la/anted 
 
 Nixon Wafceman 
 
 ,\ 
 
 The beautiful girl 
 
 Is the one whose sweet grace 
 Shines forth in her deeds 
 
 As it does in her face

 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 HN1V. W CAUF. LIBRARY. I.OS ANOELE*
 
 OTHER BOOKS 
 
 BY NIXON WATERMAN 
 
 "BOY WANTED" 
 
 A Book of Cheerful Counsel 
 A BOOK OF VERSES 
 IN MERRY MOOD 
 
 A Book of Cheerful Rhymes 
 SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD 
 
 FORBES & COMPANY, CHICAGO
 
 MARTHA WASHINGTON
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 A BOOK OF FRIENDLY THOUGHTS 
 
 BY 
 
 NIXON WATERMAN 
 
 AUTHOR or "BOY WANTED," 
 "A BOOK or VERSES," "IN 
 
 MERRY MOOD," KTC. 
 
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 FORBES AND COMPANY 
 1913
 
 COPTKIOHT. 1910. BT 
 FOBBES AND COMPANY
 
 TO 
 
 THE GIRL WANTED, WHO, 
 
 BY HER BEAUTIFUL WAYS, 
 
 SHALL BRIGHTEN AND GLADDEN 
 
 LiFE's WONDERFUL DAYS. 
 
 2133593
 
 PREFACE 
 
 'T'HE pleasure of giving to the public this volume has 
 been brought about by the publication of the author's 
 work entitled, "Boy Wanted," which he presented as "a 
 book of cheerful counsel to his young friends and such of 
 the seniors as are not too old to accept a bit of friendly 
 admonition." 
 
 The warm welcome accorded that book, and the many 
 requests it has called forth for a similar companion volume 
 for girls, has prompted the author to prepare the series of 
 papers offered herewith, with the hope that they, too, may 
 find as many youthful friends (between the ages of 
 seven and seventy) awaiting them. 
 
 In the present volume, as in "Boy Wanted," the fine 
 prose thoughts are selected from the writings of a very 
 large number of the world's foremost teachers and philoso- 
 phers of all times, while the author, with a due sense of 
 modesty, lays claim to all such examples of versification 
 as are to be found within this book. 
 
 In these days when the women of the world, with such 
 splendid success, are writing books for the moral guidance 
 and spiritual uplift of the men and youth of every land, an 
 author need not feel called upon to apologize when he pre- 
 sumes to address his remarks to readers of the opposite 
 sex, as did John Ruskin, to such fine purpose, in the "Pearls 
 for Young Ladies." 
 
 Since his own mother, wife, sisters, daughters and 
 many of his best friends belong to the feminine half of
 
 humanity, any man who is a careful observer, a logical 
 reasoner, and an adequate writer ought to be able to say 
 something of worth and interest to the women and girls to 
 whom he is permitted to address himself. If in this volume 
 the author is able to impart to others, in a small degree, the 
 beneficent influence he has received through the splendid 
 precepts and noble examples of the women to whom he 
 owes so much, he will deem himself grandly rewarded for 
 the labor of love herein set forth. 
 
 Nor is the author unconscious of the great purpose 
 that should underlie the writing of a series of papers de- 
 signed to direct the daughters of our land toward the 
 greatest factor in the making and the perpetuity of a nation 
 a noble and beautiful womanhood. For observation has 
 taught the world that 
 
 We 're almost sure to find good men, 
 When, all in all, we choose to take them, 
 
 Are, nearly nine times out of ten, 
 What mothers, wives and sisters make them. 
 
 N. W.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I CHOOSING THE WAY 13 
 
 Starting right. The strength of early impressions. "Environ- 
 ment." The will and the way. Planning the future. "Mother's 
 Apron Strings." 
 
 II ACCOMPLISHMENTS 27 
 
 The ability to do things. Elegant and useful accomplishments. 
 The value of thoroughness. "What Have We Done To-day?" The 
 service of the heart. "Sympathy." "Only A Word." 
 
 III THE JOY OF DOING 45 
 
 The power of enthusiasm. Working with heart and hand. 
 Looking on the bright side. "Just This Minute." Happiness and 
 its relation to health. Paths of sunshine. "The Sculptor." 
 
 IV SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 65 
 
 The desire to do right. The importance of every-day incidents. 
 True culture. "A Rose to the Living." Patience as a virtue. "This 
 Busy World." 
 
 V THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 85 
 
 "Likableness" as a desirable quality. The present the best of all 
 times. The sunshiny girl. "The Prize Winner." The necessity 
 of being prepared. "The Conqueror." 
 
 VI A MERRY HEART . 105 
 
 Smoothing the way with a smile. The unselfishness of happi- 
 ness. "The Point of View." The joy of living for others. "The 
 Better Armor." Cultivating happiness. "Song or Sigh." 
 
 VII GOLDEN HABITS 125 
 
 Good habits and bad. The strength of habit "True Gentility." 
 Manners and personality. "What Are You Going to Do?" The 
 worth of good breeding. "Drudgery." 
 
 VIII THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 145 
 
 The inspiration of success. Building day by day. "Morning 
 Gates." The value of a purpose. Women's growing sphere. "Man, 
 Poor Man." Opportunities and responsibilities. "Morning Prayer."
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 MARTHA WASHINGTON FRONTISPIECE 
 
 QUEEN VICTORIA PAGE 26 
 
 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE "44 
 
 LOUISA M. ALCOTT _. "64 
 
 JULIA WARD HOWE ..." 84 
 
 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "104 
 
 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE "124 
 
 GEORGE ELIOT . "144
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 S, my good girl, I am very glad that 
 we are to have the opportunity to 
 enjoy a friendly chat through the me- 
 dium of the printed page, with its many 
 tongues of type. 
 
 Just here I have a favor to ask of you, 
 and that is that you will consent to let us 
 talk chiefly about yourself and the man- 
 ner in which you are going to live all the 
 golden to-morrows that are awaiting 
 you. 
 
 In a discussion of the topics which are 
 to follow, it will be well for you to under- 
 stand that there has never been a period 
 in the world's history when a girl was of 
 more importance than she is just now. 
 Indeed, many close observers and clear 
 thinkers are of the opinion that there 
 never has been a time when a girl was of 
 
 13 
 
 What can be ex- 
 pressed in words can 
 be expressed in life. 
 THOREAU. 
 
 It is faith in some- 
 thing and enthusiasm 
 for something that 
 makes a life worth 
 looking at. OLIVE* 
 WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 The habit of view- 
 ing things cheerfully, 
 and of thinking about 
 life hopefully, may be 
 made to grow up in 
 us like any other 
 habit. SMILES.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 A laugh is worth a 
 hundred groans in 
 any state of the mar- 
 ket. CHARLES LAMB. 
 
 The old days never 
 come again, because 
 they would be get- 
 ting in the way of the 
 new, better days 
 whose turn it is. 
 GEORGE MACDONALD. 
 
 The man who has 
 learned to take things 
 as they come, and to 
 let go as they depart, 
 has mastered one of 
 the arts of cheerful 
 and contented living. 
 ANONYMOUS. 
 
 quite so much importance as she is to- 
 day. 
 
 Some of our most able writers tell us 
 that we are just on the threshold of "the 
 women's century," and that the great 
 advance the world is to witness in the 
 forthcoming years is to be largely in- 
 spired by, and redound to the glory of, 
 the women of the earth. 
 
 Come what will, the future is suffi- 
 ciently alluring to cause you to cherish 
 it most fondly and to determine that 
 you will make the years that are before 
 you as bright and beautiful and as 
 "worth while" as it is possible for you 
 to do. 
 
 It is a glorious privilege to dwell in 
 the very forefront of time, in the grand- 
 est epoch of the world's history and to 
 feel that we are permitted to be observ- 
 ers of, and if it may so be, active partici- 
 pants in, the fascinating events that are 
 occurring all about us. 
 
 Yet with all the grand achievements 
 that are being encompassed in every 
 field of human endeavor, the world to- 
 day, needs most, that which the world 
 has ever most needed words helpful 
 and true, hearts kind and tender, hands 
 
 14
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 willing and ready to lift the less fortu- 
 nate over the rough places in the paths 
 of life, goodness and grace, gentle 
 women and gentlemen. 
 
 And so here we find ourselves, just at 
 this particular spot and at this very mo- 
 ment, with all of the days, months, 
 years yes, the whole of eternity still 
 to be lived! 
 
 At first thought it seems like a great 
 problem, does this having to decide how 
 we are going to live out all the great 
 future that is before us. Yet, when we 
 come to think it over, we see that it is 
 not so difficult after all; for, fortunate 
 mortals that we are, we shall never 
 have to live it but one moment at a time. 
 And, better still, that one moment is al- 
 ways to be the one that is right here and 
 just now where we can see it and study it 
 and shape it and do with it as we will. 
 
 Just this minute! 
 
 Surely it will not require a great deal 
 of effort on the part of any one of us to 
 live the next sixty seconds as they 
 should be lived. And having lived one 
 moment properly, it ought to be still 
 easier for us to live the next one as well, 
 and then the next, and the next until, 
 
 15 
 
 Cheerfulness is the 
 very flower of health. 
 SCHOPENHAUER. 
 
 There are people 
 who do not know how 
 to waste their time 
 alone, and hence be- 
 come the scourge of 
 busy people. DE 
 BONALD. 
 
 Not what has hap- 
 pened to myself to- 
 day, but what has 
 happened to others 
 through me that 
 should be my thought. 
 FREDERICK DEERING 
 BLAKE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Let us be of good 
 cheer, remembering 
 that the misfortunes 
 hardest to bear are 
 those which never 
 come. LOWILL. 
 
 The highest luxury 
 of which the human 
 mind is sensible is to 
 call smiles upon the 
 face of miser y. 
 ANONYMOUS. 
 
 He who is plen- 
 teously provided for 
 from within, needs 
 but little from with- 
 out GOETHE. 
 
 finally, we continue to live them rightly, 
 just as a matter of habit. 
 
 When we come to understand clearly 
 that time is the thing of which lives are 
 made, and that time is divided into a 
 certain number of units, we can then 
 pretty closely figure out, by simple pro- 
 cesses in arithmetic, how much life is 
 going to be worth to us. 
 
 What we are doing this minute, mul- 
 tiplied by sixty, tells us what we are 
 likely to accomplish in an hour. 
 
 What we do in an hour, multiplied by 
 the number of working hours in every 
 twenty-four, tells us what we may ex- 
 pect to achieve in a day. 
 
 What we do in a day, multiplied by 
 three hundred and sixty-five, shows us 
 what it is probable we shall accomplish 
 in a year. 
 
 What we do in a year, when multiplied 
 by the number of years of youth and 
 health and strength, we have reason to 
 believe are yet before us, sets forth the 
 result we may hope to secure in a life- 
 time. For it is not hard for us to com- 
 prehend that
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 If, ever, while this minute 's here, 
 
 We use it circumspectly, 
 We '11 live this hour, this day, this year, 
 
 Yes, all our lives, correctly. 
 
 As the work of the builder is preceded 
 by the plans of the architect, so the deeds 
 we do in life are preceded by the 
 thoughts we think. The thought is the 
 plan ; the deed is the structure. 
 
 "As the twig is bent the tree is in- 
 clined." Wordsworth tells us: "The 
 child is father of the man." Which 
 means, also, that the child is mother of 
 the woman. That which we dream to- 
 day we may do to-morrow. The toys of 
 childhood become the tools of our ma- 
 turer years. 
 
 So it follows that an important part of 
 the work and occupation of one's early 
 years should be to learn to have right 
 thoughts, which, later on in life, are to 
 become right actions. 
 
 The pleasant, helpful girl is most 
 likely to become the pleasant, helpful 
 woman. The seed that is sown in the 
 springtime of life determines the char- 
 acter of the harvest that must be reaped 
 in the autumn. 
 
 17 
 
 Each day should be 
 distinguished by at 
 least one particular 
 act of love. LAVATER. 
 
 Every person is re- 
 sponsible for all the 
 good within the scope 
 of his abilities, and 
 for no more; and 
 none can tell whose 
 sphere is the largest. 
 GAIL HAMILTON. 
 
 Work is the very 
 salt of life, not only 
 preserving it from de- 
 cay, but also giving it 
 tone and flavor. 
 HUGH BLACK.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Treat your friends 
 for what you know 
 them to be. Regard 
 no surfaces. Con- 
 sider not what they 
 did, but what they in- 
 tended. THOREAU. 
 
 Work! It is the 
 sole law of the world. 
 EMILE ZOLA. 
 
 No lot is so hard, 
 no aspect of things is 
 so grim, but it relaxes 
 before a hearty laugh. 
 GEORCK S. MEK- 
 
 RJAM. 
 
 The cultivation of the right point of 
 view means so much in determining 
 one's attitude toward all that the years 
 may bring. Three centuries ago it was 
 written: "What is one man's poison 
 is another's meat or drink." So there 
 are many things in life that bring pleas- 
 ure to some and distress to others. 
 
 There is a beautiful little story about 
 a shepherd boy who was keeping his 
 sheep in a flowery meadow, and because 
 his heart was happy, he sang so loudly 
 that the surrounding hills echoed back 
 his song. One morning the king, who 
 was out hunting, spoke to him and said : 
 "Why are you so happy, my boy?" 
 
 "Why should I not be happy?" an- 
 swered the boy. "Our king is not richer 
 than I." 
 
 "Indeed," said the king, "pray tell me 
 of your great possessions." 
 
 The shepherd boy answered: "The 
 sun in the bright blue sky shines as 
 brightly upon me as upon the king. The 
 flowers upon the mountain and the grass 
 in the valley grow and bloom to gladden 
 my sight as well as his. I would not take 
 a fortune for my hands ; my eyes are of 
 more value than all the precious stones 
 18
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 in the world. I have food and clothing, 
 too. Am I not, therefore, as rich as the 
 king?" 
 
 "You are right," said the king, with a 
 smile, "but your greatest treasure is 
 your contented heart. Keep it so, and 
 you will always be happy." 
 
 So much of life's happiness depends 
 upon one's immediate surroundings that 
 wherever it is a matter of choice they 
 should be made to conform as nearly as 
 possible to the thoughts and tastes one 
 wishes to cultivate. As a matter of 
 course but few persons can have just 
 the surroundings they would like, but it 
 is possible that by pleasant thinking all 
 of us can make the surroundings we have 
 more likable. We can, at least, be 
 thoughtful of the character of the friends 
 and companions we choose to have with 
 us, and it is they who are the most vital 
 and influential part of our 
 
 ENVIRONMENT 
 
 Shine or shadow, flame or frost, 
 Zephyr-kissed or tempest-tossed, 
 Night or day, or dusk or dawn, 
 We are strangely lived upon. 
 
 Concentration is the 
 secret of strength. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 Anybody can do 
 things with an "if" 
 the thing is to do 
 them without. PAT- 
 RICK FLYNN. 
 
 An aim in life is the 
 only fortune worth 
 the finding; and it is 
 not to be found in 
 foreign lands, but in 
 the heart itself. R. L. 
 STEVENSON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The man without a 
 purpose is like a ship 
 without a rudder; a 
 waif, a nothing, a no- 
 man. Have a purpose 
 in life ... and having 
 it, throw such strength 
 of mind and muscle 
 into thy work as has 
 been given thee. 
 CARLYLE. 
 
 It is better to be 
 worn out with work 
 in a thronged com- 
 munity than to perish 
 of inaction in a stag- 
 nant solitude. MRS. 
 GASKELL. 
 
 The advantage of 
 leisure is mainly that 
 we have the power of 
 choosing our own 
 work ; not certainly 
 that it confers any 
 privilege of idleness. 
 LORD AVEBURV. 
 
 Mystic builders in the brain 
 Mirth and sorrow, joy and pain, 
 Grief and gladness, gloom and light 
 Build, oh, build my heart aright! 
 
 O ye friends, with pleasant smiles, 
 Help me build my precious whiles ; 
 Bring me blocks of gold to make 
 Strength that wrong shall never shake. 
 
 Day by day I gather from 
 All you give me. I become 
 Yet a part of all I meet 
 In the fields and in the street. 
 
 Bring me songs of hope and youth, 
 Bring me bands of steel and truth, 
 Bring me love wherein to find 
 Charity for all mankind. 
 
 Place within my hands the tools 
 And the Master Builder's rules, 
 That the walls we fashion may 
 Stand forever and a day. 
 
 Help me build a palace where 
 All is wonderfully fair 
 Built of truth, the while, above, 
 Shines the pinnacle of love. 
 
 If we are to receive help and strength 
 
 from our friends we must lend them 
 
 help and strength in return. And since 
 
 the deeds of others inspire us we should 
 
 20
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 not deem it impossible to make our deeds 
 inspire them. 
 
 Helen Keller, who, though deaf and 
 blind, has achieved so many wonderful 
 and beautiful victories over the barriers 
 that have beset her, says: "My share in 
 the work of the world may be limited, 
 but the fact that it is work makes it pre- 
 cious . . . Darwin could work only half 
 an hour at a time; yet in many diligent 
 half-hours he laid anew the foundations 
 of philosophy . . . Green, the historian, 
 tells us that the world is moved along, 
 not only by the mighty shoves of its 
 heroes, but also by the aggregate of the 
 tiny pushes of each honest worker." 
 
 In the same spirit the great French 
 savant, Emile Zola, penned these words: 
 "Let each one accept his task, a task 
 which should fill his life. It may be 
 very humble; it will not be the less use- 
 ful. Never mind what it is, so long as it 
 exists and keeps you erect ! When you 
 have regulated it, without excess just 
 the quantity you are able to accomplish 
 each day it will cause you to live in 
 health and in joy." 
 
 Some wise observer has said that one 
 of the chief aims of life should be to 
 
 21 
 
 Suffering becomes 
 beautiful, when any 
 one bears great ca- 
 lamities with cheer- 
 fulness, not through 
 insensibility, but 
 through greatness of 
 mind. ARISTOTLE. 
 
 Character is a per- 
 fectly educated will. 
 NOVALJS. 
 
 One of the most 
 massive and enduring 
 gratifications is the 
 feeling of personal 
 worth, ever afresh, 
 brought into con- 
 sciousness by effectual 
 action ; and an idle life 
 is balked of its hopes 
 partly because it lacks 
 this. HERBERT SPEN-
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Truth is always 
 consistent with itself, 
 and needs nothing to 
 help it out TILLOT- 
 SON. 
 
 He that is choice of 
 his time will be choice 
 of his company and 
 choice of his actions. 
 JEREMY TAYLOR. 
 
 Our character is 
 our will ; for what we 
 will we are. ARCH- 
 BISHOP MANNING. 
 
 learn how to grow old gracefully. This 
 knowledge is deemed by many to be a 
 great secret and a most valuable one. 
 Yet it can hardly be called a secret since 
 every girl and boy as well as every per- 
 son of maturer years must know that it 
 is but the working out of the laws of 
 cause and effect. When character-build- 
 ing is begun on the right lines and those 
 lines are followed to the end the result 
 is as certain as it is beautiful. When 
 we see a grandmother whose life has 
 been lived on the happy plane of pure 
 thoughts and kind deeds we ought not 
 to wonder that her old age is as exqui- 
 site as was the perfect bloom of her 
 youth. We need not marvel how it has 
 come about that her life has been a long 
 and happy one. Here is the "secret:" 
 
 She knew how to forget disagreeable 
 things. 
 
 She kept her nerves well in hand and 
 inflicted them on no one. 
 
 She mastered the art of saying pleas- 
 ant things. 
 
 She did not expect too much from her 
 friends. 
 
 She made whatever work came to her 
 congenial. 
 22
 
 CHOOSING THE WAY 
 
 She retained her faith in others and 
 did not believe all the world wicked and 
 unkind. 
 
 She relieved the miserable and sym- 
 pathized with the sorrowful. 
 
 She never forgot that kind words and 
 a smile cost nothing, but are priceless 
 treasures to the discouraged. 
 
 She did unto others as she would be 
 done by, and now that old age has come 
 to her, and there is a halo of white hair 
 about her brow, she is loved and consid- 
 ered. This is the "secret" of a long life 
 and a happy one. 
 
 Fortunate is the girl who is permitted 
 to dwell within the living presence of 
 such a matron and to be directed by her 
 into the paths of usefulness and sun- 
 shine. And thrice fortunate is every 
 girl who has for her guide and counselor 
 a loving mother to whom she can go for 
 light and wisdom with which to meet all 
 the problems of life. 
 
 "Mother knows." Her earnest, lov- 
 ing words are to be cherished above all 
 others as many men and many women 
 have learned after the long miles and 
 the busy years have crept between them 
 and "the old folks at home." Do not, 
 
 23 
 
 H e overcomes a 
 stout enemy that over- 
 comes his own anger. 
 CHILD. 
 
 Good company and 
 good conversation are 
 the sinews of virtue. 
 STEPHEN ALLEN. 
 
 If you have great 
 talents, industry will 
 improve them; if you 
 have but moderate 
 abilities, industry will 
 supply their deficency. 
 Nothing is denied to 
 well directed labor ; 
 nothing is to be ob- 
 tained without it. 
 JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 If you are doing 
 any real good you 
 cannot escape the re- 
 ward of your service. 
 PATRICK FLYNN. 
 
 Simplicity and 
 plainness are the soul 
 of elegance. DICK- 
 
 Happiness is one of 
 the virtues which the 
 people of all nation- 
 alities and every pur- 
 suit appreciate. J o E 
 MITCHELL CHAPPLE. 
 
 O Girl ! I pray you, ever grow impatient, 
 as boys sometimes do, to be set beyond 
 the protecting care of 
 
 MOTHER'S APRON-STRINGS 
 
 When I was but a careless youth, 
 
 I thought the truly great 
 Were those who had attained, in truth, 
 
 To man's mature estate. 
 And none my soul so sadly tried 
 
 Or spoke such bitter things 
 As he who said that I was tied 
 
 To mother's apron-strings. 
 
 I loved my mother, yet it seemed 
 
 That I must break away 
 And find the broader world I dreamed 
 
 Beyond her presence lay. 
 But I have sighed and I have cried 
 
 O'er all the cruel stings 
 I would have missed had I been tied 
 
 To mother's apron-strings. 
 
 O happy, trustful girls and boys ! 
 
 The mother's way is best. 
 She leads you 'mid the fairest joys, 
 
 Through paths of peace and rest. 
 If you would have the safest guide, 
 
 And drink from sweetest springs, 
 Oh, keep your hearts forever tied 
 
 To mother's apron-strings. 
 
 24
 
 QUEEN VICTORIA
 
 CHAPTER II 
 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
 
 1 AM sure that every girl wishes to 
 become accomplished, and I am quite 
 as certain that every girl can become so 
 if she will. 
 
 My dictionary defines an accomplish- 
 ment as an "acquirement or attainment 
 that tends to perfect or equip in charac- 
 ter, manners, or person." 
 
 Surely every girl can do something, 
 or has acquired some special line of 
 knowledge, that is covered by this broad 
 definition. 
 
 It means that every girl who can 
 sweep a room; read French or German 
 or English as it should be read; bake 
 a loaf of bread ; play tennis ; darn a stock- 
 ing; play the violin or pianoforte; give 
 the names of flowers and birds and but- 
 terflies ; write a neat, well-composed let- 
 ter, either in longhand or shorthand; 
 draw or paint pictures; make a bed or 
 
 Only to the pure 
 and the true does Na- 
 t u r e resign herself 
 and reveal her se- 
 crets. GOETHE. 
 
 Every man carries 
 with him the world in 
 which he must live, 
 the stage and the 
 scenery for his own 
 play. F. MARION 
 CRAWFORD. 
 
 The best is yet un- 
 written, for we grow 
 from more to more. 
 SAM WALTER Foss.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Notwithstanding a 
 faculty be born with 
 us, there are several 
 methods for cultivat- 
 ing and improving it. 
 ADD ISDN. 
 
