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Show ! Uncommon -o- Sense -o STABILITY. Were It . poeetble to equip ship, with gyroscopes eo gigantic that their continuous motion would keep the veasela oa an even keel, how ever stormy wlada might blow, the sea would loee moat of tt. terrors. Iirldently the fuel coat of navigating nav-igating them acrosa the ocean would be tremendously reduced. For every time a vessel rllmhs a wave, fuel must be uad ts get her at It. top, and .he doe. not make a corresponding gain ay sliding slid-ing down the other aide. 1 e smooth the billow, by ateadylng the ahlp would be like reducing tha gradea on a railroad, for which millions of dollars are spent annually, an-nually, and always with profit. Nothing that Is unstable la efficient. ef-ficient. And no disposition that Is . unstable un-stable la trustworthy. You may be talented, and Well-meaning Well-meaning and honest, and ambitious., bat If you have not stability you will never rtae very tar. "Unetahle as water, thou Shalt rot eaceL' It i. the life .that move on fm even keel that can oe oepentVsvt upon for achievement. Brill la nV 1. a Showy quality. fTVlt, clever-V nesa. the rapacity for making friend, all are fine qualities. " But stability will surpass them all 1" the long run. i Automobllee were manufactured I tweaty-five year, ago which could I ran almost aa fast as tha automo- I biles that are manufactured todav. V But nobody knew when thev I started haw long tney wers going J to rostlntte te run. f On every road would be dosens r them broken down sad waiting (9 the repair mas. Tha work of building stability lnte automobiles required many years, bat It wa finally accem-pllehed. accem-pllehed. I Today the man with tha cheap car has a more dependable machine tl.an had tha rich maa of twenty-five twenty-five year, ago and a better machine ma-chine becauae It 1. more dependable. The hardest thing to build Into ' character ta stability The ordinary teacher eaa show a student what I. In tha book, and hew to find it bat it requires an extraordinarily gifted teacher to . tarn out a student who can be depended on to keep on looning for It until they do find It, and baring . feoad tt to maka use of tt. A stable man may not be brlt-1 brlt-1 lant. but you can estimate wnet he ! can do. and knew that he will do 'That H tha mn who will excel He In eo I res confidence. And tt Is ; enlv the confidence ef others thst i enables us to climb Into seeurs po i sit tons In life. i .Copyright. by John Blake. I |