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Show P 1 Howe AboQt- ; r ED HOWE I 'I . Bell Syndicate, WNU Service. If you have good looks, there Is no lack of competition there are plenty of other good-looking people. There are also plenty of smart men to "see j through" your schemes when they are wrong. If you have things to sell, there Is a man down the street who at least claims he has a better stock, and does a pretty good job of proving his claim In newspaper advertisements. But the man who is polite, well-informed in his trade, Industrious, safe as a citizen, and pretty generally travels the right road In everything, has surprisingly little competition. Imitate him and . you will find the going easier. Try and make your conduct as good as that of a telephone girl while she Is on duty. Of all the well-behaved, I believe telephone girls are most notable. nota-ble. If wives were as polite, faithful and capable as telephone girls are to the public, there would be no bachelors. bache-lors. I know few writers who do not fre- , quently charge that the great trouble Is the bulk of people are fools. . . . It Isn't true. I think the great trouble trou-ble is the people are too smart : Smart Alecks. The brown men of the Samoa Islands Is-lands will not be disturbed by anything any-thing women do. The women, the orown men say, have their habits, all well known. Why be disturbed by them? White men are not equally wise. They say women should act thus and so, and are always greatly disturbed because they do not. And, since suffrage, the white man's burden is worse. Homer, rated a very great man, says anger is sweeter than honey. So far as I am able to judge, this is rank nonsense. I have never been angry In my life that I was not ashamed of it. All physiologists say anger Is damaging dam-aging to health. Amateur musicians are a great bother both-er to everyone. The Emperor Nero, said by many to be the worst man that ever lived, was an amateur musician, and made trips throughout his dominions do-minions to appear in amateur concerts. con-certs. Thosp a-hn diH not inn ho rona the greatest of all performers . had their heads cut off. When there Is violent disagreement among the doctors, what is the ordinary ordi-nary man to do? Judge for himself, or take a dose half the doctors say will injure rather than benefit him? The best of the ancients were materialistic ma-terialistic ; it was the shepherds who were spiritual. ' The greatest thing in life, f course, is to get along as er.sily as possible; the great question is, "What is the test course to pursue?" Your first duty is always to yourself; your-self; to make your body, mind and conduct as efficient as possible. Progress in these respects can only be accomplished by behaving better. You cannot make your conduct per-ect, per-ect, but you can make It better than 't has been. Such duty as you owe, your God, your family, your country, your neighbors neigh-bors and yourself, you can best pay by becoming an upright, clean, usefui, worthy citizen. Don't waste time preaching good things; make progress by practicing them. And always remember that in the end the useful and successful man lives an easier and more agreeable life than the failure. Note the prize fighter in training. How well he behaves' How carefully he eats and exercises' How soundly he sleeps! What a "punch" he can deliver! How well he feels 1 How he avoids intemperance in everything! And the prize fighter has a better time when behaving himself than when pursuing good times phantoms. 1 say it not as a preacher, but as a weak mortal who has lived a long time, and tried most of the experiments. Every life may be compared with a prize fight There are rewards to be won. Get in condition. Don't be knocked out when you might have won. What a great number of "doctors" there are who know nothing of what they recommend and talk about! Ever know a barber who did not talk Incessantly In-cessantly of the faulte of our finan cial system; ine mnsr capame men quietly Investignte and do the best they can ; we progress slow ly because we must wait for the Important and Ignorant The bums cannot have their way, for the reason that God knows it isn't good for them. I do not advocate complete virtue; but enough to get by with Is Important. Impor-tant. See the Boston Gazette of July 23, 177G. It contains the Declaration of independence In full, and also an advertisement ad-vertisement ol a slave for sale. |