The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-04-09
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EVERY child is bundle of pOssibili.
( ties. every adult bundle of habits.
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SEEING that unlimited possibilities ART
before every child. how carefully ought
the habits to be formed!
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BISHOP Warren says: Slavery harms
/ the master more than the slave; the lat
ter is simply arrested in his development
the former is developed awry." The
slave of passion or appetite, or of other
bad habits is not only arrested in 3evel-
opment in the right direction. but is de-
velOped awry. Beware Of bad practices,
they form bad habils.
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FEW young men attach the importance
to the formation of habit that the subject
demands. Yea. are not all more or less
negligent in this regard? The girl who
is given to anger and petulence will be-
come "a woman of petulent, ugly habits.
and at last degenerate into a scOld. The
boy who fights and quarrels at play or at
school is fast becoming a quarrelsome
man without boys excuses.
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THE practices of youth make the hab-
its of age.
THE young man who spends his time
in dissipation is not apt to reach even
the middle age of life. Late evenings
break the physical powers; intoxicating
drinks run the machinery at high pres
sure; gambling is dishonesty at premi-
um. and leads to wOrthlessness in pocket
and in character; the hope of gain with
out an honest effort leads to deception,
cheating, defaulting. embezzlement,
stealing, Canada (:) and the penitentiary:
HABITS make character. for character
is not what you say about a man. but
what he is.
THE QUESTION OF HABIT has two sides,
let us look after the good. The girl
who restrains bad temper, who holds
and controls long tongue, will not grow
to be an angry, tattling woman. The
boy who refuses to swear. who insists
upon fairness, honesty. and gentleman
ly action i'm himself and others will be
respected by all who know him. These
good practices lead to the formation of
habit, and this determines the character.
The character is altogether liable to he
good from such course of conduct.
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In THE formation of character the hab-
it of reading good books should be
formed. In them we come in contact
with the best thought of the best minds
of the best ages in the worlds history.
We cannot afford to miss the Opportu-
nifty. With some the reading of good
books is question of taste. They have
not learned to do so, and it is difficult for
them. 1t is a question of time and cul-
tivation with them to be able to appre-
ciate good literature. 1t can be accom-
plished. With others it is a question of
means. 1t does not take many we'll Sc
lected books to constitute good library
for general use. So, buy book at
time and read and ponder that book well
before getting another. Some think they
buy even one book at a time.
But they can buy several cigars at once,
a package of smoking tobacco, and
plug of the sinking stuff, too, then have
nothing left with which to buy books.
II the money used for tobacco in the
United States could be spent for books
every family of our sixty millions of peo-
pie could have had an average of fifty
dollars piece. every year for the last
i've. So, take courage, young man.
leave off the dirty, filthy. expensive, dis
gushing habit of the use of tobacco and
use the money for books and in ten years
you will have a respectable library, if
you use good judgment in your selec-
ion.
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REMEMBER that habits make the char
,cter. and character is what we truly are.
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