The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-29
HELPS TO SUCCESS.

Advice is one of the cheapest COM
any subject for the asking. Sometimes it
is rendered without the asking The
normal individual Graves success, and
will listen to advice to that end. Ed
ward T. Box, so it is reported, is to lee
ture on 'How to Succeed" or a similar
text. Mr.. Bok's lecture will be on par
with the books published on How to
Grow Rich" "How to Become Beautiful"
How to Be Happy and 'The Royal
Road to Success" etc. Edward is a past
master in such lines; SO is Mrs. Mar
garet Bottom, whose name appears in the
same highly intellectual journal.
Success is largely a matter of tempera-
ment and training What one would re,
gard as success may appear rank failure
to another. To make money is regarded
as the acme of success by one; to live
an honest, honorable life is the ambi-
ton of another. The worst humbug in
the world who bends his energies to the
accumulation of the dollar may succeed
beyond the dreams of avarice. The pork
packer who secures an entrance to the
400 of the metropolis deems himself sue
cessful But is he? Success, like right
and wrong, is relative. Are there, them
any general rules which if followed make
for success?
From the London Express, a paper
not given over to Righteousness, we clip
the following:
"a young man who is just starting out
in life, and wants to start correctly
some facts about himself, he propounds
the question: DO you think my chances
of success will be improved if I wear a
single eyeglass? 1 do not wish to do
so, but many of my friends advise me
to, as a matter of policy"
In reply to this naive inquiry for
guidance, the Express gives the young
man heart to heart talk on what won't
help him to success. Among other per-
tinent things, it says:
''The beginner who buys a shilling crys-
tai and learns to hold it in place is apt
to handicap himself.
Unfortunately there is a single eye
glass mind. To wear one is occasionally
symptom of an all-sufficient vanity, Of
a superciliousness that does not help in
the world, but handicaps.
The single eyeglass vintage of man
will do very well if he is bent upon
career Of garden parties and afternoon
teas: Nothing helps a youth who feels
it his duty to point out the mistakes of
Napoleon and the blunders of Euclid to
a luncheon party of small school girls
a 9 a lTJ1nx yIafIo- Of
now to wrinkle his face around a single
eyeglass. But in the great world of
commerce and science it doesn't count.
Success nowadays is a question not Of
the eyeglasS, but of the brain behind it
Mannerisms are a stumbling block in
the city. A naughty drawl may impress
a tiny ONCE boy, but it won't sell mer-
cEandiSe."
Helps to success may be administered
to the young in homeopathic doses con-
sisting of don'ts The single eyegIass
youth is a fit representative of class,
all too numerous-the class which thinks
to impose on the world by false show.
The youth with the eyegIass attracts
attention, but with the attention he Sc
cures the contempt of all whose good
opinion is worth having. If Edward T.
Box desires to give the youth of this
country advice which if followed win
gain them the respect of men. let him
tell them to be natural-never to dress
above their work, talk United States.
and do what they find to do ana do IL
well, if it be nothing but street syeep-
ing. Let him tell them not to assume
to know more than they do know. A
confession of ignorance is better than
an assumption of knowledge Neatness
is to be desired in all things even in
dress, but style is dangerous thing
for youth to fool with
: The youth with the single eyeglass
may flourish for time, but any man
passed the middle age will live long
enough to see his finish No matter
what success means the man who is NOT
true to himself, to the extent of com
piete reliance on his own pouarg-,,,,