Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-14

oluaion rs that YOU ought for your own
sake TO attend to and follow my advice.
If by tho application which 1 rec
ommend TO you you acquire great
knowledge, you alone are the gamer!
/ pay for 10. II you should deserve
either a good or q bad character mine
Will be exnctly what II In now, and VIII
neither be the better IN the first case
nor the worse In the latter. You alone
will be the Ralner or the loser. What-
ever your pleasure may be, | neither
can nor shall envy you them, as old
people are sometimes suspected ~
young people to do; and shall only
lament II they should prove such as are
unbecpming u man of honor, or below
q man OF sense. But you win be the
real sufferer II they are such, AS there
fore II Is plain that have no other mo-
tive than that OF affection IN WhnteVer
! say to you, you ought to Look upon me
as your best, and for some years to
come your only, friend. True friendship
requires certain proportions of age ana
manners, and can never subslst where
they are extremely different, except In
the relations Of parent and child. where
affection on one side and regard on
the other make up the difference. The
friendship which you may contract with
people of your own age may be Sin
cere, may be warm, but must be for
some time reciprocaly Improbable, as
there can be no experiences on either
side The only sure guide is he
who has often gone the road which you
wish to go. Let me be that guide, who
have been all roads, and who can con-
sequently point out to you tho best.
would much rather have the
assent of your reason to my advice than
the submission of your will to my au-
thorlty. London. Nov. "a. 1747.-Frcm
One of Lord Chesteriields Letters.
What Do WeAs a people, do we suf-
Suffer From fer from IA national
As People? blight and IL so what
Is the nature OF it? A
writer in the current Harper's Weekly
believes that we do. and that this
national blight is none other than
that cheap smartness" which Mr..
1<ipling warned the students of Ma
gill University against In recent
much discussed address, ITO follow
the smart young writer's account of
something he has seen or heard"
says the Weekly writer. lis as painful
as to see a man choke 10 death OF
a crumb In his windplpe. we see the
blood rush To his face, his veins swell
to bursting, he gasps for breath, he
convulsively clutches The air-but the
picture il too narrowing. We read.
and our hearts sink lower and lower
we are overcome by that unaccount-
able, that ineffable sadness which
seems to involve the whole creation,
which We cannot analyze into Moth
inPness, and cannot, by any means,
away with. 1t Is solldly before us.
increasing day by day, this mass OF
ridiculous effort and nauseating BAN
ality. It's facility is miraculous, II al
most compels our admiration by its
conquering mir, this vulgar and smart
journalism with its hideous vernacu-
lar. All that II touches Is translated
from the original divine essence into
cheap point of view.-7Harper' 8
Weekly.
American Girl Let us be serious for a
Self-Reliant moment. A very great
Because Free. man once pronounced
these singular yet
deeply significant words: "A pttle
child shall lead them" Can these
words mean anything else than that
the spirit of childhood-the hope, the
faith, the utter unconsclousness of real
wrongs not only the finest thing in
the world. but also the most powerful
creative force. The girl of the old
world Is borne down by the dead
weight of age-old customs. traditions
and prejudices. She, I'm so far as she Is
because she has never known how to
be young. She Is old with the age Of
her race. But it somehow seems to
me that the wonderful innocence of the
American girl, the splendid oblivion
TO the evils OF a scanned and checkered
old world, sum up better and more
completely than anything else the hope
fulness and the youth of this young ma
ton of ours. Since we must rely on her
to found our homes. and through them
our institutions, can we be sorry that
this childlike innocence and optimism
is so strong In her MY British friend
has Travelled bit. He has bought EN-
broideres in Japan, silks in Burmah,
shawls In Cashmere, feathers at Alden
lace at Malta, brass at Moscow. Blest
with an eye at once observant and dis
eliminating, he has seen the quantity
charming Japanese girl. the hot-blood-
ed, quick tempered Spanish girl, the
honest German girl. But let me get
him up to the Grand Central train shed
on Saturday morning and 1 will rest
content while the American girl speaks
for herself, knowing, as ! do. that
there is nothing quite like her any
where else in this crstom-ridden old
world. | am willing to admit that she
can't talk politics and philosophy with
the English girl. that she has no such
inprained reverence for the proper use
of her language as the French girl: but,
none the less, once / get my English
mans eyes fixed on her radiant per-
son, once I am assured that he has
perceived her buoyant health, her UNI
tanned spirit, and her wholesome self
reliance, ] shall have no more anx-
iety for his impressions of America,