The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-10-02

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courteously ~non-committal. but willing to be
ShoWn. Tie show me- man boasts a broad free
dom IRON prejudice, but points to his success as
que not to any favorable circumstances; but en-
.iIely TO ms own proves and infallibility. He
takes pride in his much-heralded progress His
vanity turns the same "shoU me" man into the
mockery OF a bigoted SHOW me-"
Yes, was literary, and | was imaginative.
lnlnk OF a young man who had never had a love
affair worth chronicling or a disappointment big
ger than a hill of bum navy beans writing this:
had l met thee in all thy beauty
When thy hand and heart was free
When no other claimed the duty
Which thy soul would yield to me;
Had l wooed thee; had / won thee;
All, how blest had been my fate
But thy sweetness hath undone me;
have found thee-but too late.
Like the fawn that finds the fountain
With the arrow in his breast;
Or like light upon the mountain
Where the snow must ever rest;
l have met thee, but forget me,
For l feel that ills await.
On, It's madness to have met thee
To have found thee-but too late.
Sometimes | think there is a good story left
in the old man yet and mayhaps | will grind it
out if get tired of everything else-or my brain
slips a cog.
But to get back to your boarding house friends.
DO you know, Dick, l am a small bit sorry you
struck that prune dispensary. 1t seems to me
that fellow is too much nothing. Those pleasant
things you say about him are "coppered' to me. You
can't depend so much on appearance. MANY a
woman who wears an automobile veil has never
seen a gasoline can. The fact you haven't got a
job yet doesn't prove much; Yen may have struck
the wrong beat: but you've got to look out for your
associates; and utilizing the parlor piano to the
tune OF mot because your hair is curly does not
hit you to make the world sit up and take notice.
In fact, it's more likely to get your name in the
sporting edition of some yellow Journal" Be
cause want you to make a mark. don't put your
foot in the warm asphaltum. There are marks
and Marks as the Jew said.
Get started right, and if its in you you'll pro
gress no matter what you meet up with as the
old lady said. Progress depends upon what you
are not what you may encounter. One man is
stopped by a sapling lying across his path; another
picks up the sapling and converts it into a help
in crossing the brook. People are too apt to think
their progress will depend solely unon the OBJ
stacles they may run against; it is more likely to
depend on who runs against the obstacles.
Now Richard, my boy, have given YOU a double
helping of advice and become too reminiscent, also.
Your aunt is writing you some good truths. so l
guess you'll get your waistband full of advice.
! enclose you check for the clothes you want
to show the old boy sympathizes with you; but 1
don't renig on the things ! said about your friend.
The more | think of this fellow, the less | think of
him.
You dig in and get hold of a job you can tell
me- about: and keen the uDDer part of your mouth
stiff. Fortitude is your only hope in the desert Of
trial. Remember that. UNCLE VEREMS.
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