Show The Am Girl BY THOMAS ER Iy I. I It Is s nece necessary tar alwa always to distinguish between culture Ii and nd veneering A certain American an m college ex-college president pres pr's ident in writing wilting s on culture points out that Abraham Lincoln cannot c. b be classed among the cultured Americans of oC recent times It would seem as If the tho writer had lidd suddenly lid cud d denly nl lo lost boat t. t hl his hearings bearings What hat 1 he should ho have n said I Is Mr r. r Lincoln cannot he hecl cl classed among the tha veneered l Americans of oC recent nt times limes Ax Ac culture dot does not romp corn from having mon money S' S any on one rich or r 1 Is can n more or less even d tL evenly nn all Ie among class or people cn can c n be bought th Yen Ven n hy by the m manufacture of of But Bat vide vida their th custom customers r veneering with first nC e cla r consequently It Il off ofT and looks look shabby soon cracks racks racks' and and P It Is difficult to repair it It T hoard board with the maho mahogany any veneer will nm confess conre s some Rome time But culture the r real 1 thing is hair a rough any maho-any tog log Matched and polished ft Smoothed It al always as ys re tho the Mm me M-me namely mahogany Th no shabby look to It at any time there thero Is 18 no pine board underneath refuse refuses ls to tako the thEl glue j 1 It Is plaIn then that l American girl Irl be rich Or root poor for hr her to do Is in to ho bo polished the The Tho thing she maho should never do I fe to to glue a a. stick mahogany mahO veneer to a II It 8 The poorest American girl can tan be bee r cultured If IC she be so minded minded L II Being 1 In this connection Is IR merely the the m any Y log o K In its Ita roughest State rn It look II a crude crudo thing to th the Jn nw t oye eye But It it Is mahogany all aU mahos or of orall It worth polishing and all 0 of It Jt will polish No Now leaving the e mahogany 10 for og ct aside what Is Is' culture and md ho how can can American girl become cultured Tho The direct and simple me of ot lure turc Is to to cultivate This Is tSe tie the Tt far i er ers er's rs r's s business It means digging th the tilling and fertilizing it it 1 planting planting It It and continuing tints thus forever and aM IV ev When a man reclaims a ston aton flew V of or we weeds c ds a and nd useless fI growth turns the tho soil soli to the tho sun and tat rali S plants it it he Igo can make a garden to 10 that no one who has haa seen the o oil nul l fi d 1 would believe that this U t st same samo hit bit t of ot ground oun v Butt But It is Is hi What ho has ha done clona to it In Is first to tob It with his work ork and Cart care second i to tol l I It Its hl higher powers for Cor producing ur full play A wonderful tI result always follows HI II such nuch work worl as this It Is culture i an and jl simple l and It is hi the only way war ture lure m may he had The same saute proc proem process i mind to be bo follow followed d with a field neld or tir i s Therefore whoa when Abraham D the few books he owned OT by the tho 1 pine pine knot h he hA was cultivating the the s 11 toll 01 of or his mind removing words weeds p ng good seeds In the course um o or of he had a a. wonderful garden and the tho plants plant that grew rew In it the It-the the fret burg bur speech speech speech-Is is enough h to tn convince one how ho well l ho cultivated and nor hoW Lured h he became n III ill r r The American girl desirous of d di her wa way what Mr Lincoln did dirt L must first that one mind piled more like another than one garden 4 another er If Ir he has an impulse to polish th tn log Jog of or her nature she ahe win will that she he prefers to do It after herway her hh way ay and manner r She may y have hav JOor to JO toor toor or go o slowly but she may b believe II t sh she has a chance If Ir she loves books let Jet her hr I. I lei 1 choose th the best and get et th the bc but besto to 0 them that the tho authors thou thought ht If It she he loves love music she will m content with trash That Is hi the p pee poo en veneering In the world orld Little by br she will t find her wa way ay into the meant good music and however small a i f she cultivates It will be full of ot true tru dies t tan As she b becomes comes ct cultured red by an o elf the these e or 01 b by one 0 of m many n other r en tier her el speech will become pure thi thou theu theuma ma may be over I so JO simple She will sIan slang The flee tone of or her voice oleo wily will pure as he her words word And the In her face will be lofty Culture la I always s 's raises values Veneering cracks and tho the com corn comIs cornis Is 15 expose exposed I |