The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18
HEART TO HEART TALKS
BY EDWIN A. NYE
,,,,rtrtt 1909, By American Press Association

| makes Jack dull boy but it is also true
! vicious boy. s~
The child must play? Certainly.
| 1t will need no teaching for that. But
1t should not grow up with the idea that
the world is all playground. That con-
| ception of things has ruined many a boy
and girl
One of the greatest needs of modern
| teaching is that the idea of duty should
be ingrained in the makeup of the coming
| generation.
| Teach your child by chore OF occu-
patton or by regular tasks regularly done
| that, while this Is a fine world 1t ls
bounded on the north by duty, on the
| south by duty, on the east by duty and on
the west by duty.
Are you obliged to work for living?
| Happy you'll
| You are doing what the Almighty in
| tended you should do. You are carrying
out his design in you.
Work makes men.
| Idleness mars men. The sloth exists; he
does not live. Labor develops character.
And character determines destiny and
happiness You cannot put fiber into a
| man except by putting him up against la
| Dor. Therefore
! Work is discipline.
| He who goes through life without dis
| cipline is not a man. He is only thing.
He is part man, part embryo. He Is the
| nucleus of human. And, while the
! Christening of discipline for the time may
seem grievous, yet 1t works out a far
more exceeding right Of glory"-man-
| hood.
! Work is normal exercise.
The loafer Is fiabby misft. He does
| not blend into the scheme of things as
/ they are. 1t matters not whether he Is
| worth million or 30 cents. He Is wart
| on the body social. He Is a fungus, an ex-
crescence, without function and void. But
| the worker, whatever his work, is a part
of society-a necessary part. He belongs
to his race.
Work is contentment.
| If you doubt 1t, stop working for awhile
and note how discomfort comes to you.
| Work Is mans affinity. The worker fits
into things; the gutter is out Of touch.
| Work Is the mans natural expression OF
himself. And no man is content who is
not, expressing himself in some form OF
! effort.
Work pays.
| Aside from the return in dollars and
cents, work pays big dividends. 1t is al
Investment that pays good interest. II
! pays in sense of satisfaction. And If one
is in love with his work 1t brings a Joy
/ he cannot find elsewhere-the joy of ac-
! complishment.
| Work is service.
And that is the glory of it. When it is
understood as service rendered. labor is
dignifed as it ought to be- When you
| are doing some of the worlds work you
are rendering return to the world for
your birth and nurture. You are doing q
! mans work in mans way in mans
world. You are contributing your share
You are keeping up your end. Angels
. could do no more.
; Work is happiness.
/ 1t is refuge from discomfort. The abb
sorption of it drives away worries and
care. And in its blessed deeps many a
sorrow is buried for day.
| His name Is Luther WEIGH.
He halls from Kansas, was graduated
rom the Annapolis Naval academy and
10 now an officer of the United States.
When Luther Welch applied for admis-
sion to the academy he was informed that
he was an inch under the required stand
ard of height.
But a little thing like that did not
trouble WEIGH. He proceeded to make up
that inch! BY dint Of stretching his back
bone and pulling at his tendons and
standing straight he did in a few months