Show I T Turning Points Most persons o of middle age and beyond may look upon apparently triviAl which seem to changed the thc entire course o of their lives ll A chance meeting a remark a casual letter or even an accident may mark a turning point In ones one's course Such ordinarily unimportant events which turn out to be far reaching in their consequences t often have havo to do with matrimony matrimony mony But In business and other re relations relations lations o of life lile these minor happen happenIngs happenIngs happenings Ings also frequently have havo a weigh weigh- weighty weighty weighty ty influence It is related o of Disraeli the Jew Jew- Jewish ish boy who became ono o of Eng Eng- Eng lands land's great groat prime ministers that his turning point came camo through a n list st light at nt school as a conse conse- consequence consequence quence of or which he ho changed his place of and fell tell in with friends who aided him in getting started on his brilliant career Numberless similar instances may maybe maybe maybe be found in biographies of the great nt and near great in which hanco hance or small happenings led to fam lame ame and fortune fortuM too they lead In the tho opposite direction as in the ca cae o of Napoleon who is said aid to have lost Jost the battle of ot Waterloo which changed the whole history of Eu- Eu Europe Europe Eu Europe rope because it trained just before be before fore tore the battle causing his cannon to Lo be mired in tho the mud Thus while carefully planned efforts ef- ef forts torts count most a Treat great cat deal often of- of often ten un depends on whether ono one gets the lucky or unlucky breaks in in Inthe the game of life Ufe |