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Show stunt attention gives them. And be Is one of the most thoughtful and tactful tact-ful men she has ever meL He doesn't make much of a hit wltb me In spite of his slick appearunce. I ran onto Cliesler when I was out West a few weeks ago, ond we got BEING YOURSELF I ; By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK I ; ; Dean of Men, University ef 1 1 Illinois. $ v 1 suppose we are all more or less Imitators. We have our secret heroes whosectplolisand accomplishment a and particular methods and man ners we try to re produce In our play upon the stupe of life, and we have pointed out to us by our mothers and our wives examples which It would be good for us to follow and models to talking about his uncle who Is a professor In one of the eastern colleges col-leges now psychology or sociology or psychiatry he professes. The uncle has been abroad some and studied for a while In New England. He was horn In Ludlow or Fisher or some near by Illinois village and ran a.-ross the prairies bare-footed like the rest of us. He used as much slang and bad grammar as any other native born and flattened his as beautifully; but he picked up a wonderful manner and exaggerated New England pronunciation pronuncia-tion somewhere and Is now no more like himself than Lindbergh Is like Charlie Chnplln. He's a Joke to any one who knew him when he was a boy, for his manner and his pronunciation pronunci-ation nnd his nssumed erudition are a disguise which tends to hide his real self. It's a mistake to try to be anyone else or to Imitate anyone else. The great men of the world, no matter how little the world Is In which they do their work, have been Individual. They have gone at things In their own particular way. They have not tried to stifle their own personality or to camouflage tt by pretending to be something that tbey are not. I met Jimmy Dawson Inst May. Irish Jimmy Is. with a sense of humor. He's been everywhere In the world since I Inst saw him thirty years ago He's met great men In all countries; he's a great mnn himself rich and In-flueiillal. In-flueiillal. but he's still at henrt the same hearty, natural, unaffected Irish-man Irish-man I knew when he was a lad. He's himself. & Hit. Western Newspaper Union which we would do well to copy. Bill Thompson was the model which mother selected for my Ideal of conduct con-duct and accomplishment If I could only be as good a boy as Bill was all would be well with me In this world and the next. If I could do my work as carefully and conscientiously ns he did success would reward my efforts, ond the way In which he helped his mother about the house was gratifying gratify-ing to nil the neighbors. Bill and I never got on well together. I disliked him from the start and profiled very re little. I am afrold, from bis noble ex- ' (f ample. Nuncy has pointed out to me often what wonderful manners Seth Toylor has-lmw careful he Is with bis teeth and his linger noils. They simply glitter glit-ter with the high polish which con- |