The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-03-20
No man will ever be President
again who is not honestly bime-
taIlist.
Cnt Your coat AccordIng 70 Your cIotll.

By no means make the mistake
that the majority of the people do
by cutting your coat too large
Lay out your pattern and take time
to consider before applying the
tailor's scissors to your cloth. a
few minutes, an hour or a day, will
not suffice; for in such a short space
you might cut beyond your means.
and then your coat would be a mis-
fit or failure, and you should have
to begin anew.
We should say, take a few
months, or, perhaps year or more,
before deciding a great step. Fix
in your minds eye an ideal, neither
too great nor too small; aim well
and truly at this target, before cut
ting your pattern, and be very
careful to cut inside the margin,
and if inequalities and excrescences
should appear, arise over and above
them, instead of sinking beneath
their weight.
If we bear in mind to always
keep within our means, as common
sense should teach us, our means
will increase day by day. as docs
our prudence, until by and by we
become older and wiser, and when
we look around, and pleasingly
contemplate our every day lives,
we are surprised to find that our
coat is almost a perfect fit, and
bends not only to the form, but
also to the will.
For instance take two boys travel
ing in opposite directions; the first
one we will name Careful, who
starts out as a youth in his teens,
with nothing to pilot him on the
rocky road, save ambition and an
intense desire to succeed. Our
hero starts at the foot of the ladder
and finds it up. hill work, in fact he
often falls back step or two, and
his disappointment being keen, he
often feels discouraged; but profit.
ing by his former failures, Careful
resolves to cut new coat pattern
where there are fewer seams and
pockets, and thus armed with ex-
perience which often proves divine,
he makes a new impression and
tries again; until eventually he
finds himself mounting higher and
higher upon the rounds of the
worlds ladder, and realizes there is
something to live for, life to be-
gin, something to fight for, and
something to win
And now our ideal Mr.. Careful
is a man of cultured tastes and
habits, possessing wide knowledge
of the world, men, and the
Holy Bible. Bear with me while
present to you another picture
A beggar, a crippled, grizzled old
man, pleading for a portion of the
staff of life, knocks at your door.
Ughl you start back repulsed at
the sight of this ungainly figure;
you give him a full meal and a
change, some charity money for
that purpose, and while he demon
strates and pleads, you are again
startled; the wretch actually uses
well modulated tones, good Ian
guage, and converses in a polite
manner! Yet how ridiculous, he
is just the picture of worn out
and dissipated vagabond. His hair
is as white as snow, and he possess
es an unkempt beard; his nose is
red; he is crippled and lettering
with rheumatism; his clothes are in
tatters, and his coat is a great mis-.
fit; creature fit only for an
asylum or an aims house! Who is
he, do you ask? The other boy
whom we observed walking in the
opposite direction from Careful, and
who we will name Careless. He
started out in life with college
education, and had rich and in
dulgent parents to back him.
For time he met with a degree
of success, as he was brilliant and
well informed, but belonging to q
fast class of young men, he soon be
came careless and dissipated. Why
was this =? because his coat pattern
was lily proportional; he must
have cut it too large. And now
in spite of all that money and
friends could do, poor Careless
having forgotten the road to success;
is oftener strewn with thorns thar
roses, was forced to retreat a com
pIete failure. He took to drinking
and gambling, descending the
rounds of the ladder at a swift rate
until at last beggar, crippled il
mind and body, he wanders helpless
homeless and friendless to YOU
door. Will you not assist him
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