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Show WHY DON'T YOU LIVE WITH THE GREAT? In tho February Woman's Home Companion, Charles E. Jefferson-writes Jefferson-writes an Interesting article from which tho folllowhig Is an extract: Our work Is monotonous. Our sphero Is narrow. Drudgery and obscurity ob-scurity aro our portion. But If the days aro drab and tho world has lost Its sparkle, why; not begin nt ono to build a library of biographies? Why i not begin to llvo with tho Immortals? Only halt dozen biographies of men gloriously great, If read1 again and 'ngnln, would put fresh hope Into tho heart nnd heightened glory Into tho light of tho sun. For tho lives of great men roveal to us tho fact that there Is something In human nature mlghtlor than circumstances, that obstacles, ob-stacles, however formldablo, aro never quite Insurmountable. Wo might not bo now preparing to celebrate tho birthday of Lincoln If Lincoln had not whan a boy read nnd reread tho Hfo of Washington. |