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Show Self Respect. "The way to keep a man out of the mud is to black his boots," says Frederick Douglass. Doug-lass. This happy remark often ocours to us when we see boys going to school with shoes that have never once known th brush, with hair uncombed, faces not too clean, ears unfit for inspection, baudB very lnn.-a .,,) i onpthnt UnmjvtdvULly kaOWU hard service as a missile weapon. Such a boy is more likely at least both to talk and to act unbecomingly than one who Is clean and tidy. Something within the tidy boy compels him to live up to his appearance. The other boy is apt to live down to his dirty boots. Fixing upon a boy an odious and belittling belit-tling nickname which lowers bis self esteem es-teem 1ms the same tendency. So does ridiculing him for any natural defect, and for tho clumsiness which often results from such a defect. The mistakes of youth frequently result from shyness, and this is greatly aggravated by the jeers of companions, compan-ions, aud still more by the impatience of a teacher. Many a person now honored and esteemed es-teemed In the world dates his progress upward up-ward from the moment when he received from some honored lips a word of encouragement encour-agement or discovered by chunce that h was not inferior to hiB comrades, despite appearances to the contrary. We can hardly do a more injurious act than to make another think more meanly of himself than he ought to think. Humility Hu-mility is an excellent trait, but humility is a very different thiu from the mortification mortifica-tion and self abasement that sometimes rs-Bult rs-Bult from sneers or ridicule. Youth's Companion. |