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Show Uncommon john blake S O 11 S 6 ' t Bell Syndicate. WNTJ Service. Make up your mind that yon will have more or less trouble as you jour-n jour-n e y through Don't Waste Pity this world. You on Yourself wiU meet with many disappointments. disap-pointments. People whom you trusted trust-ed may turn out to be "bad actors." If they are, drop them from your acquaintanceship. ac-quaintanceship. But don't under any circumstances when you were taking an afternoon walk. Ee helpful and considerate to other people. If they repay you with backbiting, drop them, and find people who are a better sort. Enough of these exist In your neck of the woods to help make life very pleasant for you. Above all, do not whine. Take things as you find them. Use them for your own good. Take care of your health and your disposition. And in the end you will find that you have been more or less the archi-j archi-j tect of your own fortune, and that you deserved the kind that you got. begin to believe that you are misused, that there are conspiracies against you, or that you are not getting a "square deal." Sometimes you won't get a "square deal." That may be no fault' of yours. But don't worry about it. Drop the acquaintanceship of people who have proved themselves to be mean and tricky, and choose friends that you can trust. There are plenty of these. Don't think for a moment that everybody Is trying to get the best of you, that your boss is "exploiting" you, or that you haven't any chance to get ahead. Your chances of getting ahead will be just about what you deserve. Today you, like everybody else, have plenty of opportunity to educate edu-cate yourself. But to do that It will be necessary to work, and to work hard. You will find people who will seek to crowd you out and get ahead of you. You will come Into contact with unscrupulous "office politicians." But that kind of people always work themselves out of jobs before long, for they are so busy with their little venomous plans that they will have no time to win any sort of success. Don't work on the principle that this is an ideal world, and that everybody every-body gets an even break. It is not that kind of a world. But Its sordidness and selfishness are overrated. Work out your own plans, and stick to them. Pay no more attention to a rascally rascal-ly office mate who Is trying to "tunnel" "tun-nel" you out of a job than you would to a tree root ,that tripped you up |