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Show w A Few Enthusiasts Needed. Chicago Herald. What the world has need of today is a few more impracticable people, a few more enthusiasts en-thusiasts and visionaries. We shall all go on developing in the vronar direction like overripe cucuiiibeis, or like bijr and useless gourds, if we don't cultivate a little more of that part of our nature which lies open to outlooks that are not bounded by a material ma-terial world. Your highly practical people are never the ones to introduce reforms or to asritate philanthropic schemes. Hot-headed fanatics and zealous cranks are the ones who o forth sowing the seed of which the world reaps a later and blessed harvest. Do not he afraid to be earnest, and famleai, and enthusiastic. en-thusiastic. Infuse all the poetry you can into -life. Clothe criui destiny in the brightest colors possible. If you have no costly pictures on your walls, hanif up bits of poetry here and there, for ore not word pictures quite as inspiring as those traced by the painter's art upon dumb canvas? Do not be sensative to the ridicule of coarse-grained people. What do you suppose could be funnier in all the realm of nature to a company com-pany of toads contentedly sitting1 on the edge of a green morass than the attempted flight and immature song of a young lark? And yet, who would not rather be a lark with the inspiration for heaven in its soul than an ever so practical toad with an aptitude for swamp sand auappetite for flies. |