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Show The Spirit of Success. Mndarao Durand, hotter known as Henri Grovlllo, in ono of her books givos n flno oxamplo of a young man who felt within him that It is a "gift of tho gods," and who wits willing to sacrifice sac-rifice everything for tho sako of his citrcer. Ho Is a musician, and his father wishou to mako a priest of him. In speaking of It to his brother tho young artist says: "I would rather llvo n miserable for ten yenrs, hardly earning my brettd, wearing thrcadbaro clothos, and not during to go to any one's houso bocauso I shall bo too poor. I had rathor, if need bo, sudor tho pangs of hunger und dio on my violin than bo a priest nnd renounco music." This Is tho spirit wo must havo In or-dor or-dor to succeed. To know what ono can do, what ono will do, is tho first stop upward. Then it romuins to do it not in u half earnest, earn-est, slipshod sort of way, but with ull tho strength nnd energy and power of which a person Is capable Houso-wlfo. |