| Show Uncommon M Sense By JOHN BLAKE II eo ajl Dill l Sen-Iee Sen JILL JILLA I A good many thousand people have hn lately returned from European lands Travel Some of them knew j w what they wan wanted t e d to see when they got there and saw it It They got something useful and unforgettable out of or their trips The majority of them went there for the purpose of or showing I their neighbors that they could af- af afford af ar afford ford It They would have learned a great deal more if they had stayed at home and looked at the local scenery Darwin's Idea of a place worth seeing was the extreme jr or almost I I me tue extreme tip of or the South Amer Amer- AmerIcan Ican Ican continent He De wrote rote a book about his trav trav- travels travels travels els which you ou will do well to read If you haven't ent read It already Marco Polo perhaps the first ex- ex explorer explorer ex explorer learned more In a few v years about the fun and Interest to hp he begot got out of or traveling than his fel- fel fellows fel fellows lows had got ot In all their times life a e eA A thirst for travel springs from froma a thirst for knowledge and that Is Isa isa Isa a thirst for education and enlightenment enlightenment Fabre observing the actions and habits of spiders spIllers In his little tittle back backyard backyard yard and ant making similar studies of bees gave the world something to think about and ponder on for the rest of Its life Yet neither of them In gaining their special knowledge needed to move mo from their homes bomes s e eA A very great writer said that keeping keeping Home youths have bave ever homely wits By keeping home-keeping he lie meant re- re remain remaining re remaining main In local boys bos who only see seethe seethe seethe the Interesting manifestations manifestation of life lICe and aDd Nature and learn nothing about them II 1 you cannot travel in person travel by means meant of oJ books or by l listening to those it io It ho have Ilave seen the world with the definite purpose of 0 learning all that one can ean learn about it Interest and excitement help to mold life lICe for the better Get all nil you can of or both Never Neer let your wonder lag We are just beginning to learn what hat we e ought to know about this planet of or ours Instruction Is now DOW definite and systematized Make the tile most of It and you will willbe willbe be making waking the most of or life C You can of course learn from your own mistakes But nut to do that you must admit to Mistakes that yourself they are mistakes For the average man that Is difficult difficult cult Nobody wants to admit that he Is In the even wrong wrong even to himself The best way tomake progress is isto isto isto to learn from Crom the mistakes of other people That will open to you a wide and fertile field In the old days of rough and ready doctoring doctoring It was vas said that many physicians burled their mis mis- mistakes mistakes mistakes takes and therefore never nefer got any aDY blame for them But that was In another time when even en the practice of or medicine was on the cut and try system Today most doctors know their business They must or they rapid rapid- rapidly rapidly ly cease to have any practice As soon as a doctor finds It t pos pos- possible pos pos- possible sible to leave his practice for a short time he heads straight for forone torone forone one of the great medical colleges or medical centers and brushes up on OD hIs business The result Is that many more sick people are brought back to health and many more well people continue well because their doc doc- doctors doc doctors tors tell them how to take care or of themselves es Naturally the practice of ot medi medi- medicine medicine cine has bas gone ahead of most other professions The most Important thing to every man or woman Is life And It their lives ll are endangered or made a burden to them by Illness they at once turn for help to the themen themen themen men whose trade It Is to keep peo pee people people pie well But nut let me get back hack to my topic S e e eWhen When somebody you know some know some somebody body botty who ought to have bavo succeeded has bas has failed In his bis business or his profession try to find out why It If he Is s fairly Intelligent as I take tako It that your friends are there must be some reason for his failure DI Dig that reason out If you can Learn where and why he commit commit- committed committed ted mistakes Then overhaul your own mental machinery and see whether or not you are taking the same road That will wilt involve a little IiI thinking but thinking as a far Jar as aj I know has never injured anybody Life with all Its It activities Is con constantly scantly going on OD around you Make careful use of or It note Dote the therise therise therise rise or fall tall of or men around you ou Figure out when they go 10 wrong why they go wrong Then when you are put to some crucial test you ou will know how bow to take the 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