healing.
but with modern miracles as astound-
Ing as anything ever recorded by a
Christian pilgrimage
To those who have followed the re-
rnarkable successes of DR." Il. Coue
and London on Applied Psychology"
the above declaration by one of his
closest disciples has but one explana-
tion---M. Coue is going to the United
States next January and will carry to
score Of large American centers his
new Interpretation of the Scriptural
Injunction.
Man, heal thyself!,
Many conflicting reports have been
circulated as to NJ. Coue's methods, the
tremendous wealth he is supposed to
be amassing from the sufferers who
are convinced that he possesses a
singular power OF healing; the quiet,
flower -encircled sanatorium where
nervous members of the nobility Of
Europe arc said to be paying vast
sums to have NJ. Coue treat their mall
aides by mystic passes OF his hands
and unique hypnotic influence. But
these stories are false, for a personal
Investigation for THE NEW York HER
AID shows:
First NJ. >Coue, for thirty-od years
a respected druggist in the Nancy dis
trict, is independently wealthy, and
refuses to accept either payment Or
gifts for such services as he is able
to render, and even pays his own ex-
penses whenever he leaves Nancy to
expound his doctrine.
Second. There is no Coue sanato-
rium--merely a small, stucco covered
cottage adjoining his own garden,
where he and two disciples, one a
young woman graduate of the Beaux
Arts in Paris, daily receive the scores
of patients who come to listen to M.
Coue's explanation OF his belief and
to witness results attending their first
visit. In fact, once the Coue idea is
zrasped there is no need for further
sitting at the feet of the Master
teacher as his friends fondly call
him. Casual visitors from England,
the United States and every part OF
the Continent have como to Nancy
intending to stay days OF weeks II
necessary. After one interview they
have gone away as inspired and as
capable Of carrying on tho work Of
healing as Is M. Coue himself.
One Simple Lesson Enough
If Reinforced by Faith
For NJ. Coue has merely found a
way of expressing in simple terms and
with actual results convincing those
who are willing to be convinced the
world old truth that "a sound mind,
/. O., a fundamentally sound nervous
structure, means a sound body" BY
instilling this truth in just one sim
ple lesson and by an implicit trust
that nature will so direct her mys-
terious agencies in the human system
so as to bring the human organs into
harmony with properly directed
mentality (M. Coue calls it sub
conscious imagination) the way Is
opened to health.
IL do not do it myself" says NJ.
Coue. II merely show the way, but
am convinced that If the method
teach is made a basic part of the train
ing of the next two generations the
world will benefit. for a stronger,
noblcr race will be the inevitable re-
suit My sole aim Is TO devote my last
days to the helping OF my fellow men,"
men,"
The skeptic arriving in Nancy soon
has his doubts assailed. Hotel keepers,
chauffeurs. restaurant walters. the man
in the street-all have stories OF friends
who believe in Coueism. Only the
medicos shake their heads wisely and
refuse to express an opinion. but even
they admit that the fame Of M. Coue
and his pupils is reaching far and wide.
. 1t seems that Coueism has the infec-
| tious quality OF success. and one suf-
| ferer actually helped has little diffi-
| Guilty in organizing q village group for
the application OF psychologist teach
ings to the ills which beset daily life
whether Of moral or physical charac-
ter. This will be NJ Coue's aim In the
United States. and his colleagues are
convinced that progress viii be much
more rapid there than in tradition
bound Europe.
Patients Gather in Bare Room
And Read Notices on Walls
or what does a Coue conference
consist? Imagine an undecorated up
per room perhaps ten feet square
with camp stools and kitchen chairs
lining the walls Between twenty and
thirty patients can be accommodated
here, and as they come from all classes
OF life, young and old, either M. Coue
or one Of his assistants opens the con-
ference by calling attention to the Coue
motto. prominently displayed on the
wall:
Every day. from every point OF
Wow. ! am getting better and better"
Ty repeating this. as an old woman
will repeat her Litany. twenty times
on arising and twenty times after a
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