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Show ? PLAYING SAFETY. i ; if" Gamblers rarely play roulette. It is rated by them as a sucker's game. Now and then a ' man collects thirty-five for one. But for the most part the bank wins. Experienced people, tho wise folk, rarely play the long shots at tho ; racos. They would got ton, twenty, a hundred r to one if tho long shot beat all the other horses. And long shots sometimes do. But for the most part tho favorites got tho monoy. Young men often attempt the impossible. r ' They aren't afraid of roulette, and they forget all their losses when they win. They aren't - afraid of that logic which makes the markings in tho bookmakers' black boards. They win occasionally; and they have more joy over the ono long shot that brought homo tho monoy than tho solemn weigher of chances ever experiences whon ho totals up his profits in sure things. fr Gladstone said ono time that a young man l doesn't know what he can't do. The famous I Englishman was building an apostrophe to old ' men, and their value. But it has another side. A young man doesn't know what he can't do but ho goes ahead and docs it. You can prove on paper that success is impossible, but every now and again tho young man achieves the impossible. im-possible. I t And yet, tho older you grow tho more you in clino to tho safety play; to tho task which isn't quite so thrilling but is more nearly certain oi profitablo results. That is why you find, overy now and again, somo former big, game player, somo oarlior habitue of tho crowded cornors,-somo cornors,-somo spectacular figure in tho controlling crowd living quiotly in tho smaller cities, and getting along with small profits and sure returns. The? are playing safety. The oldor a man gets, the bigger his list of impossibilities. Tho oftoner defoat comes to him, tho moro roluctant ho is to vonturo again. Tho bittoror his lossos, tho strongor his dotormina- lion to take fewer chances. So, whether he drifts into the smaller communities or into quieter qui-eter waters of the big stream, tho cause and its explanation are tho same. Ho is playing safety Ho is making sure. |