 Every truth in the 
 universe makes a close 
 joint with every other 
 truth. M E L v i N L. 
 SEVERY. 
 
 All flimsy, shallow, 
 and superficial work 
 is a lie, of which a 
 man ought to be 
 ashamed. JOHN 
 STUABT BLACKIE. 
 
 do one or more of a thousand and one 
 other things is accomplished The 
 more things she can do and the greater 
 the number of subjects on which she is 
 informed, the more highly is she accom- 
 plished. 
 
 It is understood, as a matter of course, 
 that thoroughness in one's accomplish- 
 ments is the true measure of his worth. 
 One who knows a few subjects very 
 well is no doubt more accomplished than 
 one who has only a superficial "smatter" 
 of knowledge concerning many. 
 
 We can all readily understand how 
 much more pleasing it is to hear a true 
 virtuoso play the violin or pianoforte 
 than it is to listen to a beginner who can 
 perform indifferently on a number of 
 instruments. 
 
 "A little diamond is worth a mountain 
 of glass." 
 
 Quality is the thing that counts. 
 
 The desire and disposition to do a 
 thing well, coupled with a firm deter- 
 mination, are pretty sure to bring the 
 ability necessary for achieving the 
 wished-for end. The will is lacking 
 more often than is the way. 
 
 It is a matter of frequent comment
 
 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
 
 that we usually expect too much of the 
 average young and attractive girl in the 
 way of accomplishments. Because she 
 is pleasing in her general appearance we 
 are apt to feel a sense of disappointment 
 if we find that her qualities of mind do 
 not equal her outward charms. 
 
 Charles Lamb says: "I know that 
 sweet children are the sweetest things 
 in nature," and adds, "but the prettier 
 the kind of a thing is, the more desir- 
 able it is that it should be pretty of its 
 kind." And so it is with girls who are 
 bright and blithe and beautiful; the 
 world would give them every charming 
 quality of mind and heart to match the 
 grace of face and figure. 
 
 Hence we find that the girl who is 
 most fondly wanted, by the members of 
 her own family, by her schoolmates, and 
 by all with whom she shall form an 
 acquaintance, is the one who is as pleas- 
 ing in her manners as she is beautiful 
 in her physical features. 
 
 Of all the accomplishments it is pos- 
 sible for a girl to possess, that of being 
 pleasant and gracious to those about her 
 is the greatest and most desirable. 
 "There is no beautifier of the complex- 
 
 29 
 
 When we cease to 
 learn, we cease to be 
 interesting. JOHN 
 LANCASTER SPALDING. 
 
 The workless peo- 
 ple are the worthless 
 people. WM. C. GAN- 
 
 Our ideals are our 
 better selves. BHON- 
 SON ALCOTT.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 All literature art, 
 and science are vain, 
 and worse, if they do 
 not enable you to be 
 glad, and glad, justly. 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 All things else are 
 of the earth, but love 
 is of the sky. WIL- 
 L i A M STANLEY 
 BRAITHWAITE. 
 
 To fill the hour, 
 that is happiness. 
 EMERSON. 
 
 ion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to 
 scatter joy and not pain around us," 
 says Emerson. 
 
 It is possible for persons to acquire a 
 great deal of information and to become 
 skillful in many things and still be un- 
 loved by those with whom they are as- 
 sociated. 
 
 The heart needs to be educated even 
 more than the mind, for it is the heart 
 that dominates and colors and gives 
 character and meaning to the whole of 
 life. Even the kindest of words have 
 little meaning unless there is a kind 
 heart to make them stand for something 
 that will live. 
 
 "You will find as you look back 
 upon your life," says Drummond, "that 
 the moments that stand out, the mo- 
 ments when you have really lived, are 
 the moments when you have done things 
 in a spirit of love. As memory scans 
 the past, above and beyond all the tran- 
 sitory pleasures of life, there leap for- 
 ward those supreme hours when you 
 have been enabled to do unnoticed kind- 
 nesses to those round about you, things 
 too trifling to speak about, but which 
 you feel have entered into your eternal 
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 life . . . Everything else in our lives is 
 transitory. Every other good is vis- 
 ionary. But the acts of love which no 
 man knows about, or can ever know 
 about they never fail." 
 
 It is the ability to do the many little 
 acts of kindness, and to make the most 
 of all the opportunities for gladding the 
 lives of others, that constitute the finest 
 accomplishment any girl can acquire. 
 
 It often happens that the thought of 
 the great kindnesses we should like to 
 do, and which we mean to do, "some- 
 time" in the days to come, keeps us from 
 seeing the many little favors we could, 
 if we would, grant to those just about us 
 at the present time. Yet we all know 
 that it is not the things we are going 
 to do that really count. It is the thing 
 that we do do that is worth while. 
 
 No doubt we should all be much more 
 thoughtful of our many present oppor- 
 tunities and make better use of them 
 were we frequently to ask ourselves, 
 
 WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO-DAY? 
 
 We shall do so much in the years to come, 
 But what have we done to-day? 
 31 
 
 Ah, well that in a 
 wintry hour the heart 
 can sing a summer 
 song. EDWARD FRAN- 
 CIS BURNS. 
 
 Avast there! Keep 
 a bright lookout for- 
 ward and good luck 
 to you. DICKENS. 
 
 Genius is the tran- 
 scendent capacity for 
 taking trouble first of 
 all. CARLYLE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 For dreams, to 
 those of steadfast 
 hope and will, are 
 things wherewith they 
 build their world of 
 fact. ALICIA K. VAN 
 BUREN. 
 
 No man can rest 
 who has nothing to 
 do. SAM WALTER 
 Foss. 
 
 Love is the leaven 
 of existence. MELVIN 
 L. SEVERY. 
 
 We shall give our gold in a princely sum, 
 
 But what did we give to-day? 
 We shall lift the heart and dry the tear, 
 We shall plant a hope in the place of fear, 
 We shall speak the words of love and cheer ; 
 But what did we speak to-day ? 
 
 We shall be so kind in the after while, 
 
 But what have we been to-day? 
 We shall bring each lonely life a smile, 
 But what have we brought to-day? 
 We shall give to truth a grander birth, 
 And to steadfast faith a deeper worth, 
 We shall feed the hungering souls of earth ; 
 But whom have we fed to-day? 
 
 We shall reap such joys in the by and by, 
 But what have we sown to-day? 
 
 We shall build us mansions in the sky, 
 But what have we built to-day? 
 
 T is sweet in idle dreams to bask, 
 
 But here and now do we do our task? 
 
 Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask, 
 "What have we done to-day ?" 
 
 Among the every-day accomplish- 
 ments which everyone should wish to 
 possess is a knowledge of the fine art of 
 smiling. To know how and when to 
 smile, not too much and not too little, 
 is a fine mental and social possession. 
 
 Hawthorne says: "If I value myself 
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 on anything it is on having a smile that 
 children love." Any one possessing a 
 smile that children as well as others may 
 love is to be congratulated. A pleasant, 
 smiling face is of great worth to its pos- 
 sessor and to the world that is priv- 
 ileged to look upon it. 
 
 A smile is an indication that the one 
 who is smiling is happy and every happy 
 person helps to make every one else 
 happy. Yet we all understand that hap- 
 piness does not mean smiling all the 
 time. There is truly nothing more dis- 
 tressing than a giggler or one who is for- 
 ever grimacing. "True happiness," says 
 one of our most cheerful writers, "means 
 the joyous sparkle in the eye and the 
 little, smiling lines in the face that are 
 so quickly and easily distinguished from 
 the lines produced by depression and 
 frowning that grow deeper and deeper 
 until they become as hard and severe as 
 if they were cut in stone." Such happi- 
 ness is one of the virtues which people 
 of all classes and ages, the world over, 
 admire and enjoy. "We do not know 
 what ripples of healing are set in mo- 
 tion," says Henry Drummond, "when 
 we simply smile on one another. Chris- 
 
 33 
 
 Work is no dis- 
 grace but idleness is. 
 HESIOD. 
 
 Shoddy work is not 
 only a wrong to a 
 man's own personal 
 integrity, hurting his 
 character; but also it 
 is a wrong to society. 
 Truthfulness in work 
 is as much demanded 
 a s truthfulness i n 
 speech. HUGH 
 BLACK. 
 
 The flowering of 
 civilization is in the 
 finished man, the man 
 of sense, of grace, of 
 accomplishment, of 
 social power the gen- 
 tleman. RALPH WAL- 
 DO EMERSON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 It is all very well to 
 growl at the colcl- 
 heartedness of the 
 world, but which of 
 us can truthfully say 
 that he has done as 
 much for others as 
 others have done for 
 him? PATRICK 
 FLYNN. 
 
 A man is relieved 
 and gay when he has 
 put his heart into his 
 work, and done his 
 best ; but what he has 
 said or done other- 
 wise, shall give him 
 no peace. EMERSON. 
 
 Some people meet 
 us like the mountain 
 air and thrill our souls 
 with freshness and de- 
 light. NATHAN HAS- 
 KELL DOLE. 
 
 tianity wants nothing so much in the 
 world as sunny people." 
 
 Most persons are very quick to see 
 whether or not a smile is genuine or is 
 manufactured and put on like a mask 
 for the occasion. The automatic, stock- 
 in-trade smile hardly ever fits the face 
 that tries to wear it. It is a little too 
 wide or sags at the corners or some- 
 thing else is wrong with it. 
 
 A smile may be as deep as a well and 
 as wide as a church door; it may be 
 "sweeter than honey," but the instant 
 we detect that it is not genuine, it loses 
 its charm and becomes, in fact, much 
 worse than no smile at all. Smiles that 
 are genuine are always just right both in 
 quality and quantity. So the only really 
 safe rule is for us not to smile until we 
 feel like it and then we shall get on all 
 right. And we ought to feel like smil- 
 ing whenever we look into the honest 
 face of any fellow being. A smile passes 
 current in every country as a mark of 
 distinction. 
 
 But it is even possible to overdo in 
 
 the matter of smiling. "I can't think of 
 
 anything more irritating to the average 
 
 human being," says Lydia Horton 
 
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 Knowles, "than an incessant, everlast- 
 ing smile. There are people who have 
 it. When things go wrong they have 
 a patient, martyr-like smile, and when 
 things go right they have a dutifully 
 pleasant smile which has all the appear- 
 ance of being mechanical, and purely a 
 pose. Now I think the really intelligent 
 person is the one who can look as though 
 he realized the significance of various 
 incidents or happenings and who can 
 look sorrowful, even, if the occasion de- 
 mands it. It is not a pleasant thing 
 to suffer mentally or physically, for in- 
 stance, and have any one come up to you 
 with a smile of patient, sweet condol- 
 ence. The average man or woman does 
 not want smiles when he or she is uncom- 
 fortable. We are apt to remember that 
 it is easy enough to smile when it is 
 somebody else who has the pain. I ven- 
 ture to say that a smile given at the 
 wrong moment is far more dangerous to 
 human happiness than the lack of a smile 
 at any given psychological moment. 
 There is a time and a place for all things, 
 even a smile." 
 
 No expression of feeling is of much 
 moment without a warm heart and an 
 
 35 
 
 I let the willing 
 winter bring his jew- 
 eled buds of frost and 
 snow. EDWARD FRAN- 
 CIS BURNS. 
 
 The world is un- 
 finished ; let 's mold it 
 a bit. SAM WALTER 
 Foss. 
 
 Our wishes are pre- 
 sentiments of the ca- 
 pabilities which 1 i e 
 within us and har- 
 bingers of that which 
 we shall be in a condi- 
 tion to perform. 
 GOETHE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Do not let us over- 
 look the wayside flow- 
 ers. JOE MITCHELL 
 CHAPPLE. 
 
 Quiet minds cannot 
 be perplexed or fright- 
 ened, but go on in for- 
 tune or misfortune at 
 their own private 
 pace, like a clock dur- 
 ing a thunderstorm. 
 R. L. STEVENSON. 
 
 The wealth of a 
 man is the number of 
 things which he loves 
 and blesses, and by 
 which he is loved and 
 blessed. CARLYLE. 
 
 intelligent thought behind it. The seem- 
 ingly mechanical, automatic expressions 
 of feeling and of interest in our affairs 
 are sometimes even harder to bear than 
 an out and out attitude of indifference. 
 The thing that really warms and moves 
 us is a touch of heartfelt, intelligent 
 
 SYMPATHY 
 
 When the clouds begin to lower, 
 
 That 's a splendid time to smile ; 
 But your smile will lose its power 
 
 If you 're smiling all the while. 
 Now and then a sober season, 
 
 Now and then a jolly laugh : 
 We like best, and there 's a reason, 
 
 A good, wholesome half and half. 
 
 When the other one has trouble, 
 
 We should feel that trouble, too, 
 For, were we with joy to bubble 
 
 'Mid his grief, 't would hardly do. 
 Let us own that keen discerning 
 
 That can see and bear a part ; 
 For the whole wide world is yearning 
 
 For a sympathetic heart. 
 
 Nothing is more restful and refreshing 
 
 than a friendly glance or a kindly word 
 
 offered to us in the midst of our daily 
 
 rounds of duty. And since we are not 
 
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 often in a position to grant great favors 
 we should not fail to cultivate the habit 
 of bestowing small ones whenever we 
 can. It is in giving the many little lifts 
 along the way that we shall be able to 
 lighten many burdens. 
 
 I do not know it to be a fact, but I 
 have read it somewhere in the books 
 that the human heart rests nine hours 
 out of every twenty-four. It manages 
 to steal little bits of rest between beats, 
 and thus it is ever refreshed and able to 
 go on performing the work nature has 
 assigned for it to do. 
 
 And therein is a first-rate lesson for 
 most persons, who if they cannot do 
 something of considerable moment are 
 disposed to do nothing at all. They for- 
 get that it is the brief three-minute rests 
 that enable the mountain-climber to 
 press on till he reaches the top whereas 
 longer periods of inactivity might serve 
 to stiffen his limbs and impede his pro- 
 gress. 
 
 Wise are they who, like the human 
 heart, sprinkle rest and kindness and 
 heart's-ease all through their daily 
 tasks. They weave a bright thread of 
 thankful happiness through the web 
 
 37 
 
 The stoical scheme 
 o f supplying our 
 wants by lopping off 
 our desires is like 
 cutting off our feet 
 when we want shoes. 
 JONATHAN SWIFT. 
 
 Whatever is worth 
 doing at all, is worth 
 doing well. LORD 
 CHESTERFIELD. 
 
 Indulge not in vain 
 regrets for the past, 
 in vainer resolves for 
 the future act, act in 
 the present F. W. 
 ROBERTSON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The past cannot be 
 changed. The future 
 is yet in our power. 
 HUGH WHITE. 
 
 The man who can- 
 not be practical and 
 mix his religion with 
 his business is either 
 in the wrong religion 
 or in the wrong busi- 
 ness. PATRICK 
 FLYNN. 
 
 I don't think there 
 is a pleasure in the 
 world that can be 
 compared with an 
 honest joy in con- 
 quering a difficult 
 task. MARGARET E. 
 SANGSTER. 
 
 and woof of life's pattern. They are 
 never too busy to say a kind word or to 
 do a gentle deed. They may be com- 
 pelled to sigh betimes, but amid their 
 sighs are smiles that drive away the 
 cares. They find sunbeams scattered 
 in the trail of every cloud. They gather 
 flowers where others see nothing but 
 weeds. They pluck little sprigs of rest 
 where others find only thorns of distress. 
 
 After the manner of the human heart, 
 the)' make much of the little opportu- 
 nities presented to them. They rest that 
 they may have strength for others. 
 They gather sunshine with which to dis- 
 pel the shadows about them. 
 
 The grandest conception of life is to 
 esteem it as an opportunity for making 
 others happy. He who is most true to 
 his higher self is truest to the race. The 
 lamp that shines brightest gives the most 
 light to all about it. Thoreau says : "To 
 enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly 
 to exclude yourself from the true enjoy- 
 ment of life." 
 
 He is, indeed, a correct observer and 
 a careful student of human nature who 
 tells us that the face is such an index of 
 character that the very growth of the
 
 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
 
 latter can be traced upon the former, 
 and most of the successive lines that 
 carve the furrowed face of age out of 
 the smooth outline of childhood are en- 
 graved directly or indirectly by mind. 
 There is no beautifier of the face like 
 a beautiful spirit. 
 
 So we see that if we have acquired the 
 habit of wearing a pleasant face, or of 
 smiling honestly and cheerfully, we have 
 an accomplishment that is worth more 
 than many others that are more preten- 
 tious and more superficial. If to this 
 accomplishment we can add another 
 the ability to speak a pleasant word to 
 those whom we may meet we are not 
 to think poorly of our equipment for life. 
 
 There is a good, old-fashioned word in 
 the dictionary, the study of which, with 
 its definition, is well worth our while. 
 The word is "Complaisance," and it is 
 defined as "the disposition, action, or 
 habit of being agreeable, or conforming 
 to the views, wishes, or convenience of 
 others; desire or endeavor to please; 
 courtesy; politeness." 
 
 Complaisance, as it has been truly 
 said, renders a superior amiable, an equal 
 agreeable, an inferior acceptable. It 
 
 39 
 
 Every right action 
 and true thought sets 
 the seal of its beauty 
 on every person's 
 face; every wrong ac- 
 tion and foul thought 
 its seal of distortion. 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 Those who bring 
 sunshine to the lives 
 of others cannot keep 
 it from themselves. 
 J. M. BARRIE. 
 
 Politeness is like an 
 air cushion ; there may 
 be nothing in it, but 
 it eases the jolts won- 
 derfully. GEORGE 
 ELIOT.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Sloth makes a 1 1 
 things difficult, but in- 
 dustry all things easy. 
 BENJAMIN FRANK- 
 LIN. 
 
 Action may not al- 
 ways bring happiness ; 
 but there is no hap- 
 piness without action. 
 DISRAELI. 
 
 We would willingly 
 have others perfect 
 and yet we amend not 
 our own faults. 
 THOMAS A 
 KEMPIS. 
 
 sweetens conversation; it produces 
 good-nature and mutual benevolence; it 
 encourages the timid, soothes the turbu- 
 lent, humanizes the fierce, and distin- 
 guishes a society of civilized persons 
 from a confusion of savages. 
 
 Politeness has been defined as society's 
 method of making things run smoothly. 
 True complaisance is a more intimate 
 quality. It is an impulse to seek points 
 of agreement with others. A spirit of 
 welcome, whether to strangers, or to 
 new suggestions, untried pleasures, 
 fresh impressions. It never is satisfied 
 to remain inactive as long as there is 
 anybody to please or to make more com- 
 fortable. 
 
 The complaisant person need not be 
 lacking in will, in determination, or in- 
 dividuality. In fact it is the complaisant 
 person's strength of will that holds in 
 check and harmonizes all the other traits 
 of character and moulds them into a 
 perfectly balanced disposition. 
 
 Complaisance rounds off the sharp 
 corners, chooses softer and gentler 
 words and makes it easy and pleasant for 
 all to dwell together in unity. And it 
 never fails to contribute something to 
 
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 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
 
 the enjoyment of everyone even though 
 it be 
 
 ONLY A WORD 
 
 Tell me something that will be 
 Joy through all the years to me. 
 Let my heart forever hold 
 One divinest grain of gold. 
 Just a simple little word, 
 Yet the dearest ever heard ; 
 Something that will bring me rest 
 When the world seems all distressed. 
 
 As the candle in the night 
 Sends abroad its cheerful light, 
 So a little word may be 
 Like a lighthouse in the sea. 
 When the winds and waves of life 
 Fill the breast with storm and strife, 
 Just one star my boat may guide 
 To the harbor, glorified. 
 
 The most manifold 
 sign of wisdom is 
 continued cheer. 
 MONTAIGNE. 
 
 There is only one 
 cure for public dis- 
 tress and that is 
 public education, di- 
 rected to make men 
 thoughtful, merciful, 
 and just RUSKIN. 
 
 To believe a busi- 
 ness impossible is the 
 way to make it so. 
 WADE.
 
 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 LJALF-WAY, half-hearted doings 
 * never amount to much. Battles are 
 not won with flags at half-mast. No, 
 they are run up to the very tops of their 
 standards and are waved as far toward 
 the heavens as is possible. 
 
 If we lack enthusiasm we are almost as 
 certain to fail of achieving an end as a 
 locomotive engine that lacks steam is of 
 climbing the grade. Even a listless, 
 lackadaisical spirit may get on all right 
 so long as the path of life is all on a level 
 or is down grade, but when it comes to 
 hill-climbing and the real experiences of 
 life that serve to develop character, it is 
 likely to give up the contest and sur- 
 render the prize it might win to other and 
 more earnest competitors. 
 
 "If you would get the best results, do 
 your work with enthusiasm as well as 
 fidelity," says Dr. Lyman Abbott. "Only 
 he can who thinks he can !" says Orison 
 
 45 
 
 What I must do is 
 all that concerns me, 
 not what the people 
 think. EMERSON. 
 
 Gentle words, quiet 
 words, are, after all, 
 the most powerful 
 words. WASHING- 
 TON GLADDEN. 
 
 Aim above morality. 
 Be not simply good; 
 be good for some- 
 thing. THOREAU.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Nothing will be 
 mended by com- 
 plaints. JOH NSON. 
 
 Peace! Peace! 
 How sweet the word 
 and tender! Its very 
 sound should wrang- 
 ling discord still. 
 NATHAN HASKELL 
 DOLE. 
 
 The Spartans did 
 not inquire how many 
 the enemy are, but 
 where they a r e. 
 Acis II. 
 
 Swett Harden. "The world makes way 
 only for the determined man who laughs 
 at barriers which limit others, at stum- 
 bling-blocks over which others fall. The 
 man who, as Emerson says, 'hitches his 
 wagon to a star/ is more likely to arrive 
 at his goal than the one who trails in 
 the slimy path of the snail." 
 
 Every girl knows that the girl friends 
 whom she loves best are the ones who 
 are alive to the world about them and 
 who feel an enthusiasm in the tasks and 
 privileges that confront them. 
 
 Enthusiasm is the breeze that fills the 
 sails and sends the ship gliding over the 
 happy waves. It is the joy of doing 
 things and of seeing that things are well 
 done. It gives to work a thoroughness 
 and a delicious zest and to play a whole- 
 souled, health-giving delight. 
 
 Only they who find joy in their work 
 can live the larger and nobler life; for 
 without work, and work done joyously, 
 life must remain dwarfed and undevel- 
 oped. "If you would have sunlight in 
 your home," writes Stopford Brooke, 
 "see that you have work in it ; that you 
 work yourself, and set others to work. 
 Nothing makes moroseness and heavy- 
 46
 
 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 heartedness in a house so fast as idle- 
 ness. The very children gloom and 
 sulk if they are left with nothing to do. 
 If all have their work, they have not only 
 their own joy in creating thought, in 
 making thought into form, in driving on 
 something to completion, but they have 
 the joy of ministering to the movement 
 of the whole house, when they feel that 
 what they do is part of a living whole. 
 That in itself is sunshine. See how the 
 face lights up, how the step is quickened, 
 how the whole man or child is a differ- 
 ent being from the weary, aimless, life- 
 less, complaining being who had no 
 work! It is all the difference between 
 life and death." 
 
 We must play life's sweet keys if we 
 would keep them in tune. Charles 
 Kingsley says: "Thank God every 
 morning when you get up that you have 
 something to do that day which must 
 be done whether you like it or not. Be- 
 ing forced to work, and forced to do your 
 best, will breed in you temperance and 
 self-control, diligence and strength of 
 will, cheerfulness and content, and a 
 hundred virtues which the idle will never 
 know." 
 
 The man in whom 
 others believe is a 
 power, but if he be- 
 lieves in himself he is 
 doubly powerful. 
 WILLIS GEORGE EMER- 
 SON. 
 
 The secrecy of suc- 
 cess is constancy to 
 purpose. DISRAELI. 
 
