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Show A LITTLE MORALIZING. No great thing was ovor accom. pllshcd by a person unwlllo.g 1 1 do little things. Tho training nccisajy to enable ono to see and take advantage advan-tage of an opportunity to do a great thing can come only through doing tho smaller things that come to hand daily. Longing to occupy, high position, posi-tion, or to attain fame or proficiency never brought cither except as that longing spurred Its possessor to encr-gctlcaction encr-gctlcaction and application of thought and time. If parents could get tho children to grasp this Idea there would bo more genulno success and fewer dlssapolnted hopes. Take the girl of twenty with a smattorlng of music who frequently wishes aloud that she were such an artist as So-and-so. Tho girl probably believes she really has an ambition to be something, but do wo .find her applying ap-plying herself as her ideal, So-and-so Is doing. 'Hardly! The ono Is spend lng her spare time at the piano, the other ls merely longing to bs able to do things and neglecting tho practical application of the longing. long-ing. She doesn't realize that So-and-Vs half-hour, hour, or two hours dally has made her what she Is. Iler parents haven't-shown her the value of time. Take the boy who neglected his education ed-ucation In his early youth and has reached the age when he thinks he sees his mistake. We frequently hear him wish ho "had gono to school," but do we find him with a book in his hand at spare moments? No, he Is sitting arcund telling how much he regrets his lack of education and how ho longs to be thls.that and the other. Suggest to him that thirty minutes a day of good, hard 6tudy, would give him much in the course of two or threo years and he will say he hasn't time to begin his education now. Tell him that some of the world's ablest men secured much of their book learning, learn-ing, technical knowledge, languages, etc., after fifty, and he will tell you they were exceptions, men of bright minds. Ho hasn't grasped the idea. In either case above, success could be attained by application and energy. A proper appreciation of time and a little regularity would give either the coveted thing. If parents could teach their children the value of time .and regularity they would do about the greatest thing possible. A gate can be hung, a picket nailed on the fence, a ditch cleaned, a new word learned, a grammer lesson absorbed, a music lesson taken, a book entry made, and hundreds of other things accomplished dally In the time that Is wasted. Teach children the value of time by setting an example. |