Evening star., 1936-12-12
Youth Has
Life'S Own
Opportunity
Success, However,
Comes Only to Those
Who Persist.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

DEAR Boys and Girls: If you
~ could tell your own fortunes,
what would you want most to have
happen to you? Or, the other way
about, what sort Of person would you
like most to be? You can be Just
that sort of person. Begin being him
or her right now.
Maybe you want to be q queen OF
beauty, That is within your reach.
Beauty is deeper than your skin. 1t
goes down to the very roots OF your
being and rises to greet the world
through your eyes, your voice, your
manners. Beauty is not pink skin,
golden hair and blue eyes. It is the
something that lights those eyes and
puts the sheen into that skin and
those eyes. You can have it simply
by being it day by day. You can win
beauty by living with it, practicing 1t
in your daily occasions. Some OF the
most famous queens Of beauty were
homely women with beautiful souls,
souls which they cultivated by taking
thought of what they did and how
they did it. II that Is what you
want, take 1t.
Do you wish you were famous? You
can have that wish, too, but be sure
you really wish it. Just get to work
today, and for every day afterward,
and do the thing you can do best to
the very best of your ability and keep
telling the world about it. BY and by
the world will hear and see. and you
will be famous. didn't say happy.
Maybe you will be happy, but Ger
tainly you will be famous. All you
have to do is to work at your busi-
ness and shout loud in the market
place. The thing is yours.
Would you be rich? Good? Be-
loved? What is it you ask Of life? 1t
is yours for the asking, provided you
pay its price. Everything is for sale
not for money; money buys only ma
terial things that perish, but for the
golden hours of your youth. With
them you buy good or i'll, according to
the wisdom that is yours. Choose.
then be what you wish; keep on being
it in your imagination, in your atti-
tudes, in your actions. Live like the
persons you would be, think yourself
into that mood and place. and you
will either arrive at being that sort Of
person, or stop wanting to be.
I tell you this to let you know
that your fortune is in your own
hands for the most part. Daily I
hear you wishing: II wish got AS.
wish could win the medal. I wish
I could talk like that. If only I
could be q dancer. I wish I was pop
ular. I wish people liked me. ! wish
I could be a famous person"
Then see you forgetting to study;
neglecting to practice, skipping classes,
and shirking whatever duty bears
down on you. see the one who
wishes he was famous lying down on
his job, refusing to help anybody, re-
fusing to do an hours extra work OF
any sort-just shirking. And I see
the one who wishes he was popular
showing his way ruthlessly through .
group Of smaller children to take .
short cut to the bus. I see you long
ing and wishing and yet doing the
very things that cost you your de-
sires.
Life's prizes, whatever form they
take for you, are never given free
with label of any empty box. They
have to be paid for IN terms Of sweat
and pain and sacrifice. Nobody ever
got anything worth having by wishing
and then sleeping on 1t. Want some
thing? Go after it. Keep after it:
don't slumber until you get it. The
way to be somebody is to begin being
him today.
Cordially your.
ANGELO PATRI.
Mr.. Patri will give personal atten-