TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX. rORTXAD, 3fAY 14, 10iC.
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There's always room for
a skyscraping career.
Most men are planning
shanty lives.
7"afee tie Zif your
imofination, take the
hobbles off your pluck
and fa fee a chance.
Shakespeare
LITTLE squirt courtiers dared to patronize his
genius . Doubtless he often cringed and shame
lessly fawned before potent nobles. City mer
chants and goldsmiths vaguely held him in the con
tempt men universally bestowed upon all player folk.
The Law co-ordinated him with thieves, vagabonds and
prostitutes. He muchly lived in the half-world
mainly as it lived. Altogether, his estate was rather
humble.
England was uncouth. Elizabeth herself, vulgar
and nasty. Assuredly he knew nothing of nice refine
ments. Therefore it is exceedingly strange how sweet
and clean he kept his quill.
A tower, a bridge, and a crazy old ramshackle or
two are all that remain to mark his London. The last
Tudor is gone. Of Drake and Raleigh and the proud
companies whose exploits made splendid the virgin's
reign, perhaps a score of dilute-veined collaterals still
endure. We do not even know the names of the great
dandies and haughty chatelaines who condescended to
approve his mummeries.
Vanished dust, these. And all that was a mighty
medieval city has long since been fed to wood-worms
and broken into junk and carted away in rubbish. But
his words are still golden on our lips. The mintage of
his mind is universal coin his phrases spent from
Cape to Cape. Yellow and white man daily mine the
treasuries of his imagination. His sentences are glib
on clucking, hissing, purring tongues are vernacular
throughout the world. He put a girdle around the
earth, and then around eternity.
"Thrones totter and empires fall, the tidal wave
sweeps from the sea and tears the fortress from the
rocks, the rotting nations drop from off Time's bough
and only things the dreamers make live on."
Equalization
WHEN the King's son was born, the fairy god
mothers thereabouts dropped in and did the
conventional thing. One left a little spell which
made him suzerain of all the lands from the ice of the
North to the- ice of the South.
And one made him Lord of all the seas from the
Islands of the Dawn to the Islands of the Dark.
And one heaped his days with the glory of brave
emprise.
And one crowded his youth with the witchery of
amazing women.
And one brought him a feather from the wing of
fame.
Until with this and that his future was filled to
overflowing and there was no place left for the wishing
ring, which the oldest and wisest godmother brought.
So she stopped at the cotter's hut and gave it to his
baby.
And yet, there were those who envied the prince
and pitied the pauper.
Muzzle the Pessimists
NOTHING is hopeless before imagination no ob
struction is invincible.
We have the tools and we have the rules and
the rest is a matter of trying.
Knowledge is a relay race Today takes up Yester
day's incomplete experiment and passes the record of
its investigation to Tomorrow.
Span by span the bridge is built link by link the
chain lengthens step by step the search proceeds.
Cures for cancer, consumption, Bright's disease
are at hand; deferred, perhaps, by a year, maybe a de
cade who can tell from what laboratory tube the fate
ful answer is about to speak?
Microscope and retort are fighting death for you.
Hope. Keep up your courage while they, keep up the
battle. Every disapointment eliminates one more ad
verse chance and narrows down the field of potentiali
ties. "Incurable" is a temporary word in every disease.
Old impossibilities are new whetstones.
If a wire, pole and a pot of acid can spit speech
between islands if a woman born blind can be made to
see after 25 years in the dark if astronomy can weigh
worlds a million miles away if a lamp can learn to
sing if an atom can be divided into demonstrable
fractions if trains can be driven over the Rockies by
the power of waterfalls along the way if the breath
of a rose can be resurrected from the hunk of coal in
which it was petrified an aeon ago if a 10-cent store
can be managed well enough to pay for a 55-story
building if life can be restored to a man dead from
suffocation if a skull operation can reform a criminal
if a sheep's shank can be mortised into a human shin
bone if .a ship can be built to travel 4000 miles under
water it s about time to muzzle pessimism.
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Give Ambition a New Bone to Gnaw
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.
Arkwright, an illiterate little Cockney barber, found time between shaves and haircuts to discover
the needs of the weaving trade and produced the spinning jenny, which completely revolutionized the
manufacture of fabrics.
Morse was a portrait painter of sorts, but training for one vocation 'didn't absorb all his ideas,
among which was the notion of communication by wire, otherwise we might have never had the tele
graph. Berliner, a young German from Hanover, began life keeping books in a two-by-four Washington
dry goods store and employed his evenings puzzling out the transmitter upon which the development
of the telephone is largely based.
