The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-01-25
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who are trying to be bright, are
positive handicap.
1t is easy to say that you inherited
your speech from parents who had no
chance to get an education, but 1t is
nonsense.
Some of the ablest and most brilliant
men and women of the time came from
parents who spoke English very lame
ly; others from parents who spoke with
foreign accents.
Do not try to speak deliberately, or
to use big words.
Speak directly, clearly and forcibly.
Know the exact meaning Of every
word you use.
Associate as much as is possible
with people who use correct speech.
Read books by writer's who know how
to use good English.
Make it a practice to read the die
tionary.
BY that do not mean to begin with
A and end with q.
I mean to study pronunciation and
meanings, and to make sure that you
will remember them.
Whenever you are in doubt about
a word look it up.
Otherwise you are going to be en-
barrassed some time when you floun-
der through a sentence and awaken
the smiles Of those who hear you.
Good takers always start with an
advantage But they must be good
takers, not merely glib takers.
They must know what they are talk
ing about, and where to find the words
to do it.
AS for slang, it is often effective, but
it must be used with great intelligence.
The person scho employs the same
slang phrase ouer and oUer again is going
to tceary those Nth or to Uhon he speaks
before long, and be put dos0n for a hope
less bore.
If possible learn another language.
1t will help you with your own tongue
A foundation in Latin is good, but
by no means necessary.
Your own language is quite suffi-
Gent for all the necessities Of con-
versation and for many of the orna-
ments.
Read and listen. Read and listen.
Over and over again.
Pity the person who is not an ad-
venturer. The cautious person may
be safe, but he is
Adxar+,,ra rarely happy.
The little boy,
running away for
the first time feels thrill that he may
never know again.
For to admire and for to see," is
one Of the real objects In life.
Never having had the opportunity to
run away to sea, am not sure If that
is a pleasant and profitable undertake
ing.
But / shall always regret that 1t
was not numbered among my expert
ences.
I often wonder why people who live
near high mountains are not continu-
ally scaling them.
/ notice that those who have
climbed mountains, climb them again
and again when they have chance.
-
A relative of mine, whose business
is rather dreary one, takes two weeks
off every year and spends them in
climbing the tall peaks of Oregon and
California.
Not long ago, having no new noun
tains to scale in his own section of
the country, he made trip to Switzer-
land and climbed some of the steep
est of the Alps.
The last time saw him he was re-
GREETING that he was too old to try to
cross the Himalayas in a plane.
Most of us are Adventures at heart,
and it is too bad that we all do not
have the courage or the opportunity
to go forth now and then and take
quite unnecessary chances.
Ours is a race that Graves excite
ment Of some sort or other.
To be timid Is to be miserable.
I would not advise young men to
take up the business of llon-taming, or
of 'stunt" flying, but | would advise
them, If they are living humdrum
lives to go out and find little excite
ment ever so often, to search for ad-
ventures that hold some sort of a
thrill, and which they will remember
happily for all their days.
s
am sure that it is more the ex-
element Of the game than the desire
to get money and still more money
which leads so many men to the stock
market.
A memory that is filed with adven-
ture and experience is the kind of a
memory ! should love to have.
This is World that is sUeH North see
ing. TrareI is s0orth many times its cost.
Since Marco Polo's time, and doubt
less long before that men have gone
into new and strange countries, just
for the Measure of doing something