The Washington herald., 1912-09-15
EaSN Among Men Who Work with Brain HEA-zl
Take Inventory Of Your Ability
to Make the Most Of Yourself.
By C.. S. MADDOCKS.


on at sallQping pace. He is indeed an en-
terprtsing man who can DO this.
Enterprise Accompfishes Much.
Things are, like fire. good servants but
very bad masters. II is q rare man who
completely subjugates them, yet every in
vention that lengthens time. savSe ~ In
creases energy. pushes into the ureless thir-
ties and fiery forties worlds more OF accom-
plishment than other men less dominant.
Long ago men subdued fire for mild domestic
purposes. Later men OF enterprise have
taken advantage Of all the accumulated ac-'
complishments. and, exercising great tnttia.
tive and executive ability. have controlled
for work such mighty and belching flames as
those Of the Pittsburgh mills.
There Is just this wide difference and some
thing besides between the way men and
women manage things as there ID be-
tween the subduing Of fire for the hearth and
controlling 1t for the making Of gaanthke
beams and girders Of steel.
The good hoosekeeper has complete con-
troll Of things, while the poor housekeeper
is controlled by things. The good farmer
controls things. the poor farmer Is forever
controlled; weeds grow tall. neglected build
ings deteriorate until hopelessly at rack.
There will be no definite finishing UP a sea-
sons work. All work will be carried over
into winter and perhaps forever undone
The icehouse is not filled in freezing weather
to insure summer comfort No preparations
are made for the opening of spring. and when
summer is on the clover goes to seed before
It is cut. the grass burns up.
Do Things at Right Time.
To bring our work UP to time, our hives
up to the period nature DEGREES is as neces-
sary to progress as money rs necessary to the
traveller II We cannot do this any other
Way It is not a bad plan to tear UP once in
a while. Many a man has realized that only
by pulling up stakes. seeking a new field,
getting all the stimulation from a new at
uosphere possible was the only way for
him to rid himself Of the discouragements OF
being behind. Men Of advanced years have
separated themselves from old associations
and made new ones which have brought them
UP In character and accomplishment to some
thing they should have and be at their years.
Though the man Is best on who has been
tireless In his thirties and forcible in his
fifties, yet while there Is life there Is hope
She was a very poor teacher who believed
that there was no use in teaching her eighth
grade poor spoilers fundamental things
about word formation because they were sup
posed to learn the derivation Of words in the
sixth grade-the time appointed for such
work by the school curriculum. But It is
never too late for the prospective little Ste
nographer or for that matter the good busi
ness man to learn to spell
1t Is never too late to acquire fundamental
ability in anything. although It may be SO
late as to make the learning difiicult and a
matter requiring a great exercise OF will.
But an increased exercise of will in one d.
rectaon gives It muscle for other effort
Acquire Fundamental Abilities.
There are a great many fundamental little
abilities in life that may be acquired late
and much better late than never, abilities
as necessary to comfortable and successful
living as spelling is to any written express
sion OF thought.
The youth would hurry into manhood but
the man would delay age. The one Is in too
much Of a hurry, the hurry OF headlone
youth to get from one period to the next; the
other would procrastinate. fearing too much
the Disadvantages of the inevitable instead of
accepting 1t with alacrity, the alacrity that
wins the warmest welcome with happy en-
trance.
To procrastination almost as many failures
are due as to more positive vices. It has
but recently been claimed that one more
easily reforms the vicious than the lazy and
slothful procrastinator. and the vicious one
can more easily reform himself than a man
can get out Of the sloughs of procrastina-
ton.
The man who is always behind should begin
reforming his day. II he spends too much
Of one day in tagging work he has stolen
something from the next and as he keeps up
these thefts he gets farther and farther be-
hind. Finish up the days work II 1t half kills
you, II you are a procrastinator and want
TO reform. Get into the habit Of finishing
up the days work. and the work Of the
months and years will take care Of itself.