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Show (iL-d('f-JJ jjA. ...,. j Why Not Have More Things Three persons called on mo last week, all with the same problem. Two were women, the third a mnn. What all wanted to know Is how they could get more out of life. Neither of the women could ploy or sing. Neither could swim. The older woman couldn't dance. The man confessed he was a human "dud" as he put It. To each I told the some story the story of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who developed the telephone. tele-phone. Mr. Bell called ono day on his friend Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution In Washington. His purpose was to lament the fact that he was being held back In his work by a lack of knowledge of electricity. With two words Mr. Henry dls. posed of that lament and put Alexander Alex-ander Graham Bell on the road to his great renown and riches, for he said, "Get It." There's no such thing 11 a on Ideal personality or a successful person unless that personality or person is accomplished. If you want to Improve yourself you havo to become more accomplished. accom-plished. Learn how to do everything; every-thing; swim, dance, fish, ride, row, talk about stamps and (lowers and hooks and music and art. Let no subject be entirely foreign to your life and knowledge. You don't havo to bo a champion or an expert at any ono thing. You don't want to be n champion. It's far beller to he a thlid-raler in half a du,en fields than an expert in only one. |