South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-30
Determination Cuts
Down All Barriers
BY Ella wheeler Wilcox.

There is something I cannot seem
TO get over Both my children start
ed high school and l was confident I
would be able TO see them through
My son wanted to be an electrical en-
gineer and my daughter wanted to en-
ter the medical department in some
college or university. IL was impos-
sible. They were both obliged TO go
TO work. and yet work has not always
been provided for them to do. We are
financially embarrassed constantly.
In their eagerness to obtain work
they have lost the opportunity for an
education. | have been unspeakably
unhappy and dependent many years.
and many times words that | have
read in this column have proven a.
real salvation to me. They have given
me strength to rise up and go on when
il seemed at the very end. Can you
say something to me now that will
help me bear this great di5appoint-
ment about my children?
"A BROKEN MOTHER"
Schools and colleges are not the only
places where valuable education is
obtained. This world is a great col
lege and life is the teacher. Each day
OF life is an assistant teacher Young
people who are eager for an education
can obtain knowledge. culture and
wisdom If their eyes. ears minds and
hearts are open TO receive what each
day has TO impart. The reading Of
good books. the memOriZing of good
bits Of prose and verse. the listening
with attention 10 what people Of edu-
cation have TO say all help TO cultivate
the mind and train the speech in right
methods of expression.
There are schools of correspondence
which for a comparatively small sum
offer excellent methods of educ
10 those who are deprived OF g.
advantages Few of our creates m
and women have been college grad
yates.
The young man who is absolutely
/ determined upon making place for
himself cannot fail of final success if
ne allows nothing TO discourage him.
| The same may he said Of the young
woman Ambition (anchOred on aspir-
atom is a pillow which will cut its
way through the burrows and pre-
pare the field for the harvest which
is sure TO follow.
Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin
Franklin We're both roor boys with
few advantages To their names could
he added that of a great galaxy of
brilliant stars whose fame Eliminates
the earth today. men and women who.
step by step. fight their own way from
! ObSCurity and poverty 10 recognition
and prosperity.
Let this young man and young
woman go to the public library and
secure the Geographic of great men
and women, let them read them with
care and ponder over the mental at
I titude which led these people TO sue
cess. All that we long for. all that
we wish 20 be. do and have lies in
I the mind: for the mind comes from
God and goes 10 God. and he who
realizes this fact and acts upon it
cannot became a failure.
Here is a little Rosary for a bro
\ ken-hearted mother" TO say and to
teach her children 70 say every day:
I have the desire Of my heart
Man is the highest expression Of
God in earthly form.
All OF Gods powers are in man.
! I am absolute health. unquenchab able
aspiration. limitless energy.
/ I am success.
! ] viii be what ] viii 10 be because
/ derive my strength and power
from the Great Creative Source
] have my hearts desire.
Repeat this Rosary many times a
/ day mentally and reverently. Repeat
/ IL just before falling TO sleep at night
and the first thing in the morning. and
many times through the day Keep
\ the mind filled with a consciousness of
/ power peace and plenty. Your words
shall not be void but they shall 20
/ forth and accomplish that whereunto
/ they were sent"
Copyright. 1915. Star Col