Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-10
0URoETTE'S ADVICE
what the Humorist Learned BY Attendin
High school Commencement

to attend the commencement exercises
of the high school in Dwight. pretty
little town in Livingston County. You
know about what q high school COM
mencement IL: there we're orations by
The young gentlemen and ladies upon
The Golden Mean OF Mental. Moral
and Physical Power" Prom the Morn
ing to the ETening." Success. a
Plea For he Boy OF To-day, "A Plea
For the Girl OF To-day" John A.
Logan and Night Brings Dat the
Stars you know about what it s.
Well. listened and | grew interested
and learned something that | should
have known a hundred years ago and
vac glad went 10 Dsight III. and
attended high school commencement
On ms way back home | talked il all
over with myseli--you know ! like to
talk with myself on the train. much
better then do with she casual .trtn-
ger. Because when get tired !
can shut myself up. whe-cas the con-
mBnicssiye stranger who pulls his
mouth upon the dafenseless traveller
sill sometimes hold him up from Chi
eAgo Ia u rooklyn and talk him clear in
tu the Idea 81 the Eagle offies Think
lag over what the graduates u the
high school had said in oration nnG
essay. began 70 Ssh that ! could
say the same things Ia the same way.
| snvied Louise DE ciercq and Nellie
nohersy. aud fr~sierick Smith, and
Heury Wood and Bessie Huey. and
ghsrses yicsery. aud Nellie Jefriss
their yae~s OF life They bad IA
Tnlllar sOaad. too. but ! didnt quite
rs-rssilss; where heard them bniore
Bnt il dawnSA on ne. after awhile
bngAn 70 reEaenai e. an essay on The
Ffssss sad she Ballot Boa. whlch. At
she slEae rssad il. eeiieved contained
the essence 81 ali Truth aTd Philoso-
Play. and wAs prophecy Of Whist Wa
so be sithin vsFy lev years irpin the
date Of that mastery papeF. Aud
bright. ro.y-tlntea. CLOSING prophecy
II waa said You miserable old
eynic- you ssc In these familiar con
sersais0ns which hold with the best
mao GA the train. ! sometimes take
things from myself that | wouldn't
from smAiler mAn--''you miserable
cd eynis. kno~ what IL the matter
with you; son have lost enthusiasm,
and losing that sou have lost all the
saul that "a mans work has. VOC
have iost enthusiasm, and tha, makes
you a hireling; you have lost faith ana
ihst shrivess your soai; YOU have Lost
'hurrah' and are Of no earthly account
In mass meeting; your waist has
grown faster than your mind. and
ta~t has made you lazy; you ARC too
90 TOR .onnis, too scani la the breath
for base bali. too aciive for cricket
too fond OF ease for society. and be-
cause none 81 these are right In youl
line, sou say AN Is vanity. Every
thing il vanity 10 useless man Tel
heca ta the starters scratch and begif
over Look at the world a. do thes,
youngsters aud you'll beiieve more n
your iellow men and in yourself Iot
will correct certain mean iepdencie,
toward scoffing and hurlosquing every
thing that doesn't please you. | talked
10 nys.li like deacon all the way
across Ohio and Pennsylvania Then.
when came East attended college
somme nccmenl great school stne
Gard higher ,hsa the mortgage N
iae Elffsi Tower. lowered in cnrn.i
and was pounded into condition o
uambness with Greek orations ANS
Latin essays And the English oraiisai
werw nAryels oi elsgsnt diet'on
smooth. weiI-ronpded sentences. sas
the choicest kngllSh. clothing "a.
Eo6lssi sentiments. from which ~ In
ss.f&l- solid chunks 81 wisdom tel
upou the heor aiih dull, .ickeni ii
thad II was grand. and even %.
president nodded bis approval gas
grave professors forgot their gn /,
Npd applandcd Aud the pre~id; a
saade speech and tWo oe -,
learned doctors oi the Law and divinity
iaasle sloqucut aud thought "a al
eee~~ss Bug Wise and learned ~ {
sll was | kept on Wondering whsr,
had heard II ali before savini
oniy the Greek and Latin Al
yes had IL At Dwight That
where | aeard IL Siit the thong a
oNt Of the language 81 the high schoo
on, West ana the university dow
EAst, and Il Mas about the same thus
The same generous. manly brave
hopeful Nay ~ looking Al thiags, rs
same eArHestness, lhe same enthnsi
A~fn that keeps the Learned doctors "a
yoang and brave as ihe boys whot
they teach. year after year; the saIn
Sublime confidence Ia his own abilit
10 do little better than any othe
msn in the vineyard. shaping m
ihought and nerving mind and bod
81 the high school hoy and The eoileg
graduate no wonder envied thfm.
felt grateful 10 them, made up
shat ior the SAKE oi hs~vstY may b
permitted t. call my mind. that
soaid look a, the world With thei
eyes that ! would believe In thea
that | ~onid grumble less aud sin
more: that would close oat my sioc
~ censure and pot in a fall line 4
praise that ! would sigh less fr
qaensly aad hurrah more loudly All
upon .lighier pruvoeation. an goiu
Ia gsery commence. ansnt ai Hax..f,art
my boy. between nov aud the yea
when you will cross the threshots
aud you leak Ia IL thai y hen YOU grss
nate your old father wont knof
nearly as much as yoa do Rober, e.