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AND CEDAR SHINGLES
What blessings men may have a
Never was there any very good
The legend which gives us
hundred years from now we do not
reason for Ignorance.
the mermaid fantasy Is perhaps
Today there Is know, and it will not make much
traceable to the dugong, a ma
Around
less than ever.
difference to ns.
rine
animal
resembling
the
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the World
You can 8°
whale.
It has a long crescent
"Let dogs delight to bark and
down the street,
shaped tall and side fins much
or If you are rich enough, sit In bite,” says the old poem.
resembling short arms. The fe
your living room and look at a re
Some of those
male carries her young under
Growls
old poems contain
ligious procession In Russia, a bull
this fin and this habit Is thought
fight In Spain, or a tiger hunt in
and Snarls considerable hard to have given rise to the mer
sense.
India.
maid story.
The growling and biting will go
You can hear the voices and the
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words of great men and women In on In the kennels, but one would
Imagine
by
this
time
that
It
ought
almost every nation In the world.
to be eliminated from the living
likely to make It more successful.
¡Then Shakespeare wrote: “Home
room and the business office.
If, as you are advancing in years,
keeping youth have ever homely wits,"
he could not foresee a time when
Tempers are not easy to keep. But you get grouchy, be careful.
home-keeping youth, and adults for when you realise that the minute you
So cheer up. It can’t hurt you.
that matter, could sharpen their wits lose your mental balance you stop And it will probably do you no end
by looking at the world by means of thinking clearly, perhaps you will pul of good.
tiny sparks that may be carried from
one end of it to another.
But although these opportunities
are here, they will prove of scant
value If people do not make use of
them.
And comparatively few people
do.
I think that the speakies are ex
cellent, many of them.
Even If their stories are too often
florid, their settings enable one to
get and keep a wider understanding
of people all around the world than
they could ever gain by mere read
ing and using their imaginations.
The imagination has to have
something to Imagine, or It Is not
very useful.
There Is little doubt that within
a comparatively few years we shall
have sight with our sound.
That means that we can look
across the sea and witness events
In foreign countries while they are
actually happening.
We shall be able to look out on
the ocean, and see friends and ac
quaintances walking decks that are
a thousand miles away from us.
And they will be able to look at
us. If they like us enough to do It,
and to hear what we are saying to
them.
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I am not convinced that another
war will come immediately. I am
not persuaded that it will come at
all.
a stronger curb on your utterances.
I have worked In many offices, un
der many men. Never have I known
a growler or a snarler who
wouldn't have got more and better
work out of those under him If he
had been a little more tolerant of
mistakes, and a little more sparing
of hard words.
In the prize ring the man who
loses bls temper loses the fight
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The man who beats bis boy be
cause he has been Impertinent the
woman who slaps her baby because
It gets Into some mischief It knew
no better than to get into, are stor
ing up trouble.
It Is just as sensible to "get mad"
at a root which trips you up while
you are walking through the woods,
or a door which slammed In the
wind and hurt one of your toes.
John Fiske said that George
Washington, on one occasion when
one of the men under him had done
something foolish, threw his hat on
the floor and stamped on It, or did
something of the same Irritated
kind.
But Washington did not loose
any profanity when battles were
going on, and neither did Grant or
Lee or any other great generals.
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1 have heard that anger really
breeds poisons In the system.
Certainly It breeds poisons In the
soul, poisons that are likely to prove
very harmful.
Learn, If you can, to accept mis
fortunes, even failures, with phllos
ophy.
Mediterranean Sea of Age»
There is only one sea that has
been contemporary with all his
tory—the Mediterranean. The Pa
cific and the Atlantic have been
known to us for less than a thou
sand years, but the “Mare Med
Iterranean” has been "the Great
Sea” from the unremembered past
The ancient nations which ruled
the waves — Phoenicians, Cartha
glnlans, Greeks, Romans, Venetians
—were all Mediterranean peoples
It is the sea of the ages. On Its
waters Odysseus journeyed home
from Troy, and Aeneas made his
eventful voyages. It bore Caesar’s
prows as he set forth to conquer
and carried the argosies of Byzan
tium as they brought borne th"
wealth of earliest commerce.
NOT WET YET
But to prevent it, and at the same
time to avail ourselves of all the
possibilities for happiness which
have been created by thinking and
Learn to forget hard words that
studying men, we have got to get
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rid of international disputes and are said to you or the mistakes that
’ hatreds, and with the endless en people who are working with or for
"You ask me to kiss you? Why, I
hardly know you.”
deavor to gain new territory which you or over you may make.
Happiness is one of our heritages.
nations would not know how to use
“That's Just it. What quicker way
It make* life pleasant, and it is to get acquainted?”
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