The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-09
Miscellany
Ambition.
BY LAURA KINGSTON.

| am sure that everyone whose eye
catches these words cherishes, warm in
the inner heart. some fine dreams, some
high ambition, some vision of noble
conduct which, if put into practices,
would transform life, would bring the
whirring angels wings into the af-
fairs of earth.
To one man-to many men-the sue
coring of the poor and the sorrowful
would be their chosen mission. In the
stroug arms OF self sacrifice and strenu.
Gus endeavor they would feel them,
selves lifted toward their chosen
heaven. With others, the seeking Of
Truth, in all her shining garments, is
the secret impulse of lifetime. In
many of us the ambition is more
personal one-some definite step to be
| taken when the future comes down into
present, some delight to be achieved
in the coming days.
But apart from these extraueous
ideals there is hardly, 7 suppose. man
or woman drawing breath who does
not cherish some. secret ideal of con.
duct, some tiny plant which IL hopes
will one day burst forth into glorious
blossoming, TO the Transforming of the
mind which has harbored it.
Then, in the days when exquisite
flowers are starring the plant which
has been so warmly sheltered, then will
your life take to itself a new and
| l.
pulses urge you on to yet higher
achievement, and you will find the
ideal within your eager grasp, the
willing capture of your long chase
Is this how you reason, you men
and women who look 10 the future for
all the golden fruit which is TO crown
your lifel | tell you, then, that never
| mortal being graSped in the future
reward or ideal or achievement which
had not been worked for in the mist
hung past which was once the living
| present.
Ambition is a fine thing, and when
il is the ambition for self-improvemeut
it is the quality which may well re-
generate the world, In this world you
| brought the clean sheet of your life.
scored, maybe, with broad tendencies,
| with inherited likes and dislikes, but
every ono of these tendencies it is
within your power TO eradicate or
modify. Out of this world you can
only take your cultivated personality.
tho sheet Of your life, with the pic.
lures and diagrams which you yourself
have traced there or have allowed 10
be traced there.
And / greatly fear that If you are
depending on your dream ambitions TO
do the delving and digging, the de-
signing and construction, which 90 10
tho making of satisfactory life edi.
| tce, the final result will be disap-
pointment and chagrin for YOU.
The finest ambition must have some
correlating spring of action or il will.
OF dire necessity, fall dead TO the
ground.
Inspiration, the initial impulse. de.
sire for perfection-all these NAV come
from the secret ambition, the shy ideal
| which Won have so assiduously
cherished through the years; but com
| plstiou. the perfection OF a realized
| ideal, can only come when achieve.
ment sets 10 work and brings into the
region Of your everyday life the
thing which had previously shone, aloof
and star-lke. in the heaven of your
dreams.
The ultimate test Of mans life
IS the character which he succeeds in
shaping FOR himself. and only definite,
considered action can mark his charac-
ter for good
10 not ask you 10 put aside your
| -luhltQns for your Own personality, the
dcnls'Nhich you hoped to sec realized
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Fgt j. rd,isr Won. 10 look unon