The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-05-29
BENsBURG. PA. FRIDAY. MAY %. iss5


Avoid fawning, toadying ways as you
would the foul fiend. Never fawn to q
prince or .swagger TO peasant. BE
courteous and manly everywhere and to
everybody
Let Your manners be quiet; nothing is
more underbred than a hurried address.
with face wrinkled all over with grin
ming delight,
drawing room, if your habitual manner is
bad the habit will betray you let the
habit be always good. as-.. r. n
Be a gentleman feel like a gentleman :;
and you will look 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 win come right and that yon
will have all the consideration which you
merit. No one can do you any permanent
injury but yourself. The world is so con-
stituted that it is not in mans power to
withhold respect from lofty character rea-
ability and good conduct.
You may be invited to u ball or dinner
because you dance and tell good story
but no one since the time of Qneen Eliza
beth has been made a cabinet minister or q
lord chancellor for such reasons.
The years OF youth are. short, and the
pleasures Of youth perish in manly life.
Reputation, power, and the consideration
which comes of ability, attainments and
good character are what the man from
thirty to seventy coyets. Nothing but
the well spent years of early life can Sc
cure these.
would keep you from no enJoyments
suited to your age which are not Injurious
TO your real happiness anu your future
success.
You have health and good constita ation,
and you have no inherited tendencies to
any vice II is easy for you to do right
and Il viii, be objectionable If you go
astray.
Remember that when you are twenty
five you will desire what others value at
that age and SO at every future stage Of
life. l mean what the higher order Of nsR
value
Live each year In the way which will
best fit you for the next year and thus
you will lead a happy life: life which
will secure to you the happy life 70
Feel always manly pride that you are
an American. and that your future Is
here.
! have letter from the Dean to-day. IN
which he says Your sons improvement
has really astonished me" Continue 70
astonish the Dean and TO delight me 1.'
This shows that you have the acility,
and that there will be no excuse and no
pardon IL you are not faithful in the fu-
From time to time shall hear from the
Dean, and also from your tutor, and they
will tell me all and only the truth They
viii reveal your shortcomings, il you have
them, as well as Your merits. You accept
too many Invitations from your fellow
students This viii weaken your. ener-
gies and prevent your success, beside. you
Will become q bore, which avoid as you
would the = plague. - short visits do not
bore. eva. - N I'D. .sr ....fz...... .. ..
When we last met you did not carry
yourself erect. You seemed to think that
you we're Hwkwardly tall and you tried
to look shorter; this IS a mistake. you are
nineteen years old and scarce more than
six feet hugh: that Is not too tali-but II
you grow to any height, carry yourself
erect.
ia When you have done the duties Of the
day, and dOne them well take your pleas
ures, which will be all the more keen
and when you have well finished the la
oors of the term. you will enjoy the vaca-
ton thousand times the more by reason
of your successful toll .
do not need, in this letter, TO repeat the
warnings against those petty vices temp
tations and follies OF which Ihave 50 often
spoken. ..t.
God bless and keep and guide my boy.
r Your ever devoted FATHER