The Reader's digest reader / selected by Theodore Roosevelt and the staff of the Reader's digest.

How to keep young mentally / Mary B. Mullett --
Don't growl, kick / James H. Collins --
To bore or not to bore / Ralph W. Bergengren --
The art of opening a conversation / Stephen Leacock --
Beyond man / Lafcadio Hearn --
On the length of Cleopatra's nose / Brander Matthews --
The wisdom of laziness / Fred C. Kelly --
The witch panic in Salem / Hildegard Hawthorne --
Does it pay to advertise / Winifred Kirkland --
The Chappell art sale / George S. Chappell --That tired feeling / Frank B. Gilbreth --
The lip-lazy American / Edward W. Bok --
The Christmas guest / Kenneth Irving Brown --
The man in the glass cage / David Grayson --
Why "O. Henry"? / Edward Larocque Tinker --
The May flies' dance of death / William Atherton Du Puy --
Like summer's cloud / Charles S. Brooks --
Paper making 2000 years old / Royal S. Kellogg --
Panic! / James H. Collins --
You / Edward W. Bok --
Do people get on your nerves? / William S. Sadler --
The plight of the genteel / Katharine Fullerton Gerould --
The intolerable city / Lewis Mumford --
Seeing ourselves in our dogs / Fred C. Kelly --
Are you a crape-hanger? / Mary B. Mullett, in collaboration with F.E. Williams --
The discovery of anesthesia / Hugh H. Young --
The habit of going to the Devil / Archer Butler Hulbert --
The havoc wrought by Professor Bell / Deems Taylor --
My gardens / Edward W. Bok --
A sabbatical year for marriage / Samuel Hopkins Adams --
When we had 87 varieties of time / George W. Gray --
The dreams that come true / Helen Keller --
The middle-class smell / Philip Curtiss --
The world of the dog / C.J. Warden --
How I made a crime wave / Lincoln Steffens --
We all need praise / Princess Alexandra Kropotkin --
George Washington, business man / Albert Bushnell Hart --
Atrocity charges in the Civil War / Laura A. White --
Teaching your child religion / Harry Emerson Fosdick --
The amazing persecution of Dr. Dix / Herbert Asbury --The tree as an invention / Charles D. Stewart --
Must our children start where we did? / Emily Newell Blair --What it means to marry a Catholic / by one who did --
Confessions of a sun worshipper / Stuart Chase. The bequests of eccentrics / Joseph Percival Pollard --
Answer yes or no / John Holley Clark, Jr. --
Where logic reigns supreme / Janet Ranken Aiken --
Taming of the shrews / Fairfax Downey --
The size of living things / Julian S. Huxley --
Does it ever rain fishes? / E.W. Gudger --
The magic wand eternal / Romain Rolland --
How the news grew / J.B.S. Hardman --
Audubon : failure and success / Amy MacMaster --
The last march / R.F. Scott --
Can one influence an unborn child / Thomas D. Wood and Zilpha Carruthers --
Battling a sea monster / Victor Hugo --
In defense of shyness / Harold Nicolson --
Night by a jungle lagoon / Tom Gill --
Amends to the camel / Rodney Gilbert --
What war does to the minds of children / S. Ralph Harlow --
Romance in a realist world / Avis Carlson --
The man behind "The Arabian nights" / George Creel --
Treasure hunting / Samuel Scoville, Jr. --
Calling on a cloud / Don Rose --
On being deaf / Warren M. Smaltz --
Pitchmen / Earl Chapin May --
For ignoble pacifism / Gerald W. Johnson --
Sermon in skulls / J.C. Furnas --
Spring lamb / Virginia Black --
Three days to see / Helen Keller --
Minnesota's mysterious Norsemen / Emily Davis --
My mixed marriage / George E. Sokolsky --
The world's most famous oration / Christopher Morley --
Our pernicious virtues / I.A.R. Wylie --
The Leper Mass / Charles J. Dutton --
The evolution of eyes / Thomas Hall Shastid --
All sweet things / M. Beatrice Blankenship --
The world's most effective pump / G.A. Skinner --
The miracles of Lourdes / Fortune editors --
The sea serpant's own story / Anonymous --
The plumbers of Paris / Joseph Schrank --
The tough days of baseball / John J. McGraw --
Mary White / William Allen White --
A very private Utopia / Stuart Chase --
Would you join a mob of lynchers? / Prescott Lecky --
Sleep / Fortune editors --
What every woman almost knows / Kathleen Norris --The world's worst railroad wrecks / H.T. Wilkins and J.F. Byrne --
Why do we buy? / Donald A. Laird --
Behind the tambourine / Marquis James --
The three greatest men in history / H.G. Wells --
The virtues of an old people / Lin Yutang. Victorians had a word for it / Helen Van Pelt Wilson --
And sudden death --
J.C. Furnas --
Chief Justice / Henry F. Pringle --
Am I losing my mind? / Louis E. Bisch --
You won't be snubbed / Henry Morton Robinson --
Trial by newspaper / Paul Hutchinson --
One-man power / Channing Pollock --
To live happily even after / Oliver M. Butterfield --
Watch your wires / Paul W. Kearney --
Farewell, my lovely! / Lee Stout White --
The woman who never gives up / Jerome Beatty --
Wreck and rescue / Garland Rotch --
Happiness as deep as tears / Gail Carey --
Heaven doesn't matter / Channing Pollock --
A will of your own / Jerome Beatty --
Combatting early syphilis / John H. Stokes --
Syphilis can be stamped out / Thomas Parran --
Building a personality / Harry Emerson Fosdick --
Labrador crusader / Donald Culross Peattie --
The case for chastity / Margaret Culkin Banning --
A professor quits the Communist Party / Stuart Browne --
The man who did something about it / William Seabrook --
What every citizen should know / Thomas E. Dewey --
A way to chastity / Donald Culross Peattie --
Take your profits from defeat / William Moulton Marston --
One way out of our tax troubles / Fortune editors --
Why do they let us run it? / Frank R. Kent --
Crippled / Ruth Sawyer --
Death has no terrors / Lester Howard Perry --
The Lord helps those / Bertram B. Fowler --
Try giving yourself away / Anonymous --Twelve good men, untrue! / Upton Close --
So you're going to stop smoking? / Henry C. Link --
Nerves and indigestion / Walter C. Alvarez --
Einstein, a study in simplicity / Edwin Muller --
We are not poor / Ethel Ambler Hunter --
The personal touch / Frank J. Taylor --
Address unknown / Kressmann Taylor --
Our overprivileged children / Rose G. Anderson --Tim's a capitalist now / William F. McDermott --
Try everything once / William Moulton Marston --
Bad boys and good neighbors / Karl Detzer --
The ingenious Eskimo / Edward Weyer --
Married love / Alexis Carrel, M.D. --
The American destiny / Walter Lippmann --
The doctor of Lennox / A.J. Cronin --
Birth control : the case of the state / Don Wharton --
The faith that is America / Wendell L. Willkie.