Connecticut western news., 1910-06-30
THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1910
PLANT YOUR STANDARD HIGH

Smile and the world smiles with you,
 Knock" and you go alone;
 For the cheerful grin
 Will let you in,
 Where the "Knocker" is never known.
 The world has no use for the lazy man. He who is constantly grumbling and complaining that life affords no chances to rise, is usually lacking those very forces which win recognition and merit success. Life. is what we make it.. To the sluggard it is sleep; to the lazy rest; to the active, energetic, pushing man or woman, life is wellspring of vital force.
 Why live amid the shadows when life is full of sunshine? The field of oppor- tunity is ImitIess and they who seek, determined to find will in time reach the altitude of power. The reason so many drifting >wrecks go floating down the current of time, is not because opportunities are rare, but because they have failed to grasp them as they came hurrying by Success is oft within easy reach, but neglect blunts the edge of ambition and opportunity goes fitting by, anrecognized until too late.
 Young man, every hour brings you some new opportunity. Will you let it pass, and watch it drift away, when for you it may have been ladened with richest gifts?
 The world to-day needs men of action; men of vital force, who are undismayed when the clouds of life grow black and the thunders roll, but who grasp success and wiring it from seeming dark defeat.
 Be something in life. Set your standard high and do your best to measure up to it. Don't be an animated cigarette and rest content in that ambition. Up and be doing. If you fall short of your highest ideal, try again. Success is bound to come at last, and its measure will be largely in pro- portion as you are faithful to the minor things you are called to do. .. .@
 Don't Se know it all. Give the other fellow credit for knowing little some thing. Select that opening in life that fits you best, and, having found it, cling to it and make it's choicest gifts your own. And remember this: No man ever climbed high the ladder of lasting success with whiskey bottle in his pocket. Sooner or later he reaches his level. Strive to reach the mountain top Don't rest content with limited success Push forward Life's best gifts arc often those that are to come They may be yours for the working.
 Don't get discouraged. The blue devils unnervs man, and nine times out of ten, the blackest cloud has it's silver lining. The base of the mountain may be fog wreathed, but the glorious sunlight is bathing it's upper peaks and sooner or later the mists of the valley will roll away. Don't hang around in the fog belt Push higher! Get into the sunlight Be what the Great h. telligence intended you should be, 8 help and blessing to your fellow men.
 Don't wear long face The world has little use for walking tombstones Be cheerful! Open wide the doors of your heart and let the sunshine in. Be a reflector of that light. When you shake hands with man let him k,sow that you are alive. Let him feel by the earnestness of your grip that you have an interest in him as a fellow man. Don't take hold of his hand Imply, as though it were an old dead fish and you wanted to drop it on touch. Let the revibration of your life thrill through your touch with galyanic power that will show to him you meet that life for you is earnest, true and sweet.
 Reflect upon others the brightest and the best gifts that smiling Providence has given you. Don't be afraid to speak 8 kind word whenever and wherever you can. Life is made up of little acts Yet withal be careful how you speak. Words are wasps. Oftimes they sting and the poisoned bitterness of a single word has oft we'll nigh wrecked life.
 Don't cultivate grouch. There are some men who never see any good ir life, nor in their fellew men. They are eternally looking for flaws. Like the naturalist, with his forascope and microscope. bent on minute analysis, SC some people, with nature dwarfed and gnarled, hate to believe that there il good ill human life, and if they could have their way, the milk of human kindness would sour before its richer qualities had the power to rise.
 Don't waste time on people of tha stamp; it is loye's labor lost. They live in a world of their own. Its bounds are circumscribed by unjust prejudices They are like tumble bug at the bottom of op old iron kett1a They huZZ rOunf