Show LUXURY AS A HANDICAP majority of successful men hav risen from indigence the history of our country Is a rec ord of the successes of poor boys who seemed to be hopelessly shut off from books culture and education except that of the most meager kind from almost every opportunity tor for mental development the youthful Lin collis ns franklins Harall hamiltons tons garfielda grants and clays those who become presidents lawyers statesmen sol diers orators merchants educators journalists inventors giants in every department of life how they stand out from the pages of history those poor poo r boys an inspiration for all time to those who are born to fight their way up to their own loaf the youth who is reared in a lux urious ion home who from the moment of his birth is waited on by an army of servants pampered and indulged by over fond parents and deprived of every incentive to develop himself mentally or physically although corn com conly regarded as one to be envied is more to be pitied pitted than the poorest most humbly born boy or girl in the land unless he is gifted with an un usual mind he is in danger of becom ing a degenerate a parasite a crea ture who lives on the labor of others whose powers ultimately atrophy from disuse 0 S maiden in success |