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Show Borne 0irc!e DOING HIS BEST. It somehow seems little enough when you sav That a fellow is "doing his best." It means that he toils and he hopes day by -day That Heaven will attend to the rest. He is jostled aside by the hurrying crowd. Unsought by the lonely, forgot by the proud. He earns what -he gets, and no more is allowed To the fellow who's "doing his best." But whenever a crisis' arises, we look To the man who is doing his best, The prince with his splendor, the sage with his book. Full oft fail to answer the test. And when there's a home or a country to serve. We turn to the man with the heart and the nerve. The man whom adversity's touch, could ' not swerve, t ' The man who kept doing his best. . : Washington Star. Why Young People Hesitate to Marry The standards of social decency and respectability are constantly rising; the amount of money supposed to be necessary to begin the married life increases in-creases decade by decade. Young men say that they will not marry until they are able to support a wife in good style and, as the wealth of the land increases and their neighbors live more and more luxuriantly, the phrase, "in good style," is constantly undergoing changes of meaning. Young women become accustomed ac-customed in their parental homes to a certain amount of comfort and of leisure, leis-ure, and they do not relish the thought of beginning to live more plainly and more laboriously in homes of their own. Thus an increasing number of young men and women decline or postpone marriage, j It is true that the family life does require of both men and women the relinquishment re-linquishment of a certain amount of liberty, the assumption of new burdens, the incurring of pain and privation and sacrifice. The unwillingness to meet these demands is the prime cause of the diminution in the number of marriages mar-riages which the census reports to us. And one of the inevitable consequences is the increase of social immorality. Many parents discourage the marriage mar-riage of their, sons and daughters under- conditions which would be far more favorable than those under which thev themselves set out in life bravelv and" happily. They are unwilling that their children should meet the responsibilities respon-sibilities which they met and bear the burdens which they bore, and in meeting meet-ing and bearing which they won their own manhood and womanhood. Many a father refuses his daughter to a young man whose circumstances and prosperity are far more favorable than were his when he married; many a mother warns her son against alliances with a girl whose heart is as true and brave as hers was when she set up her own home. The father and mother, in their propriety, have lost their sense of the value of character; they have come to put far too much emphasis on the mere accidents of life. For it is true not only of a man's life, but of the life, of a man and woman together, that "it consisteth not in the abundance of the things that" they posses. Ther can be happy and true and brave with but few things. To begin together as their parents began, to live simply and frugally, fru-gally, to face the problems of life without with-out flinching, to exercise their wits together to-gether over a limited menage, what is this but the discipline in which all best qualities of life are won? Catholjc Citizen. Cit-izen. Love Your Business. A man can. no more be successful a business ho does not like than ca a man be happy with a wife he does not love. Enthusiasm is the power which impels im-pels men onward in any way and every vocation. Without it men are lethargic. lethar-gic. They will drift. But to pull against the tide they are as unable .as they are unwilling. ' """ . Drifting, however, does not win tae race, either in business or aquatic events. There must be the long pull, the strong pull and the pull with vigor. Men in business of today have no easy task. There is a great deal to discourage and very little to encourage. There are foes within and foes without to contend ngainst. Under such conditions.it is. no wonder won-der so many either fail altogether or eke out a mere existence. The antidote anti-dote for despair Js enthusiasm, and the germ of enthusiasm is love for or pleasure in that business or vocation in which you are embarked. Therefore, There-fore, if you would succeed, get in love with your business. , . . Rejuvenating Women. It is an extraordinary but, incontestable incontest-able fact that some women at-the-age when most people die undergo a sorb of paturall process of rejuvenation hair and teeth grow again, the wrinkles disappear dis-appear from the skin, and sight and hearing reacquire their former sharpness. sharp-ness. A Marquise de Mirabeau is an example of this rare and remarkable phenomenon. She died at the age of 86, but a few years before her death she became quite young again. The same change happened to a nun of the name of Marguerite Verdur, who, at the age of 62, lost her wrinkles, regained re-gained her sight, and grew several new teeth. When she died ten years later, her appearance was almost that of a young girl. Can You SeeP Does it ever strike you that in our very matter-of-fact age, we are just ! a trifle apt to look at things from a useful point of view only, and to forget or not notice the beatiful side