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Show I Tho round peg in n square h61o or tho 1 square peg in a round hole is a concrets MGf4 illustration to show tho impossibility of a 12lll mU(U maUng 0 gucccM ln life. Lifo it 5TllOt ArG fu" f misfits, of men nnd women trying jT . to fit in round holes which their angular INOt nntures aro not suited lo. ifost of the lVf isfii'5 lloUam nnd jetsam of our largo cities nre 1VA1A1.11A failures through tho early misfit process. - Tho misfit who fails in lifo is with us ........ nlvinvs, but tho successful misfit is quite By Oeore Elhelberl Walih. ' .. ,111 another creature. Ho nppnrcntly breaks I I all tho laws of business nnd professional life. JIo does not succeed, however, by wearing tho equaro peg round to fit the circular liolo in which ho finds himself early in life, but ho wriggles out of the hole nnd finds nnother 0110 more suited to his angularity. Such men, wo might say, would succeed suc-ceed on) where, but their success, so far as wo enn see, was duo to their ubillty to adjust themselves to conditions that suited them. As a misfit 1'dUon enrly discoured tho necessity of climbing out of successive hole, which circumstances thrust him into, from newsboy to printer, and thenco to telegrapher and finally imentor. Speaking of this ho once said: "I was climbing all tho time, but I didn't know exactly wlint my lifo work was lo be. I think sometimes tho restless boy is sim-H sim-H ill v a misfit mini: to find what ho is fitted for in life." H Hut life's successful misfits nrc not confined lo any profession or U business. Tnko authorship. Half our successful writers were, trained for H the law, medicine or some business or left to drift hopelessly on the sea I of life until they got their bearings through accident or effort. B The successful misfits nro as difficult to explain as genius. They ar- H rite in epito of themselves, and in spito of their early fnlso start. "You H must put ft genius in a holo to mako him climb high," is an old Spanish saying. It has an application that plays an important part in tho schemo of life. Who can say how much good tho early work of Benjamin Franklin at tallow -chnndlenng had in developing his rcmarkablo talent H as an inventor, scientist and statesman, or what lasting influenco the H mercantile career of James K. Polk had in training him for the presi-U presi-U dency? I'rom these examples ono can draw tho consolation that an early H false start does not necessarily spoil a career. Indeed, it seems as if it H stimulated tho misfit to greater effort to work his way out of tho uncon- genial work. It is only the weak nnd inefficient whoso back is broken by H tho uncongenial labor; the strong will work tho harder to freo himself H from tho slavery and drudgery. |