picture of gloom. "Good-bye," he would say to a friend on parting, "I hope I shall never see you again!" Thus the man noted for swift thinking passed away. This was nearly two hundred years ago, and the world has gotten along tolerably fast without him TIP-TOP LIFE If constructed rather quaintly, Be not cramped by niceties formal. Tones and strengthens sane emotion. When your thinking wheels are whirring, Exercise is thought attraction. Let expression voice impression, SECRETS OF SUCCESS The best single rule for success in any good undertaking is, Stick to it! Not to stick to a good thing is the only real failure there is. The hardest task ever undertaken does not seem so hard to him that sticks to it. If you have a fair situation, stick to it; if you have none at all, stick to the search for it. Be enthusiastic for things useful. Worthless things are not worth enthusiasm. Never belittle your own life. Existence is mean only to the person who makes it so. Never say fate is against me. Act as though the world had waited for your coming and expects you to do great things. Don't anticipate troubles. Care less for what may happen to you than for the happenings you may bring to others. Never think that former times were better; they will not come back anyway, and if they did, they would only be in the way of better ones now. Pack your Never dwell on fancied slights and wrongs. troubles out of other people's sight. If you must cry, cry alone and soon quit. Never take offense when none is intended. Act as though you were born to be happy and will not allow any one to make you unhappy. Never fly into a passion over trifles. Let your speech be low and smooth and it will lift you over high hills of difficulty. Never boast of what you can do instead of doing it. Ore practical demonstration in aviation is worth a thousand balloon inflations. Accustom yourself to doing disagreeable things in a delightful way. If you must turn people down, do it so delightfully that they will thank you for it. Never make mountains out of molehills. Do not exaggerate 32 at all. A normal mind enjoys normal words and has little respect for any others. Be not easily discouraged. Credit yourself for honest effort, and then even a partial failure will nerve you for success next time. OWNERSHIP The idea of possession touches a man where he lives. He likes to call things his own, and he never grows weary of acquire ment. A boy is likewise fascinated with the getting of things. His first wages, or his earliest profit in trade, enriches his heart even more than his purse. Property in any form seems to wield a peculiar charm over human beings. The first fruits gathered by the ancients, the vast flocks, the treasured cave or tent, the crude utensils, the cherished springs or wells, the division of lands, all bespeak man's disposition to prize what he acquires. So, too, the old wills, some of which were in poetic form, teach us that to gain possession of property and hand it down to legal heirs constituted no small part of the delights our forefathers knew. No sooner had man acquired property than he began to issue liens upon it, and so mortgages, leases, and bonds were of old, as they are now, dominant features of industrial and commercial life, there being no limit to the extent of such coveted ownership. The modern stock companies, with their gigantic capitalization, were, of course, unknown to the ancients, and perhaps the moderns would have been almost as happy if such monopolies as some of them are had never been invented. Property is dear to man, not only because it assures him of a sustenance while he lives, but also because it is a safeguard to those he must leave behind him when he quits the earth. Often, too, a peculiar delight is found in so shaping property values that they become a monument as well as a blessing to oncoming generations. While the accumulation of property is in no sense a guarantee of character, it has been asserted that "there can be no development of character or any other good whatever, without property." |