Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-17
Iona Newspapers
LEARN BY YOUR MISTAKES.

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An old Greek philosopher used to
live in big tub and do all sorts of
foolish things, just because he felt
sorry and ashamed that he had made
fool of himself when he was a young
man. In his early life he wasted lot
of strength and money having good
time. Then something brought him
to his senses. and he felt so bad about
it that he grew sour and tried to pun
ish himself by rolling in the sand and
going barefoot
Diogenes was not the only man who
has crawled into a barrel and tried u"
shut himself away from the world be-
cause he has made mistakes.
| know a man who had cut up pretty
bad when young, and had done good
many things of which he was ashamed
He went away back into the country
and built great house a long way
from the road; made high fences
around it; set out trees that cut off
the view still more from every dfrec-
ton; and there he settled down to live.
all by himself. He did not want to see
ANYBODY, and he was mad every time
anybody saw him.
i'm the midst of his trees and behind
his high fence than he was before. On
the other hand, it is more likely than
not that he was a great deal more mis-
cradle and uncomfortable than he
would have been if he had lifted up
his head and gone straight on like
man.
remember once when hoy Went
to school to a nice woman. Some time
afterward she came to visit my mother
and called for me. Like many other
boys of my age l was growing fast MY
legs stuck down thru my trousers
about foot, and somehow i felt as ii
my hands We're about the biggest part
of me- When the teacher came it al
the front door l scudded out at the
back
! | ran out into the granary and crep1
/ into a hogshead But the teacher fol-
/ lowed me out and hunted around unit
she found me. The shame of that mo-
,ment 1 never shall forget. The mar
who crawls into barrel to get away
from himself or anybody else, is pref
ty sure to be caught.
We make mistakes in our farm work
sometimes! We make mistakes in ou
investments. What is more distressing
than to work and scrmp and save, ant
put the money into something tina
shines like a rainbow, and then be toll
some day that something has hit tn
RAINBOW and knocked it into smfther
Gems! In thousand ways we miss !
where we thought we were going t.
hit it, sure.
But mourning about it does no good
The thing to do is to learn by the mis-
takes we have made, to smile and g
on bravely.
Some of us learn more slowly thai
others. 1t took one man that l know
of many years TO get so that he coul'
grow a good crop of alfalfa. He stucl
to it, keeping clear of the mistakes h
had made and gathering up knowledg
from every source he had until at las
he won the battle. Now what happ
man he is! No crawling into a. barre
for him.
I'll fight this thing out" was hi
determination, and it carried him thru
Folks think a thousand times NOR
of a man who throws himself, soul an
body, into the business of making goo
where he has been going to the bat
/, Sticking right to it is what brings tn
world to your feet Saying, harsh, bit
ter things doesn't win men to you. Dc
: ing small, mean things will not max
l folks think more of you.
2 But smiles when the hard knocl
: come, CHEEKY way in the face of re
!; pulses, and a manly determination
d win-these are the things that cha
e lenge admiration always and ever.
f where.