A letter lies before me from a lady who had long been a sufferer from chronic diseases. By following the instructions of _Tokology_ since her marriage, and for some months previous to pregnancy, she has overcome most of her troubles. She writes: “I have good news for you. Two months from now I expect to become a mother. The past six months’ life has been a constant joy. I never have had such good health, consequently such good spirits and enjoyment in my work. I am now spending four or five hours a day in study--German and music, and at his earnest request, Latin, with my husband. “I do my own housework, and with my sewing, social demands and daily walks, am busy every moment, yet, strange to say, I never seemed to have as much leisure as now. We live simply, and, I believe, sensibly, and I try to do the things that are best physically and mentally for me as a mother, and for the little one who is now part of my life.” This lady finds absorbing interest in training classes of young girls for a noble womanhood and motherhood. So many objects of philanthropic interest now appeal to every woman that there is abundant opportunity to reach out beyond self. In every direction the needs of humanity demand of all who have hitherto been idlers, that they try the blessedness of unselfish endeavor. By responding bravely to these appeals in the days of prospective maternity, the mother will find both present and future reward. In pregnancy, as in chronic diseases, symptoms are often attributed to _imagination_. It has been proven that the _imagination_ or _belief_ can create, not only symptoms, but actual disease. Physicians recognize this fact, but are slow to acknowledge the correlative one, that this same imagination or belief is of untold therapeutic value in medical practice. Dr. Evans says: “As thought and existence are identical, a change of thought must necessarily modify our existence. To _think_ a change in our bodily condition, and not merely to think about it, will determine all the living forces toward that result, as certainly as a stream issuing from a fountain will flow in another direction when we change the direction of its channel.” For self-healing, one can learn to abstract his thoughts from suffering or from the organ affected, so as not to sense the pain. This is somewhat different from opposing the _will_ power, as is usually understood; indeed, it is rather the opposite. By an introversion of thought, a _passive_ condition is secured and maintained. Evans styles this an “_impressible conscious state_.” Understanding the conditions, this state can be attained by any one, and while in it pain and disease, _real only in thought_, can be removed. In this way one _thinks_ himself out of morbid conditions. One then, really is only to think the opposite of his seeming condition steadily, persistently and honestly, to effect a change.