El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-26

LLTF wishes were horses. beggars
might ride" says the old song;
but 1 tkink wishes are far bet
ter h that.
Wishes are the fairy steeds on which
we mount through desire to achieve
ment. And in the other old saying.
The wish is father to the thought"
there is far more Of life's real truth
If YOU wish 70 be fine and sweet
and kind-it is because you have IN
your soul the germs Of tneness ana
sweetness and kindness. II you wish
to be strong and powerful and brave,
il is because these things are Graded
in your personality. The germ OF your
wish lies in you asleep, and by WISH
ing it long enough and earnestly
enough you are calling to II TO wake
and preparing to develop the seed on
which you are dropping the sunlight
and rain of YOU own fertile desire
No lion tanner is likely to wish
earnestly that he were q poet No ditch
digger is likely to wish strongly that
he were an astronomer. But IL ne
should so wish in his heart he viii
surely not be quiescent in his ditch
digging or satisfied with his lion-tam-
ing. If he truly wish, ne will move on
to the next stage-the stage OF try
ing to realize his wish.
Get the Measure of Possibility.
What o wish is the measure OF
lO4L l4EEALAAAAL A0A hA1M IA W A&A a1A
truly desire, and long to be, the force
OF Our own personality must drive
you to try to attain
"Oh, 1 Wish-I wish I had a pair OF
pretty new shoes and dldnt have 70
go barefoot" signs the little child OF
poverty Suppose the child lives with
that wish. 500 he must wonder:
What can L do to make my wish realE
How can I get those shOes2' If there
is the germ Of cOmmOn-sense in the
child's nature il viii soon come TO feel
that the way to get your wish is not
tao expect the fairies to bring II 10
you, but to set about attaining It.
And the wish las already borne fruit
in the thought\o Of helping yourself 10
rise and attain your desire. The
thought Of independent personality
that must not ask but earn follows
naturally.
Earn what You Wish.
To - 10 beg. or borrow or
steal To earn what he wishes-that
idea comes TO the little child of pow
eTty who wishes for shoes, and in
wishing for these symbols is wishing
too for decency p cleanliness and a
certain orderly relation with the con-
v%entional respectability Of society. And
50 is born ambition.
This sounds, perhaps like a fable.
But il is the story of how a little
immigrant boy who came 10 America
in the steerage began 10 work him
self up in the world. Thirty years 3
he was a lad Of ten running bare foot
ed about the peat-bogs Of Ireland
To-day, he is a owe in his city and
state.
And its all because I wished and
wished for those shoes, so I'd look de-
cent like other lads" SAYS he. And
then I began to wish for clothes that
wouldn't shame my shoes. And then
1 had to have al education-fcr I'd
got to wishing TO be like other lads
and TO wishing for a chance and a
nHaaa &. H. ~--aHT H-H - ia
not get any Of them by wishing-so
1 got TO wishing TO be able TO see a
way to make my wishes come true.
I found work was the way. My
idea Of how TO get on in the world is
10 Keep wishing and WlShius-and
then you'll just ave 10 see you must
work too. For works the only Fairy
Godmother that makes wishes real"
Wishes are horses for beEgars TO
ride on, up and up out of poverty and
degradation and suffering n man can
II he wishes with enough force for
the worthwhile things Of life. OF
course II wishing means lazily dream
ms Of luxury n pleasure and all the
gilt and glitter of life. II is likely TO
you where you want. too.
Right Wishing Essential.
me important part OF wishing isn't
the making il come true. For that hap
almost itself once your wish
gathers enough momentum and force.
The thing about wishing that needs 4
guarding and care-is wishing for the
thingi You have to cultivate dis
elimination and common sense and
highmindedness in order to do any suc- 3
cessful wishing
Every one remembers about the
magic ring in the fairy tale. II could
grant three wishes. and so badly were
the first two spent that the last one
had to be used for wishing everything
as il had been at first. Q
II you are a little girl behind a .
coUnter-and are struggling along on
81 a week, why don't you try wishing
yourself out o. your rut- Why dOu't
you wish yOu could make yourself so I
useful to yOur firm that YOU VIII be
a $1,000 q year buyer some day,
And then after YOU have wished
that hard enough and long enough to