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Show LUXURY AS A HANDICAP. Majority of Successful Men Hve Risen from Indigence. The history of our country is a record rec-ord of the successes of poor boys who seemed to be hopelessly shut off from books, culture and education, except that of the most meager kind from almost every opportunity for mental development. The youthful Lincolns, Franklins, Hamiltons, GarfielUs, Grants and Clays those who become presidents, lawyers, statesmen, soldiers, sol-diers, orators, merchants, educators, journalists, inventors giants in every department of life how they stand out from the pages of history, those poor boys, an inspiration for all time to those who are born to fight their way up to their own loaf. The youth who is reared in a luxurious lux-urious home, who, from the moment of his birth, is waited on by an army of servants, pampered and indulged by over-fond parents and deprived of every incentive to develop himself mentally or physically, although commonly com-monly regarded as one to be envied, 's more to be pitied than the poorest, most humbly born boy or girl in the land. Unless he is gifted with an unusual un-usual mind he is in danger of becoming becom-ing a degenerate, a parasite, a creature crea-ture who lives on the labor of others, whose powers ultimately atrophy from disuse. O. S. Marden in Success. |