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Show If Ha Ware Young Again. Professor L. P. Roberts is director of the college of agriculture in Cornell university. He is a gentleman of wide knowledge, full of enthusiasm, and a "self made man," as it is called. Professor Pro-fessor Roberts has been asked what he would do if he were young again. Here ate some of the things he mentions, in The Rural New Yorker, that he would do if he were young again. They are well worth the attention of those who are young still: I wouM visit the school committee to see if they would not hire a teacher who would conduct Die through the arithmetic successfully in two rears instead it seven; one who had lost the art of spending fifteen years in imperfectly teaching now to form twenty-six simple characters. If I were a youth just entering my teens I would wont a teacher who had both inspiration and aspiration; as-piration; one, in fact, who knew more than I did, so thrvt I miRbt be taught what to eat and bow to eat; how to work and when to play; how to grow strong and beautiful; how to become good and true, and how and to whom to give thanks. Then I should want explained to me in the moat simple language the uses, beauty and pleasures of knowledge, knowl-edge, so that while giving thanks for the blessings bless-ings enjoyed, a holy seal, a consuming desire for knowledge would possess me. I should want a teacher who could point out the road, who knew of the schools of higher training, their specialties, their character and quality. I would divide my time first into two parts, one for rest and sleep and one for activity, and these two parts should not exchange beds or bunk together. to-gether. The hours of activity would be devoted 1BWBW'rl in'.' .I'f "' ' quiring knowledge ana to meditation. As me hardest thing a young person has to do is to "keep Still" and the easiest is to put forth muscular effort, I should be careful not to work too long or hard, in order that vitality might be left for the harder effort of thinking. j I would try to get such training and understand- I teg that I could work for myself profitably; that is, I would avoid being so poorly equipped that I would be compelled to employ some one else to direct my labor, he getting the lion's share, 1 getting get-ting what was left. I would get at least two strings to my bow, so that if the world had no 'long felt want" which my theoretical knowledge could fill. I could make a washboard, a shoe or an apple barret I would inspect carefully many of the open doors which are labeled "Education;" having found the one best suited to my desires, I would enter and not come forth till I could do several sev-eral things well enough to attract attention, and I would "kick" if anybody thrust me into the wrong door. ' Ueorg eilors tvite. The blunders that are made in regard to literary peopla by those who should know better are absurd enouh, but those who bave had ne opportunity to inform then selves in such matters can go even beyoDd these mit&ke3 in droll errors. At an authors' readiug recently given in Boston for the benefit of a working girls' club there were present a number of workr lug girls who Jiave for the most part a small chance to keep themselves informed of the history or personality of author. Among the readers was Mrs. Maude How Eliot, daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and author of several novels. When the reading read-ing of her selection came one girl was overheard over-heard to say to another: "Ain't she lovely! I'm awfully glad to sea her. I always did want to see George Eliot's wife." The confusion of ideas in the speaker's mind between the living authors of America and the departed novelists of England must have been pretty complete Youth's Companion. |