Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-12
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dainty commencement cards and pro-
gram lie before me. For novelty and
beauty they ought to crafty the most


gram lie before me. For novelty and
beauty they ought to crafty the most
artistic sense. Il
Your letter interested but left me pug
zled as to where you placed the empha-
sis Of your graduation-on the trivial
incidents of the occasion, the outward
accessories OF dress and ceremony. on
your diploma, or on the work for which
1t stands. Perhaps, dear, all these ex-
ternal features along with the diploma,
the pIaudits Of the public, the exultation
and JOY in your hearl, serve the purpose
OF encouragement and stimulation to
further effort, but God forbid they
should take the place or divert your
thought for single moment from the
real thing they celebrate-the mental
discipline, the habit of application
which, thru hard work, is the result of
your school course.
Your Grafton title. ELBOW ROOM ~
sounds well, and you doubtless con-
WINGED your friends that you require
sufficient standing room In this old
world to do your special work, and that
you propose to fight for it if need be.
OF course it was proud and happy
occasion. Do not recall similar one
In the years gone by as the proudest
moment of my life? And how happy this
old world seemed toSrle then-on that
rarest of rare June da ]! and how glo-
rious the sunlight. HoV rally the birds
sang from the leafy breaches of the
trees beside the old stone church! How
easily l rolled the world across my
shoulders and danced lightly away a
happy smile on my lips, jubilant song
IN my heart!-little dreaming of the
burden I had taken upon myself-low
its weight would increase with the.
growing years.
All! we'll. my dear, cherish your
ideals, your hopes, your enthusiasms!
You need them all in spite of the knocks
and disappointment in. store for you
would not shatter the Illusions Of
your happy youth, but lose not sight Of
this fact,-that tho you have completed
Your school course you have not COM
pleted your education-nay have not
even begun it, and will not until you
have once struck out for yourself and
try to go 1t alone. Not even tho you
have added to it the advanced gradu-
ate and postgraduate courses. Ali
these are but preparation mere pre-
Jude as 1t were-to the greater educa-
ton You will receive in the school of
life's experience
Not until you have tackled this old
world for something on which you have
set5your heart will your real education.
commence. Then look out. For then
begins the tug o. war. When the bill
lows of disappointment sweep over You,
and you feel yourself sinking, when you
kick and weep and shout and struggle
Itmetapherically of course) while this
world looks colby on, withholding its
favor until you have first earned it:
or think you are then will you begin to
understand life's methods and learn the
real meaning of the word education.
And, my dear, you Will continue the.
struggle until-ah. that depends upon.
the stuff you are made of-until you are
actually drowned unless you are brave
and strong, grit your teeth and hold on
until you are able to swim ashore, and
with most Of us that knowledge comes
about the time we are ready to die.
Browning, whom I hope you Will
learn to read and understand, says
this world is JUST stuff to try mems
souls on
] do not say, my dear, thatif You are
brave and persistent and Industrious
that YOU will not win the thing which
YOU desire, but / do say-and ] want
1.-The thought embedded in your heart
THAT the good you want is not to be had
for the mere asking: that there is no
royal road to any good under heaven;
THAT for everything this old world gives
l,us-if it is worth having-we must pay
Ito the utterrnost farthing-aye, with
our life's best blood.
Ask papa how it is-whether he ever
got any returns from life for which he
didn't pay fair equivalent in toll and
struggle.
What is it you want? a business A
Ifortune9 A college education? A pro-
lfession? The ability to write? For sue
lcess on any of these lines you must pay
for. in concentration and hard work of
either hands or brain. or both You
may receive help for a time. but YOU
! can not make that take the place of
your own efforts. and it will avail you
nothing in the end. Take your school
lexperience:4 did you ever receive any
permanent benefit from having some
chum translate your Latin, or work
/ Your difficult examples for YOU? If You
Wrote your commencement Grafton
yourself you paid the price in work and
You deserve all the glory but If You
stole it-ah we'll, my child, YOU may
lcheat your teacher and your friends.
\ but You can not deceive yourself and
| You know it could never help You to be-
1 come thinker or writer, not tho you
lived to the age of Methuselah Things
/ won by proxy are not worth much in
this old world ard such a course per-
sisted in would be the most stupendous
folly-destructlve alike of all high en-
deavor and final success.
/ You say YOU wish to become news
paper writer, and YOU want my opin-
ion on this and other matters: whether
I You ought to take a college course: to
/ advise you with reference to reading
course. and give list of standard fic-
ition. All these questions deserve con-
federation and reply, and as space for
4 bids handling them ALI one letter i
shall reserve them for future commu-
nications.
Hoping great things for YOU in the
years to come, ! remain, yours Loyalty.
AUNT JANE.
A Wealth of Beauty.
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