of them? Sometimes we are all a lit'.le inclined to walk along,1 like horses in blinkers, without using our eyes sufficiently suffi-ciently to find out the beauties that are apt to be found all along the ways of life. Are we not a little disposed to consider the "information" side of everything? How much, more desirous are we to instruct the ypung as to the datr of a building, the style of its architecture, the histry connected with it, than we are to draw their attention at-tention to the grace nd beauty of tower and pinnacle, the flashing sunlight sun-light and gray cool shkde:yupon the. stone: . the " sense of: ld wofWnfiFs; which to the Imaginati 'e Soul clings-about clings-about old buildings. Fiffts are important im-portant matters, but it i3 important, too, that children should! gain an idea of the beauty and poetry of a building, build-ing, as well as the knowledge of its date and history. "Forget It." -Among the latest: slang is a simple little " phrase, or ejaculation, rather, which bids, us, no ; matter what the trouble or accident,' "forget it!" It isn't a half bad advice, in fact, a very good one, but where the slang comes in is -not -exactly perceptible.. We could manufacture several expressions on sight which' would be.,. much more slangy, not to say expressive, if we were put to it, and not half try. Nevertheless, Never-theless, the new addition to. the diction dic-tion of popular expression is not to be sneezed at. ' j We should all be a great deal better and happier if we could "forget" a little lit-tle oftener and a little easier. Are you tired? Forget it. Does some one ruthlessly trample on your wounded feelings, whereat a saltry tear trickles down your cheek? Forget it! Do you encounter a little disappointment and find yourself pessimistically inclined? Forget it. Have you made a mistake which seems to conduce to worry and gray hairs? Forget it. In short, if everything goes wrong, and your world has been turned upside down for the time being, the best thing you can do is to forget it all as quickly as possible. Set it aside cover ti over with forget-fulness forget-fulness go out and take a walk in God's fresh air and sunshine and when you come back and' lift off the cover "you will be surprised to find how the troubles have shrunk perhaps disappeared dis-appeared altogether. It ' is - a good thing. Try it. . Prizes For Ugly Girls. Germany seems to take the lead in novelties of a charitable nature. In the town of Haschman prizes are offered of-fered yearly for the men who will marry the ugliest, most crippled and the women over 40 who have been jilted at least twice.- The money was left by a big financier, and he, realizing that beauty is an attraction hard to overcome, made a provision in his will that out of the income of the fund not less than $S0 shall go with the ugliest girl in any year, and the cripple shall receive $60. The four women over 40 who have been jilted by a lover receive, re-ceive, when the funds will permit, $50 each, but the trustee can vary this amount,, and, at his own discretion, offer a larger prize to some one who will marry an unusually ugly girl or one to whom nature has been specially unkind. . . Toughening Children. There are . many theories current as to the desirability of the physical hardening hard-ening -of young 'children; which; although al-though right in the main, are wrong in" the application. : .' It is good, sense to argue that children chil-dren are all the better in childhood, and make, all the stronger men and women, if they can: be accustomed as early as possible to fresh air in all weathers, cold water, simple food and regular hours: that is to say, to those practices which are the foundation of health for us all. Some inherit a birthright of stamina that others lack. It would be very good if all. babies came into the world physically well equipped, but such is not the case; and many of them, far from inheriting health, start heavily mortgaged. Oliver Wendell Holmes' oft-quoted assertion that the training of a child must begin with his grandparents grand-parents is always in order. It is evident evi-dent that the child of healthy parents with "a good physical record for generations gener-ations back will be able to take his hardening with less care and fuss than the puny baby with a line of delicate ancestors behind him. . The hardening, need not be neglected in the latter case, but it should be begun be-gun at the right time, in the right way, and be tempered with judgment and mercy. Let no well-meaning but misguided mis-guided young father think that because his athletic neighbor has a sturdy, stout-limbed,- deep-chested boy, who, according to his proud parents, can "stand anything," he is doing well to put his own thin-skinned, sensitive, "weedy" youngster, who looks "just like his mother," through the same physical processes. While the same rpad may be traveled, it must be under un-der the conditions of a handicap, and haste can be made only slowly. Above all, if all the parents of a delicate child are suddenly seized with the hardening fervor, let it be summer. Don't start socks and cold baths in November; wait till May, and then, if carried out properly, each season it may be kept up later and later, till finally the whole year is gained, and snuffles and narrow chests are things' of the past. Youth's Companion. |