Show 0 I What Can Be Done I IBy By JOHN BLAKE The ordinary ordinary- athlete could watch run for tor hours at a a- time without ever being able to run as fast He lie could could copy cop exactly Nurmi's diet his dally daily exercise everything he does and never be able to stand a chance with him in a race It happens that the remarkable Finn Is abstemious lives carefully and eschews vices But these things do not make him the fleetest runner that we know anything about That is a chance the chance the chance of a perfect combination combination com coin of all the qualities that go to make up a a. great runner runner lung lung power leg power balancing ver and good blood and strong heart Without those none will ever equal him any anymore more than any man who has not had the misfortune to be born boin a freak can equal l the height of a circus giant gian t. t So there ther Is no use in envying or 01 trying tring to be Nurmi even it If one thinks that to be the worlds world's fastest runner Is one of the most desirable things there are Nor would there be any use for or a young man who wanted to write trying to study the life Ufe of ot Mark Twain or any other well known writer as a a means of of writing the same kind of literature A mans man's life Ufe tells very ery little about his qualities of mind and If it told all about them these could not be copied It is worth while reading biography however for tor forIt forit It shows that even men of talent have had to hava hav a certain det determination and doggedness to secure recognition and that not even the the gifted can get along without a very great amount of m mental labor Moreover l r we admire men of or ability and to read about them Is a pleasure even even 1 If It does not enable us to Imitate them with any success Genius must be counted out by the ambitious Geniuses began life with something that few people are granted and it it was th that t something that mado made them great But be because ause Nurmi cannot be bo Imitated by an athletically minded youth does not mean that this youth must despair There are plenty of ordinary mortals In the world who have gone very far and these can be Imitated and excelled simply by application of their methods There is plenty of worth while whilo achievement that thatis is entirely o outside the field of genius and this achievement is possible to any anyone one of many millions of young men and ancl women with good average brains If they will develop those brains and are willing to do Just a little h harder work than their neighbors are doing The world Is filled with examples s of people without any genius or r particular talent who have accomplished wonders with such minds as they had They are the people who can be studied and emulated For what they have done others with the same capacity can d do And their capacity Is far from unusual unusual Indeed Indeed It probably dwells In the minds of millions who do donot donot not even know what they can do because they have never taI tak taken n th the trouble to find out Co Copyright 1925 by the Bell Syndicate Inc nc A |