Daniel Drew started out as a cattle-driver and wound up as a railroad kjug. Jay Gould was one of
the most persuasive peddlers who ever sold clocks from door to door. John H. Patterson was a coal
merchant until he began to think of cash registers. Henry Ford was still running an engine at day
wages when middle age and the automobile occurred to him.
What are you thinking about besides your regular line of work?
The roomiest thing we know is a man's head. Columbus had space in his sufficient for a new
world. Carnegie's skull was large enough to accommodate a square mile of steel mills.
Other men have sailed ships and built transportation systems in their brain pans. George Pullman,
after carpentering hours, grew a palacc'Car works under his hair roots. Who knows how many possi
bilities are imprisoned in your brain cells let 'em out.
Don't wonder how the other fellow managed to do it, but ponder instead what you may accomplish
by tackling another subject.
The outside view point is frequently an improving new point.
Most men tumble haphazardly into the first job that presents itself, instead of sifting out the occu
pations best adapted to their bents.
If you haven't got anywhere you're on the wrong road. Try another train of thought and keep
changing the route until you find yourself. Give ambition a shift of scene.
Education helps, of course, but determination and constructive curiosity are first-rate substitutes
for a college training.
Half the stuff in text-books was thought out by men who tutored themselves to discovery.
Study courses are mainly reviews of the work and works of plodders with gumption enough to look
around without a guide. Illiteracy isn't necessarily ignorance.
The graduates of the University of Action have endowed civilization with most of its essential re
quirements. Foundries and shipping-rooms, freight caboosesnd car platforms, office desks and barn yards arc
lecture halls in which progress is continually presenting objects for study.
The men who produce the tools you use and the articles you handle in your daily affairs get short
sighted after a while and believe that they've accomplished the utmost in their lines; but you get an
altogether different standard of measurement as a handler of their product and are quite apt to hit upon
a change in the shape or form of an implement or device simply by giving your fancy free play and fig
uring out a difference from the attitude of a user.
Housewives, clerks, farmers, lawyers, even laborers are daily filing valuable patents on contriv
ances of their own conception. Stores secure some of their most helpful hints in management from
the suggestions and grievances of their customers.
When you next feel like registering a complaint against a public service corporation or the laundry,
or the hotel, or your merchant, pause first and consider the chance of instituting a superior method.
If you're not satisfied, a great many others may not be, and dissatisfaction with existing conditions is
just one of the ways that fortune has of calling attention to opportunity.
Remember the woman who pricked her finger until she saw the point of the safety pin.
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It's a Warning From Headquarters
THE last place we look for a mystery is the first place.
The burglar rummages through bureau drawers, turns carpets
and moves furniture, searching for the box of jewelry concealed in
the gas range.
The Lord only knows how many scientists scratched their mosquito
bites as they delved for the cause of malaria.
A man who sold his farm to go hunting petroleum used regularly to
skim the "scum" of a cattle pond so that his cows would drink the water,
never dreaming that he stood near one of the richest oil wells in existence.
We generally know the least about the things right tinder our nose.
Take teeth, for instance. Would you ever have guessed that any number
of ailments which have been baffling the doctors for ages, originate in our
molars?
The new dentists are wonder-workers. They've discovered and uncov
ered a whole brigade of diseases nesting in the gums.
Oral surgery is accomplishing marvelous cures in corners of the body
that seem utterly disconnected from the masticating functions.
Lots of stomach troubles start at the front door. The pain in your
toe may spring from a germ colony operating around the root of an indis
posed eye tooth; so may certain types of headache and many varieties
of eye pain," not to mention deafness and, mirabile dictu, liver complaints
and kidney troubles.
No wonder toothache hurts so it's a warning from headquarters.
Verses f
Herbert Kaufman
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It never pays to posa a part,
you're sure to be detected;
The masquerade was never made
That could be quite perfected.
Pretenders all betray them
selves, they're certain to
grow careless;
The best of wigs will slip a brt
and prove its wearer hair
less. While there are acts, there must
be facts
And nothing can erase them.
The things we do
Must come to view;
In time we have to face them.
If you would not be ridiculed
and patronized and pitied
Then always be yourself and
play the role for which
you're fitted.
Copyright. isi, by Herbert Kafa
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