Show SELF EDUCATION i HOW TO GET IT what can a busy man or woman do to keep the results of his school education and carry on OB the process still fart further beil in school we acquire either facts or principles pleA in life we must learn to apply those facts and principles in practical affairs or they are useless both to us and others it is applied knowledge which to is profitable the man who simply knows but does not know how bow to use what he be knows might for all practical purposes as well not know how in a busy life can we get knowledge and apply knowledge I 1 simply want in this article to give some aug suggestive hints of a practical nature in answer to these questions 1 first by is all the time talking to us hilll be always wa s learning who keeps his hie eyes open ang and ears open some men a are re too busy others too lavand still others too self to sear hear what life has to teach them we have two eyes two ear aarsand sand two nostrils to acquire information oud and one tongue wita which to give it he e is a 4 wise man who understands the proportion which this fact indicates and devotes si times as much maco energy to jilling filling up as to giving out oat W ve e have Egine somewhere where read the 8 tory story of ape e way in which the automatic valve opener of the steam engine was invented P pd 4 4 by boy was set to open and the valves to let t the we e steam in and gat ol of the py linder he rigged up a by which aults he e made the engine up q copee a and clipse on its own valves 40 0 not for or the truth of gf the story or I 1 and u have fiade not time to verity verify it but t it to 19 a what be and this illustrates stas as well aa as history the he point which ph wish ash tp illustrate we see things but t do 0 not cot observe them that is we do n not tre reflectively actively see them dr ennor observed serpeg that girls I 1 Is who took he e pow pox ox were site safe arm rom the small it 6 bin h denpe e inoculation latigu dr newton served the opre apple au fram ram the tree ais discovery coVery of the la law w of the atra clon wf gravitation I 1 know an in lan 07 went to tc 11 hamiton ampton ansti ute t yas p pat t ioia the engine room as assistant so a taut fl an fn a three months time by simply observing the movements of the engine stR studying dYlAg its various parts had acquired the capacity to set act zi right ht soy any fittue thing that went wrong without assistance this mao man though he was an Indian bad the kind kindol of drains brains that insures success in practical life 2 good companions are great teachers the living livine teacher is better than the dead one every man kno knows wa something better than you know gicand will be willing to tell it you it you are willing willin to listen to the telling most meritte men like to impart knowledge but there is a choice of teachers that is of companions the wise man will ick out companions wiser thanhie than him L elf it lie he will seek com companionship pan that is educative and stimulating not mere th t Is alluring and enjoyable he P e rf school r or college is 01 94 b av V abige u af In intellectual gal tny rny study too y a art t in lonac q e or T music us m berlin or reni tec ain re h i f 11 I 1 tp gerlip P tz a ay rhieny belase be pase n eaph bap 6 p 5 e centers gateris thorl there is 16 all an art musical arpra estral ept ral pr or literary qt al moere eap we jap get thle the boba s atod the technical teaching in america but not the rich and broad companionship la the long run companions mould character A man is made as well as known by the companionship compani enship he keeps he who lives with pigs will learn to wallow he who lives with birds will learn to fly the graduate of the billiard room or bowling alley or poolroom pool room learns nothing in its compa companionship nion ship do not ask will this do me guy any harm ask will it do me any good the companionship of much of what we call society is lit or no better beter small talk is the J NI all microscopic subjects a 6 tile tileston d a geia graiff it of gold but M hot chast tast P guinto d 1 all 11 wilds of ISO BO efy yes yes at bahe dad M virg 0 all 3 0 01 t society old nac im w T P 04 1 itself s e upon F 4 nica jm be e impressed app I 1 basell rn self oil so society piety bety I 1 it the you can turn the gow ip of abe bar room into a literary club and come out wiser an and d bet better r than you yon went in ia the missionary result WILY may compensate for the hazardous venture it will be safe for yon to go into all kinds of society it you are as strong as christ was and aad will go in christs spirit but I 1 would like to put here and in a paragraph