Show A letter ami accuracy awl pratt f accuracy for a rest time dubchy IS for review of the m daily sources of better methods I 1 i 1 for aws tion on the enemies of easy errors and the friends of forethought to reduce mutually erpen she mistakes of mechanical commercial and professional leovie advice leads us up to stone wall ugh which few of us are able to pound a passage many times I 1 have wished that I 1 could write you more closely on the scenes where some ot my lunch hour talks are given this month I 1 spent a half hour at noon with some thirty mill men and while I 1 interested them some they in te rested me much would be great recreation for me to have a bench in that mill and spend a half day a week at it making con lenient things for the house or play things for the children it does ma good to work with work ers and think with thinkers once I 1 sat on the bench with a judge an other time I 1 sat in a pulpit with a minister again I 1 helped a farmer burn the brush in his apple orchard for a few weeks I 1 took charge of a friend s medical practice in a village while he went to california for vacation I 1 wish I 1 could do your work for a week and let you do the things you wish to what would you do it you had plenty of time and moneys what do you want to know more this Is what 1 want to know more about how to help people get beyond that stone wall up to which good advice leads them and there leaves them it seems to me I 1 am too slow in in te resting them in self effort and I 1 know too little about the tools and how to use them just when I 1 am ready to give up some one tells me that I 1 have helped him or her get through and then I 1 begin with a new breath to en courage athers and explain the plan of action 4 a ong time I 1 have thought that providence pushed me into this and that trouble to have me learn how to get out in order to tell others how to get out but now I 1 am beginning to see that he jerks me out when I 1 am ready to give up and sink it he Is willing to jerk me out he certainly must ie willing to do the same by you or any one else provided there is a desire to live to do something worth doing the greatest dangers do us our greatest fears why be fearful little harmless things make people jump and then these same people will never move a muscle in tear when facing real terrors can we exercise our muscle mind in a way to be toughened to the point of resisting any kind of unexpected have you tried tests with others either games or exercises to grow a self control that retains itself before startling children seem to be naturally in dined to do tricks and surprises to train each other in self control wise adults get their best informs tion by studying children and those who enjoy old age are young in heart and ready for recreations study out tor yourself some reccea alon which will benefit you and your friends there Is more pleasure in a beneficial than an injurious enter provided you put life into it some excellent games have been pushed aside by young and old who need them because they were con ducted in a halfhearted manner those who wish to do good should hunt up bring out and animate these entertaining and useful which have been shelved by mistake our ancestors knew two or three things we might learn to our benefit for a halt dozen thousand years there have been families somewhere in the world that had forethought enough to pass along from generation to generation a knowledge of life and its dally sources but even to day not one family in a hundred Is living as wisely as they might live it a little more attention were given to systematic cheerfulness the purpose of my library of manuscripts and short printed articles he is one of a few dozen men in the world in his line of worl and altitude of thought and executive skill so 1 must respect what he says and he says that from anat I 1 have told and shown him my work seems purposeless while others tell me just the opposite I 1 am going to stop and think and write on the purpose of my 1796 1872 1902 efforts eighty years are none too few to advertise the dally sources of greater individual accuracy and my library contains personally useful to you information in manuscript for which goes back to 1796 in order to do what I 1 want to do I 1 am growing a cyclopedia on such personal subjects as forethought ac curacy useful originality skill earn estness and methods this cyclopedia Is never to be pub dished but Is held in written and press proof form and anyone can secure a copy of any paragraph on any subject at any time additions are made dally and the whole world Is to be searched for per bonal experiences useful to the in anywhere the benefit of the individual Is the good or purpose of the persistent research what would you like to know this year which you would be willing others might knowd you can imagine an inventor hunting through every country in the world tor kinds of wood to use in his experiments and you can think of me hunting in every country for kinds ot wisdom tor you to use in your every day life very often I 1 meet people who do not know some little piece of wisdom they needed to know and which less intelli gent have known for years some day I 1 hope to have you write me that you are not your best until you read the latest information which I 1 have secured for you i the library is not limited to you en but contains ideas from actor tor your attorney from clans and dentists for your physician and your dentist also from ministers for your minister it Is not my intention to become a walking cyclopedia nor a librarian but I 1 might do worse the newspapers of america seem to te rested in my library as an accuracy press bureau and I 1 would like to have you read in your local newspaper something from me which would help vou pay tor your paper two years in advance resist not evil but resist temptation and than gold there are god mines more precious than gold or diamonds when you get into a howling mad ness against any person place thing or conditions write all the bad things you can think and send it to me no other place in my arcade indea library of manu scripts and printed letters I 1 have a place for hot shot or shot too hot to fire except for some fourth of july day and then in the air while your letter of adjectives and advents Is on the way to me you will be thinking out an original plan which will be ten times better than firing your vehemence toward a mark it you should fire and hit the mark it might rebound to your disadvantage and it you should not hit the mark it might give you rheumatism of the memory this morning I 1 thought that I 1 would write a certain man a final letter the man is about as nice every other time I 1 see him as a mad bull he treats ou according to condl alons over which you have no control but he Is not the only person in the world who has this element of cacio human nature in place of writing him that final letter I 1 pulled in my excitement and rested my head and what came to me just the best idea that I 1 have ever had for that changeable acquaintance it Is the missing link in our negolia alons and will make us both good na aured as it lifts our muddled subjects out of the swamp on the mountain side had I 1 written him the final letter it would have been a polite and dignified affair but with some sarcasm between the lines would you rather get a directly sar castle letter than one with cultured sarcasms sarcasm 7 it seems to me that I 1 would but rather than get either kind I 1 pro fer a useful and original idea that Is a winner |