The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-28
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Olive Logan.
As previously announced, Miss Logan de-
ivered lecture last Thursday night the'20th,
on Nice Young Men, and on Friday night on
Successful People. Although the fair speaker
! did not profess to know as much about young
| men On she did about ''girls," she seemed to
| be pretty well acquainted with the different
classes Of male incubi upon society. Her per-
feet diction, clear and precise, yet easT, ennn-
citation constituted so large apart of her lee
ture, that to merely give her words would give
| the reader but poor idea OF the entertain
ment. Her apt, felIeItous illustrations and an
| ecdotes would lose half their piquancy and
spice If we were TO attempt to relate them,
and we will not by so doing injure the speaker.
Nice young men seemed TO have been gene
rio term with the lecturer. She started out
by saying that some young ladies', MISS Japo-
MICA, for Instance, applied the term ''nics" as
the very highest eulogium that could be pro-
nounced upon her favorite young man. She
divided her lecture INTO the good hammered
and the ill-msnnered yourg man, the funny
young man, the young man of dress, the sol
emn young man. and the cheerful young man.
Each class was disposed of most happily. We
did not altogether like this lecture as well as
the one on "Girls," delivered here some twelve
months ago. 1t was however, full of humor,
wit and common sense, and We do not know of
any man or woman on the continent who
could have disposed of the same subject so
gE@eefGlIy ana Iellcltnual1s
Friday night the audience was much larger
than the previous night. Der lecture was
Successful People" She commenced by
wing that some people walked up some morn
ing and found themselves suddenly famous,
but these people had walked UP good many
mornings thinking about it. If you know eX-
actly what you want, and will be content with
nothing short of that object, the chances are
you will get it. defy you to point to q single
instance where success did not perch on the
banner of him who pursued only one object.
Without clear and defined aim in life, success
is an utter impossibility. If / hear bright
eyed boy say al will be q Shakespeare when l
grow up" will take stock in that boy. He
may not grow up to be Shakespeare; he
may not even be q poet, but ne will be SOME
BoDY. Bulwer somewhere speaks of man |
who had large amount of talent, VIII ch was
of no use to him because he was constantly |
breaking it up into small change. In nine |
cases out of ten, when a man of mediocre abil- |
ity has achieved great success, 1t has been be- |
cause he had made specially of something |
Shakespeare was the king OF specialists. he |
wrote no novels and no essays he wrote poe |
try, and he had no other string to his bow. |
Dickens was another specialist; he wrote nov
els, and nothing else.
No man will be successful unless he is @ |
hard worker. The young man who waits for |
chance TO help him along, isnot tie young |
man who will succeed. Take il for granted |
y
hat it is your natural lot in life to be tran pied
on and to be beat down, and then roll up your
sleeves and go out into life as though you have
everything to win and nothing to lose. The
most successful people in the world are those
who entered life empty handed. but with an
unlimited capacity for work. Patient perse-
Verance will tell.
painter paints picture for which he getA
$4,000. "Why," says Gradgrind, 'thats
preposterous price," but there is years of toll
and study spent in preparation by the artist
before be is able to paint this picture which
Gradgrind knows nothing about, and does not
take into account. Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
painted picture in five days, for which he
charged $4,000. what, $4,000 Why that's
$1,000 day." exclaimed some one. "Sir,
have spent thirty five years on that picture"
said Sir Joshua.
If the energy and hard work which / have
put into a book which has been severely criti-
cised, had been put iuto the millinery line, 1t |
would have made me rich woman, and |
would have escaped criticism, for know my |
bonnets would have been marvels of good
taste. Some critics have said that would have
been better at making bonnets than at max
ing books; laughter bat ! comfort myself
with the reflection that those critics are better
judges of bonnets than of books. Laughter |
Successful people don't believe in luck; II
is unsuccessful people who talk Of "luck."
Successful people know they achieve success
by hard work, and that "luck" is of very lit
tie consequence. The man who trusts to luck,
you see beaten at every turn.
1t is very common error that handsome
men are the most successful in winning the ia
vor of women. This is rot the case. The |
handsome man puts so much faith in his face |
that he puts forth no efforts to win the favor
of ogr sex. The most successful lady killer
ever knew had face so ugly that he looked
as though it hurt him. Laughter. 1t is |
comm on remark, 81 wonder what she could
see in that man to marry him. She saw
man, who bravely strove to win her
heard lawyer attempt to criticise Shakes
peare, and give advice as to how he should
have written etry, He took the passage:
"There's sermons in stones;
Books in running brooks.
And good in everything"
Aad he said it should have read this gay
"Theres sermons in books;
Stones in running brooks,
And good in almost every thing!
Laughter.
Speaking Of Credit MObilier Congressmeu,
the lecturer said she had observed a great
many ways of pronouncing the word Credit |
Msbilier," aud that reminded her of bit of
poetry which she had recently seen in the pa
pers, and which ran:
ooh Schuyler, oh Schuyler,
How about the Credit MobyIerf" !
The lecture was brought to a close by a |
comparison between the grand results which
attend hard work and persistent effort, and the
results on the part of geniuses who never put
forth an effort to accomplish anything.