by itself that I 1 may the more impress it upon my young readers this one sentence easy to remember difficult to act upon if you have a companion from whom you get no good and to whom you are giving no good drop him 3 the best place to and find companionship ip ought to be home the firt fir nr t duty of the father and mother is to furnish VIA ra ft in the home dippl qt 9 0 vp 4 any bames people and n many homes tat ve are natt A t ednaa ti tiye v apay at and q no homes borges that can furnish a r utah all the edu education pation tb that our sons SOBS and aad daughters need where bre shall we spend our oar aren evenings ings I 1 grant that this question is easier asked than answered but it Is easier to give the negative answer do not spend them in the barroom i or with the loafers in the country store or the village post office it if there is no literary lite life a going find at least one companion who will read with you then a second three are enough to make a sympathetic circle circie church prayer meetings are not always alluring not always even un instructive but they furnish at least better companionship then than the street corners in the larger bowns owns there are reading rooms liter ary clubs young mea denb christian associations aud and similar organizations so no man deed perish witti with thirst in most ol 01 our Ameri american Amer paa pan communities 4 beading is an educator whether it la is a good or bau bad depends on bilat waat you read be cautious about the time you spend in reading newspapers our newspapers ar an magnificent news gatherers 5 but they are not edited all sorts boits ot of news are thrown into these pell mell meil ohp th salacious divorce suit may occupy a column an and ct the report ol of a scientific exploration or discovery a paragraph in reading the newt aper you ou must by boi your own editor pick ick out what is worth think 1119 about afterward shun all else this simple rule will enable you to get through your newspaper generally in remark remarkably auly short time read kead good literature no man in this year of grace 1888 who lives in america needs to be without a good library the best books are with within iiii the reach of the most meager purse you can get a good companion comp aaion for as little cost as a good cigar I 1 have been looking over harpes carpea brothers bubli cat ions I 1 take their series adries as a type because I 1 happen to know them well in the randy handy volume series they give you sity tive volumes lor for 1850 in the fraukline Frau klinn square two volumes for 13 95 from ten to twenty fl five cents will give givey yoi oti a volume vak wt t ure best beat literature the libraries give you in history his tery motley freeman Maca macaulay uliLy mccarthy in bio graphe anya unya bunyan scott scot S carlyle in literature gothe lamb george elliot walter spoil scott these libraries ivill wll give ive you a fairly compre knowledge knowledge of english fai hi atory tory OT or of literature from the earliest ages iges ages to the present time and glimpses of french germau latin pd greek history and literature if you do pot not know now enough to frame your own wn course of read i ne fifty cents sent seat to the chautauqua literary and scientific tige circle will furnish you TOU with the outline of a cour cours course se e ander buch circumstances circum aj be who remains literate illiterate in america Americ tl bas only himself to 10 blame for ills his i ignorance norance 5 your trouble is perhaps not want of money but want of time no we will aade tune time enough to learn if we have wisdom enough to use the trag meata of our time thile henry ward beecher used to read between the courses at the dinner table fable and when he got in te terestea rested tei ested in his book would take it tor his dessert H hugh ugh miller lay prone be fore tile the tire lire studying while ills his companions were whiling away the time in idle jest and stories sto riis mana as a boy st standing analog id ia queue at the post office and waiting his turn for letters utilized the time time by studying greek from a little pocket grammar in his hand he is a wise wide economist who doea not waste more than half an hour a day in idle gossip useless conver conversation a frivolous amusement or mere vacuity half ja an ho bor ar a day is I 1 three hours a week a h hundred ndrec and naty in 4 a year twenty w r k I 1 ng E ya I 1 net tile anan vrho u eq Is of tillie has nearly dug in t ae ye V than tile is of the fe om but these 4 are fe as many as I 1 oan expect tuy r reader to pond y remember and put in Pla practice otice lawns lawas in the christion Vh union N Y |