 Men talk about the 
 indignity of doing 
 work that is beneath 
 them, but the only in- 
 dignity that they 
 should care for is the 
 indignity of doing 
 nothing. W. R. HA- 
 
 WEIS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Share your happi- 
 ness with others, but 
 keep your troubles to 
 yourself. PATRICK 
 FLYNN. 
 
 Neither days, nor 
 lives can be made no- 
 ble or holy by doing 
 nothing in them. 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 Use thy youth as 
 the springtime, 
 wherein thou ought- 
 est to plant and sow 
 all provisions for a 
 long and happy life. 
 WALTER RALEIGH. 
 
 All the introspective thinkers of the 
 world have agreed that nothing else is so 
 hard to do as is "nothing." It is un- 
 wholesome for one to have more leisure 
 than a mere breathing spell now and 
 then for the purpose of setting to work 
 once more with renewed energy. 
 
 They who work with their hearts as 
 well as their hands do not grow tired. 
 A labor of love is a labor of growing de- 
 light. "The moment toil is exchanged 
 for leisure," writes Munger, "a gate is 
 opened to vice. When wealth takes off 
 the necessity of labor and invites to idle- 
 ness, nature executes her sharpest re- 
 venge upon such infraction of the pres- 
 ent order; the idle rich live next door 
 to ruin." And Burton puts the case even 
 more strongly when he says: "He or 
 she that is idle, be they of what condi- 
 tion they will, never so rich, so well 
 allied, fortunate, happy let them have 
 all things in abundance and felicity that 
 heart can wish and desire, all content- 
 ment so long as he or she or they are 
 idle, they shall never be pleased, never 
 well in mind or body, but weary still, 
 sickly still, vexed still, loathing still, 
 weeping, sighing, grieving, suspecting,
 
 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 offended with the world, with every ob- 
 ject, wishing themselves gone or dead, 
 or else carried away with some foolish 
 phantasy or other." 
 
 But riches do not necessarily have to 
 be associated with idleness. Riches 
 rightly employed bestow upon the pos- 
 sessors of them the blessed privilege of 
 being employed in the kind of work 
 where they can serve to the best advan- 
 tage and do most for their fellowmen. 
 Indeed, the possession of riches places 
 upon those who have them the moral 
 necessity and obligation of doing more 
 and better things in the world than is 
 expected of the ones less amply supplied 
 with wealth. "From every man accord- 
 ing to his ability; to every man accord- 
 ing to his needs." The larger responsi- 
 bilities are placed upon those to whom 
 are given the larger means of achieve- 
 ment. 
 
 So it is a mistake to fancy that the pos- 
 session of great riches would relieve us 
 from doing all the tasks and duties for 
 ourselves and for others that are inevit- 
 ably essential for the physical and spir- 
 itual health and happiness of all man- 
 kind. No matter in whatever walk of 
 
 -49 
 
 To have ideas is to 
 gather flowers; to 
 think is to weave 
 them into garlands. 
 MADAME SWETCH- 
 
 INE. 
 
 When a firm decis- 
 ive spirit is recogniz- 
 ed, it is curious to see 
 how the space clears 
 around a man and 
 leaves him room and 
 freedom. JOHN FOS- 
 TER. 
 
 That person is blest 
 who does his best and 
 leaves the rest, so do 
 not worry. A. E. 
 WINSHIP.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Work is the best 
 thing to make us love 
 life. ERNEST REN AN. 
 
 If you want to be 
 miserable, think about 
 yourself, about what 
 you want, what you 
 like, what respect peo- 
 ple ought to pay to 
 you, and what people 
 think of you. 
 CHARLES KINGSLEY. 
 
 Aspiration carries 
 one half the way to 
 one's desire. ELIZA- 
 BETH GIBSON. 
 
 life we may find ourselves, we must ex- 
 ercise our muscles or they will become 
 weak and useless; we must stir and in- 
 terest our hearts or they will grow hard 
 and unresponsive; we must use our 
 minds or they will become dull and in- 
 active; we must employ our consciences 
 or they will grow to be blind and unsafe 
 guides that must lead us into dark dis- 
 tress. 
 
 But to be employed does not mean 
 that we must necessarily work in the 
 fields, or in the factory, or in the office. 
 There are a thousand ways in which we 
 may serve the world. The only require- 
 ment is that we shall devote a portion 
 of our time and energy to genuine ser- 
 vice in behalf of our brothers, our sis- 
 ters, our parents, our teachers, our 
 friends, and all the world. And we must 
 be grateful for the chance to serve others 
 and deem it an opportunity rather than 
 an obligation. 
 
 And above all, we must find delight in 
 the work we are privileged to do. "Every 
 one should enjoy life," writes the ever 
 glad and inspiring pen guided by the 
 hand of Patrick Flynn : "Life was made 
 to enjoy. We mean life, itself. The 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 very living and breathing. It is a divine 
 pleasure to inhale a breath of fragrant 
 air out here in the country these charm- 
 ing summer mornings. And what jew- 
 els can compare in color or brilliancy 
 with the pearly dewdrops that shine and 
 glisten in the early sun! And the sun, 
 itself! The great, mysterious, miracu- 
 lous sun! Its myriads of vibrations 
 dancing in the warm air like golden fair- 
 ies and dazzling one's eyes with their 
 wondrous beauty ! Aye, and filling one's 
 soul with love and one's body with 
 health. And in the evening when the 
 day's work is done there is above us 
 that mysterious depth of star-spangled 
 sky. We cannot fathom its mystery but 
 like a stream of grace descending from 
 heaven, we can feel the cool, refreshing 
 dew on our upturned brow. Until at 
 last we feel that we should like to take 
 wing and actually fly up among those 
 unknown worlds and come back with 
 the story to our readers. And even 
 though we cannot grow the wings, we 
 go up in fancy and seldom come back 
 without some new tale. The message 
 is: 'Live life, love life, enjoy life, if you 
 would overcome all fear of death.' " 
 
 51 
 
 The best thing is to 
 do well what one is 
 doing at the moment. 
 
 PlTTACUS. 
 
 To work and not to 
 genius I owe my suc- 
 cess. DANIEL WEB- 
 STER. 
 
 No thought is beau- 
 tiful which is not just, 
 and no thought can 
 be just, that is" not 
 founded on truth. 
 JOSEPH ADDISON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The loss of self-re- 
 spect is the only true 
 beggary. JOHN 
 LANCASTER SPALD- 
 
 ING. 
 
 The tactful person 
 looks out for opportu- 
 nities to be helpful, 
 without being obtru- 
 sive. MARGARET E. 
 SANGSTER. 
 
 It is labor alone, 
 backed by a good con- 
 science, that keeps us 
 healthy, happy and 
 sane. GODFREY 
 BLOUNT. 
 
 That is the spirit in which we should 
 look upon all the beauty and wonder 
 about us. To-morrow will ever be a joy- 
 ous hope and yesterday a golden mem- 
 ory, if we are thoughtful regarding the 
 manner in which we live 
 
 TO-DAY 
 
 Let 's live to-day so it shall be, 
 When shrined within the memory, 
 As free from self-inflicted sorrows 
 As are our hopes of our to-morrows. 
 
 There are many who make the serious 
 mistake of thinking that joyousness and 
 cheerfulness are only for the play hour 
 and are not to be made a part and factor 
 of the time we must devote to toil. No 
 view could be more faulty and regret- 
 table. It is in our working hours that we 
 should seek to be cheerful and sunshiny. 
 All of our tasks should be sweetened 
 and glorified with the leaven of good 
 humor. 
 
 The task seems never very long 
 If measured with a smile and song. 
 
 Listen while one faithful worker, 
 Emory Belle, tells us how she carried 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 the spirit of good cheer to her daily tasks 
 and what came of it: 
 
 "I started out to my work one morn- 
 ing, determined to try the power of 
 cheerful thinking (I had been moody 
 long enough). I said to myself: 'I have 
 often observed that a happy state of 
 mind has a wonderful effect upon my 
 physical make-up, so I will try its effect 
 upon others, and see if my right thinking 
 can be brought to act upon them/ You 
 see, I was curious. As I walked along, 
 more and more resolved on my purpose, 
 and persisting that I was happy, that the 
 world was treating me well, I was sur- 
 prised to find myself lifted up, as it were; 
 my carriage became more erect, my step 
 lighter, and I had the sensation of tread- 
 ing on air. Unconsciously, I was smil- 
 ing, for I caught myself in the act once 
 or twice. I looked into the faces of the 
 women I passed and there saw so much 
 trouble and anxiety, discontent, even to 
 peevishness, that my heart went out to 
 them, and I wished I could impart to 
 them a wee bit of the sunshine I felt per- 
 vading me. 
 
 "Arriving at the office, I greeted the 
 book-keeper with some passing remark, 
 
 53 
 
 Labor was truly 
 said by the ancients 
 to be the price which 
 the gods set upon 
 everything worth 
 having. LORD AVE- 
 
 BURY. 
 
 Our daily duties 
 are a part of our re- 
 ligious life just as 
 much as our devotions 
 
 Our doubts are 
 traitors, and make 
 us lose the good we 
 oft might win, by 
 fearing to attempt. 
 SHAKESPEARE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The finest qualities 
 of our nature, like 
 the bloom on fruits, 
 can be preserved only 
 by the most delicate 
 handling. THOREAU. 
 
 Energy and deter- 
 mination have done 
 wonders many a time. 
 DICKENS. 
 
 Discretion of speech 
 is more than elo- 
 quence: and to speak 
 agreeably to him with 
 whom we deal is 
 more than to speak 
 in good words or in 
 good order. F. 
 BACON. 
 
 that for the life of me I could not have 
 made under different conditions, I am 
 not naturally witty; it immediately put 
 us on a pleasant footing for the day; she 
 had caught the reflection. The presi- 
 dent of the company I was employed 
 by was a very busy man and much wor- 
 ried over his affairs, and at some remark 
 that he made about my work I would or- 
 dinarily have felt quite hurt (being too 
 sensitive by nature and education) ; but 
 this day I had determined nothing 
 should mar its brightness, so replied to 
 him cheerfully. His brow cleared, and 
 there was another pleasant footing es- 
 tablished, and so throughout the day I 
 went, allowing no cloud to spoil its 
 beauty for me or others about me. At 
 the kind home where I was staying the 
 same course was pursued, and, where be- 
 fore I had felt estrangement and want 
 of sympathy, I found congeniality and 
 warm friendship. People will meet you 
 half-way if you will take the trouble to 
 go that far. 
 
 "So, my sisters, if you think the world 
 
 is not treating you kindly don't delay 
 
 a day, but say to yourselves : 'I am going 
 
 to keep young in spite of my gray hairs; 
 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 even if things do not always come my 
 way I am going to live for others, and 
 shed sunshine across the pathway of all 
 I meet/ You will find happiness spring- 
 ing up like flowers around you, will 
 never want for friends or companion- 
 ship, and above all the peace of God will 
 rest upon your soul." 
 
 And all of this was brought about by 
 a change in the attitude of the mind and 
 a determination to look upon the sun- 
 shiny, rather than the dark, side of life. 
 We can all do as much. It is for us to 
 say whether we will be happy and make 
 others happy, or whether we shall be dis- 
 tressed and thereby distress others. 
 
 What sort of girl are you going to 
 be? Are you going to make the world 
 glad or sorry that you are in it? Why 
 don't you decide, as you read these lines, 
 as did Emory Belle when starting to her 
 work that morning, that you will try to 
 carry sunshine and not gloom into the 
 lives of all you meet? Let us hope that 
 there is no great reform in this matter to 
 be worked in your life ; but that you have 
 ever been a joy-bringer and not a gloom- 
 maker. 
 
 Therefore let us look well to the atti- 
 
 55 
 
 Bread of flour is 
 good: but there is 
 bread, sweet as honey, 
 if we would eat it, 
 in a good book. 
 JOHN RUSKIN. 
 
 What is wrong to- 
 day won't be right 
 to-morrow. DUTCH 
 PROVERB. 
 
 We are only so far 
 worthy of esteem as 
 we know how to ap- 
 preciate. GOETHE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 We are grateful 
 that abundant life lies 
 waiting in the heart 
 of winter, and there 
 is no condition where 
 life is not. ISABEL 
 GOODHUE. 
 
 Wishing will bring 
 things in the degree 
 that it incites you to 
 go after them. MU- 
 RIEL STRODE. 
 
 It is impossible to 
 estimate the power for 
 good of a bright, glad 
 shining face. Of all 
 the lights you carry 
 on your face Joy 
 shines farthest out to 
 sea. ANONYMOUS. 
 
 tude of mind and our habit of looking at 
 things. One of our careful students of 
 human attributes tells us and the truth 
 of which we all know "that there is 
 nothing surer than that we go and grow 
 in just that direction in which our mind 
 is most firmly fixed. Hoarding money 
 absorbs the whole time and mind of the 
 miser; how to scatter it is the chief 
 thought of the spendthrift. Our daily 
 actions, and their result on our lives, are 
 the effect of a cause and that cause is 
 invariably our previous thought. What 
 you think most of to-day will be most 
 likely what you will repeat to-morrow. 
 Therefore it is of the utmost importance 
 that we begin to think as deeply as pos- 
 sible on just those things that build us 
 up. Half the work is already done if we 
 can only concentrate our minds on that 
 which we desire to do. It is the mind 
 that drags us either up or down. Where 
 that leads we follow. The power of di- 
 rection is with us, but we cannot send 
 our mind in one direction and then take 
 the opposite road ourselves. Therefore, 
 whether we are moving upward or down- 
 ward in the scale of life depends on 
 whether we are thinking up or thinking 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 down. This is a truth that every per- 
 son's experience will prove to his own 
 satisfaction. Thought impels action, 
 action forms habit, and habit rules our 
 lives. So that no matter what direction 
 we may wish to take, up or down, it is 
 only necessary for us to fix our mind in 
 the desired direction." 
 
 So let us pause and take an account 
 of stock and ascertain whether we are 
 thinking ourselves up or down, whether 
 we are building truthfully or falsely, 
 whether we are going forward or back- 
 ward, 
 
 JUST THIS MINUTE 
 
 If we 're thoughtful, just this minute, 
 
 In whate'er we say or do; 
 If we put a purpose in it 
 
 That is honest, through and through, 
 We shall gladden life and give it 
 
 Grace to make it all sublime ; 
 For, though life is long, we live it 
 
 Just this minute at a time. 
 
 Just this minute we are going 
 
 Toward the right or toward the wrong, 
 
 Just this minute we are sowing 
 Seeds of sorrow or of song. 
 
 57 
 
 No one in this 
 world of ours ever 
 became great by echo- 
 ing the voice of anoth- 
 er, repeating what that 
 other has said. J. C. 
 VAN DYKE. 
 
 One fault mender 
 equals twenty fault- 
 finders. EARL M. 
 PRATT. 
 
 Let us then, be what 
 we are, speak what 
 we think, and in all 
 things keep ourselves 
 loyal to trut h. 
 LONGFELLOW.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 There are some peo- 
 ple whose smile, the 
 sound of whose voice, 
 whose very presence, 
 seems like a ray of 
 sunshine, to turn 
 everything they touch 
 into gold. LORD AVE- 
 
 BURY. 
 
 It is work which 
 gives flavor to life. 
 Mere existence with- 
 out object and with- 
 out effort is a poor 
 thing. Idleness leads 
 to languor, and lan- 
 guor to disgust 
 
 A MI EL. 
 
 How poor are they 
 who have only money 
 to give! JOHN LAN- 
 CASTER SPALDING. 
 
 Just this minute we are thinking 
 On the ways that lead to God, 
 
 Or in idle dreams are sinking 
 To the level of the clod. 
 
 Yesterday is gone, to-morrow 
 
 Never comes within our grasp ; 
 Just this minute's joy or sorrow, 
 
 That is all our hands may clasp. 
 Just this minute ! Let us take it 
 
 As a pearl of precious price, 
 And with high endeavor make it 
 
 Fit to shine in paradise. 
 
 One who finds joy in the doing of 
 things can work more easily and stead- 
 ily than one who works unwillingly and 
 unhappily. Good nature is a lubricant 
 for all the wheels of life. It changes the 
 leaden feet of duty into the airy wings 
 of opportunity, it not only brings happi- 
 ness but that almost necessary adjunct 
 of happiness, health. 
 
 "In the maintenance of health and the 
 cure of disease," says Dr. A. J. Sander- 
 son, "cheerfulness is a most important 
 factor. Its power to do good like a med- 
 icine is not an artificial stimulation of the 
 tissues, to be followed by reaction and 
 greater waste, as is the case with many 
 drugs; but the effect of cheerfulness is 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 an actual life-giving influence through 
 a normal channel the results of which 
 reach every part of the system. It 
 brightens the eye, makes ruddy the 
 countenance, brings elasticity to the 
 step, and promotes all the inner forces 
 by which life is sustained. The blood 
 circulates more freely, the oxygen 
 comes to its home in the tissues, health 
 is promoted, and disease is banished." 
 
 When we note how generally the 
 members of the medical profession as- 
 cribe to cheerfulness the very highest 
 of health-giving powers, we are led to 
 think that the wise words quoted above 
 possess a foundation of scientific fact. 
 "Faith, hope and love," says Charles G. 
 Ames, "are purifiers of the blood. They 
 have a peptic quality. They open and 
 enlarge all the channels of bodily vital- 
 ity. As was learned long ago, 'A merry 
 heart doeth good like a medicine/ And 
 the self-control which keeps reason on 
 the throne and makes passion serve is 
 the best of all domestic physicians." 
 
 So the girl who would go down the 
 paths of sunshine will put joy and en- 
 thusiasm into her work and into her 
 play. She will practice her music les- 
 
 59 
 
 Fear begets fear. 
 A. E. WINSHIP. 
 
 What an absurd 
 thing it is to pass over 
 all the valuable parts 
 of a man and fix our 
 attention on his in- 
 firmities ! ADDISON. 
 
 There can be no 
 true rest without 
 work and the full de- 
 light of a holiday can- 
 not be known except 
 by the man who has 
 earned it. HUGH 
 BLACK.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The more we do 
 the more we can do; 
 the more busy we are 
 the more leisure we 
 have. HAZLITT. 
 
 Los t a golden 
 hour, set with sixty 
 diamond minutes. 
 There is no reward, 
 for it is gone forever. 
 BEECHER. 
 
 Good company and 
 good conversation are 
 the sinews of virtue. 
 STEPHEN ALLEN. 
 
 son, take up her studies at school, assist 
 in performing the household duties, and 
 in doing the many tasks that come to 
 her hands in a joyous, whole-hearted 
 manner. 
 
 In so doing she will make a pleasure 
 of that which, with dull complaining, 
 would be a drag and a distress. By this 
 cheerful attitude of mind she will be able 
 to mold all things to her will and, better 
 still, she will be able to mold her will to 
 her highest ideal of splendid woman- 
 hood. For none can doubt that man is 
 the architect of his own fortune, to a 
 very great extent. He is even more than 
 that, he is of his own self 
 
 THE SCULPTOR 
 
 I am the sculptor : I, myself, the clay, 
 Of which I am to fashion, as I will, 
 
 In deed and in desire, day by day, 
 The pattern of my purpose, good or ill. 
 
 In breathless bronze nor the insensate stone 
 Must my enduring passion find its goal ; 
 
 Within the living statue I enthrone 
 That essence of eternity, the soul. 
 
 Nor space nor time that soul of yearning bars ; 
 It flashes to the zenith of the sky, 
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 THE JOY OF DOING 
 
 And dwelling mid the mystery of the stars, 
 Aspires to answer the Eternal Why. 
 
 It loves the pleasing note of lute and lyre, 
 The lily's purple, the red rose's glow ; 
 
 It wonders at the witchery of the fire, 
 And marvels at the magic of the snow. 
 
 "Who taught," it asks, "the ant to build her 
 nest? 
 
 The bee her cells? the hermit thrush to sing? 
 The dove to plume his iridescent breast? 
 
 The butterfly to paint his gorgeous wing? 
 
 "The spider how to spin so wondrous wise? 
 
 The nautilus to form his chambered shell? 
 The carrier-pigeon under alien skies, 
 
 Who taught him how his homeward course 
 to tell?" 
 
 By force or favor it would win from fate 
 The sacred secret of the blood and breath : 
 
 Learn all the hidden springs of love and hate, 
 And gain dominion over life and death. 
 
 In every feature of this sculptured face 
 Of spirit and of substance, I must mold 
 
 The shining symbol of a grander grace ; 
 
 The hope toward which the centuries have 
 rolled. 
 
 Oh, hands of mine that the unnumbered years 
 Evolved from hoof and wing and claw and fin, 
 
 'T is ours to bring from out the stress and tears, 
 A godlike figure fashioned from within. 
 
 61 
 
 A triumph is the 
 closing scene of a 
 contest. A. E. WIN- 
 
 Don't forget that 
 the man who can but 
 does n't must give 
 place to the man who 
 can't but tries. COM- 
 
 TELBURO. 
 
 Advise well before 
 you begin, and when 
 you have maturely 
 considered, then act 
 with promptitude. 
 SALLUST.
 
 I/3UISA M. ALCOTT
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 I WOULD rather be right than presi- 
 dent!" 
 
 At first thought those words seem to 
 be the declaration of an unusually up- 
 right and conscientious person. But let 
 us study them a little more deeply and 
 closely. 
 
 The desire to do right and to deserve 
 the approbation of all good people is 
 very strong in every human breast. Not 
 until a man has lost his moral sense of 
 values would he trade his integrity and 
 self-respect for any other gift the world 
 could offer. This being true, who 
 among us would care to be president if 
 in order to occupy that exalted position 
 he must be obviously in the wrong? 
 
 Thus we see that after all is said and 
 done, the one great prize for which we 
 all aspire is the love and good will of our 
 friends and of the world. For no matter 
 
 65 
 
 Each, whatever his 
 estate, in his own un- 
 conscious breast bears 
 the talisman of fate. 
 JOHN TOWNSEND 
 TROWBRIDGE. 
 
 When a man has 
 not a good reason for 
 doing a thing, he has 
 one good reason for 
 letting it alone. 
 THOMAS SCOTT. 
 
 Once a body laughs 
 he cannot be angry 
 more. JAMES M. 
 BARRIE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Success is usually 
 the result of a sharp- 
 ened sense of what is 
 wanted. FRANK 
 MOORE COLBY. 
 
 He that falls in love 
 with himself, will 
 have no rivals. BEN- 
 JAMIN FRANKLIN. 
 
 A sinful heart makes 
 a feeble hand WAL- 
 TER SCOTT. 
 
 how much of wealth and fame may come 
 to us, without the love and respect of 
 our fellow beings we must ever remain 
 poor and friendless. 
 
 He is the richest who deserves the 
 most friends. Wealth is a matter of the 
 heart and not of the pocket. A thousand 
 slaves piling up wealth for their master 
 cannot make him rich. It is not that 
 which others do for us that makes us 
 possessors of great wealth, but that 
 which we do for others. All true riches 
 are self made. Only when the hand and 
 the heart are put into one's work does it 
 yield a lasting worth. In the final true 
 analysis the picture forever belongs to 
 the painter who paints it; the poem to 
 the poet who writes it ; the loaf of bread 
 to the toiler who earns it. Wealth may 
 acquire these things but it cannot own 
 them. 
 
 Therefore the true value of character 
 is something that each must achieve for 
 himself. It cannot be bought ; it cannot 
 be bequeathed to us; it must be earned 
 by each individual who would possess it. 
 Hence it is that these great riches may 
 be acquired by all who desire to possess 
 them.
 
 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 Right 
 
 Right 
 
 Where are they to be found? 
 here. 
 
 When may we obtain them? 
 now. 
 
 Do you care to learn the only way in 
 which you can come into possession of 
 them? "Whoever you are wise or 
 foolish, rich or poor," says Rebecca 
 Harding Davis, "God sent you into His 
 world, as He sent every other human be- 
 ing, to help the men and women in it, to 
 make them happier and better. If you 
 do not do that, no matter what your 
 powers may be, you are mere lumber, a 
 worthless bit of world's furniture. A 
 Stradivarius, if it hangs dusty and dumb 
 upon the wall, is not of as much real value 
 as a kitchen poker which is used." 
 
