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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
show you a person who is never in constant There is no better teat by which you can
demand, a person who is rot going to be judge of a pevson's culture, civilization, or
very valuable to humanity. whatever you may call it, so quickly and
A person cannot succeed in anything so accurately as by the way in which that
without a good, sound body a body that person respects authority and obeys orders,
is able to stand up under hardships, that The average boy usually has the idea
is able to endure. A great many of our that if he were just somewhere else, in an-
young men, especially in the larger cities, other state or in contact with somebody
undermine their constitutions, and to a else, he would succeed, forgetting too often
great extent throw away their usefulness, to utilize the forces that are about him
because they do not understand how to
take care of their bodies. Do not keep late
hours. Have a time to go to bed, and have
enough self-control to say to those who per
suade you to dissipate, "My time for rest
has come and you must excuse me."
Learn all you can, but learn to do some
thing, or your learning will be useless.
You will gain a great deal if in all the
work that you perform, whether cleaning
a lawn , lay ing off a furrow, building a chest,
drawing a plan or studying a lesson, you
are perfectly conscientious. If you- choose cial plan, who has no time to study this or
these three lines on which to rest your lives, that, who has no regular hour for eating or
truthfulness, honesty conscientious, sleeping, you will find that very soon that
performance of duty, your future success student will be left behind. No matter
is assured. Uow brilliant or active a mind he has, sue-
A person must be able to earn his living ce8g can onjy come Dy planning work,
before he can be of much benefit to him- j nave often thought, especially when
self and the community in which he lives, traveling from city to city through the
If you are at the head of a stable or barn, north, what a good thing it would be to
plan day by day how best to provide for establish a chair in some strong university
your horses and cows. When you make
yourself master of these humble positions,
you will find that the higher calls will soon
come to you. .
We should not permit our grievances to
overshadow our opportunities.
It is not very hard to find a person who
will speak good and kind words and be un
selfish when speaking before an audience;
- but the way to testa person's real charac
in hand.
Get hold of the spirit of helping some
ody else. Seek every opportunity but
make somebody happier and more com
fortable. Never get to the point where
you will be ashamed to ask anybody for
information. The ignorant will always be
ignorant if be fears that by asking another
for information he will display ignorance,
Better once display your ignorance of a cer
tain subject than always know nothing of
it.
The boy who goes to school with nospe-
for the art of scrubbing, yes, the common.
homely art of scrubbing. Seldom do we
see clean floors, the art seems to have pass
ed away.
If you want to put yourself in demand,
make up your mind that you are going to
give as few excuses as possible.
If you are milking cows and feel that you
know all that there is to be known aboutit,
teris to notice his treatment of hose who you have simply reached the point where
you are useless and unfitted for the work.
It is not very hard to find people who will
thoroughly clean a room that is going to be
occupied, or wash a dish that is to bs
handled by strangers; but it is a hard
come into daily contacts with him, how
he' speaks to his companions when his
voice is heard by the public.
It is a good practice for a person to get in
the habit of making an examination of
himself day by day, to see to what extent thin8 to find a person who will do a thins
his thoughts have dwelt on those things right when the eye of the world is not
which are high, and to what extent he likely to rest upon whatever is done. Tin
has permitted himself to yield to the temp- cleaning of rooms has a great deal to do
tation of being low, in his thoughts and wUn formiu? one'8 cbaracter.-Ex.
imaginings.