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Show WORK NECESSARY TO SUCCESS. i Labor In Boyhood of Advantage In Later Life. Do you feel many days that you have had a hard time? Your hours aro long. Your task Is hard and wages small. The contents of your weekly pay envelopo will scarcely enrry you over the week. Sometimes you must wear patched trousers or a frayed coat. Your employer expects a great deal from you. Other fellows dress well and always have money. They have coddling fathers and mothors, whllo you toil six days a week to mako a living, says a writer In tho ValdoBta (Ga.) Times. Never mind, young mun. You nro ahead of the boy who has every luxury lux-ury at home You are getting export-, once that ho must get somehow later on. Because, sooner or later, he must fight the real hattlo of life himself, And you havu the udvantage Whllo Ufa has been made easy for him, ho lacks drill and discipline which overy life-soldier must go through. You nro preparing yourself. Ho may go in without preparation mid fall. Woik Is a great blessing. You cannot can-not seo now, but some day you will say that you wero fortunate In youf boyhood days because you wero corn-polled corn-polled to work. Because you cannot get power to do things save by doing them. IxKik over tho successful men you know. Get their history. Neaiv overy ono was compelled to work In boyhood. They toughened their muscles mus-cles by haul work, and sharpened their brains by looking out for thorn-selves. thorn-selves. Work makes men. Luck usually falls. Pluck nearly nlwnjs wins. To succeed in nn thing ono must over-como over-como obstacles. Porte and liber are built by haidshlps. Grit Is ns necessary neces-sary in the making of a man as gumption. gump-tion. Hardships aro not always handicaps. han-dicaps. Often they aro helpers. You will understand this better in 20 years, .Meantime, permit ono who has lived that 20 years and moio to advise you In this. |