 So we learn that it is the fine practical 
 spirit, content and willing to do the 
 humble things which are possible of 
 achievement that is doing most to lift 
 the world to a higher and better plane. 
 "Have you never met humble men and 
 women," asks Gannett, "who read little, 
 who knew little, yet who had a certain 
 fascination as of fineness lurking about 
 them? Know them, and you are likely 
 to find them persons who have put so 
 
 67 
 
 Look within, for 
 you have a lasting 
 foundation of happi- 
 ness at home that will 
 always bubble up if 
 you will but dig for 
 it. MARCUS AURELIUS 
 ANTONINUS. 
 
 To a friend's house 
 the road is never long. 
 DANISH PROVERB. 
 
 Honest toil is holy 
 service; faithful work 
 is praise and prayer. 
 HENRY VAN DYKE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Give me the toiler's 
 joy who has seen the 
 sunlight burst on the 
 distant turrets in the 
 land of his desire. 
 MURIEL STRODE. 
 
 You can buy a lot 
 of happiness with a 
 mighty small salary, 
 but fashionable hap- 
 piness always costs 
 just a little more than 
 you're making. 
 GEORGE HORACE LORI- 
 
 A tart temper never 
 mellows with age, and 
 a sharp tongue is the 
 only edged tool that 
 grows keener with 
 constant use. WASH- 
 INGTON IRVING. 
 
 much thought and honesty and conscien- 
 tious trying into their common work 
 it may be sweeping rooms, or planing 
 boards, or painting walls have put 
 their ideals so long, so constantly, so lov- 
 ingly into that common work of theirs, 
 that finally these qualities have come to 
 permeate not their work only, but so 
 much of their being, that they are fine- 
 fibred within, even if on the outside the 
 rough bark clings." 
 
 If we are wisely introspective, we 
 must reach the conclusion that humble 
 though we may be, we are after all, a 
 component part of the great expression 
 of being, and that we are well worth 
 while. Then if we are worth while, it fol- 
 lows that all we do is worth while, for 
 each of us is, in the end, the sum of all the 
 things he has done. Once we have this 
 idea that everything stands for some- 
 thing more than the mere thing itself 
 that it is correlated in its influences with 
 all the other things that we and all 
 others are doing, we shall invest all our 
 tasks, little and big, with more of pur- 
 pose and importance. Emerson says: 
 "There is no end to the sufficiency of 
 character. It can afford to wait; it can 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 do without what it calls success ; it can- 
 not but succeed. To a well-principled 
 man existence is victory. He defends 
 himself against failure in his main de- 
 sign by making every inch of the road to 
 it pleasant. There is no trifle and no 
 obscurity to him: he feels the immensity 
 of the chain whose last link he holds in 
 his hand, and is led by it." 
 
 Perhaps no other every-day virtue 
 counts for so much in the general welfare 
 of the world as the adapting of one's self 
 to, and the making the most of, one's 
 immediate surroundings. It is in the 
 hundreds of little, unrecorded deeds of 
 kindness and goodness that we lay the 
 foundations of character. And because 
 these humble lives, that mean so much to 
 the other humble lives with which they 
 come into touch, are never specifically 
 named and shouted by the multitudi- 
 nous tongues of type, that many fail to 
 see in them the elements of true and 
 noble achievement with which they are 
 crowned. "The most inspiring tales," 
 it has been truly said, "are those that 
 have not been written; the most heroic 
 deeds are those that have not been told; 
 the world's greatest successes have been 
 
 Where there is one 
 man who squints with 
 his eyes, there are a 
 dozen who squint with 
 their brains. OLIVER 
 WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 When a true genius 
 appears in the world 
 you may know him by 
 this sign, that the 
 dunces are all in con- 
 federacy against him. 
 JONATHAN SWIFT. 
 
 What we have got 
 to do is to keep up our 
 spirits and be neigh- 
 borly. We shall come 
 all right in the end, 
 never fear. DICK- 
 ENS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Happiness is the 
 feeling we experience 
 when we are too busy 
 to be miserable. 
 THOMAS L. MASSON. 
 
 Duty is the sublim- 
 est word in the Eng- 
 lish language. GEN. 
 ROBERT E. LEE. 
 
 Optimism is the 
 faith that leads to 
 achievement ; nothing 
 can be done without 
 hope. KELLEK. 
 
 won in the quiet of men's hearts, the 
 noblest heroes are the countless thou- 
 sands who have struggled and tri- 
 umphed, rising on stepping-stones of 
 their dead selves to higher things." 
 
 Since it is these humbler every-day 
 virtues that one is called upon oftenest 
 to exercise, or to neglect, it is apparent 
 that the one who possesses the most of 
 them and who cultivates them the most 
 earnestly has the greatest number of op- 
 portunities of winning the admiration of 
 others. It is of a girl possessing this fine 
 adaptability to the world's workaday 
 surroundings that "Amber" draws this 
 pen-picture : "Shall I tell the kind of girl 
 that I especially adore? Well, first of 
 all, let us take the working girl. She is 
 not a 'lady' in the acceptance of the term 
 as it is employed by many members of 
 this latter day's hybrid democracy. She 
 is just a blithe, cheery, sweet-tempered 
 young woman. She may have a father 
 rich enough to support her at home, but 
 for all that she is a working girl. She is 
 never idle. She is studying or sewing or 
 helping about the home part of the day. 
 She is romping or playing or swinging 
 out of doors the other part. She is never 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 frowsy or untidy or lazy. She is never 
 rude or slangy or bold. And yet she is 
 always full of fun and ready for frolic. 
 She does not depend upon a servant to 
 do what she can do for herself. She is 
 considerate toward all who serve her. 
 She is reverent to the old and thoughtful 
 of the feeble. She never criticises when 
 criticism can wound, and she is ready 
 with a helpful, loving word for every one. 
 Sometimes she has no father, or her par- 
 ents are too poor to support her. Then 
 she goes out and earns her living by 
 whatever her hands find to do. She 
 clerks in a store, or she counts out 
 change at a cashier's desk, or she teaches 
 school, or she clicks a typewriter, or 
 rather a telegrapher's key, but always 
 and everywhere she is modest and will- 
 ing and sweet. 
 
 "She has too much dignity to be im- 
 posed upon, or put to open affront, but 
 she has humility also, and purity that 
 differs from prudishness as a dove in the 
 air differs from a stuffed bird in a show- 
 case. She is quick to apologize when she 
 knows she is in the wrong, yet no young 
 queen ever carried a higher head than 
 she can upon justifiable occasions. She 
 
 71 
 
 The activity and 
 soundness of a man's 
 actions will be deter- 
 mined by the activity 
 and soundness of his 
 thoughts. BEECH ER. 
 
 VVn3t men wuit is 
 not talent, it is pur- 
 pose ; not the power to 
 achieve, but the will 
 to labor. BULWER- 
 LYTTOJI. 
 
 We judge ourselves 
 by what we feel capa- 
 ble of doing, while 
 others judge us by 
 what we have already 
 done. LONGFELLOW.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The great hope of 
 society is individual 
 character. CHAN- 
 IS ING. 
 
 Concentrate all your 
 thought upon the 
 work in hand. The 
 sun's rays do not burn 
 until brought to a 
 focus. ALEXANDER 
 G. BELL. 
 
 Associate with men 
 of good quality if you 
 esteem your reputa- 
 tion, for it is better 
 to be alone than in 
 bad company. GEORGE 
 WASHINGTON. 
 
 is not always imagining herself looked 
 down upon because she is poor. She 
 knows full well that out of her own heart 
 and mouth proceed the only witnesses 
 that can absolve or condemn her. If she 
 is quick to be courteous, unselfish, gentle 
 and retiring in speech and manner in 
 public places, she is true gold, even 
 though her dress be faded and her hat a 
 little out of style. You cannot mistake 
 any such girl any more than you can mis- 
 take the sunshine that follows the rain 
 or the lark that springs from the haw- 
 thorne hedge. All things that are bloom- 
 ing and sweet attend her! The earth is 
 better for her passing through it and 
 heaven will be fairer for her habitation 
 therein." 
 
 How fortunate it is for us who would 
 practice these little every-day virtues 
 that we do not have to wait for some 
 noted person at some remote time to tell 
 the world that we are striving in our 
 own humble way to be kind and thought- 
 ful. There is some one within the sound 
 of our voice and within the reach of our 
 hand who will be glad to testify to our 
 goodness. 
 
 Kindness is never shown in vain. 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 The gift blesses the giver, even though 
 the one receiving the gift is ungrateful. 
 Consciously or unconsciously we exert 
 an influence upon all who come within 
 the zone of our being. Surely those who 
 know us best ought to be the ones to ap- 
 preciate us the most intelligently. If we 
 are lovable, will they not love us? If 
 we love them, will it not serve to make 
 them lovable? Let us not keep the nice 
 little attentions and the carefully se- 
 lected words for the stranger and the 
 passer-by, but have as much regard for 
 the ones of our own intimate family cir- 
 cle. We should be happy to do most for 
 them who do most for us. One of our 
 students of human happiness says to us: 
 "Get into the way of idealizing what you 
 have; let the picturesqueness of your 
 own imagination play round the village 
 where you do live, instead of the one 
 where you wish to live ; weave a romance 
 round the brother you have got, instead 
 of round the Prince Perfect of a husband 
 whom you have not got." And Marcus 
 Aurelius says: "Think not so much of 
 what thou hast not, as of what thou hast ; 
 but of the things which thou hast, select 
 the best, and then reflect how eagerly 
 
 73 
 
 The public school 
 playground transposes 
 many a boy from a 
 public liability to a 
 public asset. A. E. 
 WINSHIP. 
 
 Real coolness and 
 self-possession are the 
 indispensable accom- 
 paniments of a great 
 mind. DICKENS. 
 
 One of the crying 
 needs of society is the 
 revival of gentleness 
 and of a refined con- 
 siderateness in judg- 
 ing others. NEWELL 
 D. HILLIS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 In this world incli- 
 nation to do things is 
 of more importance 
 than the mere power. 
 CHAPIN. 
 
 Character lives in a 
 man, reputation out- 
 side of him. J. G. 
 HOLLAND. 
 
 Self-confidence i s 
 the first requisite to 
 great undertakings. 
 JOHNSON. 
 
 they would have been sought if thou 
 had'st them not." 
 
 Culture, itself, is but a composite ex- 
 pression of our simple, every-day virtues. 
 It must be measured by its outward 
 manifestation of regard for the pleasure, 
 happiness and advancement of others. 
 Literary culture will open up the win- 
 dows of the soul that the light of virtue 
 from within may shine forth and dispel 
 the darkness of vice with which it comes 
 in contact. "Unless one's knowledge of 
 good books his literary scholarship 
 has so taken hold upon him as to make 
 him exemplary, in a large measure, he 
 cannot be said to be cultured," says one 
 of our students of higher ethics. "His 
 learning should cultivate a choice and 
 beautiful address, a cheerful and loving 
 countenance, a magnificent and spirited 
 carriage, a refinement of manner, an 
 agreeable presence." 
 
 The extent to which we may feel a 
 sense of peaceful satisfaction at the end 
 of a day, depends upon how we have 
 lived that day. We soon learn that the 
 day means most for us in which we do 
 most for others. If we have lived for 
 self alone, it has been 
 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 A LOST DAY 
 Count that day truly worse than lost 
 
 You might have made divine, 
 Through which you sprinkled bits of frost 
 
 But never a speck of shine. 
 
 "At the end of life/' says Hugh Black, 
 "we shall not be asked how much pleas- 
 ure we had in it, but how much service 
 we gave in it ; not how full it was of suc- 
 cess, but how full it was of sacrifice; not 
 how happy we were, but how helpful we 
 were; not how ambition was gratified, 
 but how love was served. Life is judged 
 by love ; and love is known by her fruits." 
 
 The every-day virtues include very 
 many fine little traits that serve uncon- 
 sciously to make our paths smoother, 
 our skies bluer and all of life more glad 
 and golden. They constitute a habit of 
 doing the right thing at all times and so 
 quietly and unostentatiously that no one 
 is made to feel any sense of obligation. 
 One who possesses these virtues does not 
 wait for stated times and occasions to 
 bestow evidences of love and good will 
 upon others, but like a flower in bloom 
 spreads the fine perfume of friendship 
 upon all who come within the charmed 
 presence. Intuitively and unconsciously 
 
 75 
 
 Patience is a neces- 
 sary ingredient of ge- 
 nius. DISRAELI. 
 
 Follow your honest 
 convictions and be 
 strong. THACKERAY. 
 
 Admonish your 
 friends privately, but 
 praise them openly. 
 PUBLIUS SYRUS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Economy is of it- 
 self a great revenue. 
 
 COMTELBURO. 
 
 Grace is the out- 
 ward expression of 
 the inward harmony 
 of the soul. HAZ- 
 
 UTT. 
 
 Our grand business 
 undoubtedly is not to 
 see what lies dimly at 
 a distance, but to do 
 what lies clearly at 
 hand. CARLYLE. 
 
 does the owner of these virtues follow 
 the precept set forth by the philosopher: 
 "I shall pass through this world but 
 once; any good thing therefore that I 
 can do, or any kindness that I can show 
 to any human being, let me do it now. 
 Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I 
 shall not pass this way again." And in 
 expressing the same sentiment Amiel 
 says: "Do not wait to be just or pitiful 
 or demonstrative towards those we love 
 until they or we are struck down by ill- 
 ness or threatened with death. Life is 
 short, and we have never too much time 
 for gladdening the hearts of those who 
 are traveling the dark journey with us. 
 Oh! be swift to love, make haste to be 
 kind !" We should not wait till some sad 
 experience has taught us the rare privi- 
 lege we may now own of offering 
 
 A ROSE TO THE LIVING 
 A rose to the living is more 
 
 Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead ; 
 In filling love's infinite store ; 
 A rose to the living is more, 
 If graciously given before 
 
 The hungering spirit is fled, 
 A rose to the living is more 
 
 Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead. 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 Of all the homely virtues there is none 
 more to be commended and desired than 
 patience. This priceless quality of mind 
 puts its possessor into friendly relations 
 with whatever the surrounding condi- 
 tions may chance to be. There is no irri- 
 tation, no clash of interests, no lack of 
 organization for performing to the best 
 of one's ability the duties of the moment, 
 as they present themselves for considera- 
 tion. Nothing is so conducive to success 
 as to be able, calmly and patiently, to do 
 to the best of one's ability the tasks that 
 present themselves. "Success in life," 
 says one of our students of the world's 
 problems, "depends far more upon the 
 decision of character than upon the pos- 
 session of what is called genius. The 
 man who is perpetually hesitating as to 
 which of two things he will do, will do 
 neither." On the other hand the man 
 who hastily and impatiently disposes of 
 the problems that confront him also im- 
 pairs his chances for making the best of 
 life. 
 
 Have you ever experienced the sorry 
 realization of how one petulant or pee- 
 vish member of a household can destroy 
 the happiness of a breakfast or dinner 
 
 77 
 
 Pull on the oar and 
 not on your influen- 
 tial friends. A. E. 
 WINSHIP. 
 
 The noblest mind 
 the best contentment 
 hath. SPENSER. 
 
 To be usefully and 
 hopefully employed is 
 one of the great se- 
 crets of happiness. 
 
 SMILES.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The man who has 
 begun to live more 
 seriously within, be- 
 gins to live more sim- 
 ply without. PHIL- 
 LIPS BROOKS. 
 
 Everything in this 
 world depends upon 
 will. DISRAELL 
 
 A man is valued ac- 
 cording to his own es- 
 timate of himself. 
 
 COMTELBURO. 
 
 hour? What would otherwise have 
 been a pleasant coming together of 
 kindly congenial spirits is made painful 
 and unprofitable because some one 
 lacked the patience and forbearance to 
 withstand and to surmount some little 
 trial or irritation that should have been 
 promptly dismissed from the mind and 
 the heart, or better still, which never 
 should have been permitted to enter. As 
 has been truly observed, membership in 
 the family involves the recognition that 
 the normal life of the individual is to be 
 found only in a perfect union with other 
 members; in regard for their rights; in 
 deference to their wishes; and in devo- 
 tion to that common interest in which 
 each member shares. Each member 
 must live for the sake of the whole fam- 
 ily. "Children owe to their parents obe- 
 dience, and such service as they are able 
 to render," says Dr. DeWitt Hyde. 
 "Parents, on the other hand, owe to chil- 
 dren support, training, and an education 
 sufficient to give them a fair start in life. 
 Brothers and sisters owe to each other 
 mutual helpfulness and protection." 
 
 The patient disposition to do the best 
 one can, this day, this hour, this very 
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 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 moment, counts for much in the building 
 of a life. How perfectly is its whole pur- 
 pose set forth in Channing's "Sym- 
 phony," in which he so beautifully makes 
 known his heart's desire: "To live con- 
 tent with small means ; to seek elegance 
 rather than luxury; and refinement 
 rather than fashion; to be worthy, not 
 respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to 
 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, 
 act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, 
 to babes and sages, with open heart; to 
 bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await 
 occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let 
 the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, 
 grow up through the common. This is 
 to be my symphony." 
 
 It is this rare sense of poise, this pa- 
 tient regard for our own happiness and 
 that of others, that enables some sweet 
 spirits to come as a balm for all the 
 bruises that a busy world can put upon 
 us. "There is no joy but calm." Until 
 one has learned to do his work pleasantly 
 and agreeably he has not mastered the 
 most important part of his lesson. 
 "Blessed is the man who finds joy in his 
 work." He will succeed where the com- 
 plaining, discontented person will be al- 
 
 79 
 
 All men wish to 
 have truth on their 
 side; but few to be on 
 the side of truth. 
 WHATELY. 
 
 Mightier than all 
 the world, the clasp of 
 one small hand upon 
 the heart. JOHN 
 TOWNSEND TROW- 
 
 BRIDGE, 
 
 The truest wisdom 
 is a resolute determin- 
 ation. NAPOLEON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Character must 
 stand behind and back 
 up everything the 
 sermon, the poem, the 
 picture, the play. None 
 of them is worth a 
 straw without it. J. 
 G. HOLLAND. 
 
 The question every 
 morning is not how to 
 do the gainful thing, 
 but how to do the just 
 thing. JOHN RUSKIN. 
 
 Resolve to be thy- 
 self; and know that 
 he who finds himself, 
 loses his misery. 
 MATTHEW ARNOLD. 
 
 most sure to fail. So, let us cultivate this 
 one of the chief est of our every-day vir- 
 tues. It will enable us to give to every 
 moment the proper regard for its value 
 and of the possibilities it offers for 
 achievement. It will teach us that dur- 
 ing every day, every hour, every mo- 
 ment, there is time for politeness, for 
 kindness, for gentleness, for the display 
 of strength and tenderness and high pur- 
 pose, and for the exercise of that degree 
 of patience that does so much to make 
 life big and broad and beautiful in 
 
 THIS BUSY WORLD 
 
 It is a very busy world in which we mortals 
 
 meet, 
 There are so many weary hands, so many tired 
 
 feet; 
 So many, many tasks are born with every 
 
 morning's sun. 
 And though we labor with a will the work 
 
 seems never done. 
 And yet for every moment's task there comes 
 
 a moment's time : 
 The burden and the strength to bear are like a 
 
 perfect rhyme. 
 The heart makes strong the honest hand, the 
 
 will seeks out the way, 
 
 Nor must we do to-morrow's work, nor yes- 
 terday's, to-day. 
 80
 
 SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES 
 
 We scale the mountain's rugged side, not at 
 
 one mighty leap, 
 But step by step and breath by breath we climb 
 
 the lofty steep. 
 Each simple duty comes alone our willing 
 
 strength to try ; 
 One little moment at a time and so the days 
 
 go by. 
 With strength to lift and heart to hope, we 
 
 strive from sun to sun, 
 A little here, a little there, and all our tasks are 
 
 done; 
 There 's time to toil and time to sing and time 
 
 for us to play, 
 
 Nor must we do to-morrow's work, nor yes- 
 terday's, to-day. 
 
 I hate a thing done 
 by halves. If it be 
 right, do it boldly; if 
 it be wrong, leave it 
 undone. GILPIN. 
 
 What we need most 
 is not so much to real- 
 ize the ideal as to 
 idealize the real. F. 
 H. HEDGE. 
 
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 JULIA WARD HOWE
 
 CHAPTER V 
 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 people like you? 
 
 Are your girl playmates and class- 
 mates fond of your society? Are they 
 eager to work with you, play with you, 
 go strolling or sit by the fire with you? 
 
 This one fact we must know; if we are 
 not liked it must be because we are not 
 the possessors of that fine quality known 
 as "likableness." And if those who have 
 had an opportunity to know us and our 
 traits of character do not love and admire 
 us, it is we and not they who are respon- 
 sible for their state of mind. For as sure 
 as the warm sunshine attracts the flow- 
 ers, and the fragrant flowers call the at- 
 tention of the bee to their store of honey, 
 so a fine likable character is certain to 
 gain and to hold the admiration of good 
 friends and true. 
 
 The face full of sunshine, the heart full 
 of hope, the lips that are speaking pleas- 
 
 85 
 
 Kind words are 
 worth much and they 
 cost little. PROVERB. 
 
 The happiness of 
 your life depends up- 
 on the quality of your 
 thoughts. MARCUS 
 
 AURELIUS A N T O N I- 
 NUS. 
 
 Always laugh when 
 you can; it is a cheap 
 medicine. Merriment 
 is a philosophy not 
 well understood. It 
 is the sunny side of 
 existence. BYRON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 To do something, 
 however small, to 
 make others happier 
 and better, is the high- 
 est ambition, the most 
 elevating hope, which 
 can inspire a human 
 being. LORD AVE- 
 BURY. 
 
 Happiness gives us 
 the energy which is 
 the basis of all 
 health. AMIEL. 
 
 Not in the clamour 
 of the crowded 
 streets, not in the 
 shouts and plaudits of 
 the throng, but in our- 
 selves are triumph 
 and defeat. LONG- 
 FELLOW. 
 
 ant words of good cheer and joyous faith 
 in the world, will attract friends about 
 them as certainly as the magnetic pole 
 attracts the needle. 
 
 The girl who goes among the people 
 with smiles to offer will find very many 
 ready to receive her gracious gifts, but 
 if she carries with her sighs and frowns, 
 instead, she will learn that the world 
 wants none of them. 
 
 We all love to hear pleasant things. 
 The one who tells us that he thinks it is 
 going to set in for a long rainy spell of 
 weather is of less worth to us than the 
 one who says he thinks that the clouds 
 are going to clear away and that we shall 
 have a beautiful day to-morrow. 
 
 The grandsire who tells his young 
 friends that they ought to be glad that 
 the grandest, brightest and best era in 
 the world's history is just before them, 
 does much more to inspire them than 
 does the one who tells them that the best 
 days of the world were "the good old 
 days of long ago," and that the golden 
 age will never return again. Brooke Her- 
 ford tells us: "There are some people 
 who ride all through the journey of life 
 with their backs to the horse's head. 
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 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 They are always looking into the past. 
 All the worth of things is there. They 
 are forever talking about the good old 
 times, and how different things were 
 when they were young. There is no 
 romance in the world now, and no hero- 
 ism. The very winters and summers are 
 nothing to what they used to be; in fact, 
 life is altogether on a small, common- 
 place scale. Now that is a miserable sort 
 of thing; it brings a sort of paralyzing 
 chill over the life, and petrifies the nat- 
 ural spring of joy that should ever be 
 leaping up to meet the fresh new mercies 
 that the days keep bringing." 
 
