The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-08-08
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on full belly.
Hard schools teach great lessons.
Rich mems sons are seldom rich mems
fathers. An unearned dollar is fool
maker. Those who do not understand
how to make money can't retain 1t.
You are not handicapped-it's the i'd
Ter, the pampered, overfed, careless,
protected boy who must fear the fu-
ture.
Don't mind these few Spartan years.
They are blessings. The appetite for
achievement stales on sweets-hunger
lends zest to doggedness.
You must work-you have no choice.
You must earn or you can't eat.
There's no helping hand behind you
you've got to seize the opportunity be-
fore you.
Responsibility is riding on your
shoulders, but duty broadens charac-
ter. Pack your chest with courage
and begin to win. What you've miss
ed in training you can make up in
steadiness and readiness. Education
at its best merely points out the most
competent method, and il you keep
your eyes open and put your heart in
your tasks, commonsense will show you
as much as text book. You are ig-
norant Of theories, but theory, after
all, isn't nearly so important as prac-
| tice.
You stand today where Edison and
Wanamaker and Marshall Field and
Carnegie and Lincoln stood at your
age-on your feet, with empty pockets,
a sound constitution and license to
make dare anywhere. The path to
prosperity and fame runs through your
soul.
You can't achieve more than you be-
lieve. Your reward will be proper
tionate to your effort. Whatever you
can grasp with clean hands is your
property, but you'll be knocked about,
blocked and fought by every man who
wants what you seek. II you have one
yellow streak you haven't show.
The years that face you are full of
promise. Tomorrow is always might
Ter than yesterday.
The newcomer profits by the trials
and struggles of the past, and more
knots have been united, more problems
have been solved in this single genera.
ton than in any previous century.
Legislation is tearing whip after
whip from the hand of Privilege-hours
are sanitation is better-and
facilities of every sort are at the dis
posal of all who wish to improve their
minds and bodies.
But we offer no charity only cow
ards and shirkers whine for conces-
sions. We want the greatest ability
at the top, so we are merciless to quit
ters. It's the one way in which we
can truly test efficiency.
When you are discouraged, weep on
your own shoulder-pluck is ashamed
to display its tears.
Hold hard to hope-Hing your faith
in The teeth Of ridicule, disaster and
enmity.
Dream far-we build close to the stars
in this century. Think with unleash
ed Imagination.
| Whatever Mind can plan, Will can
produce Herbert Kaufman, in Wom-
ans World.
To be girl is to be in the happiest
state possible to humanity; but girls do
not know it. They are always looking
forward to something, wanting some
thing--a diamond or beau, ilattery or
new gowns. They rather envy women
, little ahead OF them, who have more
self-possession, and are sometimes iea-
Gus of some married woman who flirts
and makes dash. "I'm only young
girl" one will say. Only u young
girl. Be glad of it; delight in it!
Thank heaven that you are still a
Young girl. We cannot stop time.
The years will slip through your fng-
ers like the beads from a broken neck
lace after while; but now they linger
while you are still girl--a girl in the
home OF parents, yet in the prime Of
life, with young brothers and sisters
for companions. There will never be
anything better than this in all the
world. There are no skeletons in your
closet, no ghosts In your reveries.
Your future is all full of hope You
can fill in the distance as you like
You can fancy lover coming to you
who is perfect in all things; and every
young man is interesting; because he
may possibly be the other half of your
soul. And every new girl may be the
lifelong friend and confidante oil girls
hope for. AS for beauty, the idea Of a
girl OF seventeen thinking herself
plain, as some do. In few years she
will look in the glass and see those fine
horizontal lines on her forehead, on
which Time scores down our troubles,
and at the corner OF her eyebrows
three little pencil marks, and little
fall in her cheek, and a mouth that
does not smile as readily as 1t once did;
not an old face yet, but not girl; and
then she will realize what it was 10
have girls face Oh, how few the
years are! How they whirl away.
Girlhood Is gone so soon. But, while