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Show TO MAKE CHARACTER BY ANNETTE ANGERT. Igrnl 0 ono ever suffers anythln? (In v the long run) from what are Em termed "hard knocks." On the other hand, hard knoc-ks will develop fine qualities in one. Many of the world's best workers in fact, most of them arc all people who have known hard knocks We all love heroes, especially the heroes held up before the public gaze, but wo all know the brave girl who, uncomplainingly, goes off daily to her hard work. We know that it is she who is keeping a roof above her mother's moth-er's head and sacrificing many little comforts and pleasures that she may do so. Yet the fact that she is a heroine he-roine never enters the girl's mind. She keeps her shoulder bravely to the wheel, and somehow finds the world a good place after all. And all of us know the widow, struggling strug-gling day in and day out that her two or three children may be clothed and fed. Here is another heroine. The world. In Its swift, onward race, does not recognize heroines like these, but they are doing a nobler work than the most efficient nurse on the greatest battlefield In the world. Every office, shop and counting room In the world has its heroe,s patient, pa-tient, quiet fighters, gripping with odds that sap their strength, mental and physical, yet they stand their ground without a whimper and accept with a fine grace their share of hard knocks. Of course, it is very nice to have every wish gratified to get everything we ask for but it Is an undisputed fact that what comes without an effort or self-Bacrifice is never appreciated. It usually is the boy or girl who worked work-ed hard to get an education, who knew what self-sacrifice and hard knocks were, that by and by makes the world stop a moment and take notice of them. A few knocks now and then are the best antldoten tn thft -arnrll tnv onlflt-V. ness. The girl or young woman who Is constantly petted and waited upon by an Indulgent mother very seldom appreciates what her parent Is doing for her, but let hor mother become suddenly ill and the girl be obliged to get up an hour earlier to prepare breakfast for a week or two, sho will bPn Jo realizo that her mother is entitled en-titled to some recognition for the hard work she does, and that she (the girl) has heretofore been downright selfish. There is a certain work allotted to every one of us. Responsibilities havo come to us that wo cannot shirk. The work and the responsibilities aro ours no one else can handle them. Perhaps they have come in the shape of hard knocks, but we muBt stand our ground S? S,,0UT.beBt No ono ls Perfectly satisfied. It seems to bo a ruling of human nature- that the human heart will not bo satisfied. Wo constantly crave for something more. Let a man amass a great fortune. He does not stop. Instead ho strains every nerve and thought to accumulate moro wealth. A woman may be a great beauty, feted and honored wherever she may go, yet sho is not satisfied. Her heart craves for new pleasures and new honors. This longing i8 in every one of us; we cannot escape it, because we are human |