Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-20
ssSuccessfuI People,

Miss Logan's second lecture az masonic
Hall, delivered last evening, was decided
success, as was demonstrated by the ap-
plause with which l. was interrupted. Her
lecture being on the subject "Successful
People," Miss Logan said:
There are people who wake up some
morning to find themselves fAmous, but
these are always people who have
walked up a good many mornings
thinking about it. If you know exactly
what you want, and viii be content with
nothing short of that object, the chances are
you will get it. defy you to point to
single instance where success did not perch
on the banner of him who pursued only
one object. Without a clear and well de-
fined aim in life, success is an utter impos-
sibility. If l hear bright eyed
bow say al will be a Shakespeare
when 1 grow up," l will
take stock in that boy. He may not grow
up to be Shakespeare; he may not even be
a poet, but he will be somebody. Bulwar
somewhere speaks Of a man who had a
large amount Of talent, which was of no
use to him because he was const antly break
ing it up into small change. In nine cases
out of ten, when man of mediocre ability
has achieved great success, it has been be-
cause he has made specially
of something. Shakespeare was the
king of specialists. He wrote no novels
aud no essays; he wrote poetry, and he had
no other string to his bow. Dickens was
another specialist; he wrote novels, and
nothing else.
No man will be successful unless he is a
hard worker. The young man who waits
for chance to help him along, is not the
young man who will succeed. Take it for
granted at the outset that the chances are
against you; that it is your natural lot in
life to be trampled on and to be beat down,
and then roll up your sleeves and
90 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 perseverance will tell.
A painter paints picture for which he
gets $4,000. "Why," says Gradgrind,
Hthat's preposterous price," but there are
wears of toll and study spent In prepare
ton by the artist before he is
able to- paint this picture which
| Gradgrind knows nothing about and
does not take into account. Sir Joshua
REYNOLDS painted a picture in five days, fol-
which he charged $1,000. "What, $1,000
Why that's 81 900 day." exclaimed some
ore. "Sir, have spent thirty-fve years on
that picture" said Sir Joshua.
# the energy and hard work which l have
put into book which has been severely
criticised, had been put into the millinery
| line, it would have made me rich woman
and | would have escaped criticism, for
know my bonnets would have beer
marvels of good taste. Some critics have
said would have been better at making
bonnets than at making books; laughter
but comfort myself with the reflection
that those critics are better judges of bon
nets than of books. Laughter.]
Successful people don't believe in luck; it
is unsuccessful people who talk of "Luck.'
Successful people know they achieve sue
cess by hard work, and That "luck" is Of
very little consequence. The man whC
trusts to luck, you see beaten at every
turn.
It's very common error that handsome
men are the most successful in winning tn
favor of women. This is not the case
The handsome man pts so much faith il
his face that he puts forth no efforts to vii
the favor ofour sex. The most successful la
dy-kiIer ever knew had face so ugly tina
it looked as though it hurt him. Laughter.
1t is a common remark, 81 wonder wha
she could see in that man TO marry him.
She saw man, who braVely stroVe to wi
her!
heard a lawyer attempt to CRITICS
Shakespeare, and give advice as to how b
should have written poetry. He took tn
passage:
| FThere's sermons in stones;
Books in running brooks,
And good in everything"
And he said it should have read thi
way:
nThere's sermons in books;
Stones in running brooks,
And good in almost everything
Laughter.)
, Speaking of Credit Mobilier Congress
men. the lecturer said she had observed
, great many ways of pronouncing the wore
|, "Credit Mobilier," and that reminded he
} of bit of poetry on that subject which 81
J had seen in the papers recently, and Whic
} ran:
ooh Schuyler, oh Schuyler;
How about the Credit Mobyler?"
The lecture was brought to close by
COMPARISON between the grand result
, which attend hard work and persistent e
| fort, and the lack of results on the part
geniuses who never put forth an effort
accomplish anything.
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