Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-27
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| travagance is a vice. never forget.
! You never see man of forty who regretted
| their early extravagance. Lavish expenditure
| never wins respect 1t may win temporary
| Ilatterers, who despise the fool they fiatter.
ray every debt you owe, but
| Neither "a borrower a lender he,
| For loan Oft loses both itself and friend"
Let not Your vanity ever tempt you to spend
laugh at the foolish Americans who are so
| lavish. Remember that your hope. your pride,
| your life, is To be in America. y country whose
future Is unimagined and whose greatness and
power Will surpasS any empire in the world.
ou are 70 De a part OF IT. and II you do not one
dtS so a ambassador from the greatest re-
I pubic that has ever been to the most powerful
and advanced kingdom in Europe, you will fail
OF your possibilities and OF my hopes.
Do not listen 10 the twaddle about the de-
| cadence OF England: she is not in decay but in
the fun Vi@Or or robust manhood. Great nations
! do nos commence their fall until their morals
are corrupted. As yet England has sturdy
/ moral sense. courage, and capacity for self
ana truth and justice. She has many faults
| and weaknesses. She is not moving forward
! with the colossal power of this younger. holder,
more rash and fearless America her civliZa-
. ton Is in advance of ours, but She has inherited
/ many preJudices coming down from old CEN
turicS which retard her progress and from
/ which we are free
would deprive you of no innocent pleasures;
/ that is not pleasure which INJURIES the health
jadeS the mind and makes yon feel meanly and
weak and unequal to the labor which is to fit
You for manly life.
Study well whatever the college course re-
/ qInfeS, and never say that this or that will be
OF no use All Is of Use which disciplines and
/ boxer, you strike the sand-bag; you would not
len the trainer that you do not expect to fight
sand-basS in life, and hence you will not strike
/ them now. You lift weights to strengthen
| your hands: you do dry work to strengthen the
/ mead; and remember that you must do it; no
! one else can do 1t for you: as well might you
| get some one else to strike the sand-bag or
! lift the weight which was to strengthen
your muscle.
! Duties well done eyery- dow aud difficulties
sufinounted as they arise, grow easier continu-
ally and finally become lasting enioynents.
! Never play cards for money. 1T is no pleasure
/ 10 WIN ieli"W-stuGent money, ana it is pain
! to lose your own. The habit is always bad, and
/ oncntlmeS fatal: never acquire it.
/ Dress ike Il gentleman: never be peculiar or
ilttSilN, Out dress as becomes YOU, not becomes
/ some one else. Never talk ABOUT Your expenses
/ or YOUR money. and never be ashamed 10 live
with economy: on the contrary. be proud OF it,
our business now is To acquire Knowledge
ana YOU need not be anxious 10 display yours.
especially 10 Older men; but always try to learn
! OF them.
/ Never say to another what it would be I'M
/ pleasant TO have him say to YOU
Remember that good manners are of great
importance Manners should be frank and
easy, with dignity.
AVOID iaWning, toadyfng ways as YOU would
lhe loul mend Never iawn to a prince or swag-
ger 10 peasant. Be courteous and manly
everywhere and 10 every body.
Let your manner be quiet: nothing is more
underlined than Hurried address, It'll a face
| wI!nkled all over with grianing delight.
! welcome without idiotic cunGortions, and when
these appear, whether i'll the son of a duke or
diay!nan. they are intensely vulgar
{ on can not have good manners in the draw
| ing-ronm II your habitual manner is bad; the
/ habit will betray you; let the habit be always
Far better that you look frigid even, than
that you degrade Your countenance with silly
BE a gentleman. feel like a gentleman. and
you will look and act like one.
sometimes You will be neglected, and your
vanity may feel wounded. Never let this annoy
you; be absolutely sure that in due time all
VIII come rlsht. and that YOU will have all the
/ consideration which YOU merit. No one can do
You any permanent injury but yourself The
world * so constituted that it is not in mems
pnWcrto withhold respect from lofty character
real ability and good conduct.
You may bc invited to ball or a dinner be-
cause you dance or tell good story. but no one
/ since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been
made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor
tor such reasons.
The years OF youth are short, and the pleas
ureS OF youth perish in manly life. Reputation
power. and the consideration which comes OF
abIlty- attainmentS, and good character are
what the man from thirty to seventy covets.
Nothih3 Dut the Wellspent years OF early life
can secure these.
1 would keep you fromho enioyments suited
10 your age which are not injurious to your real
happiness and your future success
You have health and good constitution and
YOU have no inherited tendencies to any vice
1T IS easy Tor YOU to do right and it will be I'M
pardonable if You go astray.
rejoice TO find that profanity is considered
During the two years that l resided in England
1 never heard Il profane word from Il gen tleman
among the young men, slang seemed to be
abundant hope that it does not prevail at
the university.
Remember that when you are twenty-five
YOU will desire what others value at that ace
and so at every future stage of life l mean
what the higher order of men value
I've e.tch year IN the way which will best fit
you Tor the next year, and thus YOU will lead a
happy life; life which will secure to YOU the
happier life to come.
NAvIS 4rt will
not th<tt yours are advantages suited toAmerca,
not suited To England. No one has superior
l sII,sr or hlgher social position than you in
primo@cniture and title gives precedence and
/ outward respect, in large degree. irrespective
OF merit. 1t Is not so with Us. and | am very
glad. Quarrel not at all with Their system.
they seem To like it. But never covet it and
never commit the silly snobbery of pretending
tt. prefer II To the system OF your own country
Inc social life OF England is very charming
and their plan of leaving all land to the eldest
son has built up vast estateS. adorned and DIG
nlfed with castles and halls filed vii h art and
luxury and refined taste; but all this is at the
| SaGrlhce OF many human rights which we
Nothing like this is possible in America: and
1t will not always last in England.
The subStratum of the English character is
solid, honest, truthful, and, in the main, lust
Our best traits heritage from that race.
but feel quite sure that with all our fanltS
we are rapidly improving upon our English
slreS. and that we shall become quite the su-
perOr people as whole.
I Al
American, and that your future is here
There Is not, in all historic time a erander
record than that OF the United States Before
the nation was hundred years old great civil
war broke out, and the North alone had at one
tl1ne more than a million of armed men in the
Iield, ana the South had vast armies also
Alter four years of terrible war, more than
twelve hundred thousand soldiers were dis
banded almost in Il day. They returned to the
p3dteIuI industries of civil lie without "A mr.
muir, without disorder, and without crime
Ihder our system of government they had
learned To govern themselves. Even in the
madness OF the conflict. when the President
was assasSinated. the government moved on
without even ripple of disturbance. More
IMAM three thousand million of debt was
created. and the paper money was in such dis
credit that one gold dollar would buy two dol
lars and seventy cents of the paper But so
soon as the war ended we went braveIy
to work, paid off one-third OF our vast
GcDt, ana now paper dollar will bay a gold
dollar IN any part of the country and orr ma
tlonal credit Is OF the highest grade We have
nnlsned more than seveuty-five thousand miles
OF iiWay, revived our industries increased in
population. and our prosperity is such that our
ton on the earth.
have Il letter from the Dean to-day in which
he says, Your sons Improvement has really
aStonished me-" Continue to astonish the Dean
and delight me-
This shows that you have the ability and that
mere VIII DC no excuse ard no pardon If you
are not faithful in the future.
FROM time to time shall hear from the Dean
ana also from your tutor, and they will tell me
ali lana only the truth. They will reveal vour
shortcomings, II you have them, as well as your
merits on accept too many invitations from
your Ieiiow,students. This will weaken your
energies and prevent your success: besides YOU
Will become bore. which a