 Know then, my young friends, that 
 the best time that ever was is the present 
 time, if you will but use it aright. It is 
 full of romance, of heroism, of splendid 
 opportunity, of all that goes to consti- 
 tute experience and to develop character. 
 There never was a time when there were 
 more good things to be done, or when 
 greater rewards awaited the doers of 
 them. The summers are just as long and 
 bright and golden ; the roses blossom just 
 as numerously and as sweetly; human 
 hearts are just as warm and kindly, as 
 they have been at any time in the world's 
 
 87 
 
 A man should al- 
 ways keep learning 
 something "always," 
 as Arnold said, "keep 
 the stream running" 
 whereas most people 
 let it stagnate about 
 middle life. ANONY- 
 MOUS. 
 
 A smile passes cur- 
 rent in every country 
 as a mark of distinc- 
 tion. J o E MITCHELL 
 CHAPPLE. 
 
 The thoughts of 
 men are widened with 
 the process of the 
 suns. TEN NY SON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 No man ever sunk 
 under the burden of 
 the day. It is when 
 to-morrow's burden is 
 added to the burden 
 of to-day that the bur- 
 den is more than a 
 man can bea r. 
 GEORGE MACDONALD. 
 
 Though sorrow 
 must come, where is 
 the advantage of rush- 
 ing to meet it ? It will 
 be time enough to 
 grieve when it comes ; 
 meanwhile, hope for 
 better things. SEN- 
 ECA. 
 
 All my old opinions 
 were only stages on 
 the way to the one I 
 now hold, as itself is 
 only a stage on the 
 way to something else. 
 R. L. STEVENSON. 
 
 history. Emerson says: "One of the il- 
 lusions is that the present hour is not the 
 critical, decisive hour. Write it on your 
 heart that every day is the best day in 
 the whole year." 
 
 So then as far as the time and the hour 
 are concerned, there is nothing in our 
 surroundings to make us morose or 
 gloomy or dispirited or indifferent re- 
 garding the influence we are exerting 
 upon those around us. There is no ob- 
 vious reason why we should not be joy- 
 ous and happy at the prospect before us. 
 We should have not only grace enough 
 for our own personal needs, but plenty of 
 it to spare for those not so gladly born as 
 ourselves. 
 
 And rich beyond computation is the 
 one who has joyousness to spare. Better 
 than gold, better than food and raiment 
 and all material things, betimes, is a ray 
 of sunshine from the heart, an uplift of 
 saving humor from a merry tongue. "I 
 have often felt, myself," says Benson, 
 "that the time has come to raise another 
 figure to the hierarchy of Christian 
 graces. Faith, Hope and Charity were 
 sufficient in a more elementary and bar- 
 barous age, but, now that the world has 
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 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 broadened somewhat, I think an addi- 
 tion to the trio is demanded. A man may 
 be faithful, hopeful, and charitable, and 
 yet leave much to be desired. He may be 
 useful, no doubt, with that equipment, 
 but he may also be both tiresome and 
 even absurd. The fourth quality that I 
 should like to see raised to the highest 
 rank among the Christian graces is the 
 Grace of Humor." 
 
 Splendidly blest is that household 
 that is so fortunate as to possess at least 
 one member gifted with the grace of 
 good humor. One such person in a home 
 is enough if there cannot be more. Just 
 when all the others are seriously con- 
 fronting what seems to be a most sad and 
 serious condition of affairs how just one 
 word of illuminating good humor can 
 change the whole point of view and send 
 the foreboding proposition glimmering 
 into nothingness. "Do you know, my 
 dear," says Mrs. Holden, "that there is 
 absolutely nothing that will help you to 
 bear the ills of life so well as a good 
 laugh ? Laugh all you can and the small 
 imps in blue who love to preempt their 
 quarters in a human heart will scatter 
 away like owls before the music of flutes. 
 
 Hasten slowly, and, 
 without losing heart, 
 put your work twenty 
 times upon the anvil. 
 
 BOILEAU. 
 
 Self-reverence, self- 
 knowledge, self-con- 
 trol these three alone 
 lead life 1 to sovereign 
 power. TEN N YSON. 
 
 It is curious to what 
 an extent our happi- 
 ness or unhappiness 
 depends upon the 
 manner in which we 
 view things. E. C. 
 BURKE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Those who never 
 retract their opinions 
 love themselves more 
 than they love truth. 
 
 JOUBERT. 
 
 Truth is tough; it 
 will not break, like a 
 bubble, at a touch; 
 nay, you may kick it 
 about all day like a 
 football, and it will be 
 round and full at 
 evening. OLIVER 
 WENDELL HOLMES. 
 
 Good manners are 
 made up of petty sac- 
 rifices. EMERSON. 
 
 There are few of the minor difficulties 
 and annoyances that will not dissipate at 
 the charge of the nonsense brigade. If 
 the clothes line breaks, if the cat tips over 
 the milk and the dog elopes with the 
 roast, if the children fall into the mud 
 simultaneously with the advent of clean 
 aprons, if the new girl quits in the mid- 
 dle of housecleaning, and though you 
 search the earth with candles you find 
 none to take her place, if the neighbor 
 you have trusted goes back on you and 
 decides to keep chickens, if the chariot 
 wheels of the uninvited guest draw near 
 when you are out of provender, and the 
 gaping of your empty purse is like the 
 unfilled mouth of a young robin, take 
 courage if you have enough sunshine in 
 your heart, to keep the laugh on your 
 lips. Before good nature, half the cares 
 of daily living will fly away like midges 
 before the wind. Try it." 
 
 What a world of inspiration and cheer- 
 fulness in the motto written by Edward 
 Everett Hale for the Lend-A-Hand So- 
 ciety: "Look up, and not down ; look for- 
 ward, and not back ; look out, and not in ; 
 and lend a hand." It is the lifting of the 
 burden from another's tired shoulder 
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 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 that does most to lighten the load resting 
 on our own. 
 
 No one who truly is conscious of the 
 value of sunshine upon his own nature 
 and upon the spirits of those with whom 
 he comes into contact will ever, for one 
 minute, permit himself to be taken pos- 
 session of by 
 
 THE "BLUES" 
 
 "Blues" are the sorry calms that come 
 
 To make our spirits mope, 
 And steal the breeze of promise from 
 
 The shining sails of hope. 
 
 Margaret E. Sangster, who is the kind 
 and gracious foster mother to all the girls 
 of her time and generation, says that "be- 
 ing in bondage to the blues is precisely 
 like being lost in a London fog. The lat- 
 ter is thick and black and obliterates fa- 
 miliar landmarks. A man may be within 
 a few doors of his home, yet grope hope- 
 lessly through the murk to find the well- 
 worn threshold. A person under the ty- 
 ranny of the blues is temporarily unable 
 to adjust life to its usual limitations. He 
 or she cannot see an inch beyond the 
 dreadful present. Everything looks dark 
 and forbidding, and despair with an iron 
 
 91 
 
 The aids to noble 
 life are all within. 
 MATTHEW ARNOLD. 
 
 Nothing is difficult; 
 it is only we who are 
 indolent. B. R. HAY- 
 DON. 
 
 It is a serious thing 
 that we should see the 
 full beauty of our 
 lives only when they 
 are passed or in vis- 
 ions of a possible fu- 
 ture. What we most 
 need is to see and feel 
 the beauty and joy of 
 to-day. MAURICE D. 
 CONWAY.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Let us enjoy the 
 scenery of the present 
 moment. The land- 
 scape around the bend 
 will still be there 
 when our life-train 
 arrives. HORATIO W. 
 DRESSER. 
 
 If we cannot get 
 what we like let us 
 try to like what we 
 can get. SPANISH 
 PROVERB. 
 
 Men continually 
 forget that happiness 
 is a condition of the 
 mind and not a dispo- 
 s i t i o n of circum- 
 stances. LECKY. 
 
 clutch pins its victim down. People 
 think, loosely, that trials that may be 
 weighed and measured and felt and han- 
 dled are the worst trials to which flesh is 
 heir. But they are mistaken. Hearts are 
 elastic, and real sorrows seldom crush 
 them. Souls have in them a wonderful 
 capacity for recovering after knock- 
 down blows. It is the intangible, the 
 thing that one dreads vaguely, that 
 catches one in the dark, that suggests 
 and intimates a peril that is spiritual 
 rather than mortal; it is the burden that 
 carries dismay and terror to the imagi- 
 nation." 
 
 A single member of a household who 
 is given to having "the blues" often dark- 
 ens a home that would otherwise be 
 bright and sunny. Such an unfortunate 
 person should bear in mind that when a 
 servant is employed the whole house- 
 hold expects her to be kind, tidy, indus- 
 trious, moral, gentle, and, above all, good 
 natured in her attitude toward all. 
 Surely the daughter of a household can- 
 not wish to feel that she holds her posi- 
 tion by accident of birth, and that if her 
 family were not compelled to keep her 
 they would not. 
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 Charles Dickens says: "It is not pos- 
 sible to know how far the influence of 
 any amiable, honest-hearted, duty-doing 
 man flows out into the world." A bright, 
 cheerful, sunshiny daughter in a home 
 can never know how great is her influ- 
 ence for making the little household 
 world holier and happier for all whose 
 life interests are centered therein. Ham- 
 ilton Wright Mabie says: "The day is 
 dark only when the mind is dark; all 
 weathers are pleasant when the heart is 
 at rest." Bliss Carman observes that 
 "happiness, perhaps, comes by the grace 
 of Heaven, but the wearing of a happy 
 countenance, the preserving of a happy 
 mien, is a duty, not a blessing." This 
 thought that it is one's duty to be happy 
 is set forth still more forcibly by Lilian 
 Whiting : "No one has any more right to 
 go about unhappy than he has to go 
 about ill-bred." 
 
 The girl with sunshine in her thoughts 
 and sunshine in her eyes will find sun- 
 shine everywhere. Wherever she may 
 go her gracious presence will light the 
 way and make her every path more 
 smooth and beautiful. In the home, in 
 the school, amid whatever conditions 
 
 93 
 
 If you would know 
 the political and 
 moral condition of a 
 people, ask as to the 
 condition of its 
 women. AIME MAR- 
 TIN. 
 
 Delicacy in woman 
 is strength. LICH- 
 
 Who has not exper- 
 ienced how, on nearer 
 acquaintance, plain- 
 ness becomes beauti- 
 fied, and beauty loses 
 its charm, according 
 to the quality of the 
 heart and m i n d. 
 FRED RIKA BREMER.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Her voice was ever 
 soft, gentle and low, 
 an excellent thing in 
 woman. SHAKES- 
 PEARE. 
 
 Gentleness, cheer- 
 fulness, and urbanity 
 are the Three Graces 
 of manners. MAR- 
 GUERITE DE VALOIS. 
 
 To have what we 
 want is riches, but to 
 be able to do without 
 is power. GEORGE 
 
 MACDONALD. 
 
 surround her, she will shine with the 
 glow of a rose in bloom. She will see the 
 good and the beautiful in the persons 
 whom she meets; while all the charms 
 of nature, as portrayed in field and forest, 
 will be to her a never-ending source of 
 interest and enjoyment. Above all, she 
 will warmly cherish life and look upon 
 it as being crowded with priceless oppor- 
 tunities for obtaining happiness for her- 
 self and for others. She will be filled 
 with the same exhuberant spirit of joy in 
 the mere fact of her being that Mrs. Hoi- 
 den so happily sets forth: "I love this 
 world. I never walk out in the morning 
 when all its radiant colors are newly 
 washed with dew, or at splendid noon, 
 when, like an untired racer, the sun has 
 flashed around his mid-day course, or at 
 evening, when a fringe of a shadow, like 
 the lash of a weary eye, droops over 
 mountain and valley and sea, or in the 
 majestic pomp of night when stars 
 swarm together like bees, and the moon 
 clears its way through the golden fields 
 as a sickle through the ripened wheat, 
 that I do not hug myself for very joy that 
 I am yet alive. What matter if I am 
 poor and unsheltered and costumeless? 
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 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 Thank God, I am yet alive ! People who 
 tire of this world before they are seventy 
 and pretend that they are ready to leave 
 it, are either crazy or stuck as full of 
 bodily ailments as a cushion is of pins. 
 The happy, the warm-blooded, the 
 sunny-natured and the loving cling to 
 life as petals cling to the calyx of a bud- 
 ding rose. By and by, when the rose is 
 over-ripe, or when the frosts come and 
 the November winds are trumpeting 
 through all the leafless spaces of the 
 woods, will be time to die. It is no 
 time now, while there is a dark space left 
 on earth that love can brighten, while 
 there is a human lot to be alleviated by 
 a smile, or a burden to be lifted with a 
 sympathizing tear." 
 
 We all understand that it is not so dif- 
 ficult for us to be bright and smiling and 
 gracious toward everyone when there is 
 naught to disturb the serenity of our 
 thoughts, and when nothing happens to 
 interfere with the fulfillment of our 
 wishes. But when things go "at sixes 
 and sevens," when our dearest purposes 
 are thwarted, when some one is about to 
 gain the place or prize which we covet, 
 when we are forced to stay within doors 
 
 95 
 
 A man is rich in 
 proportion to the 
 number of things 
 which he can afford 
 to let alone. THOR- 
 EAU. 
 
 In truth, how could 
 I feel this gladness 
 now had I not known 
 the bitterness of woe. 
 ALICIA K. VAN Bu- 
 REN. 
 
 Of all the joys we 
 can bring into our 
 own lives there is 
 none so joyous as that 
 which comes to us as 
 the result of caring 
 for others and bright- 
 ening sad lives. E. C. 
 BURKE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Human improve- 
 ment is from within 
 outward. FROUDE. 
 
 Cheerfulness and 
 content are great 
 beautifiers, and are 
 famous preservers of 
 good looks. DICK- 
 ENS. 
 
 The law of true liv- 
 ing is toil. J. R. MIL- 
 LER. 
 
 when we very much prefer to go in the 
 fields; then it requires more of character, 
 more of strength, more of the true spirit 
 of sacrifice to wear a smiling face and to 
 maintain a cheerful heart. But instead 
 of fleeing from the petty trials that cross 
 our paths we should welcome them as op- 
 portunities for testing and strengthen- 
 ing our good purposes. Newcomb tells 
 us: "Disappointment should always be 
 taken as a stimulant, and never viewed 
 as a discouragement." To the sunshiny, 
 philosophical person, trials and difficul- 
 ties but serve to help him to develop into 
 
 THE PRIZE WINNER 
 
 Oh, the man who wins the prize 
 
 Is the one who bravely tries, 
 As he works his way amid the toil and stress, 
 
 Through the college of Hard Knocks, 
 
 So to hew his stumbling-blocks, 
 They will serve as stepping-stones toward 
 success. 
 
 Sunshine has ever been deemed by the 
 close students of life as a most essential 
 element in the achievement of the high- 
 est and fullest success. The optimist 
 sees open paths leading to pleasant and 
 prosperous fields of endeavor where the 
 96
 
 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 pessimist can see no way out of the hope- 
 less surroundings amid which he has 
 been thrust by an unkind fate. The dis- 
 position to seize upon the opportunities 
 lying close at hand and to believe that 
 the here and now is full of sunshine and 
 golden possibilities has carried many a 
 one to success, where others, lacking the 
 illumination born of good cheer and a 
 hope well grounded in a broad and beau- 
 tiful faith, have sat complainingly by the 
 way and permitted the golden chances 
 to go by unobserved. 
 
 "Born of only ordinary capacity, but 
 of extraordinary persistency," said Pro- 
 fessor Maria Mitchell, the distinguished 
 astronomer, in the later years of her life 
 in looking back upon her career. But 
 she added, with a simplicity as rare as it 
 is pleasing: "I did not quite take this in, 
 myself, until I came to mingle with the 
 best girls of our college, and to become 
 aware how rich their mines are and 
 how little they have been worked." 
 At sixteen she left school, and at eight- 
 een accepted the position of librarian of 
 the Nantucket public library. Her du- 
 ties were light and she had ample oppor- 
 tunity, surrounded as she was by books, 
 
 97 
 
 We may make the 
 best of life, or we 
 may make the worst 
 of it, and it depends 
 very much upon our- 
 selves whether we ex- 
 tract joy or misery 
 from it. SMILES. 
 
 Every optimist 
 moves along with pro- 
 gress and hastens it, 
 while every pessimist 
 would keep the world 
 at a standstill. 
 HELEN KELLER. 
 
 He that riseth late, 
 must trot all day, and 
 shall scarce overtake 
 his business at night. 
 BENJAMIN FBANK- 
 LIN.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 It is great folly not 
 to part with your own 
 faults, which is pos- 
 sible, but to try in- 
 stead to escape from 
 other people's faults, 
 which is impossible. 
 MARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 Labor is discovered 
 to be the grand con- 
 querer, enriching and 
 building up nations 
 more surely than the 
 proudest battles. 
 WILLIAM ELLERY 
 CHANMNG. 
 
 It is easier to leave 
 the wrong thing un- 
 said than to unsay it. 
 GEORGE HORACE LOR- 
 
 to read and study, while leisure was also 
 left her to pursue by practical observa- 
 tion the science in which she afterward 
 became known. Those who dwell upon 
 the smaller islands, among which must 
 be classed Nantucket, her island home, 
 learn almost of necessity to study the sea 
 and the sky. The Mitchell family pos- 
 sessed an excellent telescope. From 
 childhood Maria had been accustomed 
 to the use of this instrument, search- 
 ing out with its aid, the distant sails 
 upon the horizon by day, and view- 
 ing the stars by night. Her father 
 possessed a marked taste for astron- 
 omy, and carried on an independent 
 series of observations. He taught his 
 daughter all he knew, and what was 
 more to her advancement, she applied 
 herself to the study and made as much 
 independent advancement as was pos- 
 sible for her to do. It was this cheerful 
 willingness to make the most of her im- 
 mediate surroundings that proved to be 
 the secret of her world-wide fame in 
 after years when her name was included 
 with those of the other prominent as- 
 tronomers of the world. At half past 
 ten of the evening of October First, 1847, 
 96
 
 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 she made the discovery which first 
 brought her name before the public. She 
 was gazing through her glass with her 
 usual quiet intentness when she was sud- 
 denly startled to perceive "an unknown 
 comet, nearly vertical above Polaris, 
 about five degrees." At first she could 
 not believe her eyes; then hoping and 
 doubting, scarcely daring to think that 
 she had really made a discovery, she ob- 
 tained its right ascension and declina- 
 tion. She then told her father, who gave 
 the news to the other astronomers and to 
 the world, and her claim to the discovery 
 was duly accepted and ever after stood 
 to her lasting credit. But had she not 
 been interested in her work and compe- 
 tent to seize upon and to make the most 
 of the opportunity that presented itself, 
 she would not have been able to make 
 herself the first of all the beings of our 
 earth to observe and record this strange 
 visitant to our starry realms above us. 
 
 It is the faith which the sunshiny spirit 
 has in the "worth whileness" of life and 
 its possibilities that makes him or her 
 who possesses it prepare for the best that 
 is to come. It is because of the "prepar- 
 edness" achieved by labor that men and 
 
 99 
 
 Work is the inevita- 
 ble condition of hu- 
 man life, the true 
 source of human wel- 
 fare. TOLSTOI. 
 
 If you want knowl- 
 edge, you must toil for 
 it; and if pleasure, 
 you must toil for it. 
 Toil is the law. Pleas- 
 ure comes through 
 toil, and not by self- 
 indulgence and indo- 
 lence. When one gets 
 to love work, his life 
 is a happy one. Rus- 
 KIN. 
 
 One of the grandest 
 things in having rights 
 is that, being your 
 rights, you may give 
 them up. GEORGE 
 
 MACDONALD.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Every individual 
 has a place to fill in 
 the world, and is im- 
 portant in some re- 
 spects, whether he 
 chooses to be or not. 
 HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Expediency is man's 
 wisdom. Doing right 
 is God's. GEORGE 
 MEREDITH. 
 
 Diamonds are found 
 only in the dark places 
 of the earth; truths 
 are found only in the 
 depths of thought. 
 VICTOR HUGO. 
 
 women are able to seize upon and make 
 the most of the "lucky chance" that may 
 bring them happiness and success. 
 
 While Thomas A. Edison was yet a 
 youth, the desire to make himself of 
 worth to the world and to be able to do 
 something that would make him a living 
 while he was still fitting himself for bet- 
 ter things, he spent the leisure which 
 most boys would spend in idleness or 
 purposeless pastime in learning the tele- 
 grapher's code. Later on this knowl- 
 edge gave him work which enabled him 
 to gain experience as a telegraph oper- 
 ator, which in turn led to his invention of 
 the quadruplex telegraph. But the inven- 
 tion was temporarily a failure, although 
 later on a great success. Sorely reduced 
 in circumstances, he was one day tramp- 
 ing the streets of New York without a 
 cent. 
 
 "I happened one day," he says, "into 
 the office of a 'gold ticker' company 
 which had about five hundred subscrib- 
 ers. I was standing beside the apparatus 
 when it gave a terrific rip-roar and sud- 
 denly stopped. In a few minutes hun- 
 dreds of messenger boys blocked up the 
 doorway and yelled for some one to fix 
 100
 
 THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE 
 
 the tickers in the office. The man in 
 charge of the place was. completely up- 
 set; so I stepped up to him and said: 'I 
 think I know what 's the matter.' I re- 
 moved a loose contact spring that had 
 fallen between the wheels; the machine 
 went on. The result? I was appointed 
 to take charge of the service at three hun- 
 dred dollars a month. When 1 heard 
 what the salary was I almost fainted." 
 It had been his hopeful, cheerful, expect- 
 ant attitude toward the future that had 
 ever prompted him to fit himself so well 
 that when the opportunity offered itself 
 he was able to show that he possessed the 
 grasp of things that made him 
 
 THE CONQUEROR 
 
 There 's a day, there 's an hour, a moment of 
 
 time 
 
 When Fate shall be willing to try us ; 
 This one test of our worth and our purpose 
 
 sublime, 
 
 It will not, it cannot deny us. 
 'T is our right to demand one true crisis, else 
 
 how 
 
 Shall we prove by our valor undaunted 
 That we merit the wreath Fortune lays on the 
 
 brow 
 
 Of the man who is there when he 's wanted? 
 
 101 
 
 I simply declare my 
 determination not to 
 feed on the broth of 
 literature when I can 
 get strong sou p. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 A thousand words 
 leave not the same 
 deep print as does a 
 single deed. IBSEN. 
 
 Woman the crown 
 of creation. HERDER.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Harmony is the es- 
 sence of power as 
 well as beauty. A. 
 E. WINSHIP. 
 
 Be faithful to thy- 
 self, and fear no other 
 witness but thy fear. 
 SHELLEY. 
 
 To give heartfelt 
 praise to noble actions 
 is, in some measure, 
 making them our own. 
 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 
 
 And whene'er Opportunity knocks at his door 
 
 The wise one's glad greeting is, "Ready !" 
 He has garnered, of knowledge, an adequate 
 store, 
 
 His purpose is seasoned and steady. 
 With soul and with spirit, with hand and with 
 heart, 
 
 And with strength that he never has vaunted, 
 He is fashioned and fitted to compass his part, 
 
 Is the man who is there when he 's wanted. 
 
 The world is a stage and our lives are a play 
 
 And the role that is given us in it 
 May be grand or obscure, yet there comes the 
 
 great day 
 
 When we speak its best lines for a minute. 
 And the dream that through all of life's trials 
 
 and tears, 
 
 The soul, like soft music, has haunted, 
 Comes true, and the world gives its smiles and 
 
 its cheers 
 To the man who is there when he 's wanted. 
 
 102
 
 KLI55ABKTH BARRETT BROWNING
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 117HO among us can presume to esti- 
 mate the value of a merry heart ? 
 What a perpetual blessing it is to its pos- 
 sessor and to all who must come into 
 close relationship with the owner of it! 
 
 There is nothing more pleasantly 
 "catching" than happiness. The happy 
 person serves to make all about him or 
 her the more happy. What the bright, 
 inspiring sunshine adds to the beauty of 
 the fields, a happy disposition adds to the 
 charm of all the incidents and experi- 
 ences of one's daily life. 
 
