| Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER FEARING MISTAKES ta THE ab man or woman who fears ears to tread unfamiliar un fa millar fields or hest tildes to undertake something apart from tile the commonplace simply because of tile alre dread d of making mistakes will never attain a place of distinction history Is replete with golden deeds of men and women who in their beginning made error after error rubbing them out as they moved along undaunted until finally they reached the beckoning heights towards which they were ever pressing success Is very often built on fallacies of vision and judgment and then made a glorious monument by their erasures era and the applause of a won ering world to write an acceptable sonnet involves repeated trials and the frequent drawing of the pen through blunders that slipped in during the excitement of the chase of effective lines and rhymes to manage a business without now and then making miscalculations Is not possible so it Is with every other form of work from the building of a skyscraper to the planning of a bungalow or the taking cure care of a home in spite of the intelligence and capacity of tile the human mind it frequently puts the saddle on the wrong horse and in its heated quest pursues shadow for substance when an old hound gets on the wrong scent he does not sit on his haunches and whine but keeps scurrying around until he picks up the trail and reclaims tits his reputation for being the best hunter in the pack to hesitate on the threshold of worthy effort through tear fear of committing gin an error la IS sheer oily folly to keep going and brushing impediments impedimenta aside Is wisdom the wise man or woman accepts his or hey het mistakes gracefully but turns then them 1 to profitable account by avoiding them in the future nothing that roan man drea la Is perfect no man la Is without faults but every man by persistent effort can overcome them and make a creditable showing worthy of emulation by those timid souls who halt between two opinions and thus accomplish nothing the sensible thing to do in every walk ot of activity Is to have a fixed purpose and stick to it until you rise at the top and stand shoulder to shoulder wlm with the unconquerable a by maclure newspaper syndicate |
