| Show comments from dixie BYE by E A DAVIS cleveland term tenn have you ever heated swill for rigs to just less than boiling and dumped it in the trough and watch them come running 9 usually one will get there first stick his snout in the hot swill up to his eyes sq ueal pirouette piro uett and take off in the opposite direction faster than he came one might suppose the other pigs rigs would take warning from the e peric nce of the first but they don t each one had to put his ins own nose into the swill and test its temperature before he would believe it was hot darwin once put some ha harmless miless snakes in a paper bag and threw ic into the monkey cage at the zoo one after another the monkeys ran to the bag peeped in and ran away f tightened ight ened to the other end of the cage then came back and fright ced themselves again they were more curious than afraid and in this respect those monkeys did not differ greatly from some people loung oung people especially often t resist in learning by experience many things that might better be learned in other ways unwilling to alieve what others tell them they mus walk right up to the hot stove and burn their fingers before they will let it alone all too often youth neglects to adopt the experience of age no one could blame those pigs and monkeys for such animals are not endowed with reason with them life goes round and round in a circle so also the bee never im proves upon the honeycomb manu fractured by his ancestors the robin makes his nest today just like the ones his grandfather made and the dams that beavers build now are no improvement over those built by their thew great grandparents man alan is not thus handicapped he may begin where his father ather f left off he cannot afford to spend his whole life making experiments the result of which might be his for a few hours of reading the greatest con suiting room in the world is a il arary books are a treasure chest which yields greater riches the more it is rifled if your conversation is pointless if you feel lifeless dead to all new conceptions if your spirit is we weak ak if you are heavy or prosy read more books that is the practical way the shortest and most inviting way to gather the knowledge that seimu lates ima guition broadens the mind gives poise vision and depth of un de rg and developed dev elopes a truly cultured personality riches more to be desired than all the gold at fort knox if you are interested in the world you live in or the one to come read more books all that man knows about either of them has been set down on their printed pages read them |