 Do not you, whose eyes are perusing 
 these lines, love to associate with a friend 
 possessing a cheerful disposition? And 
 do you not intuitively refrain from meet- 
 ing with the unfortunate one whose 
 looks and words are heavy with com- 
 plainings or whose eyes fail to see the 
 beauty of the world lying all about ? And 
 
 105 
 
 Mirth is God's med- 
 icine ; everybody 
 ought to bathe in it. 
 HOLMES. 
 
 The blue of heaven 
 is larger than the 
 cloud. ELIZABETH 
 BARRETT BROWNING. 
 
 A gay, serene spirit 
 is the source of all 
 that is noble and good. 
 SCHILLER.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Your manners will 
 depend very much on 
 what you frequently 
 think on; for the soul 
 is as it were tinged 
 with the color and 
 complexion of 
 thought. MARCUS 
 AURELIUS ANTONI- 
 NUS. 
 
 Dost thou love life? 
 Then do not squander 
 time, for that is the 
 stuff life is made of. 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 
 
 Be yourself, but 
 m a ke yourself in 
 everything as delight- 
 ful as you can. MAR- 
 GARET E. SANGSTER. 
 
 if we are given to wise thinking we must 
 reach the conclusion that as we regard 
 these attributes in others, so others must 
 regard them in us. 
 
 Nothing is more eloquent than a beau- 
 tiful face. It is the open sesame to all 
 our hearts. A sunshiny face melts away 
 all opposition and finds the word "Wel- 
 come" written over the doorways where 
 the face wearing a hard, unfriendly look 
 sees only the warning, "No Admit- 
 tance." 
 
 But a smile that is only skin deep is 
 not a true smile, but only a superficial 
 grin. A true smile comes all the way 
 from the heart. It bears its message of 
 good will and friendliness. It is a mute 
 salutation of "good luck and happy days 
 to you!" and it makes whoever receives 
 it better and stronger for the hour. 
 
 The genuine smile is closely related 
 to, and is a part of, that laughter which 
 beams and sparkles in the eye and makes 
 the little, cheerful, smiling lines in the 
 face that are so quickly and easily dis- 
 tinguished from the lines that are the 
 outward sign of an unhappy spirit 
 within. 
 
 Many centuries ago that wise and ad- 
 
 106
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 mirable philosopher, Epictetus, discov- 
 ered that "happiness is not in strength, 
 or wealth, or power; or all three. It 
 lies in ourselves, in true freedom, in the 
 conquest of every ignoble fear, in perfect 
 self-government, in a power of content- 
 ment and peace, and the even flow of 
 life, even in poverty, exile, disease and 
 the very valley of the shadow." 
 
 One of the happiest observers of life 
 and its higher purposes Anne Gilchrist 
 says : "I used to think it was great to 
 disregard happiness, to press to a high 
 goal, careless, disdainful of it. But now 
 I see there is nothing so great as to be 
 capable of happiness, to pluck it out of 
 each moment, and, whatever happens, 
 to find that one can ride as gay and 
 buoyant on the angry, menacing, tu- 
 multuous waves of life as on those that 
 glide and glitter under a clear sky; that 
 it is not defeat and wretchedness which 
 comes out of the storms of adversity, 
 but strength and calmness." 
 
 The strongest incentive for the culti- 
 vation of a merry heart is that it is a 
 duty as well as a delight. Sydney Smith 
 has very wisely observed that "mankind 
 is always happier for having been 
 
 107 
 
 The tissue of the 
 life to be we weave 
 with colors all our 
 own, and in the field 
 of destiny we reap as 
 we have sow n. 
 WHITTIER. 
 
 What must of ne- 
 cessity be done you 
 can always find out 
 beyond question how 
 to do. RUSKIN. 
 
 T he doctrine of 
 
 love, purity, and right 
 living has, step by 
 step, won its way into 
 the hearts of man- 
 kind, and has filled 
 the future with hope 
 and promise. WIL- 
 LIAM McKlNLEY.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Since time is not a 
 person we can over- 
 take when he is past, 
 let us honor him with 
 mirth and cheerful- 
 ness of heart while he 
 is passing. GOETHE. 
 
 Every wish is a 
 prayer with God. 
 ELIZABETH BARRETT 
 BROWNING. 
 
 Say not always 
 what you know, but 
 always know what you 
 say. CLAUDIUS. 
 
 happy; so that if you make them happy 
 now, you may make them happy twenty 
 years hence by the memory of it." 
 
 True happiness has about it no sug- 
 gestion of selfishness. The genuinely 
 happy person is the one who would have 
 all the world to be happy. "Is there any 
 happiness in the world like the happiness 
 of a disposition made happy by the 
 happiness of others?" asks Faber. 
 "There is no joy to be compared with it. 
 The luxuries which wealth can buy, the 
 rewards which ambition can obtain, the 
 pleasures of art and scenery, the abound- 
 ing sense of health and the exquisite en- 
 joyment of mental creations are nothing 
 to this pure and heavenly happiness, 
 where self is drowned in the blessings of 
 others." 
 
 One of the most heavenly attributes 
 of happiness is that it begets more hap- 
 piness not only in ourselves but in others 
 about us. It has in it an uplift and a 
 strength that enables us to build the 
 stronger to-day against the distress that 
 would beset us to-morrow. 
 
 "Health and happiness" are terms 
 that are so often closely linked in our 
 speech and in our literature. One is al- 
 108
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 most a synonym for the other. Perhaps 
 the true significance existing between 
 the two would be more correctly stated 
 were we to reverse the form in which 
 they are usually set forth and say "hap- 
 piness and health" instead. All observ- 
 ers of human nature and its many com- 
 plex attributes are convinced that hap- 
 piness is the fountain spring of health. 
 One of our keenest students of life 
 tells us that "small annoyances are the 
 seeds of disease. We cannot afford to 
 entertain them. They are the bacteria, 
 the germs that make serious disturb- 
 ance in the system, and prepare the way 
 for all derangements. They furnish the 
 mental conditions which are manifested 
 later in the blood, the tissues, and the 
 organs, under various pathological 
 names. Good thoughts are the only 
 germicide. We must kill our resent- 
 ment and regret, impatience and anxiety. 
 Health will inevitably follow. Every 
 thought that holds us in even the slight- 
 est degree to either anticipation or re- 
 gret hinders, to some extent, the reali- 
 zation of our present good. It limits 
 freedom. Life is in the present tense. 
 Its significant name is Being." 
 
 109 
 
 Evil is wrought by 
 want of thought, as 
 well as want of heart. 
 HOOD. 
 
 Our greatest glory 
 consists not in never 
 falling, but in rising 
 every time we fall. 
 GOLDSMITH. 
 
 So use present 
 pleasures that thou 
 spoilest not future 
 ones. SENECA.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 A good manner 
 springs from a good 
 heart, and fine man- 
 ners are the outcome 
 of unselfish kindness. 
 MARGARET E. SANG- 
 
 STER. 
 
 Reading and study 
 are in no sense educa- 
 tion, unless they may 
 contribute to this end 
 of making us feel 
 kindly towards all 
 creatures. RUSKIN. 
 
 An hour in every 
 day withdrawn from 
 frivolous pursuits 
 would, if properly em- 
 ployed, enable a per- 
 son of ordinary 
 capacity, to go far to- 
 ward mastering a sci- 
 ence. SAMUEL 
 SMILES. 
 
 Whether we are happy or not depends 
 much on our point of view. The dispo- 
 sition to look at everything through kind 
 and beautiful eyes makes all the world 
 more kind and beautiful. If we are 
 gloomy within the whole world appears 
 likewise. Perhaps the two ways of look- 
 ing at things could not be better set forth 
 than in these clever lines by E. J. Hardy: 
 
 "How dismal you look!" said a bucket 
 to his companion, as they were going to 
 the well. 
 
 "Ah !" replied the other, "I was reflect- 
 ing on the uselessness of our being filled, 
 for, let us go away never so full, we al- 
 ways come back empty." 
 
 "Dear me! how strange to look on it 
 that way!" said the other bucket; "now 
 I enjoy the thought that however empty 
 we come, we always go away full. Only 
 look at it in that light and you will al- 
 ways be as cheerful as I am." 
 
 The difference between the pessimist 
 and the optimist is in their 
 
 POINT OF VIEW 
 Because each rose must have its thorn, 
 
 The pessimist Fate's plan opposes ; 
 The optimist, more gladly born, 
 Rejoices that the thorns have roses. 
 110
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 Since our happiness is merely the re- 
 flex influence of the happiness we make 
 for others it would seem as though the 
 joy of our lives dwells within our own 
 keeping. "The universe," says Zimmer- 
 man, "pays every man in his own coin; 
 if you smile, it smiles upon you in re- 
 turn ; if you frown, you will be frowned 
 at; if you sing, you will be invited into 
 gay company; if you think, you will be 
 entertained by thinkers ; if you love the 
 world, and earnestly seek for the good 
 therein, you will be surrounded by lov- 
 ing friends, and nature will pour into 
 your lap the treasures of the earth." 
 
 All of this being true we must early 
 learn to seize upon opportunities for 
 making' others happy if we, ourselves, 
 would get the most and highest enjoy- 
 ment from life. "There are gates that 
 swing within your life and mine," writes 
 "Amber," that good woman of sainted 
 memory, "letting in rare opportunities 
 from day to day, that tarry but a mo- 
 ment and are gone, like travelers bound 
 for points remote. There is the oppor- 
 tunity to resist the temptation to do a 
 mean thing! Improve it, for it is in a 
 hurry, like the man whose ticket is 
 
 ill 
 
 To live with a high 
 ideal is a successful 
 life. It is not what 
 one does, but what 
 one tries to do, that 
 makes the soul strong 
 and fit for noble ca- 
 reer. E. P. TENNEY. 
 
 He who loses money 
 loses much; he who 
 loses a friend loses 
 more, but he who 
 loses spirit loses all. 
 S. A. NELSON. 
 
 If you tell the truth, 
 you have infinite 
 power supporting you ; 
 but if not, you have 
 infinite power against 
 you. CHARLES G. 
 GORDON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Great hearts alone 
 understand how much 
 glory there is in being 
 good. To be and keep 
 so is not the gift of a 
 happy nature alone, 
 but it is strength and 
 heroism. JULES 
 MICHELET. 
 
 We live in deeds, 
 not years; in 
 thoughts, not breaths. 
 BAILEY. 
 
 Remember that 
 everybody's business 
 in the social system is 
 to be agreeabl e. 
 DICKENS. 
 
 bought and whose time is up. It won't 
 be back this way, either, for opportuni- 
 ties for good are not like tourists who 
 travel on return tickets. There is the 
 opportunity to say a pleasant word to 
 the ones within the sound of your voice. 
 All of the priceless opportunities travel 
 by lightning express and have no time 
 to idle around the waiting-room. If we 
 improve them at all it must be when 
 the gate swings to let them through." 
 
 It is in living not for ourselves alone 
 but for others that we are to find the 
 larger and truer happiness of life. Says 
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones, "I would rather live 
 in an alley, stayed all round with human 
 loves, associations and ambitions, than 
 dwell in a palace with drawbridge, moat, 
 and portcullis, apart from the commu- 
 nity about me, alienated from my neigh- 
 bors, unable to share the woes and the 
 joys of those with whom I divide na- 
 ture's bounty of land and landscape, of 
 air and sky." And along this same line 
 of thinking, Charles Hargrove says: 
 "Brother, sister, your mistake is to live 
 alone in a crowded world, to think of 
 yourself and your own belongings, and 
 what is the matter with you, instead of 
 112
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 trying to realize, what is the fact that 
 you are a member of a great human 
 society, and that your true interests are 
 one with those of the world which will 
 go on much the same however it fare 
 with you. Live the larger life, and you 
 will find it the happier." 
 
 So one of the chief aims of your life 
 and of mine should be to find happiness 
 and to see to it that others find it as well. 
 And let us not wait to find happiness 
 in one great offering, but let us discover 
 it whenever and wherever we can. Let 
 us carefully study our surroundings to 
 see if it is not hiding all about us. "Very 
 few things," says Lecky, "contribute so 
 much to the happiness of life as a con- 
 stant realization of the blessings we en- 
 joy. The difference between a naturally 
 contented nature and a naturally discon- 
 tented one is one of the marked differ- 
 ences of innate temperament, but we can 
 do much to cultivate that habit of dwell- 
 ing on the benefits of our lot which con- 
 verts acquiescence into a more positive 
 enjoyment." 
 
 Nothing can do more to add to our 
 happiness of mind than to cultivate the 
 gracious habit of being grateful for joys 
 
 113 
 
 In the lexicon of 
 youth there is no such 
 word as fail. BUL- 
 WER LYTTON. 
 
 Be noble! and the 
 nobleness that lies in 
 other men, sleeping, 
 but never dead, will 
 rise in majesty to 
 meet thine own. 
 LOWELL. 
 
 The cheerful live 
 longest in years, and 
 afterward in our re- 
 gards. BOVEE.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 How sweet and gra- 
 cious, even in common 
 speech, is that fine 
 sense which men call 
 Courtesy ! JAMES 
 T. FIELDS. 
 
 Make each goal 
 when reached, a start- 
 ing point for further 
 quest. BROWNING. 
 
 The world is so full 
 of a number of things, 
 I 'm sure we should 
 all be as happy as 
 kings. ROBERT Louis 
 STEVENSON. 
 
 that come to us and to seek to appreciate 
 the worth of the beneficent gifts that are 
 ever being showered upon us. We are 
 so apt to fall into the habit of accepting 
 blessings as a matter of course and of 
 failing to discover their wonderful value. 
 How many of us, for example, have ever 
 thoughtfully dwelt upon the priceless 
 attributes of the air that is ever and al- 
 ways floating about us. In order that 
 we may have a truer appreciation of its 
 fine qualities and purposes let us read 
 these words by Lord Avebury: 
 
 "Fresh air, how wonderful it is! It 
 permeates all our body, it bathes the skin 
 in a medium so delicate that we are not 
 conscious of its presence, and yet so 
 strong that it wafts the odors of flowers 
 and fruit into our rooms, carries our 
 ships over the seas, the purity of sea and 
 mountain into the heart of our cities. 
 It is the vehicle of sound, it brings to us 
 the voices of those we love and the sweet 
 music of nature; it is the great reservoir 
 of the rain which waters the earth, it 
 softens the heat of day and the cold 
 of night, covers us overhead with a glor- 
 ious arch of blue, and lights up the morn- 
 ing and evening skies with fire. It is so 
 114
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 exquisitely soft and pure, so gentle and 
 yet so useful, that no wonder Ariel is 
 the most delicate, lovable and fascinat- 
 ing of all Nature Spirits." 
 
 It is only when we open our eyes to the 
 beauty of the wonders about us that we 
 see how much there is to contribute to 
 our happiness if we will but open our 
 hearts and let it come in. What a per- 
 petual exaltation nature will afford us 
 when we have cultivated the fine habit 
 of looking upon it with the welcoming 
 eyes through which Richard Jefferies 
 beholds it : "The whole time in the open 
 air," he tells us, "resting at midday 
 under the elms with the ripple of heat 
 flowing through the shadow; at mid- 
 night between the ripe corn and the haw- 
 thorne hedge or the white camomile and 
 the poppy pale in the duskiness, with 
 face upturned to the thoughtful heaven. 
 Consider the glory of it, the life above 
 this life to be obtained from constant 
 presence with the sunlight and the 
 stars." 
 
 So let us cultivate the fine habit of 
 finding joy and of shouting it to our 
 friends and neighbors. Life seems bright 
 to us when we are really glad of any- 
 
 115 
 
 God bless the good- 
 natured, for they bless 
 everybody else. 
 BEECHER. 
 
 If you are ac- 
 quainted with Happi- 
 ness, introduce him to 
 your n e i g h b o r. 
 PHILLIPS BROOKS. 
 
 Nor love thy life, 
 nor hate; but what 
 thou liv'st, live well; 
 how long or short, 
 permit to heaven. 
 MILTON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The most wasted of 
 all days is that on 
 which one has not 
 laughed. CHAMFORT. 
 
 It is impossible to be 
 just if one is not gen- 
 erous. JOSEPH Roux. 
 
 People glorify all 
 sorts of bravery, ex- 
 cept the bravery they 
 might show on behalf 
 of their nearest neigh- 
 bors. GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 thing and we let gladness have voice to 
 express itself. George MacDonald says 
 "a poet is a man who is glad of some- 
 thing and tries to make other people glad 
 of it, too." In the possession of this 
 kindly spirit, at least, we must all strive 
 to be poets. 
 
 Emerson tells us that "there is one 
 topic positively forbidden to all well- 
 bred, to all rational mortals, namely, 
 their distempers. If you have not slept, 
 or if you have headache, or sciatica, or 
 leprosy, or thunder stroke, I beseech you, 
 by all the angels, to hold your peace, 
 and not pollute the morning, to which 
 all the housemates bring serene and 
 pleasant thoughts, by corruption and 
 groans." 
 
 The fine tonic effect of a bright, happy 
 face smiling across the breakfast table 
 is known to all the world. Better a feast 
 of corn bread and a cheerful counte- 
 nance than fruit cake and a sour temper- 
 ament. 
 
 So I feel very sure that you, my dear 
 young lady, for whom these lines are 
 written, are never going to appear at the 
 breakfast table with aught other than 
 a bright cheery face and a pleasant word 
 116
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 for all about you. Some one has said 
 that the first hour of the day is the crit- 
 ical one. Happy is the person who can 
 wake with a song, or who can at least 
 hold back the fears and the grumbles 
 until a thought of gladness has estab- 
 lished itself as the keynote of the day. 
 
 "Assume a virtue, if you have it not/' 
 says Shakespeare. While as a rule it 
 is deemed wrong to assume to possess 
 any virtue that we do not possess, we 
 may and no doubt should, at times, ap- 
 pear to be happy even though we may 
 feel more like indulging in lamentations. 
 To come to the breakfast table enumer- 
 ating a list of real or imaginary ailments 
 is a most ill-advised thing to do. We 
 should endeavor to forget our troubles 
 and above all we should be slow to give 
 voice to them so that thereby they will 
 be multiplied in the minds of others. It 
 has been truly said that most people 
 who are unhappy are really miserable 
 and bring their misery to others because 
 they allow the failures and discomforts 
 to speak the first word in their souls. 
 For misery is voluble and the little dis- 
 comforts will turn us into their contin- 
 ual mouthpieces if we will give them a 
 
 117 
 
 How active springs 
 the mind that leaves 
 the load of yesterday 
 behind. POPE. 
 
 One of the most 
 charming things in 
 girlhood is serenity. 
 MARGARET E. SANG- 
 STER. 
 
 Every generous na- 
 ture desires to make 
 the earning of an hon- 
 est living but a means 
 to the higher end of 
 adding to the sum 
 total of human good- 
 ness and human hap- 
 piness. FRANCES E. 
 WILLARD.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Attempt the end, 
 and never stand in 
 doubt ; nothing 's so 
 hard but search will 
 find it out. RICHARD 
 LOVELACE. 
 
 There is only one 
 way to get ready for 
 immortality, and that 
 is to love this life 
 and live it as bravely 
 and cheerfully and 
 faithfully as we can. 
 HENRY VAN DYKE. 
 
 He that composes 
 himself is wiser than 
 he that composes 
 books. BENJAMIN 
 FRANKLIN. 
 
 chance. But the truly thoughtful and 
 considerate person will have none of 
 them. Instead of displaying the flag of 
 distress and surrender, the wiser method 
 is to pull our courage and determination 
 together and don 
 
 THE BETTER ARMOR 
 
 If through thick and through thin 
 
 You are eager to win, 
 Don't go shrouded in Fear and in Doubt, 
 
 But with Hope and with Truth 
 
 And the blue sky of Youth 
 Go through life with the sunny side out. 
 
 So let us determine that we will cul- 
 tivate the happy habit; for indeed even 
 happiness is largely a habit. "As he 
 thinketh in his heart, so is he." If he 
 thinks trouble, he is very likely to find 
 it. If he thinks sickness, he is likely to 
 be ill. If he thinks unkind things, he is 
 quite sure to put them into the deeds 
 of his daily life. The thought is the ar-_ 
 chitect's plans which the hands are likely 
 to set about to build. To the one who 
 thinks the weather is bad, it is sure to be 
 disagreeable. To the one who seeks to 
 find something pleasant about it, it is 
 certain to offer some happy phases. 
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 A MERRY HEART 
 
 We must all answer "yes" to this 
 question asked by one of our fine writers 
 on our social amenities : "Don't you get 
 awfully tired of people who are always 
 croaking? A frog in a big, damp, ma- 
 larial pond is expected to make all the 
 fuss he can in protest of his surround- 
 ings. But a man ! Destined for a crown, 
 and born that he may be educated for 
 the court of a king! Placed in an em- 
 erald world with a hither side of opaline 
 shadow, and a fine dust of diamonds to 
 set it sparkling when winter days are 
 flying; with ten million singing birds to 
 make it musical, and twice ten million 
 flowers to make it sweet ; with countless 
 stars to light it up with fiery splendor, 
 and white, new moons to wrap it round 
 with mystery; with other souls within it 
 to love and make happy, and the hand 
 of God to uphold it on its rushing way 
 among the countless worlds that crowd 
 its path; what right has man to find 
 fault with such a world? When the 
 woodtick shall gain a hearing, as he com- 
 plains that the grand old century oak 
 is unfit to shelter him, or the bluebird 
 be harkened to when he murmurs that 
 the horizon is off color, and does not 
 
 119 
 
 Anxiety never yet 
 successfully bridged 
 over any chasm. 
 RUFFINI. 
 
 How poor are they 
 that have not pa- 
 tience ! What wound 
 did ever heal but by 
 degrees ? SHAKE- 
 SPEARE. 
 
 Duty determines 
 destiny. Destiny which 
 results from duty per- 
 formed, may bring 
 anxiety and perils, but 
 never failure and dis- 
 honor. WILLIAM 
 
 McKlNLEY.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 If I can stop one 
 heart from breaking, 
 I shall not live in vain. 
 EMILY DICKINSON. 
 
 No book is worth 
 anything which is not 
 worth much ; nor is it 
 serviceable, until it 
 has been read, and re- 
 read, and loved, and 
 loved again. Rus- 
 
 K1N. 
 
 Wise, cultivated, 
 genial conversation is 
 the best flower of 
 civilization. EMER- 
 SON. 
 
 match his wings, then, I think, it will be 
 time for man to find fault with the ap- 
 pointments of the magnificent sphere in 
 which he lives." 
 
 Therefore let it be determined between 
 us, right here and now, that come what 
 may, we shall each of us endeavor to 
 keep a merry heart and a pleasant face. 
 As we love to see a happy expression on 
 the faces of our parents, brothers, sis- 
 ters and friends, so must they enjoy see- 
 ing a pleasant look overspreading our 
 features. And with this good and kindly 
 resolve in our minds it will never be 
 difficult for us to decide whether we shall 
 give to the good world about us the 
 gladness or the gloom that is embodied 
 in 
 
 SONG OR SIGH 
 
 If you were a bird and shut in a cage, 
 
 Now what would you better do, 
 Would you grieve your throat with a sorry note 
 
 And mourn the whole day through; 
 Or would you swing and chirp and sing, 
 
 Though the world were warped with wrong, 
 Till you filled one place with the perfect grace 
 
 And gladness of your song? 
 
 If you were a man and shut in a world, 
 Now what would you better do, 
 120
 
 A MERRY HEART 
 
 On a gloomy day, when skies were gray, 
 
 Would you be gloomy, too? 
 When crossed with care would you let despair 
 
 Life's happy hope destroy, 
 Or with a smile work on the while 
 
 You found the path to joy? 
 
 It is so easy to per- 
 ceive other people's 
 little absurdities, and 
 so difficult to discover 
 our own. ELLEN 
 THORNYCROFT FOWLER. 
 
