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Show TH ETHOUGHTS OF YOUTH. Boy's Ambition Probably Shared by ' Many of His Age. Mrs. M. G. Black of Gardiner. Ore, who has received one of the last awards of the Carnegie Ikto fund fur i saving three young girls from drown- i i:ig. was talking about bravery th' 1 other day. "Do I think that bravery, heroism, , can be cultivated? Yes." she said. "In i a sense I do. Heroism is unselfishness ' i carried to its highest point, and chil- 1 dren can certainly be trained to be unselfish. un-selfish. . I "There is only one way to teach i them that, though, and that is the way ( ut kindness. Beat and bully children. V and they won't grow up unselfish, but the opposite." i She smiled. "I km-v a litile boy." she said. "Once, at a party. I had a long con- ! versi'.tinn with him. " 'And.' I said, as I helped him dec- ' orate a pink egg. 'what are you going to do when you grow up?' "Looking up from the egg with a ,. frown, he answered: i " 'Whip papa.' " i |