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Show oo BABE RUTH'S ' LESSON The fame of Habe Ruth Buffered a reverse recently He essayed to play basketball, and. according to newspaper newspa-per dispatches, he played so poorly thin those who came to applaud stayed to Jeer, so that Bahc was taken out of the game. Such is the faith lessness of the fickle goddess popu larlty As the duchess said lo Alice in Wonderland, "there Is a moral In ! everything if you only can find it " And the obvious moral in Babe's case is that a man can serve himself best by sticking to the job he knows beBl how to do. The reason for much ol the failure jwe obsene in human life Is that too jmany are wrongly placed. A good ; bricklayer often is los; In a poor law-er, law-er, and doubtles-. there are poor l.iirkraycrs who would make better lawyers Hound pegs in square holes and square pegs in round holes Human happiness wpuld bo beneficially served if all the misplaced could be so shaken up that the round ones would fall Into j their propei places and the square ones inio theirs The host thing that can happen to some men is to be i ircd so that, per-jfOTce, per-jfOTce, they go forth and find the job, (best suited to 'heir capabilities 'Many men never find themselves I Others, properly placed, are misled by ranltj and discontent to reach beyond .heir depth. |