Show SOMETHING G TO T 0 THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER THE COST OF VANITY at loot last the scales fall from WHEN athe the eyes of thoughtful earnest aspirants to the high places they see that vanity ja not only a jester but one of the roost most troublesome troubles gine and tricky imps with which they have continually to contend the pages of history replete with failures of brilliant world tenders who have stubbed I 1 cd their ams against egotism and fallen so desperately hurt and humiliated hurll that their usefulness ended I 1 in dismal dis nial misting the want of 0 substance to satisfy tits his inflated mind mina brought napoleon Nn to ignominious defeat debeni and banishment and what was true in the milne century la Is true today and will always be true the same elements of peril crouch rendy ready to spring upon and overwhelm individuals who iilo have no an empty pride Inspire dby an overwhelming conceit of personal attainments the young men who prote prate over dinner tables boast phout bluski of their wonderful abilities and ostentatiously 0 tell teli one coo ft another i edthe r what the iho old man agthe at the head of the house should do to whip his competitors are as palpably vain nod and absurd as ad their empty Th eyare piling up debts which van Ity sooner or later will proceed to collect with compound interest late irest and so it to with puffed up young women who volunteer pretentious advice to their tired out mothers without lifting a jeweled hand to tighten lighten household burdens or cheer hearts craving sympathy and love the world Is overcrowded owned with these priggish people who through some come caprice of fortune have risen a step or two and foolishly imagine that they are in a position to instruct their elders alders and pull them about by the nose in their conceit they know more about tile the intricate arts and acl sciences e than do the tutors in universities more about finance than do the bankers who have spent a lifetime in the harness pulling and tugging to over come collie instead of being courted and followed by over fond parents they should be pitied for they are bound straight to failure each knows more than can be uttered each lives not by falth faith but by pomp bullied buli dedon on a crumbling foundation they can speak no language under heaven save that of the boastful give no encouragement to others nor do any work of value A by mcclure newspaper |