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Show Uncommon Sense - ...i By JOHN BLAKE II . Bell Syndicate WNU Service Here you are. In a highly Interesting Inter-esting planet, leading a life that is filled with wonders. won-ders. Indifference what are you going to do about it? Just move along with the crowd get your ideas of life from the screen, and be contented if you can spend an occasional Saturday or Sunday on a golf course? Do you ever look around at the trees and the skies, and think about how they "work?" Do you ever, when you find some problem you don't understand, hunt up a book by somebody who does understand it and read it through? Naturally you would like to get along to succeed In whatever you are doing. How can you expect to do that if you don't set the convolutions In that brain of . yours at work, and keep it at work till it tires out? How can you expect to hold a job very long, if the one bright spot in the day Is quitting time? It's all right to go to the picture shows, if you don't go too often. Play of any kind is good for you if you don't make it too much of a habit Remember that In these days there are far more trained men and women than ever have been before, and that if you don't keep on the alert they will beat you to some of the Important places In life. Keep at work. Keep alert. Don't be afraid that you will have a mental men-tal breakdown unless you can spend more time in playing around than you do on the job. Take care of your diet, and unless un-less you have something serious the matter with you you will be in no danger of breaking down. Eat sparingly, get plenty of sleep, read Intelligently written books, not more than 5 per cent of them novels, keep Informed on the activities ac-tivities around you by reading the newspapers regularly, and you will not be haunted with the fear of failure. Don't ever think about failure. Think about where you want to go, and how to get there. Above all, don't be jealous if somebody else goes some place where you means' to go. Concentrate all your efforts to getting get-ting there yourself, and i you work hard enough the chances are that you will arrive there. All this is not going to be easy. But nothing that's worth a rap in this life is easy, or ever will be. Children learn by asking questions. ques-tions. So do grown-ups, for that matter. Hungry When fathers Minds or mthers are too lazy, or too Ignorant to reply willingly and intelligently in-telligently to the constant queries their offsprings put to them, they need not be surprised and annoyed an-noyed if the children do no develop de-velop any more rapidly than they do. If your child asks you questions whose answers you do not know, make it a point to enlighten yourself your-self first, and the youngster afterward. after-ward. Do you say to him casually : "You wouldn't understand that if I told you, you are too young." Get up on the subject, and when you know considerably more about it, call in the kid and give him a little instruction. Never fear that he won't pay any attention to It He pays attention to everything he sees, and. If it is something that he is interested In, he will come to you for information. It Is far more Important to you than it is to the men or the women who have your child's occupation to direct, to keep his curiosity aroused, and see that it is fed. As a rule, small children are curious cu-rious about everything they see. Don't rebuff them when they ask you about this or that.'and the whys and wherefores of it Encourage them to come to you with their questions. Don't talk to them as If they were babies. Explain things. And If you have no knowledge on the subject yourself, find out where it can be found, and let them look It up. For example, every small child is Interested In automobiles. Tell them how and why by a series se-ries of little explosions these machines ma-chines are made to run. Better that they should learn from you than from other boys who have very small foundations for their Ideas about mechanics. Bright children educate them-' them-' selves to a great extent, but you can. If you try, advance their education, edu-cation, and awaken In them a desire de-sire to increase It Ten people out of twenty, I think, take the world and all its wonders for granted. Don't let your children fall Into that slovenly way. |