Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-13

tha. always minds MS ousl-
ness and never quarrels One day the
crowd begins to plague him. He gets
eehtins mad. and makes reputation
on the spot by licking everybody in
sight.
one Of Walter scotts teachers stood
him up in corner and put the Ounce
cap on his head.
teacher Of Beethoven, the srea
composer. declared he would never
learn. and advised others to have MOTH
ing to do with him.
But Scott. like the boy walked up
and licked reputation out Of the
world SO did Beethoven. So have
thousands of others.
The most cheerful fact in biography
is this sudden change one day In the
mental life Of the so-called stupid
Young man or woman All at once the
sleepy look disappears, and the fight
is on.
There once lived in the south Of Eng
land a clergyman, Carter by name. His
wife died from grief at having lost her
little fortune in a gold brick proposition
of those days called the South Sea
stocks
The clergyman was left with family
Of BOYS and girls, one Of whom. Eliza
beth, was ten years old when her moth
er died The father undertook to edu-
cate them alike. giving the girls the
same training as the bows.
They all got along very we'll with
their lessons except Elizabeth. Try as
he would, DR. Carter could make no
Roadway with her She was one of the
born stupid" kind. and all effort TO
give her an education seemed useless.
After a while. as Elizabeth grew older
and began to notice things. herself in
cluded. she began to get anxious II
was no great privilege to go through
life as the stupid Carter girl" That
made Eliza beth mad. and she took her
case in her own hands
She made up her mind that what she
must do she must do by hersefNso she
began to study again keeping at it late
at night and beginning again early ~
the morning But Elizabeth had great
trouble in keeping awake-quite stu
pid symptom She fought this habit Of
falling asleep nv taking large quaint
ties Of snuff and chewing green tea
leaves
This kept her awake. and incidentally
injured her health But 1t lifted i"e
trap door. so TO speak, and the leG'
crept in.
one of her favoriie studies was
Creek The great author Of her times
DR.. Samuel Johnson declared her to ~
the greatest Greek scholar Of her time
She also learned Latin. Hebrew, Ger
man. French. Italian. Spanish. Portu-
guese and Arabic STUPID Elizabeth
was getting on. YOU see,
She also learned much Of astronomy |
and history: and she wrote poetry |
Some Of her poems appeared in the |
leading magazines. and were afterward |
published in book form.
But her principal work was a trans
lation Of the philosophy Of the Greek |
slave Epictetus, which was published |
by subscription.
Elizabeth was stil getting on in
fact, her work began to attract so much |
attention that the great men of her
time became her friends Among them |
were johnson. Bishop Butler Horace
Walpole, Hannah More and many
others
Through long life (she died at S9l |
Elizabeth kept on doing literary work
and inpressing people with the power
Of her mind.
No one would recommend snun and
green tea as cure for the reputation
Of being stupid And they are not nee
essary, either. Further. no one would
deny that every one Of MS IS stupid in
one way or another The cure is TO be
determined to get over it, to down it. "a
get fighting mad and become master Of
the situation
Scores Of thousands Of people have
done it ana are doing. il today. They
arc striking out line of work lasting
late az night and beginning again eariy
tn me morning That makes a long
DAY. but a long day is better than the
snuff and green tea
II anything seems particularly hard +
just say 10 Yourself
Elizabeth Carter got on in life. and
so can
And YOU can