Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-27

markable Photographic opportunity
which her courage had given me.-Her-
bert X. job in January Outing.
For us Europeans there certainly
exists a physical type of American wo-
man." says Marcel Provost, the great
French psychologist, in the January
number of Harpers Bazaar.
I'm vain do l say to myself that l
have with my own eyes seen American
women of small stature: others with
brown skin and hair like that of Ital-
ian women; still others endowed with
a rather generous plumpness; in vain
again do l say to myself that as the
population of the United States re-
cruits itself in all countries of the
globe it must naturally contain speci-
mems of every size, of every color OF
face and hair; in spite Of everything
the two words, American woman,
evoke before my mind a tall person,
rather slender though vigorous look
ing, with rather light, auburn hair, a
complexion agreeably, but not excess
sivclv, colored / am thinking at this
moment of real American. Mrs.
s.. who the season before last, in
1908. was indeed lion in Partisan
society A very fair blonde, tall ard
slender, with the most beautiful COM
plexion in the world and eyes of
delightful blue. She danced so per-
fectlv that, oblivious of all else, one
could have watched her for hours.
impossible to win greater popularity
than she enjoyed that year. She
misunderstanding to many French
men-the most celebrated OF our pro-
fessional Partisan beauties, Nine.
l., whom, by an amusing COIN
cidence, she resembled slightly. Well!
that is how l imagine the American
woman, taking into consideration, OF
course, all the differences which would
separate an Ordinary woman from an
| .exceptional' one like Mrs S.
Rut even with less brilliancy, grace.
and real beauty, it would be a prlvl-
legc in itself to be compared to the
fascinating Mrs. S."
In an article entitled "The Spirit OK
America" in the January American
Magazine, Henry Van Dyke quotes MT
Andrew Carnegie on the subject OF the
tariff, as follows:
81 remember what the greatest
ironmaster of Amerca--Mr. Andre"
Carnegie-said to me in 1893, when
was travelling with him in Egypt. II
was in the second term Of Cleveland
administration, when the prospect OF
tariff reduction was imminent. ]
sked him if he was not afraid that
the dutv on steel would be reduced
to a point that would rum MS DUST
ness Not a Bit he answered, anu
T have told the President so. me Tar
iF was made for the protection OF IN
FAINT industries. But the steel busl-
ness of America is not an infant. IL
| is a giant. 1t can tave care OF ltsell
since that time the United States
Steel Corporation has been 1orhleo
with a Capitalization of nearly hfteel
hundred million dollars of bonds ana
stock, and the import duty on manu-
featured iron ard steel is As per cent
ad Valorem.
one reason why 50 many fan. OF
Mod along in mediocrity, says Orlsof
Sweet Marden in Success Magazine Is
because they see so many obstacles
snd difficulties. These loom up sc
threatening that they lose heart tc
win. They see so many dlhcultles
that thew are in a discouraged condl-
ton much of the time, and this menta
attitude is fatal to achievement, tor IL
makes the mind negative. non-cre-
ative. 1t is confidence and hope that
call out the faculties and multiply
their creative, producing power.
The habit of dwelling on difficulties
and magnifying them Weakens the
character and paralyzes the initiative
in such a way as to hinder one from
ever daring to undertake great Things
The man who sees the obstacles more
clearly than anything else is not the
man to attempt or do any great thing
The man who does things is the man
who sees the end and deties the obsta-
cles.
Napoleon did not sec the Alps,
which seemed impossible to his gem
erals; that is. his confidence that he
could take his army over these noun
tains into Italy was so great that the
difficulties which seemed OVerWhelm-
ing to others had no power to discour-
ace him.
nave never known a person who
magnitioS difficulties, who talks a
great deal about obstacles. to do great
things. 1t is the man who persists in
seeing his ideal, who ignores obsta-
CleS, absolutely refuses to sec failure
who cings to his confidence in vic
tory. success, that wins out in what
ever he undertakes.
Y. M. c. A. CAMPAIGN.