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 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 "lllTE often hear persons speaking of 
 
 " "the force of habit" as though it 
 were something to be regretted. "Habit 
 is second nature," is a saying that is in- 
 cluded among the classic epigrams of 
 men. That habits do become very 
 strong, all the world has learned, some- 
 times to its sorrow and sometimes to its 
 advantage and delight. 
 
 For be it known that good habits are 
 just as strong as bad habits and in that 
 we should all feel a common joy and a 
 sense of deliverance from wrong doing. 
 
 The fact that a fixed habit is only a 
 matter of long and gradual growth 
 ought to be very much to our advantage. 
 This very fundamental principle of their 
 construction should result in giving us 
 very many more good habits than bad 
 habits. This happy conclusion is based 
 on the supposition that while many of 
 
 125 
 
 I think that there is 
 success in all honest 
 endeavor, and that 
 there is some victory 
 gained in every gal- 
 lant struggle that is 
 made. DICKENS. 
 
 Every noble work is 
 at first impossible. 
 CARLYLE. 
 
 Truth is a strong 
 thing, let man's life be 
 true. BROWNING.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Efforts to be per- 
 manently useful must 
 be uniformly joyous 
 a spirit all sunshine, 
 graceful from very 
 gladness, beautiful be- 
 cause bright. CAR- 
 
 LYLE. 
 
 Pass no day idly; 
 youth does not return. 
 CHINESE PROVERB. 
 
 If, instead of a gem, 
 or even a flower, we 
 could cast the gift of 
 a lovely thought into 
 the heart of a friend, 
 that would be giving 
 as the angels must 
 give. GEORGE MAC- 
 DONALD. 
 
 us are so constituted that it is possible 
 we might, in some unguarded moment, 
 do a wrong act, it is unlikely we could re- 
 peat the error so often and so long as 
 to make the questionable action become 
 a fixed habit. 
 
 The doing of a wrong thing should 
 result in convincing us, on sober second 
 thought, that it was a mistake on our 
 part to have permitted ourselves to have 
 been led into uncertain, unhappy paths 
 and we would then and there reinforce 
 our moral strength and our determina- 
 tion that the wrong should not occur 
 again. 
 
 In doing right things, the conditions 
 are quite reversed. Every good deed 
 inspires us to still greater determination 
 to do more of the same kind. Wrong 
 deeds are, in most cases, committed in 
 a moment of thoughtlessness when one's 
 conscience, one's higher and better self, 
 is momentarily off guard. Our good acts 
 are performed with a full and proud 
 realization of what we are doing and are 
 followed by a grateful sense of retro- 
 spective pleasure, after they have been 
 done. 
 
 "Could the young," says Henry 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 James, "but realize how soon they will 
 become mere walking bundles of habits, 
 they would give more heed to their con- 
 duct while in the plastic state. Nothing 
 we ever do is, in strict scientific literate- 
 ness, wiped out." One of our latter day 
 philosophers tells us that "happiness is 
 a matter of habit; and you had better 
 gather it fresh every day or you will 
 never get it at all." 
 
 In speaking of the success he had 
 achieved in life, Charles Dickens said: 
 "I have been very fortunate in worldly 
 matters; many men have worked much 
 harder and not succeeded half so well; 
 but I never could have done what I have 
 done, without the habits of punctuality, 
 order, and diligence, without the deter- 
 mination to concentrate myself on one 
 object at a time, no matter how quickly 
 its successor should come upon its heels." 
 
 When we come to study carefully the 
 full meaning of the word "habit" we 
 find it to be a very comprehensive term. 
 In the sense in which it is here employed 
 the dictionary defines it as being "a ten- 
 dency or inclination toward an action or 
 condition, which by repetition has be- 
 come easy, spontaneous or even uncon- 
 
 127 
 
 Nothing can consti- 
 tute good breeding 
 that has not good 
 manners for its foun- 
 dation. BULWER 
 LYTTON. 
 
 The common earth 
 is common only to 
 those who are deaf to 
 the voices and blind 
 to the visions which 
 wait on it and make 
 its flight a music and 
 its path a light. H. 
 W. MABIE. 
 
 The truest lives are 
 those that are cut 
 rose - diamond - fash- 
 ion, with many facets 
 answering to the 
 many - planed aspects 
 of the world about 
 them. OLIVER WEN- 
 DELL HOLMES.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 It seems to me 
 there is no maxim for 
 a noble life like this: 
 Count always your 
 highest moments your 
 truest moment s. 
 PHILLIPS BROOKS. 
 
 We only begin to 
 realize the value of 
 our possessions when 
 we commence to do 
 good to others with 
 them. JOSEPH COOK. 
 
 Believe me, girls, 
 on the road of life 
 you and I will find 
 few things more 
 worth while than com- 
 radeship. MAR- 
 GARET E. SANGSTER. 
 
 scious." From this definition it is easy 
 to deduce the conclusion that one's 
 habits are in fact one's manners, one's 
 principles, one's mode of conduct; and 
 a careful consideration of the theme 
 finally brings one to a clear realization 
 of the secret of 
 
 TRUE GENTILITY 
 
 One cannot from the world conceal 
 
 The current of his thought ; 
 A word or action will reveal 
 
 The thing his brain hath wrought. 
 
 True goodness from within must come 
 
 And deeds, to be refined, 
 Their outer grace must borrow from 
 
 Politeness of the mind. 
 
 Our manners are ourselves. They 
 constitute our personality and it is by 
 our personality that we are judged. If 
 that is frank and pleasant and agreeable 
 we shall not lack for friends. 
 
 A person may be deficient in the 
 charm of form or face but if the manners 
 are perfect they will call forth admira- 
 tion as nothing else could do. 
 
 Our thoughts are the essential and 
 impressive part of ourselves. "It is the 
 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 spirit that maketh alive. The flesh 
 profiteth nothing." We are told by 
 Swedenborg that "every volition and 
 thought of man is inscribed on his brain, 
 for volition and thoughts have their be- 
 ginnings in the brain, whence they are 
 conveyed to the bodily members, where- 
 in they terminate. Whatever, therefore, 
 is in the mind is in the brain, and from 
 the brain in the body, according to the 
 order of its parts. Thus a man writes his 
 life in his physique, and thus the angels 
 discover his autobiography in his struc- 
 ture." 
 
 Since good habits and pleasing man- 
 ners are such important aids in the mak- 
 ing of character and personality we 
 should leave nothing undone to 
 strengthen the better side of our lives. 
 And since we all are constantly being 
 acted upon by suggestion we should in- 
 vite to our assistance anything that will 
 tend to keep us in the most exemplary 
 frame of mind. 
 
 In addition to the spoken word of ad- 
 monition from parents, teachers, and 
 others honestly interested in our welfare 
 we should reinforce our good resolves 
 by reading good books and in framing 
 
 129 
 
 Do noble things, not 
 dream them, all day 
 long, and so make 
 life, death, and the 
 vast forever, one 
 grand, sweet song. 
 CHARLES KINGSLEY. 
 
 And to get peace, if 
 you do want it, make 
 for yourself nests of 
 pleasant thoughts. 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 When one is so ded- 
 icated to his mission, 
 so full of a great pur- 
 pose that he has no 
 thought for self, his 
 life is one of unal- 
 loyed joy the joy of 
 self-sacrifice. LY- 
 MAN ABBOTT.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Morality is c o n- 
 formity to the high- 
 est standard of right 
 and virtuous action, 
 with the best inten- 
 tion founded on prin- 
 ciple. A. E. WIN- 
 SHIP. 
 
 To have a friend is 
 to have one of the 
 sweetest gifts that life 
 can bring; to be a 
 friend is to have a 
 solemn and tender 
 education of soul 
 from day to day. 
 ANNA ROBERTSON 
 BROWN. 
 
 When it comes to 
 doing a thing in this 
 world, I don't ask my- 
 self whether I like it 
 or not, but, what 's the 
 best way to get it 
 done. ELLEN GLAS- 
 GOW. 
 
 for our own benefit a code of rules for 
 our better conduct. 
 
 It is considered to be a good plan to 
 select a number of suitable quotations 
 and display them in some manner where 
 the eye must see them with frequency. 
 A calendar with a daily quotation admir- 
 ably serves this purpose. Oftentimes 
 when a good thought is put into the mind 
 in the early morning it tends to direct 
 the course of our thinking throughout 
 the day. The following quotations are 
 offered only as suggestions. They can 
 be added to indefinitely: 
 
 A man's own good breeding is the best 
 security against other people's ill man- 
 ners. Chesterfield. 
 
 Good breeding shows itself most when 
 to an ordinary eye it appears the least. 
 Addison. 
 
 Good manners is the art of making 
 those people easy with whom we con- 
 verse. Whoever makes the fewest peo- 
 ple uneasy is the best bred in the com- 
 pany. Swift. 
 
 Hail ! ye small, sweet courtesies of life, 
 for smooth do you make the road of it. 
 Sterne. 
 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 Civility costs nothing and buys every- 
 thing. Lady Montague. 
 
 Evil communications corrupt good 
 manners. Bible. 
 
 No pleasure is comparable to stand- 
 ing on the vantage ground of truth. 
 Lord Bacon. 
 
 They are never alone that are accom- 
 panied with noble thoughts. Sidney. 
 
 Let your speech be always with grace, 
 seasoned with salt. New Testament. 
 
 Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Honest labor bears a lovely face. 
 Dekker. 
 
 The gods give nothing really beautiful 
 without labor and diligence. Xeno- 
 phon. 
 
 The key to pleasure is honest work. 
 All dishes taste good with that sauce. 
 H. R. Haweis. 
 
 Work is as necessary for peace of mind 
 as for health of body. Lord Avebury. 
 
 Sir John Lubbock has said: "I cannot, 
 however, but think that the world would 
 be better and brighter if our teachers 
 would dwell on the duty of Happiness, 
 as well as the happiness of Duty, for we 
 
 131 
 
 Do you ask to be 
 the companion of no- 
 bles? Make yourself 
 noble, and you shall 
 be. Do you long for 
 the conversation of 
 the wise? Learn to 
 understand it, and you 
 shall hear it. Rus- 
 KIN. 
 
 There is no cos- 
 metic for homely 
 folks like character. 
 Even the plainest face 
 becomes beautiful in 
 noble and radiant 
 moods. NEWELL 
 DWIGHT HILLIS. 
 
 A single gentle rain 
 makes the grass many 
 shades greener. So 
 our prospects brighten 
 on the influx of bet- 
 ter thoughts. THO- 
 REAU.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 A good book is the 
 precious life-blood of 
 a master spirit em- 
 balmed and treasured 
 up on purpose to a 
 life beyond life. 
 MILTON. 
 
 Happiness is the 
 natural flower of 
 duty. PHILLIPS 
 BROOKS. 
 
 By wisdom wealth 
 is won; but riches 
 purchased wisdom yet 
 for none. BAYARD 
 TAYLOR. 
 
 ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only 
 because to be happy ourselves is the most 
 effectual contribution to the happiness 
 of others." 
 
 Surely we cannot include among good 
 habits the habit of making those about 
 us unhappy. Hence it is that they who 
 are careless of the state of mind into 
 which they throw those about them are 
 not good mannered. While it is but sim- 
 ple kindness to allow our friends to sym- 
 pathize in the great griefs that may over- 
 take us, it is not kindness for us to be 
 forever stirring them with all the real or 
 fancied ills with which we can regale 
 them. Either extreme is more or less 
 absurd and unwarranted. Perhaps, as 
 a rule, we thrust our troubles quite too 
 willingly upon others. On the other 
 hand, some of the peoples of the Orient 
 we deem to be so ludicrously polite in 
 matters of this nature as to almost 
 arouse our mirth. 
 
 An English writer in speaking of the 
 Japanese says: "There must really have 
 been a double portion of politeness be- 
 stowed upon these people who in the 
 deepest domestic grief would smile and 
 smile, so that a guest in the home might 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 not be burdened with their sorrow. The 
 habit is in striking contrast with the 
 weeping and wailing, the mourning 
 streamers, the hatbands, plumes, palls, 
 black chargers, and funeral hearses with 
 which we struggle to stir the envy, if 
 not the hearts of all beholders!" 
 
 In Japan, so we are told, manners are 
 included in the public teaching of moral- 
 ity. Among our western peoples our 
 public school boys would deem it strange 
 if a master gave them an hour's instruc- 
 tion in the correct manner of behaving 
 toward their father and mother or sis- 
 ters. Yet such knowledge might be ur- 
 gently needed and do good here as it 
 does in Japan where it is counted the 
 most vital instruction of all. Step by 
 step the Japanese child is led along the 
 course of behavior, learning how to 
 stand up, sit down, bow, hang up its hat, 
 and how to think of its parents, brothers 
 and sisters, and of its country. Later on 
 these lessons are repeated with illustra- 
 tions from short stories, and still later 
 by incidents from actual history and the 
 lives of great men of all countries. Be- 
 fore the end of the course of instruction 
 is reached all manner of virtues and 
 
 133 
 
 It is surely better to 
 pardon too much than 
 to condemn too much. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 To be a strong hand 
 in the dark to another 
 in the time of need, 
 to be a cup of 
 strength to a human 
 soul in a crisis of 
 weakness, is to know 
 the glory of life. 
 HUGH BLACK. 
 
 It is not the result 
 of our acts that makes 
 them brave and noble, 
 but the acts them- 
 selves and the unsel- 
 fish love that moved 
 us to do them. R. L. 
 STEVENSON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Use thy youth so 
 that thou mayest have 
 comfort to remember 
 it when it hath for- 
 saken thee. WALTER 
 RALEIGH. 
 
 It is easy to con- 
 demn; it is better to 
 pity. ABBOTT. 
 
 If you don't scale 
 the mountain, you 
 can't view the plain. 
 CHINESE PROVERB. 
 
 points of behavior have been introduced, 
 such as patriotism, cleanliness, and (es- 
 pecially in the case of girls) the proper 
 way of advancing and retiring, offering 
 and accepting things, sleeping and eat- 
 ing, visiting, congratulating and con- 
 doling, mourning and holding public 
 meetings. So the school course contin- 
 ues from year to year, the elementary 
 school course lasting four years and the 
 secondary course four years more, and 
 leading the boys and girls up to the 
 study of benevolence, their duty to an- 
 cestors, to other people's property, other 
 people's honor, other people's freedom, 
 and, finally, to self-discipline, modesty, 
 dignity, dress, labor, the treatment of 
 animals, and the due relations of men 
 and women, both of whom are to be re- 
 garded equally as "lords" of creation. 
 From end to end of the long course of 
 training, behavior rather than knowl- 
 edge is insisted upon, even down to the 
 tiniest detail of what our good great- 
 grandmothers valued as deportment. 
 
 To such scrupulous deportment and 
 
 close attention to minuteness of habit, 
 
 some objection can be raised, perhaps. 
 
 "Some men's behavior," said Bacon, "is 
 
 134
 
 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 like a verse wherein every syllable is 
 measured," and he warned us that man- 
 ners must be like apparel, "not too strait 
 or point-device, but free for exercise or 
 motion." However, it is better to err 
 on the side of too much attention to our 
 manners rather than to be thought care- 
 less of our persons and our behavior. 
 
 Civilized peoples cannot help but be 
 concerned with manners, refinement, 
 good breeding, and in a more minute 
 sense, with the forms of etiquette. It is 
 these things that distinguish civilization 
 from savagery, and so unmistakably lift 
 the cultured person above the one who 
 does not see fit to cultivate the grace of 
 gentility. 
 
 It has been truly said that we judge 
 our neighbors severely by the breach of 
 written or traditional laws, and choose 
 our society, and even our friends, by the 
 touchstone of courtesy. It is not an un- 
 common occurrence for a girl or a boy 
 to win an advantageous position in life, 
 not by superior mental or physical en- 
 dowments but by a graciousness of man- 
 ners that have smoothed for them the 
 ways that lead to success. 
 
 For some quite unwarranted reason 
 
 135 
 
 For him who as- 
 pires, and for him 
 who loves his fellow- 
 beings, life may lead 
 through the thorns, 
 but it never stops in 
 the desert. ANONY- 
 MOUS. 
 
 Be cheerful ; wipe 
 thine eyes: some falls 
 are means the happier 
 to arise. WILLIAM 
 SHAKESPEARE. 
 
 Be resolutely and 
 faithfully what you 
 are, be humbly what 
 you aspire to be. 
 THOREAU.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 If people only knew 
 their own brothers 
 and sisters, the King- 
 dom of Heaven would 
 not be far off. 
 GEORGE MACDONALD. 
 
 The shadows of our 
 own desires stand be- 
 tween us and our bet- 
 ter angel. DICKENS. 
 
 If every day we can 
 feel, if only for a mo- 
 ment, the realization 
 of being our best 
 selves, you may be 
 sure that we are suc- 
 c ceding. BLISS 
 CARMAN. 
 
 society seems to have taken the position 
 that we have a right to expect more 
 from our girls than from our boys in the 
 matter of good manners. This, how- 
 ever, is not the view held by those who 
 know the true meaning of good breed- 
 ing. The demand that every boy shall 
 be a gentleman is as firm and binding 
 as is that which says that every girl 
 must be a gentle woman and a thorough 
 lady. 
 
 Every girl knows what is expected of 
 her. Her parents, brothers, sisters, 
 teachers, society and the world intend 
 that she shall be good and gentle and 
 gracious. They will be satisfied with 
 nothing short of all that and it will be 
 well for every girl to learn early in life 
 to pursue only the paths that will lead 
 into ways wherein these qualities of per- 
 son and character may be found. So 
 here and now it is timely to ask of the 
 readers of these lines 
 
 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? 
 
 What are you going to do, girls, 
 With the years that are hurrying on? 
 
 Do you mean to begin life's purpose to win 
 In the freshness and strength of the dawn? 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 The builders who build in the morning, 
 
 At even may joyfully rest, 
 Their victories won, as they watch the glad sun 
 
 Sink down in the beautiful west. 
 
 What are you going to do, girls, 
 
 With time as it ceaselessly flows? 
 Are you molding a heart that will pleasures 
 impart 
 
 As perfume exhales from the rose? 
 Let all that is purest and grandest 
 
 In duty's fair wreath be entwined ; 
 There is no other grace can illumine the face 
 
 Like the charm of a beautiful mind. 
 
 A student of the subject of ethics must 
 understand that the true spirit of good 
 manners is very closely allied to that of 
 good morals. It has been pointed out 
 that no stronger proof of this assertion 
 is required than the fact that the Mes- 
 siah himself, in his great moral teach- 
 ings, so frequently touches upon the sub- 
 ject of manners. He teaches that mod- 
 esty is the true spirit of good behavior, 
 and openly rebukes the forward manner 
 of His followers in taking the upper 
 seats at the banquet and the highest 
 seats in the synagogues. 
 
 The philosophers whose names are 
 recorded in history, although they were, 
 
 137 
 
 If you know how to 
 spend less than you 
 get, you have the 
 philosopher's stone. 
 BENJAMIN FRANKUN. 
 
 He only is advanc- 
 i n g in life, whose 
 heart is getting softer, 
 whose blood warmer, 
 whose brain quicker, 
 whose spirit is enter- 
 ing into living peace. 
 RUSKIN. 
 
 The fine art of liv- 
 ing, indeed, is to 
 draw from each per- 
 son his best. LILIAN 
 WHITING.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Reflect upon your 
 present blessings of 
 which every man has 
 many not on your 
 past misfortunes, of 
 which all men have 
 some. DICKENS. 
 
 If the day and the 
 night are such that 
 you greet them with 
 joy, and life emits a 
 fragrance like flow- 
 ers and sweet-scented 
 herbs is more elastic, 
 more starry, more im- 
 mortal that is your 
 success. THOREAU. 
 
 Blessings ever wait 
 on virtuous deeds. 
 
 CONGREVE. 
 
 themselves, seldom distinguished for fine 
 manners, did not fail to teach the import- 
 ance of them to others. Socrates and 
 Aristotle have left behind them a code 
 of ethics that might easily be turned 
 into a "Guide to the Complete Gentle- 
 man;" and Lord Bacon has written an 
 essay on manners in which he reminds 
 us that a stone must be of very high 
 value to do without a setting. 
 
 The motive in cultivating good man- 
 ners should not be shallow and super- 
 ficial. Lord Chesterfield says that the 
 motive that makes one wish to be polite 
 is a desire to shine among his fellows and 
 to raise one's self into a society sup- 
 posed to be better than his own. It is un- 
 necessary to state that Lord Chester- 
 field's good manners, fine as they appear, 
 do not bear the true stamp of genuine- 
 ness. There is not the living person back 
 of them possessing heart and character. 
 They seem to him, in a measure, what a 
 fine gown does to the wax figure in the 
 dressmaker's window. True manners 
 mean more than mannerisms. They can- 
 not be taught entirely from a book in 
 which there are sets of rules to be ob- 
 served on any and every occasion. They 
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 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 are rather a cultivated method of think- 
 ing and feeling and the forming of a 
 character that knows, intuitively, the 
 nice and kind and appropriate thing to 
 do without reference to what a printed 
 rule of conduct may set forth. 
 
 It is generally agreed that our best 
 and only right motive in the cultivation 
 of good manners should be to make our- 
 selves better than we otherwise would 
 be, to render ourselves agreeable to 
 every one whom we may meet, and to 
 improve, it may be, the society in which 
 we are placed. With these objects in 
 view, it is plainly as much a moral duty 
 to cultivate one's manners as it is to cul- 
 tivate one's mind, and no one can deny 
 that we are better citizens when we ob- 
 serve the nicer amenities of society than 
 we are when we pay no heed to them. 
 
 Lord Bacon says: "Many examples 
 may be put of the force of custom, both 
 upon mind and body. Therefore, since 
 custom is the principle magistrate of 
 man's life, let men by all means endeavor 
 to obtain good customs. Certainly cus- 
 tom is most perfect when it beginneth 
 in young years; this we call education, 
 which is, in effect, but an early custom." 
 
 139 
 
 The microscope 
 gives us a world, a 
 universe, a single drop 
 of dew. So also there 
 is a world in a single 
 profound, earnest 
 meditation. M A - 
 
 DAME SWETCHINE. 
 
 Better is it to have 
 a small portion of 
 good sense, with hu- 
 mility and a slender 
 understanding, than 
 great treasures of 
 science, with vain 
 self - complacency. 
 THOMAS A KEMPIS. 
 
 There is one road 
 to peace and that is 
 truth. SHELLEY.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 He hath from his 
 childhood conversed 
 with books and book- 
 men; and always be- 
 ing where the frank- 
 incense of the temple 
 was offered, there 
 must be some per- 
 fume remaining about 
 him. THOMAS FUL- 
 LER. 
 
 Everything great is 
 not always good, but 
 all good things are 
 great. DEMOS- 
 THENES. 
 
 The turmoil of the 
 world will always die, 
 if we set our faces to 
 climb heavenward. 
 HAWTHORNE. 
 
 So we see that our true characters are 
 but the expression of our habits and of 
 our manners. And we see that only those 
 habits that are formed in the early years 
 of life seem to fit us perfectly and natu- 
 rally throughout all the years. 
 
 It is an old saying and a homely one, 
 but none the less true, that "it is hard to 
 teach an old dog new tricks." So it is 
 hard to acquire in later life the manners 
 and graces that escape us in youth. 
 
 Fortunate is the young girl who finds 
 her lot is cast among the good influences 
 of a cultured home. She has at hand the 
 material from which to select all that she 
 may need to build the fine character the 
 world shall observe and admire. Such 
 felicitous surroundings should teach 
 her, first of all, to be very charitable and 
 lenient toward others whose early years 
 are lived among less advantageous sur- 
 roundings. For if her culture does not 
 in some ways influence and soften and 
 modify her heart as well as her mind, 
 its true purpose has been lost. 
 
