The Washington herald., 1919-01-10

her. a winner or loser in the Camr
of life.
We see this Illustrated in mil
! 'ion ways all about US every dav.
CIV" bit OF meat and a few
vegetables to two cooks. One or
them will make Of the raw ma
t"rials ragout over which al,
epiourc will smack his Ifps in
ecstasy. The other will concoct a
| pale tasteless stew. without flavor
( or nourishmcnt, from which even A
hungry dog. will turn in disgust.
On the outskirts of every village You
will see rows Of cheap little houses.
/ built in job lots by some contractor,
tha' are as alike as peas in pod
Some Of these houses will have grimy
and dinEy windows. with broken names
/ Of glass stuffed with futterinc rrpS
and door yards hHed with empty tim
cans and rubbish. others Of the cot
/ taCcs will have shining windows with
crisp white curtains, and the wards
Will be ahlOom with flowers and the
house smOthCred in vines. and YOU do
not need TO he told that out Of tn"
same conditions and with the same
pay envelope the wife OF ne workman
has made a bright. tidy. cheerful.
thrifty home and the wife of the other
workman is maintaining the kind Of
a shack that sends husbands to the
saloon and children to the street
We have seen half a dozen men 90
bankrupt at the little grocery around
the corner. Then another man came
and out OF that same little grocery
made a fortune
Every day of the week there are
thousands of city boys leaving their
/ homes to so to strange places to seek
their fortunes. because they believe
there is no opportunity for them in
| New York or Boston or Chicago or
wherever they live. and at the same
' moment there are thousands of coun-
4 try boys coming into these same cities
TO find their fortunes. and in epch Of
| these cases the boy succeeds or fails
! according to what is in him and with
, out reference to the place.
| I frequently visit two families. bot
Of which are blessed with health
/ beautiful children. husbands and
wives who are good, kind people. anf
with an abundance OF this world
goods to supply every comfort and
/ luxury.
| One of these homes is ideally happy.
n place of peace. rest. love and ten
| derness. The other is place Of dis
cord. quarrels. strife, bitterness, tears.
discomfort and misery. Yet both of
| these couples have the same mate
rials for happiness to work with.
! It oil comes back to the personal
! equation II is we ourselves who de-
termine our fate. We reap as We
| have sown. We take out of life what
! we put into 1t.
| No other thought in the world is so
full of optimism as this, bee use il
| opens every door of opportunity to us,
| instead of making us the helpless
! prisoners of misfortune. No need for
any girl or boy to lament that they
| have no chance of success. Their
| chance lies right within themselves.
! They can find their fo-tune just as
surely within their own block. or on
| their own farm. as they could find
| il at the ends of the earth.
| I once asked a very successful man
| what profession or business a boy
whom was much interested in
I should go into as his career. The
great man replied:
! at does not make a particle OF diff
! ference what line Of work the boy
| chooses. II all depends upon the boy
! himself. Nor does il make any DIFF
! ference where the bor starts. There
/ are fortunes to be made in every oc-
| cupation under the sun, and boy
can succeed at Squeedunk, or in New
! York. or London, If he has the abil-
| ity and the pluck. and if he hasn't.
he will fail at whatever he goes into
| and in any place"
In the end we get out Of life, bust
ness, friendship and love what We
put into 1t. It's the personal equation
that settles everything.
toopyiSht, lsls. hy the Wheeler sy.dicAte. Inc-D