 Those whose earlier years are spent 
 
 amid surroundings not so favorable for 
 
 the forming of golden habits, must strive 
 
 all the harder for the prize of gentility 
 
 140
 
 GOLDEN HABITS 
 
 which they would obtain. And in this 
 very struggle against adverse circum- 
 stances will be engendered a strength 
 and a spirit of self-reliance that will be 
 likely to prove a worthy equivalent for 
 the loss of a more kindly and propitious 
 environment. 
 
 It is experience that develops char- 
 acter, and character is the one thing that 
 distinguishes a life and makes it a defi- 
 nite and individual thing of supreme 
 beauty. 
 
 The character that is the most labor- 
 iously built is the most enduring. Golden 
 habits that have been hammered out of 
 our life experiences are to be implicitly 
 relied upon. They have been tested at 
 every point. They have been shaped 
 out of the very necessity of one's sur- 
 roundings. They are worth every effort 
 that they have cost. The world will 
 never know how much of its integrity, 
 how much of its stability, how much of 
 its beauty it owes to that which we are 
 all so prone to call 
 
 DRUDGERY 
 
 Dull drudgery, "gray angel of success ;" 
 Enduring purpose, waiting long and long, 
 
 141 
 
 If I can put one 
 touch of a rosy sun- 
 set into the life of any 
 man or woman, I shall 
 feel that I have work- 
 ed with God. GEORGE 
 
 MACDONALD. 
 
 Our business in life 
 is not to get ahead of 
 other people but to 
 get ahead of our- 
 selves. MALTBIE D. 
 BABCOCK. 
 
 The narrow king- 
 dom of to-day is bet- 
 ter worth ruling over 
 than the widest past 
 or future. EDITH 
 WHARTON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 There 's always a 
 bloom on the world 
 i f one looks. ABBY 
 M. ROACH. 
 
 The reward of one 
 duty is the power to 
 fulfill another. 
 GEORGE ELIOT. 
 
 Headache or heartache, blent with sigh or 
 
 song, 
 
 Forever delving mid the strife and stress : 
 Within the bleak confines of your duress 
 
 Are laid the firm foundations, deep and 
 
 strong, 
 Whereon men build the right against the 
 
 wrong, 
 
 The toil-wrought monuments that lift and 
 bless. 
 
 The coral reefs; the bee's o'erflowing cells; 
 
 The Pyramids; all things that shall endure; 
 The books on books wherein all wisdom dwells, 
 
 Are wrought with plodding patience, slow 
 
 and sure. 
 Yours the time-tempered fashioning that spells 
 
 Of chaos, order, perfect and secure. 
 
 112
 
 GEORGE ELIOT
 
 CHAPTER VIII 
 
 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 "MOTHING succeeds like success." 
 Perhaps the true meaning of this 
 old French proverb is that once we have 
 a measure of success we are the more 
 likely to achieve still more victories. 
 The discovery that our strength, per- 
 severance and determination have been 
 capable of bending circumstances to our 
 will and bringing to fulfillment the end 
 for which we have wished and worked, 
 gives us renewed courage and inspira- 
 tion for the undertaking of new and 
 larger duties. 
 
 We learn to do by doing. Achieve- 
 ment leads to still greater achievement. 
 Orison Swett Harden, one of the world's 
 wisest of observers and deepest of phi- 
 losophers, says, "The world makes way 
 for the determined man." And so it does 
 
 145 
 
 He who works for 
 sweetness and light 
 works to make reason 
 and the will of God 
 prevail. MATTHEW 
 ARNOLD. 
 
 Let us ever glory in 
 something, and strive 
 to retain our admira- 
 tion for all that would 
 ennoble, and our in- 
 terest in all that would 
 enrich and beautify 
 our life. PHILLIPS 
 BROOKS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Nothing of worth 
 or weight can be 
 achieved with half a 
 mind, with a faint 
 heart, and with a 
 lame endeavor. BAR- 
 ROW. 
 
 Good manners are 
 part of good morals. 
 WHATELY. 
 
 After all, the kind 
 of world one carries 
 about within one's self 
 is the important thing, 
 and the world outside 
 takes all its grace, 
 color and value from 
 that. LOWELL. 
 
 for the determined woman, or the deter- 
 mined girl or boy. 
 
 Regarding this thing called "Success," 
 too many of us are apt to think that it 
 means some one, isolated, remarkable 
 achievement, that comes at the end of a 
 long period of striving in some particu- 
 lar field of endeavor. This is not en- 
 tirely true. Every great success is made 
 of very many lesser successes that have 
 preceded it. Just as the cap-stone at the 
 top of the tallest building is held in its 
 lofty position by every stone beneath it 
 even down to the ones deep in the earth 
 at the very foundation of the structure, 
 which are indeed perhaps the most im- 
 portant of all. 
 
 So the thing which the world is 
 pleased to call "Success" is built up by 
 a thousand little successes on which it 
 must finally rest. The building of a 
 life success begins with the earliest dawn 
 of being and must be carried on with as 
 much care as a mason would give to the 
 laying of the walls of a structure de- 
 signed to stand for years. The mason 
 knows that if he does not lay his founda- 
 tions deep and firm, that if the walls are 
 not kept straight and plumb, that if he 
 
 146
 
 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 puts faulty bricks or stones in the walls, 
 the building will not be a success. The 
 work at every stage must be a success 
 or the completed structure must be a 
 failure. 
 
 So it is in life. If our moments are not 
 successful, the hours can never be so, 
 and the days and years can but enlarge 
 upon and emphasize their failure. "Every 
 day is a fresh beginning, every morn is 
 a world made new," says Susan Cool- 
 idge. There is a chance for attaining 
 success every hour and day of our 
 lives. 
 
 Success is not alone for the great men 
 of the world who find new continents, 
 explore the poles, navigate the air, write 
 great poems, paint great pictures, or who 
 amass fortunes of millions of dollars. 
 No, success is for any and all of us, here 
 and now, any and all the time. 
 
 Were you prepared in your studies at 
 school to-day? If you were, that was 
 success. 
 
 Have you your music lesson well in 
 hand for this afternoon? If so, that 
 means success. 
 
 Have you been kind to everybody to- 
 day, and with a pleasant word and a will- 
 
 147 
 
 In character, in 
 manner, in style, in 
 all things the supreme 
 excellence is simplic- 
 ity. LONGFELLOW. 
 
 The small courtesies 
 sweeten life ; the 
 greater ennoble it. 
 BOVEE. 
 
 Never mind if you 
 cannot do all things 
 just as well as you 
 would like to. It is 
 only necessary to do 
 things just as well as 
 you can. PATRICK 
 FLYNN.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Not so much beau- 
 tiful features as a 
 beautiful soul can 
 make a beautiful face. 
 MARGARET E. SANG- 
 STER. 
 
 There is a marvel- 
 ous power in a well- 
 defined individuality. 
 JOE MITCHELL 
 CHAPPLE, 
 
 Resolution always 
 gives us courage. A. 
 E. WINSHIP. 
 
 ing hand, done all you could to make life 
 pleasanter and happier for those about 
 you? If so, that is a fine moral success. 
 And if you will multiply the achieve- 
 ments of to-day by the days that are in 
 the years before you, you can see the re- 
 sult that you have a reason to expect, as 
 your life's work. 
 
 Success means doing all that we can 
 do as well as we can do it. It may be 
 work or it may be play. It may be some- 
 thing of seemingly little account or it 
 may be something of importance, but 
 unless we do it well, and to the best of 
 our ability it will not be a success. 
 
 "Every day," says Bunsen, "ought to 
 be begun as a serious work, standing 
 alone in itself, and yet connected with 
 the past and the future." And Ruskin 
 still further emphasizes this thought in 
 the words: "Let every dawn of morning 
 be to you as the beginning of life, and 
 every setting sun be to you as its close; 
 then let every one of these short lives 
 leave its sure record of some kindly 
 thing done for others." 
 
 We begin to achieve success when we 
 do the things that are necessary for such 
 achievement. Huxley expressed the 
 
 148
 
 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 whole secret of the matter when he said: 
 "Perhaps the most valuable result of all 
 education is the ability to make yourself 
 do the thing you have to do, when it 
 ought to be done, as it ought to be done, 
 whether you like to do it or not." 
 
 A good life, which is but another name 
 for success, does not come by accident. 
 Fortune may seem to favor it but it is the 
 disposition to seize upon the opportuni- 
 ties that present themselves that make 
 some lives seem more blest with "good 
 chances" than others. 
 
 Self cultivation is the secret of most 
 all attainments in the realm of human 
 endeavor. As a matter of fact, all that 
 others can do for us is as nothing to that 
 which we may do for ourselves. Persons 
 who do things usually have to work for 
 results, or they have at some time had to 
 work to acquire the habits that later on 
 make it seem so easy for them to do fine 
 things. "We think," says J. C. Van 
 Dyke, "because the completed work 
 looks easy or reads easy, that it must 
 have been done easily. But the geniuses 
 of the world have all put upon record 
 their conviction that there is more virtue 
 in perspiration than in inspiration. The 
 
 149 
 
 Of all fruitless er- 
 rands, sending a tear 
 to look after a day 
 that has gone is the 
 most f r u i 1 1 e s s. 
 DICKENS. 
 
 You can never be 
 wise unless you love 
 reading. JOHNSON. 
 
 The perfecting of 
 one's self is the fund- 
 amental base of all 
 progress and all 
 moral development. 
 CONFUCIUS.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Nothing can be 
 beautiful which is not 
 true. RUSKIN. 
 
 It is not a lucky 
 word, this same im- 
 possible ; no good 
 comes to those who 
 have it so often in 
 their mouth. CAR- 
 
 LYLE. 
 
 I wasted time, and 
 now time doth waste 
 me. SHAKESPEARE. 
 
 great poets, whether in print or in paint, 
 have spent their weeks and months 
 yes, years composing, adjusting, put- 
 ting in and taking out. They have 
 known what it is to 'lick things into 
 shape/ to labor and be baffled, to despair 
 and to hope anew." 
 
 With the dawning of every morning, 
 life comes bringing to us a new and 
 wonderful day to employ it as we will. 
 Shall it be a fine, gratifying success, or 
 shall it be a failure ? Shall it be part suc- 
 cess and part failure? There can be no 
 doubt about it being a matter that is 
 very largely in our own keeping. 
 
 MORNING GATES 
 Each golden dawn presents two gates 
 
 That open to the day ; 
 Through one a path of joy awaits, 
 
 Through one a weary way. 
 Choose well, for by that choice is willed 
 
 If ye shall be distressed 
 At eventide, or richly filled 
 
 With strength and peace and rest. 
 
 "Every true life," says J. R. Miller, 
 "should be a perpetual climbing upward. 
 We should put our faults under our feet, 
 and make them steps on which to lift our- 
 selves daily a little higher We never 
 
 160
 
 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 in this world get to a point where we 
 may regard ourselves as having reached 
 life's goal, as having attained the loftiest 
 height within our reach; there are al- 
 ways other rounds of the ladder to 
 climb." 
 
 So we know that the purpose of life 
 is not to make a failure of it. And we 
 know that we cannot make it a success 
 unless we work toward that end. "The 
 first great rule is, we must do something 
 that life must have a purpose and an 
 aim that work should be not merely 
 occasional and spasmodic, but steady 
 and continuous," says Lecky. "Pleas- 
 ure is a jewel which will retain its luster 
 only when it is in a setting of work, and 
 a vacant life is one of the worst of pains, 
 though the islands of leisure that stud a 
 crowded, well-occupied life may be 
 among the things to which we look back 
 with the greatest delight." 
 
 There can be no interest where there 
 is no purpose. How tiresome it would 
 very soon become if we were compelled 
 to make idle, useless marks upon paper, 
 without any design whatsoever. But to 
 be able to draw pictures is a delight that 
 no one can forego. "The most pitiable 
 
 151 
 
 Youth, all possibil- 
 ities are in its hands 
 LONGFELLOW. 
 
 Thought is deepei 
 than all s p e e c h.- 
 CRANCH. 
 
 People influence u 
 who have no busines 
 to do it, simpl; 
 because we have neg 
 lected to train our 
 selves to attend t 
 our own affairs. A 
 E. WINSHIP.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 As the heart, so is 
 the life. The within is 
 ceaselessly becoming 
 the without. JAMES 
 ALLEN. 
 
 I have faith in the 
 people. ABRAHAM 
 LINCOLN. 
 
 Of all the propensi- 
 ties which teach man- 
 kind to torment them- 
 selves, that of cause- 
 less fear is the most 
 irritating, busy, pain- 
 ful and pitiable. 
 WALTER SCOTT. 
 
 life is the aimless life," says Jenkin 
 Lloyd Jones. "Heaven help the man or 
 woman, the boy or girl, who is not inter- 
 ested in anything outside of his or her 
 own immediate comfort and that related 
 thereto, who eats bread to make 
 strength for no special cause, who pur- 
 sues science, reads poetry, studies books, 
 for no earthly or heavenly purpose than 
 mere enjoyment or acquisition; who 
 goes on accumulating wealth, piling up 
 money, with no definite or absorbing 
 purpose to apply it to anything in partic- 
 ular." 
 
 Perhaps we expect to-day, more than 
 men have at any other time in the 
 world's history, that girls as well as 
 boys, must look forward to doing some- 
 thing definite in life. It is not deemed 
 sufficient for anyone simply "to be." 
 The whole world is now living the verb 
 "to do." The grace, strength, beauty 
 and worth of womanhood is being en- 
 hanced with the constantly enlarging 
 sphere of women's work. The primitive, 
 almost heathen, notion that the femi- 
 nine sex constituted a handicap in the 
 achieving of great success in a great ma- 
 jority of the fields of human endeavor is 
 
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 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 rapidly fading away. It can no longer 
 stand in the light of the brilliant achieve- 
 ments women are making everywhere. 
 Indeed, men are becoming well con- 
 vinced that their presumed supremacy 
 in many of the world's spheres of work 
 is being successfully challenged at every 
 point. So general is this experience be- 
 coming that the present status of things 
 might well be set forth somewhat after 
 the following style: 
 
 MAN, POOR MAN! 
 
 The question used to be, 't is true, 
 "What tasks are there for girls to do?" 
 But now we 've reached an epoch when 
 We ask: "What is there left for men?" 
 
 They '11 keep enlarging "woman's sphere" 
 Till man, poor, shrinking man, we fear, 
 Must grow quite useless, after while, 
 And go completely out of style. 
 
 This piece of frivolity can well be par- 
 doned on account of its absurdity. The 
 great work of the world is so broad, so 
 deep, so high, that it calls for the best en- 
 deavors of all girls and boys, women and 
 men. That the door of opportunity is 
 henceforth to be open to all is an assur- 
 ance that the work is to be more grandly 
 
 153 
 
 He who cannot 
 smile ought not to 
 keep a shop. CHI- 
 NESE PROVERB. 
 
 Common sense 
 bows to the inevitable 
 and makes use of it. 
 WENDELL PHILLIPS. 
 
 If you wish success 
 in life, make perse- 
 verance your bosom 
 friend, experience 
 your wise counsel- 
 or, c a u t i on your 
 elder brother, and 
 hope your guard- 
 ian genius. ADDI- 
 SON.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Self -distrust is the 
 cause of most of our 
 failures. BOVEE. 
 
 It is generally the 
 idle who complain 
 they cannot find time 
 to do that which they 
 fancy they wish. 
 LUBBOCK. 
 
 What ardently we 
 wish we soon believe. 
 YOUNG. 
 
 and beautifully done than ever before. 
 What women may do in the years to 
 come is wonderfully set forth by what 
 women have done in the past. All his- 
 tory is filled with the splendid achieve- 
 ments of the women of the world. A 
 girl of to-day will find no reading more 
 helpful and inspiring than the lives of 
 such noble women as Martha Washing- 
 ion, Queen Victoria, Sally Bush Ab- 
 raham Lincoln's good step-mother 
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mrs. Har- 
 riet Beecher Stowe, Miss Louisa Alcott, 
 Laura Bridgman, Charlotte Cushman, 
 Maria Mitchell, Lady Franklin, Mrs. 
 Julia Ward Howe, and Florence Night- 
 ingale. 
 
 If the girls of to-day are to have larger 
 rewards in the world's work, they must 
 fit themselves for the larger responsibili- 
 ties. Every prudent girl will, of course, 
 talk over the prospect of her future years 
 with her parents, her brothers and sis- 
 ters, her teachers, or with mature and 
 responsible friends. So very, very much 
 depends on laying the right foundations. 
 But there are many qualities that must 
 constitute parts of every enduring foun- 
 dation. 
 
 154
 
 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 Attention, application, accuracy, 
 method, punctuality, good behavior, 
 modesty, gentility, enlightenment, all of 
 these and more are essential to success 
 and for the highest achievement of the 
 true purpose of living. 
 
 It has been well said that it is the repe- 
 tition of little acts which constitutes not 
 only the sum of human character, but 
 which determines the character of na- 
 tions; and where men or nations have 
 broken down, it will almost invariably 
 be found that neglect of little things was 
 the rock on which they were wrecked. 
 
 Every human being has duties to be 
 performed, and, therefore, has need of 
 cultivating the capacity for doing them 
 whether the sphere of action be the 
 management of a household, the con- 
 duct of a trade or a profession, or the 
 government of a nation. 
 
 The one fixed truth in the matter of 
 character-building is the fact that steady 
 attention to the little matters of detail 
 lies at the very foundation of human 
 progress. 
 
 The splendid trees that lift their 
 branches heavenward depend for their 
 sustenance on the tiny thread-like roots 
 
 155 
 
 Nature never 
 stands still, nor souls 
 neither] they ever go 
 up or go down. 
 JULIA C R. DORR. 
 
 Thought alone is 
 eternal. OWEN 
 
 MEREDITH. 
 
 Only those live 
 who do good. TOL- 
 STOI.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 The greatest truths 
 are the simplest. 
 HARE. 
 
 Many people owe 
 the grandeur of their 
 lives to their tremen- 
 d o u s difficulties. 
 SPURGEON. 
 
 Thought by thought 
 piled, till some great 
 truth is loosened. 
 SHELLEY. 
 
 that come into very close relations with 
 the soil and can thus take in the nourish- 
 ment needed for the making of growth. 
 This, the larger roots have not the ca- 
 pacity for doing. So in the growth of the 
 human intellect and human character, 
 it is the little actions, day by day, that 
 really do the permanent building. With 
 patient purpose to do successfully the 
 many little tasks that confront us we can 
 later on achieve the larger success await- 
 ing us. 
 
 The world's history is full of the 
 triumphs of those who have had to 
 struggle from beginning to end for rec- 
 ognition. Carey, the great missionary, 
 began life as a shoemaker; the chemist 
 Vanquelin was the son of a peasant; the 
 poet Burns was a farmer boy and a day 
 laborer; Ben Jonson was a bricklayer; 
 Livingstone, the traveler and explorer, 
 was a weaver; Abraham Lincoln was a 
 "rail-splitter" and a farmer boy. 
 
 At the plow, on the bench, at the loom, 
 these men dreamed of the future great- 
 ness, and step by step, day by day, they 
 persevered until they won the full meas- 
 ure of success. 
 
 The great and good women of the 
 
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 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE 
 
 world have won their distinction in the 
 same manner. They cultivated the ster- 
 ling qualities that made for success. 
 They acquired the manners that at- 
 tracted toward them help and strength 
 of others interested in good causes and 
 those struggling to advance them. 
 
 And the girl who is reading these 
 lines, can, if she will, make her life a 
 happy success. She may be praised by 
 the world or it may be by the small cir- 
 cle of friends with whom she comes in 
 contact. Her name may never be writ- 
 ten in history but it may be fondly 
 spoken by parents, sisters, brothers, 
 schoolmates, friends. In a thousand 
 gracious ways she can make the hours, 
 days and years good and golden for her 
 own precious self and for all who know 
 her. She must be thoughtful and intel- 
 ligently alert to the opportunities lying 
 all about her ready to be fashioned into 
 shining deeds. She must know that she 
 is a precious craft on the sea of life and 
 that she must not be permitted to drift 
 from the harbor of youth and of home 
 without a -life pilot. And this pilot 
 should be her own conscience, hedged 
 about with the learning, the good breed- 
 
 157 
 
 The child's reason- 
 ing powers are, as it 
 were, the wings with 
 which he will event- 
 ually have to fly. 
 LANDON. 
 
 Choose always the 
 way that seems the 
 best, however rough 
 it may be. Custom 
 will render it easy 
 and agreeable. PY- 
 THAGORAS. 
 
 Recollection is the 
 only paradise from 
 which we cannot be 
 turned out. RICH- 
 TER.
 
 THE GIRL WANTED 
 
 Memory is the 
 treasure-house of the 
 mind. FULLER. 
 
 Habit is an internal 
 principle which leads 
 us to do easily, nat- 
 urally, and with 
 growing certainty, 
 what we do often. 
 WEBSTER. 
 
 The vision that you 
 glorify in your mind, 
 the Ideal that you en- 
 throne in your heart 
 this you will build 
 your life by, this 
 you will become. 
 JAMES ALLEN. 
 
 ing, the fine character that she herself, 
 under proper guidance, must cultivate 
 through the impressionable years of 
 childhood and maidenhood. If she so 
 wills it, beauty and grace and true worth 
 are all hers. And let her greet and go 
 forth in the freshness of each golden 
 day, as indeed, she must greet life, itself, 
 with a glad, hopeful, helpful 
 
 MORNING PRAYER 
 
 Oh, may I be strong and brave, today, 
 
 And may I be kind and true, 
 And greet all men in a gracious way, 
 With frank good cheer in the things I say, 
 
 And love in the deeds I do. 
 
 May the simple heart of a child be mine, 
 
 And the grace of a rose in bloom ; 
 Let me fill the day with a hope divine 
 And turn my face to the sky's glad shine, 
 With never a cloud of gloom. 
 
 With the golden levers of love and light 
 I would lift the world, and when, 
 
 Through a path with kindly deeds made 
 bright, 
 
 I come to the calm of the starlit night, 
 Let me rest in peace. Amen. 
 
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 By MARGARET E. SANGSTER 
 
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 bound and illustrated and has some novel typograph- 
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 Illustrated. Attractive Cover. Cloth, 8vo. $1.25 
 
 FORBES & COMPANY 
 
 PUBLISHERS CHICAGO
 
 "An Expression of the Bullock Idea" 
 
 To build a business that will never know completion but that 
 will advance continually to meet advancing conditions. 
 
 To develop stocks and service to a notable degree. 
 
 To create a personality that will be known for its strength 
 and friendliness. To arrange and co-ordinate activities to 
 the end of winning confidence by meriting it. 
 
 To strive always to secure the satisfaction ot every cus- 
 tomer. 
 
 This is the aim of Bullock's that is being impressed more 
 and more indelibly as the days go by upon the character of 
 the business itself. 
 
 cific Loast Sales Ecvk Co.. Los 
 
 : d. Seattle. 
 
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 By NIXON WATERMAN 
 
 "BOY WANTED" 
 
 A book of jolly, sparkling, invigorating coun- 
 sel, in prose and verse, that any girl or boy 
 will read with interest. It will also please 
 their parents and teachers. 
 
 Should be read by all boys, and girls, too. Detroit 
 News. 
 
 "Boy Wanted" is an unusual achievement. San 
 Francisco Call. 
 
 It is clever, cheery and full of sound ideas. Chicago 
 Record- Herald. 
 
 Its message is earnest and thrilling. Full of inspira- 
 tion and encouragement. Pittsburg Gazette. 
 
 A very bright and stimulating book on making the 
 most of opportunities. Montreal Daily Witness. 
 
 Strongly written. A good book to place in the hands 
 of any boy of any age up to eighty. Denver Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 It is the talk of a big brother to a younger one on a 
 tramp off together. A mine of condensed inspiration. 
 Boston Advertiser. 
 
 The book is beautifully made. It is handsomely 
 bound and illustrated and has some novel typograph- 
 ical features. Boston Globe. 
 
 Illustrated. Attractive Cover. Cloth, 8vo. 
 
 FORBES &> COMPANY 
 
 PUBLISHERS CHICAGO

 
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